National
Right to Food
Community of Practice
We are a membership-based national coalition of advocates and organizations working to advance the right to food in our cities, towns, and states. Together, we develop solutions at the intersection of food and agriculture, public opinion, and systems change to end hunger for good, and make food a human right.
We host spaces for shared learning and provide support and capacity building to our members and partners. Our work is grounded in a human rights framework that addresses the root causes of hunger at the center of racial, housing, climate, land, and economic justice.
Nearly half a century after the first food bank opened its doors and spread across the country, the U.S. has failed to solve its hunger problem. Meanwhile the food banking model is being exported to countries around the world, control over food production is increasingly consolidated, workers are exploited all along the food chain, racial injustice is further entrenched, and climate change is accelerating.
By simply defining the problem as hunger, the approaches to ameliorate it have been largely limited to increasing the availability of food by focusing on yields, access (capturing and distributing corporate food waste) and protecting eroding and underfunded government nutrition assistance programs.
