Uniting advocates to fight for a better food system

In a joint call to action, the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Hunger Free America are urging public health and anti-hunger advocates to set aside longstanding divisions and unite to advance a healthier, more just US food system. The authors call for protecting and strengthening SNAP, improving nutrition security through data and evaluation, holding the food industry accountable, and centering the voices of people with lived experience of food insecurity.

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View our recent webinar—Finding Common Ground: Uniting Advocates to Fight for a Better Food System

This timely webinar brings together leading voices in anti-hunger advocacy, public health, and food and nutrition policy to examine historical divides—and shared goals—between these movements and why collaboration is essential now to protect food assistance, improve nutrition, and build a healthy and just food system.

Food Access and Nutrition: Input from Community Members with Limited Incomes

Effective advocacy requires the voices of those most impacted.

Listen to these community members with lived experience of hunger share their perspectives on nutrition, health, and access to food.

Interviewees are participants in Hunger Free America's Food Action Board (FAB) program, which empowers anti-hunger advocates in US communities with advocacy training and support. 

[Interviews recorded with consent in 2026. Interviewees have been compensated for their time and expertise.] 

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