US Working Group on the Food Crisis

The US Working Group on the Food Crisis is an ad hoc group of organizations from around the US, representing various sectors of the food system, including anti-hunger, family farm, community food security, environmental, international aid, labor, food justice, consumer, and other groups. We do not view the food crisis as an unexpected, sudden emergency of the last year, but as the inevitable consequence of the development of a long list of misguided agricultural and food policies over the last 30+ years.

We believe that we will not resolve the problems exposed by this food crisis by applying more of the same policies and thinking that caused the crisis in the first place. Nothing less than a wholesale change in the worldwide food system will allow us to address these problems sustainably and equitably.

Please join us:

• Sign the Call to Action to demand that the new US administration take rapid steps to address the food crisis through fundamental policy changes.  
• Learn more by reading the backgrounder to the Call to Action, as well as the policy brief written by Food First in collaboration with this working group.
• Learn how to take action in your own community.
• Encourage others to sign onto the Call to Action and to get involved.

This working group was first convened by a conference call in May of 2008 followed by in-person meetings in Washington DC in July of 2008, each attended by representatives of 40-50 organizations from throughout the US.  This group has since continued to grow and evolve. If your organization has already signed the Call to Action and would like to get more actively involved, please contact us.