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WhyHunger has joined with social movements, frontline organizations and advocates around the world to call for the universal right to nutritious food. Three years ago, WhyHunger became an organizational member of the
Global Network on the Right to Food and Nutrition.
We are now serving a 2-year term on the coordinating committee for the global network. Founded in 2013 in response to the chronic world food crisis, the GNRtFN includes around 50 member civil society organizations (CSOs) and social movements from 5 continents - representing peasants, fisherfolk, pastoralists, landless people, consumers, urban people living in poverty, agricultural and food workers, women, youth, and indigenous peoples...
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WhyHunger
- a leader in the movement to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world-honored
U.
S. Congressman Jerrold "Jerry" Nadler (D-NY)
with the Harry Chapin Humanitarian Award at the Hope to End Hunger Cocktail Party last night at City Vineyard in New York City. WhyHunger Executive Director Noreen Springstead presented Rep. Jerrold Nadler with the award for his commitment to social justice and creating real change in combatting hunger worldwide.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler has consistently been a strong voice against hunger and poverty, and his work reflects his fight for civil rights, the environment, and the arts, and ultimately a promise of equality for all. Nadler has served on Why Hunger's Advisory Board and has supported WhyHunger for over 25 years.
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"As supported by our survey results, hunger throughout the U.S. is indeed a solvable problem. However, to ensure this goal, we need a new narrative - a shift in our mindset from thinking of hunger as the problem to looking at hunger as a symptom of greater forces at work in people's lives creating poverty. We need to reexamine current systems in place, including better legislation aimed at creating a livable wage, and implement just solutions to strike at the root causes of hunger once and for all," said Noreen Springstead, executive director at WhyHunger.
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When you read about ongoing crisis in Venezuela and its impact on food insecurity, you may not hear about one of the most innovative, people-led solutions delivering fresh, affordable food across the country-Plan Pueblo a Pueblo, or Plan People to People in English.
Recently awarded the
2019 Food Sovereignty Prize by the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance, Plan Pueblo a Pueblo sources fresh fruit and vegetables from small producers across Venezuela and distributes them across a network they have been building since 2015. Their name defines their approach: they are working to get food for the people who need it directly from the people who are growing it.
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