INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY INC
398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 foodfirst.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The purpose of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) is toeliminate the injustices that cause hunger. Our grand strategy is to change consciousness, awakening people to the possibility of, and their own power to bring about social change.

The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) is a member-supported, nonprofit people's think tank and education for action center. The work of Food First highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world.

Outreach & Action: Food First worked on the narrative strategy working group within the US Food Sovereignty Alliance (USFSA). This working group developed a monthly video segment to communicate to different audiences inside and outside the food movement on what food sovereignty would look like in action. Food First worked with various organizers and activists from grassroots organizations to highlight what food sovereignty meant to them. Food First also developed and implemented a webinar series covering various issues in the food system focusing on farmworker and racial justice issues. In these webinars, we brought together scholar-activists, organizers, and community advocates to analyze pressing problems and discuss solutions for a just food system. In addition to these, we also hosted a community event in the bay area with various food system experts and speakers to discuss issues as well as celebrate Food First's Executive Director.

Education for Change: Food First's publications are widely used in university courses and by Community groups around the world. Food First has published over 60 books, with translations in 22 languages worldwide. In addition, its Executive Director and Food First researchers teach courses and seminars, give talks, and participate in public discussions everywhere from university classrooms and international conferences to farms and community centers. This year we conducted Communications work supporting farmworker justice campaigns, published a Nyeleni newsletter article covering land grabbing and land justice, and developed a publication educating researchers on how to work better with social movements.

Research and Education for Action: The goal of the Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food Firsts research work is to generate information and analysis for food sovereignty locally and globally. Food First also carries out Participatory Action Research with community organizations to help them generate their own information and analyses. The combination of our applied and participatory research produces real-time information and insights. Our research brings the perspective of community-based struggles to broader development debates. The core of Food First's long-time work, our research and analysis is disseminated through a variety of research publications including backgrounders, policy briefs, development reports, and books which help popular audiences to understand the complex dynamics of our global food system. This year in particular, we developed eight different publications, covering topics from climate change, food/farm/farmworker justice, dismantling racism in the food system, agro ecology, and gender.

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