POVERTY AND PUBLIC POLICY WORKING GROUP

The Poverty and Public Policy Working Group seeks to address the links between food systems and public policies that impact poverty and income and wealth inequality. We believe that the Right to Food is inextricably interwoven with other basic rights such as housing, transportation, and healthcare, and that an adequate income from work and public income supports is necessary to realize these rights. Public policy, including but not limited to, minimum wages, gender and race pay equity, protections for labor organizing, adequate income supports, scale-appropriate policy for agricultural and food producers, and redistributive tax policies, is crucial to achieving the Right to Food. Effective advocacy for these policies is limited by the concentration of wealth and power. Thus, serious engagement with policy must be mobilized to confront and transform the underlying inequalities of wealth and power through active political participation.​​