WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, long-time food sovereignty activist and author of the forthcoming book Food Voices: Stories of the Food Sovereignty Movement. For the past year, Andrianna has been on a journey across the Americas to capture the stories of people working towards and living a just and sustainable food system. Below is the latest highlight of her work.
Chavannes Jean Baptiste is a farmer and farm leader in Papaye, Haiti. Since 1972 he has coordinated the Movement Paysans de Papaye (MPP). Chavannes is a child of peasants and was educated at an agricultural school. He uses his education and his involvement with the Catholic church to organize farmers.
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Deadline: November 17, 2011
What is the Community Food Project Grant?
The Community Food Project Grant supports: (1) the development of Community Food Projects with a one-time infusion of federal dollars to make such projects self-sustaining; (2) Planning Projects to assess the food security needs and plan long-term solutions to help ensure food security in communities; and (3) a project that provides Training and Capacity Building on a nationwide basis to entities interested in developing new Community Food Projects or assisting current grantees and others to effectively operate their food security projects.
Additional Information on Eligibility
Only private, nonprofit entities meeting the following three requirements are eligible to receive a CFP, PP or TCB grant: (a) have experience in the area of (i) community food work, particularly concerning small and medium-size farms, including the provision of food to people in low-income communities and the development of new markets in low-income communities for agricultural producers; or (ii) job training and business development activities for food-related activities in low-income communities; (b) demonstrate competency to implement a project, provide fiscal accountability, collect data, and prepare reports and other necessary documentation; and (c) demonstrate a willingness to share information with researchers, evaluators, practitioners, and other interested parties, including a plan for dissemination of results.
Read the full announcement on the NIFA website.
Have questions about the Community Food Project Grant?
Go to www.foodsecurity.org/cfp_help.html for information about the assistance provided to grant applicants last year; there will be very few changes to our services.
You may also call 877-988-1010 or email t&ta@whyhunger.org to be referred to an appropriate consultant.
Want examples of current and previous CFP winners? Click here to search the USDA Community Food Projects database.
WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, long-time food sovereignty activist and author of the forthcoming book Food Voices: Stories of the Food Sovereignty Movement. For the past year, Andrianna has been on a journey across the Americas to capture the stories of people working towards and living a just and sustainable food system. Below is the latest highlight of her work.
Lou Barr trolls for salmon on the fishing vessel Gavia in southeast Alaska. He first moved to Alaska in 1962 to be a biologist for the National Marine Fisheries Service and then realized that fishing is his calling and moved into that fulltime in 1980. Lou has a great love and appreciation for the intricate ecological wonders of the oceans and takes every precaution to conserve them.
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By Kiran Ponada
Photo by Arnold Adler
When I began my internship at WhyHunger, I was hopeful that I’d be given the opportunity to come within close quarters of strong voices in the food justice movement. Little did I know that into my second week, I would get the chance to hear the thoughts of two of the greatest trailblazers in this food movement – Frances Moore Lappé and Vandana Shiva. Frances Moore Lappé is the author of 18 books, all addressing various pressing issues related to food, hunger, democracy, and ecology. Vandana Shiva is one of the foremost environmental activists in the world, whose works include Monocultures of the Mind and Stolen Harvest, both works addressing the many problems associated with industrialized agriculture today.
Lappé and Shiva were speakers at The Small Planet Fund’s “Feeding Hope: Living Democracy” event at Cooper Union. This event celebrated 40 years since the publishing of Lappé’s salient work Diet for a Small Planet and 40 years of the global food movement. There were many powerful insights and metaphors shared by Lappé and Shiva, meant to convey the urgency of the interconnected environmental and human rights crisis we are in the midst of. The following points are critical ideas proposed by Lappé and Shiva, ideas that we must embody and translate into meaningful action:
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