The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.
Food First's impact is in opening people to a deeper understanding of why poverty and hunger continue in the face of abundant resources, to recognize that this is a violation of the basic human right to eat, and to make the link between poverty, hunger and environmental degradation.
Food First was founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappe, author of "Diet for a Small Planet" and Joseph Collins with the determination to expose the root causes of hunger in a world of plenty. The organization's first book, titled "Food First: Beyond the Myth of Scarcity" was used widely as a college course text and was followed by a long line of books that have been translated into more than 20 languages and continue to be used in universities and high schools around the world. These books are complemented by reports, backgrouanders, and public speaking, all aimed at revealing why some people continue to starve to death and what needs to be done to end this inhumanity.
How This Organization is Funded
- Individual donors - $400,000
- Book Sales - $42,000
- Grants from CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy - $45,000