Food Week of Action and World Food Day

 

October 13-20, 2024

Food Week of Action – brought to you by the Climate Justice Alliance, the US Food Sovereignty Alliance, the Presbyterian Hunger Program, and 99 other co-sponsors – includes World Food Day (Oct. 16), International Day for Rural Women (Oct. 15), and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Oct. 17).

 

 

 

Everyone is the key word for the 2024 Food Week!

Let us – everyone – join forces in our communities and across the land to protect the land, foodways, and people in the food system.

We salute the hard work of farmworkers, family farmers, fishers and all those producing agroecologically in harmony with nature. This year we also thank those in cities, rural counties and regions who are building more resilient and equitable local food economies that protect and cool the planet. And we bow in gratitude to all those laboring in the food chain, in particular those who are oppressed by unjust immigration policies and inhumane conditions. 

The 2024 Food Week will highlight groups and initiatives that are building equitable and sustainable food systems, while also tackling the economic and racial drivers of hunger and poverty.

 

Before the Food Week of Action:

Promote your group and your event/action!

Publicize your event, action or worship service happening during Food Week or anytime in October. Include a photo or two and information about your anti-hunger, food justice, environmental justice, or food sovereignty work.

Fill out this form to get your event listed. View the 102 co-sponsors below and on the 2024 Food Week map and contact php@pcusa.org to become a co-sponsor.

 

 

During October:

Dive into Candidates’ Positions on Food & Farm Justice Issues!

In October, learn where your local, state and national candidates stand on the issues and ask (at least) these four questions:

  1. How will you protect and strengthen programs that reduce hunger and improve nutrition?
  2. How will you ensure that family farmers and livestock producers get as much support as giant corporate producers and what policies will you support to ensure they get it?
  3. How will you strengthen policies and programs that promote conservation, reduce carbon emissions, and prevent environmental degradation?
  4. What policies will you back to provide fair pay and protect the dignity, health, and safety of food chain workers?

 

Harvest Justice!

  1. Help get resources to Black farmers and support the Farmland for Farmers Act
  2. Support the millions of immigrants working throughout the food chain through Harvest of Justice
  3. Help end heat deaths during harvest season by donating to the Fair Food Program

 

During the Food Week of Action:

Celebrate the Winners of the 2024 Food Sovereignty Prize!

  1. Look for the announcement of the Food Sovereignty Prize winners in early October. Learn about the Food Sovereignty Prize here
  2. Incorporate religious principles of feeding the hungry and working for food justice in a worship service or educational class during Food Week! Use these materials from recent years and update/adapt them to your context:

List of Co-Sponsors

ActionAid USA

Agrarian Trust

Agricultural Justice Project

Agricultural Missions, Inc.

Alaska Community Action on Toxics

Alliance for Fair Food

Beloved Asheville

Bread for the World

Buffalo Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, MN

CATA – The Farmworker Support Committee

Centre for Promoting Peace and Inclusion – India

Chapel by the Sea PC(USA)

City Compost

Climate Justice Alliance

Change Today, Change Tomorrow

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Common Earth Gardens

Common Ground Farm

CommuniCare Food Programs 

Community to Community

Co-op Cincy and Our Harvest Cooperative

Covenant Presbyterian Church

Creation Justice Ministries

Cumberland County Food Security Council

Denver Food Rescue

Eglise Protestante Méthodiste du Bénin

Faith Action Network

FaithLands

Farmworker Justice

Feed Louisville

Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa

First Presbyterian & Trinity Church in NJ

First Presbyterian Church in Newton, IA

Food AND Medicine

Food Chain Workers Alliance

Food First

Food in Neighborhoods Community Coalition

Food Literacy Project

Food Studies Program at The New School

Forest Lake Presbyterian Church

Frederick Food Security Network

Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church

Greenz N Tingz

Groundwork Lawrence

HEAL Food Alliance

Heritage Presbyterian Church

Honoré Farm and Mill

Immanuel Presbyterian Church Tucson

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)

Integrated Rural Development of Weaker Sections in India (WIDA)

Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement

Jubilee Network USA

Life Giving Agriculture Forum of OIKOTREE – International

Louisville Association for Community Economics

Louisville Tool Library

Migrant Justice

Millville Community Market

Monticello Presbyterian Church

Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture

National Family Farm Coalition

National Farm Worker Ministry

Northeast Atlantic Marine Alliance (NAMA)

Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York

Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto Rico

Oxford Presbyterian Church

Pesticides Action Network – North America

Plainsong Farm & Ministry

Presbyterian Church of Chestertown

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance

Presbyterians for Earth Care

Presbytery of Grand Canyon Peace & Justice Network

Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People

Quivara Coalition

Real Food Media

Riviera Presbyterian Church

Seeds for All

Self-Help Credit Union

Somali Bantu Community Association

Soul Fire Farm

St Mark Presbyterian

Church

Student Action with Farmworkers

Sustainable Agriculture of Louisville (SAL)

The Good Tree

The Hope Buss

Tippecanoe Presbyterian Church

United Presbyterian Church

Until Data Justice

US Food Sovereignty Alliance

Uprooted & Rising

WCC-Ecumenical

Advocacy Alliance

Webster Groves Presbyterian Church

The Welcome Church

Western Reserve Presbytery – Abundance Network

Westminster Presbyterian Church in Dubuque

Westminster Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe

WHEAT

Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US

WhyHunger

Women, Food and Agriculture Network

Workers Dignity