Food Week of Action
Things to do during the Food Week of Action
The Global Food Week of Action includes World Food Day (Oct. 16), International Day for Rural Women (Oct. 15), and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (Oct. 17). Join us in building more equitable and ecological food and farm systems. We envision a world where everyone has enough affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food, where no one is hungry, and where all who work in the food chain are fairly compensated, respected, and celebrated. Each year, resources are provided so you can include education, worship, and actions in this Food Week of Action.
2024 Food Week Activities
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.
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.
In October, learn where your local, state, and national candidates stand on the issues and ask (at least) these four questions:
- How will you protect and strengthen programs that reduce hunger and improve nutrition?
- 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?
- How will you strengthen policies and programs that promote conservation, reduce carbon emissions, and prevent environmental degradation?
- What policies will you back to provide fair pay and protect the dignity, health, and safety of food chain workers?
Harvest Justice!
- Help get resources to Black farmers and support the Farmland for Farmers Act.
- Support the millions of immigrants working throughout the food chain through Harvest of Justice.
- Help end heat deaths during harvest season by donating to the Fair Food Program.
- Look for the announcement of the Food Sovereignty Prize winners in early October. Learn about the Food Sovereignty Prize here.
- 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 & 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
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