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Mission
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.
Key Facts
Geographic areas served:
International, national, local
Target demographics:
Young people of all ages who support access for all people to quality, culturally appropriate food.
Results to date:
Promotion of the concepts of the basic human right to food and food sovereignty ("right of peoples to define their own food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries systems).
Publicizing the success of people who are pursuing the dream of local, sustainable food systems.
Direct beneficiaries per year: We are not a direct service organization
Indirect beneficiaries per year: Food First books and materials used in more than 200 U.S. colleges and translated into more than 20 languages.
Obstacles:
The global food crisis has consumed our organization this year with many demands from reporters for our analysis. This has slowed down our ability to proceed with our previously established projects to promote agroecological alternatives to the green revolution in Africa, establishing a Food Policy Council for Oakland and conducting related research, and working for a moratorium on biofuels standards for the U.S.
Your donation of 50 enables us to:
provide 4 free Food First books to a community library in the Global South.
Your donation of 100 enables us to:
sponsor a person to attend an upcoming meeting on agroecological alternatives to the green revolution in Africa.
Your donation of 500 enables us to:
publicize and distribute dvds of Caminos, Food First’s documentary exploring the causes of and impact of migration from Mexico to schools, libraries and religious organizations.
Board Members and Affiliation:
Shyaam Shabaka,M.P.H., founder and executive director of Eco Village Farm Learning Center
Joyce King, Benjamin E. Mays Chair for Urban Teaching, Learning & Leadership, professor in the Dept of Education Policy Studies, GA State University
Malia Everette, director of Global Exchange Reality Tours
Hank Herrera, founder, president, and CEO of Center for Popular Research, Education & Policy
LaDonna Redmond, President, Institute for Community Resource Development
Past and Current Funders:
7,000 individual donors.
C.S. Fund
New Field Foundation
Tides Foundation
Clarence Heller Foundation
HOPE Collaborative
Oakland Department of Public Health
Key Staff
Eric Holt-Gimenez, Executive Director
Martha Katigbak Fernandez, Operations Officer
Marilyn Borchardt, Development Director
Rowena Garcia, Administrative Assistant