World Food Crisis
Us Working Group on the Food Crisis
The US Working Group on the Food Crisis is an ad hoc group of organizations representing various sectors of the food system educating the public about the world’s dangerous and harmful food policies and advocating for sustainable change.
Food Sovereignty & the Right to Food
Grassroots International
Grassroots International builds alliances with and funds progressive movements in the Global South and advocating for social change, with a primary focus on land, water and food as human rights.
Rural Development Institute
RDI is an international land law and policy group fighting rural landlessness, one of the chief structural causes of global poverty.
Nyeleni 2007
An international meeting of more than 500 representatives from 80 countries working on food sovereignty was held in Mali in 2007.
MST, Brazil
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution.
UNORCA, Mexico
UNORCA is a campesino organization in Mexico working on land reform and food sovereignty.
Navdanya, India
Navdanya is actively involved in the rejuvenation of indigenous knowledge and culture. It has created awareness on the hazards of genetic engineering, defended people's knowledge from biopiracy and food rights in the face of globalization.
La Via Campesina, International
La Via Campesina is the international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers.
National Family Farm Coalition, USA
The National Family Farm Coalition represents family farm and rural groups whose members face the challenge of the deepening economic recession in rural communities.
BLAST Network, International
BLAST (Building Local Agricultural Systems Today) is a global network of youth and adults working together to build sustainable food systems.
National Immigrant Farming Initiative, USA
NIFI provides training, information sharing, networking opportunities, funding for projects through Heifer’s project development process, and other resources to support immigrant farmers.
New Farmer Development Project, USA
The New Farmer Development Project (NFDP) identifies, educates, and supports immigrants with agricultural experience by helping them become local farmers and establish small farms in the region.
Northeast Network of Immigrant Farmer Projects, USA
The Northeast Network of Immigrant Farming Programs (NNIFP) strengthens local Immigrant Farming Projects (IFPs) through sharing of information, strategies, resources, and building capacity of farmers and program partners.
Sustainable Agriculture & Sustainable Livelihoods
IPIAT, Venezuela
The Institute for the Research and Production of Tropical Agriculture (IPIAT) educates on, advocates for, and researches agroecological farming methods in South America.
Friends of the Earth, International
Friends of the Earth fights to protect the rights of all people to live in a safe and healthy environment, both at home and in countries around the world.
Greenbelt Movement, Kenya
The Green Belt Movement is one of the most prominent women’s civil society organizations, advocating for human rights and supporting good governance and peaceful democratic change through the protection of the environment.
Slow Food, International
Slow Food counteracts fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers, USA
The CIW is a community-based worker organization. Our members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida.
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
IFOAM leads, unites, and assists the organic movement in its full diversity and advocates for the worldwide adoption of ecologically, socially and economically sound systems that are based on the principles of Organic Agriculture.
Urban Agriculture
Just Food
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region through new marketing and food-growing opportunities.
The Food Project
The Food Project engages young people in personal and social change through placing teens in unusually responsible roles, with deeply meaningful sustainable agriculture work.
Water
Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch ensures clean water and safe food by challenging the corporate control and abuse of food and water resources by empowering people to take action and by transforming the public consciousness about what we eat and drink.
Energy, Climate Change, & Food
Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
Oakland Institute
The Oakland Institute is a policy think tank whose mission is to increase public participation and promote fair debate on critical social, economic and environmental issues in both national and international forums.
Food First
Based in Oakland, California, Food First works to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger.
Trade Reform/Trade Justice
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
IATP based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Alliance for Responsible Trade
The Alliance for Responsible Trade is a national network of labor, family-farm, religious, women's, environmental, development and research organizations that promotes equitable and sustainable trade and development.
Citizens Trade Campaign
The Citizens Trade Campaign (CTC) is a national coalition of environmental, labor, consumer, family farm, religious, and other civil society groups working to transform trade and investment into means for achieving economic justice, human rights, healthy communities, and a sound environment.
