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By framing access to nutritious food as a human right, we work through collective responses that tackle the root causes of hunger and poverty in the long-term, deepening the conversation beyond short-term emergency food access interventions.

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Our members are organizing alongside communities and allies to transform the food system by framing food as a human right. This is a departure from the well-resourced and siloed efforts of private charity and those advocating for a larger slice of the inadequate social security pie. Americans have a track record in the U.S. of organizing around our civil and political rights but not our social, cultural, and economic rights.

 

Our coalition is creating the building blocks for a broad-based social movement where grassroots power strengthens civil society, and solutions emerge to transform unjust institutions and systems. Our approach is multi-sectoral, bridges food and agriculture, income and public health, and puts people and planet first. We are not simply training or mobilizing advocates; rather, we aim to win hearts and minds and fundamentally change the food system to one that produces food, health, and well-being, while protecting the planet.