Group Category: Food

Slow Food Youth Network Kenya was launched in 2014 to educate young people about local food. In Kenya, like in many African countries,…

Plenitud PR is a 501c3 non-profit educational farm and teaching center dedicated to service, sustainability, and community in Puerto Rico. They provide people…

Slow Food USA is part of the global Slow Food movement creating dramatic change in more than 160 countries. In the US, there are more than 150 local chapters and 6,000 members. Slow Food USA gathers likely and unlikely allies to transform the way people produce, consume, and enjoy food.

Bambini nel Deserto (BND) are people who share a genuine desire to support a better future for children and for their communities of belonging in the developing countries of Africa. Founded in 2000, the organization conducts projects and programs of intervention characterized by direct and concrete actions in the Sahara and Sahel countries. Bambini nel Deserto has carried out more than 450 projects in seven sectors: water, food and food autonomy, health, education and childhood, economic development, migrations, and the environment.

Founded in November 1999, PERMATIL (Permaculture Timor-Leste) has a vision of agriculture and animal management that protects and improves the land, provides produce and income for people, and is sustainable now and into the future. Since its start, PERMATIL has worked with farmers, community leaders and groups, universities, and national and international organizations to train and educate in the theory and practice of permaculture. In Timor-Leste, the ethics of permaculture have been adapted to three imperatives: care for the land, care for the people, and care for the future.

Established by Ethiopian dancer Melaku Belay, the Fendika Cultural Center offers classes, workshops, art exhibits, and cultural activities, beginning with displays of local painters and monthly poetry readings. Fendika also offers a small menu of Ethiopian cuisine. Future plans include a regular Ethiopian coffee ceremony as an introduction to one of the most important cultural products of the country and a recording studio where traditional music can be recorded and archival recordings preserved.

Pun Pun Organic Farm is a seed center and organic farm in Thailand. It collects rare and indigenous seeds from around the world, propagates them at the farm, and distributes them through its network of organic farmers and communities. It is a living seed bank, meaning that it not only collects seeds to keep but also grows and exchanges the seeds continually to propagate the species coming back to use. The farm also packages and distributes organic heirloom seeds to the local area.

Founded in 1903, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) has been working for more than a century to pioneer innovative approaches that make a lasting impact on global biodiversity. FFI’s vision is a sustainable future for the planet, where biodiversity is effectively conserved by the people who live closest to it and supported by the global community. Its mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science, and take human needs into account.

Friends of the Earth International is a grassroots environmental network consisting of 74 national member groups, 5,000 local groups, and over 2 million members and supporters. Friends of the Earth’s mission is to collectively ensure environmental and social justice, human dignity, and respect for human rights and peoples’ rights so as to secure sustainable societies. The organization works to halt and reverse environmental degradation, nurture ecological diversity and secure sustainable livelihoods for all people.

WhyHunger is a grassroots support organization based in New York City. It is a leader in building the movement to end hunger and poverty by connecting people to nutritious, affordable food and by supporting grassroots solutions that inspire self-reliance and community empowerment.

A 2014 grant from the Cultures of Resistance Network supported WhyHunger’s fifth annual Food Sovereignty Prize, which honored Haiti’s Group of Four Coalition (Kat Ge Kontre) and Via Campesina’s Dessalines International Solidarity Brigade.