Thanks to our partner, the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, for this week’s updates! USDA Releases Report on Household Food Security in the United States in 2022 This report examines American households’ ability to access sufficient food last year. The report shows 17 million households were food insecure at some point during the year, including… Read more »
November 1, 2023
Hunger in the U.S. & a Farm Bill Update
Thanks to our partner, the Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders, for this week’s updates! USDA Releases Report on Household Food Security in the United States in 2022 This report examines American households’ ability to access sufficient food last year. The report shows 17 million households were food insecure at some point during the year, including… Read more » 
Today is World Food Day! Congratulations to Black Dirt Farm Collective and kompliman to the Haiti’s Mouvman Peyizan Papay (MPP) for winning the 2023 Food Sovereignty Prize! “When we received word of this honor during our Food Sovereignty Camp, 450 young peasant leaders let out a thunderous cry of joy,” said MPP leader Jusléne Tyresias…. 
PHP supports two groups, which received the highest accolades for their effectiveness in supporting farm workers. One is the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their Fair Food Program and the second is Agricultural Justice Project. The CIW’s Fair Food Program launched in 2011 and was “one of the earlier food justice schemes to forge… 
Dive into this issue of the PHP Post to learn how PHP is addressing root causes and making an impact throughout the world. We invite you to read how communities survive in times of drought, how bridging international concerns from one place to another in global solidarity has great impact, how sharing grief and food… 
Imagine politicians taking advantage of our ignorance of the facts to score points? Doesn’t take much to imagine does it? This time it is fear-mongering about China, Russia, Iran and North Korea buying up our farmland. This is called a red herring, a term from the early 1800s, which was most likely used first by… 
“Governments have few sources of leverage over increasingly globalized food systems – but public procurement is one of them. When sourcing food for schools, hospitals and public administrations, governments have a rare opportunity to support more nutritious diets and more sustainable food systems in one fell swoop.” – Olivier De Schutter, U.N. Special Rapporteur on… 
It’s time to begin raising our voices about the kind of food and agriculture we want for our towns, states and country — a food system that is equitable and sustainable! One that ensures the right to food for all and supports the workers and farmers who feed us! With that goal in mind, we’ve… 
By Andrew Kang Bartlett Article originally published on Oct. 26 by Presbyterians for Earth Care It would be hard to understate the importance of land. How we use it is an existential proposition for all forms of life from the tiny to the immense. And as Malcolm X said, “Land is the basis of all… 
The Presbyterian Hunger Program has been active in a transnational campaign that attempts to slow down the financialization of land – land grabbing – by universities and retirement companies, in particular TIAA, a retirement fund management firm that invests the retirement monies of teachers and nonprofits around the US. TIAA has become the largest purchaser…