From Charity to Justice: Advocating for Food as a Human Right

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This webinar is hosted by Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders and sponsored by Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

Our food system should exist to nourish people, promote health and well-being, and sustain the planet. Yet today, it prioritizes producing fuel and livestock feed, contributes to chronic health disparities—especially in communities of color—drives climate change, and entrenches food insecurity. This system fails to deliver on its most essential purpose: ensuring equitable access to healthy, sustainable food for all. Approximately 47 million people experienced food insecurity in 2023. It’s time for a radical shift that stops framing the industrial food system as a model for charity and food as a commodity, and declares food as a human right.

Realizing the right to food will require coordinated reform across many sectors, including food systems, agriculture, public health, labor, and the environment. This webinar will feature members and partners of the National Right to Food Community of Practice, a coalition of more than 200 advocates and food systems leaders organizing with communities and creating building blocks for a broad-based social movement. Speakers will discuss their ongoing work challenging dominant narratives, organizing across regionally diverse coalitions, leveraging policy and advocacy for structural change, and engaging with global allies.

This webinar is open to all funders. Registrants will receive notes and key takeaways following the call.