Resource to Learn More About the Right to Food

National

WhyHunger: https://whyhunger.org/ : WhyHunger provides critical resources to support grassroots movements and fuel community solutions rooted in social, environmental, racial and economic justice. They are working to end hunger and advance the human right to nutritious food in the U.S. and around the world.

Closing the Hunger Gap: https://thehungergap.org/: Closing the Hunger Gap is a network of organizations and individuals working to expand hunger relief efforts beyond food distribution towards strategies that promote social justice and address the root causes of hunger.

US Food Sovereignty Alliance: http://usfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/ :The US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA) works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system. We believe all people have the right to healthy, culturally appropriate food, produced in an ecologically sound manner. As a US-based alliance of food justice, anti-hunger, labor, environmental, faith-based, and food producer groups, we uphold the right to food as a basic human right and work to connect our local and national struggles to the international movement for food sovereignty.

International

Right to Food and Nutrition Watch: https://www.righttofoodandnutrition.org/watch: First published in 2008, the Right to Food and Nutrition Watch is an annual publication that monitors policies, processes and key issues related to the right to adequate food and nutrition at global, regional, national and local levels. In doing so, it gives visibility to people's struggles and their efforts on the ground. As a monitoring tool, its objective is to contribute to strengthening accountability and advancing the realization of the right to adequate food and nutrition for all.

Global Solidarity Alliance for Food health and Social Justice: https://rightsnotcharity.org/: (GSA RightsNotCharity) began to emerge in 2018 out of relationships built at Trans-Atlantic conferences and meetings, resulting in a growing shared analysis of and reaction to the increased use of private philanthropy and transnational corporate food banking as a response to “rich world” hunger and poverty.

FIAN International: https://www.fian.org/en/publication/article/cooking-up-political-agendas: ‘Cooking up Political Agendas’ evokes the emancipation of women through collective organizing and knowledge construction. The Guide has been developed by female human rights practitioners, activists and rural workers. It provides women in rural areas - whether or not they belong to local or national organizations - with practical guidance on how to build a right to food and nutrition agenda based on recent international human rights law standards.