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.
Collective Action is the superpower of the 2025 Food Week
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.
Before the Food Week of Action
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.
During October
1. Learn about the Farmland for Farmers Act as Congress prepares to pass a Farm Bill.
2. 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.
3. Join hundreds of groups globally to Proclaim Jubilee! and call for the cancellation of debts.
4. Look for the announcement of the Food Sovereignty Prize winners in early October. Learn about the Food Sovereignty Prize here.
During the Food Week of Action
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: