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World Future Council brings the interests of future generations to the center of policy making.The Council addresses challenges to our common future and provides decision-makers with effective policy solutions. In-depth research underpins advocacy work for international agreements, regional policy frameworks and national lawmaking and thus produces practical and tangible results.
Slow Food USA is an educational non-profit with the goal of creating a world in which everyone can enjoy food that is good, clean and fair. Visit their website to learn more about the Time For Lunch Campaign, an action to give kids real food in schools. The campaign orchestrated over 300 Eat-Ins in communities across the country on Sept. 7, 2009 to draw attention to the need for real, healthy food for the more than 30 million children who participate in the National School Lunch Program.
Community Food Security Coalition is a national network working toward improving access to healthy food for all and building sustainable food systems, the Coalition works on food policy and has resources for bringing healthy food into your college, school and more.
FarmAid works to keep family farmers on the land to ensure a sustainable and healthy food supply. Visit their website to get their “10 Ways to Ensure Healthy Food” action ideas.
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE), the folks who brought you The Meatrix and Sustainable Table, has a web site chock-full of resources about factory farming, healthy eating, and action ideas.
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a network of local, regional and national groups working for federal policy that supports family farms, sustainable agriculture and a socially just, economically, and environmentally sustainable food system. Their site has great resources on important policy as well as avenues for action.
Our Future Planet is an Online Community that enables people across the world to share ideas, design their future, and create global change in the real world.
Oxfam America is committed to creating long-lasting solutions to global hunger, poverty, and social injustice with education and action. Oxfam has a great fair trade program and ideas about how to get involved, particularly for college students.
RESULTS is an international grassroots citizen’s advocacy organization committed to ending hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS empowers citizens to realize their own personal and political power.
World Hunger Year (WHY) works to break the cycle of poverty and end hunger by moving beyond emergency feeding to transforming lives and building sustainable communities. Find ways to incorporate nutritious food into your school lunch program, support family farmers, ensure healthy food for you and your family, and more by accessing WHY’s online Food Security Learning Center.
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