Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy

Food First is a member-supported, nonprofit peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right. Food First produces books, reports, articles, films, electronic media, and curricula, plus interviews, lectures, workshops and academic courses for the public, policy makers, activists, the media, students educators and researchers. We participate in activist coalitions and furnish clearly written and carefully researched analyses, arguments and action plans fo rpeople who want to help change the world.

Mission: Food First empowers citizens to address root causes of hunger, poverty and environmental decline. Our research and educational materials reveal how anti-democratic institutions and belief sytems promote hunger and environmental decline.