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.
2025 Food Week of Action
Through individual courage and collective action, we can protect the people and land that we love. In the face of authoritarian power grabs and the resulting harm and destruction, it will take empathy, compassion and collective action to resist and build the world we need.
On the week surrounding World Food Day (Oct. 16), we salute the farm workers, family farmers, fisherfolk, food chain workers, and all who produce the food on our plates. We especially honor those who grow agroecologically in harmony with nature. We thank people who are building more resilient and equitable local food economies that provide affordable, healthy food to neglected communities. This year especially we remember all those laboring in the food chain, particularly those targeted by brutal and racist immigration policies, detention and deportation. The 2025 Food Week will highlight groups and initiatives that are building equitable and sustainable food systems and 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 or action on the 2025 Food Week Actions page.
Email [email protected] to become a co-sponsor. No cost; the only expectation is that you somehow celebrate or promote Food Week of Action, and I’ll send blurbs for newsletters or social media. View the growing list of co-sponsors below and on the 2025 Food Week map.
- Learn about the Farmland for Farmers Act as Congress prepares to pass a Farm Bill.
- Learn about and support the delegates – and the groups they work with – who participated in the historic global food sovereignty gathering – The Nyéléni Forum 2025 – in Sri Lanka in September.
- Join hundreds of groups globally to Proclaim Jubilee! and call for the cancellation of debts.
- Look for the announcement of the Food Sovereignty Prize winners in early October. Learn about the Food Sovereignty Prize here.
1. Take one action of your choosing or act on one of these:
- Advocate for the New Producer Economic Security Act along with the National Young Farmers Coalition.
- Support the “Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act” (HR3668) that requires the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to implement a national heat stress standard. Take action here.
- Donate to a local food justice or immigrant justice group.
2. 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
Climate Justice Alliance
Presbyterian Hunger Program
US Food Sovereignty Alliance
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ActionAid USA
Agrarian Trust
Agricultural Justice Project
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
Beloved Asheville
Bible Alliance of Benin
Bread for the World
Bread of Life Presbyterian Church
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
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 and 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 (WIDA)
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
Methodist Protestant Church of Benin
Migrant Justice
Millville Community Market
Monticello Presbyterian Church
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture
National Family Farm Coalition
National Farm Worker Ministry
NGO Deborah - Benin
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
Uprooted & Rising
WCC-Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance
Webster Groves Presbyterian Church
The Welcome Church
Western Reserve Presbytery - Abundance Network
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe
WHEAT
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom US
WhyHunger
Women, Food and Agriculture Network
Workers Dignity