Food Security Learning Center

The Food Security Learning Center website is designed to provide information about, and motivation to mobilise around, a variety of issues, such as: community food security (including sub-topics such as community food assessment, community gardens, community supported agriculture (CSA), and food policy councils), nutrition, rural poverty, and family farming. Amongst the other tools here for educating those living in the US and elsewhere are searchable databases (e.g., a national (US) hunger clearinghouse), a hunger and poverty research guide, news items, and blueprints and examples of models that work.

The Learning Center is also an illustration of the use of ICT to engage people in activity and advocacy around food system change - from the grassroots to the global level. From getting local food into school meals to promoting farmers markets in food-insecure communities, the Learning Center offers ideas for taking action. For example, the "Action Alerts" page provides background about such issues as the the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which WHY contends exacerbates labour and human rights violations in Colombia. Concrete suggestions are made here for how to take action - e.g., by calling one's members of Congress (a link to an organisation providing talking points on responsible trade is offered).

Hunger, Poverty.