Responding To Hunger: A Resource List

This list of resources, compiled by Bhikkhu Bodhi, offers links to organizations working on hunger relief and related environmental issues. It is followed by links to the websites of contributors to the Fall 2014 issue of Inquiring Mind.

On Global Hunger and Alternative Food Policies

Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/about-us#.VAovu_ldVv4

The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) addresses the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures. See in particular the page “Big Facts on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security”:
http://ccafs.cgiar.org/fr/big-facts-climate-change-agriculture-and-food-security#.VAownfldVv4

Food First
http://foodfirst.org

The Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, employs research, education and action to end the injustices that cause hunger.

GRAIN
http://www.grain.org/

GRAIN is a small international non-profit organization that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

La Via Campesina
http://viacampesina.org/en/

La Via Campesina is the international movement which brings together millions of peasants, small and medium-sized farmers, landless people, women farmers, indigenous people, migrants and agricultural workers from around the world. It defends small-scale sustainable agriculture as a way to promote social justice and dignity.

Oxfam America
http://www.oxfamamerica.org/

Oxfam America regularly issues important reports on strategies to combat global hunger, most of which connect world hunger to climate change.

World Food Programme
http://www.wfp.org/

The World Food Programme is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. WFP is part of the United Nations system and is voluntarily funded. Particularly informative is the page on hunger:
http://www.wfp.org/hunger

Reports on World Hunger and Alternative Agricultural Programs

Oxfam

Growing a Better Future (2011)
http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/growing-a-better-future-010611-en.pdf

War on Want

Food Sovereignty Report (2011)
http://www.waronwant.org/overseas-work/17394-food-sovereignty-report

World Resources Institute

The Great Balancing Act (2013)
http://www.wri.org/publication/the-great-balancing-act

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

The State of Food Insecurity in the World (2012)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3027e/i3027e.pdf

NYU School of Law International Human Rights Clinic

Nourishing Change: Fulfilling the Right to Food in the United States
http://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/130527_Nourishing-Change.pdf

Post Carbon Institute

Food and Farming Transition—Toward a Post Carbon Food Future (2009)
http://www.postcarbon.org/publications/food-and-farming-transition/

United Nations

Final Report: The Transformative Potential of the Right to Food (2014)
Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf

Climate Issues, from both scientific and political perspectives

Climate Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/issue/

The climate blog of Think Progress is a comprehensive progressive blog under the Center for American Progress. The administrator of Climate Progress is Joseph Romm, a senior fellow at the Center and a fellow of the American Association for the advancement of Science. In March 2009, Rolling Stone also named him one of “The 100 People Who Are Changing America,” calling him “America’s fiercest climate-change blogger.”

Climate Central
http://www.climatecentral.org/

Climate Central is an independent organization of leading scientists and journalists researching and reporting the facts about our changing climate and its impact on the American public.

Desmog Blog
http://www.desmogblog.com/

The aim of Desmog Blog is “to clear the PR pollution that clouds climate science.”

Earth Policy Institute
http://www.earth-policy.org/

Earth Policy is Lester Brown’s institute, “dedicated to planning a sustainable future and providing a roadmap of how to get from here to there.”

Inside Climate News
http://insideclimatenews.org/

Inside Climate News is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

**Websites affiliated with Spring 2014 Inquiring Mind contributors who are involved with hunger relief and/or climate change work:**

Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jennifer Russ: www.buddhistglobalrelief.org

David Loy: www.davidloy.org

Dharma Teachers Statement on Climate Change: www.oneearthsangha.org/articles/dharma-teachers-statement-on-climate-change

Wendy Johnson: www.gardeningatthedragonsgate.com

Joanna Macy: www.joannamacy.net

Nikiko Masumoto: www.masumoto.com

Raj Patel: www.rajpatel.org & www.generationfoodproject.org

John Robbins: www.johnrobbins.info

Jason DeCaires Taylor: http://www.underwatersculpture.com/

Margaret Trost: www.whatiffoundation.org

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Activism, Agriculture, Climate Change, Engaged Buddhism, Environment, Food Security, Human Rights, Hunger

Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi is the founder and chairman of Buddhist Global Relief. He has been a Theravāda Buddhist monk since 1972 and served as longtime editor for the Buddhist Publication Society in Kandy, Sri Lanka. A translator of the Pāli Nikāyas, he lives and teaches at Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York. Excerpts from Ven. Bodhi's translations of the Pāli Canon are available at www.wisdompubs.org under “Teachings of the Buddha” in Wisdom's Academics collection.