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National
Right to Food
Community of Practice
The National Right to Food Community of Practice weaves together and strengthens state and local efforts to advance the right to food in law, policy, and practice across the United States.
2026 Election Conversation Guides - a Right to Food lens
Purpose
To help community and local advocates talk to local and state candidates about how they will use their role in office to promote a food system that nourishes people and the planet.
Elections are important opportunities for organizers and advocates to engage directly with candidates seeking elected office. Local and state elections offer spaces to ask questions about the issues, challenges, and barriers that people are facing in local communities, and to place community priorities within the context of a right to food.
These guides are based on a shared understanding that food is a human right, and they locates many of the themes and topics that matter to community and local advocates working to improve the food system within a right to food framework.
Who is this for?
This guide is for anyone who believes food is a human right and wants to elect politicians in their local area who believe that as well.
Why now?
There is a window of opportunity ahead of the 2026 election for community organizers and advocates to build or strengthen relationships with candidates for local office and to shift the narrative towards one where food is recognized as a human right.
