About Us
           
 
 
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The Global Movements Program works with US and international social movements and civil society organizations. We link WhyHunger's domestic work on hunger and poverty to global movements for food sovereignty and the basic rights to food, land, water, and sustainable livelihoods.

We work to:

  • Amplify the voices of grassroots leaders;
  • Raise awareness and support for global Struggles;
  • Advocate for policy change;
  • Build alliances across different sectors of the food system; and
  • Support sustainable and just alternatives to the predominant global systems of agriculture, food distribution, and trade.

Our guiding framework is food sovereignty.

Our primary strategy is to build linkages among US and international food and farm movements. To this end, we are a founding member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, which seeks to build a strong, unified food sovereignty movement in the US that works in partnership with social movements around the world. Learn more about the US Food Sovereignty Alliance and its campaign to turn the tables on the food crisis.

We also participate in a range of other US-based and international coalitions and networks, as well as United Nations meetings on sustainable development and human rights. We are proud to be an ally organization of La Via Campesina, a powerful global network of farmers, farmworkers, fisherfolk and indigenous peoples who are leading the charge in the call for food sovereignty.

Through WhyHunger's Imagine There's No Hunger campaign, each year we fund several innovative grassroots initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America, with a focus on youth and agriculture.