Learn about the importance of WORLD FOOD DAY, which promotes the 2nd United Nations Sustainable Development Goal: a world free from hunger and malnutrition.
World Food Day
Credit: MY HERO
Teachers: Visit the free MY HERO Lesson Plan for World Food Day for this film program. Includes discussion guide and learning outcomes.
These hero stories provide inspiring examples of individuals and groups working to end hunger.
Frances Moore Lappé / Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary with new edition.
Frances Moore Lappe
By: Rosemary Pritzker
Frances Moore Lappe, an activist, is passionate about vegetarianism and the fight to end hunger and poverty.
World Food Program / As a pandemic spreads hunger, a UN program has stepped up
By: Deborah Neff
Dorcas Lukwesa’s Mobile, Sustainable Farms
By: Abigail Richardson
Farm2People: Eric Holdener and Anna Hopkins
By: Shannon Luders-Manuel
Farm2People is a nonprofit that works to deliver produce to food insecure areas of Los Angeles County in the wake of COVID-19.
Yasmine Sherif: Global Educator and Champion for Youth
By: Shannon Luders-Manuel
Yasmine Sherif, who leads Education Cannot Wait, is an activist working for the rights of all children and the winner of MY HERO's 2020 Global Educator Award.
Daniel Goldberg
By: MY HERO Staff
Daniel Goldberg, a Santa Barbara teen, created "Zoomers to Boomers" a collection of Gen Z shoppers who bring groceries to the Boomer generation during the Coronavirus pandemic.
David Beasley / World Food Program / From pandemic to famine: Can world meet food crisis fast enough?
By: By Howard LaFranchi Staff writer
Growing hunger in wealthy nations doesn’t compare to the famine expected in the developing world, the United Nations’ top food official warns. Wealthier nations are chipping in to help – but a strategic coming together on a global level will be crucial.
Mikaila Ulmer: The Young Bee Ambassador
By: Abigail Richardson
Mikaila Ulmer, was 4 when she started her own brand of honey lemonade, which would become Me & the Bees Lemonade, inspired by her great-grandmother’s recipe. I
Keith Griffin 111 - BEEKEEPER
By: Abigail Richardson
In his film, BEEKEEPER, Keith Griffith III, 15, shares the healing power and ecological importance of beekeeping.
Jon Bon Jovi
By: Staff
The Soul foundation runs two "JBJ Soul Kitchens" in New Jersey. At these nonprofit, community restaurants, diners pay for their "farm-to-table" meals by volunteering or giving a donation.
Alice Waters
By: Abigail Richardson
Alice Waters has dedicated her life to promoting local, sustainable agriculture and transforming the way we think about food.
Marcus Samuelsson
By: Jane Wallace from New York
Marcus Samuelsson is an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef and restaurant owner who focuses on the food needs of the world.
Films
BYkids: Beekeeper [Trailer]
By: Keith Griffith III
15-year-old Keith Griffith III developed an interest in beekeeping at age 11 when both of his parents were incarcerated.
Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network
By: Monique Verdin, Osprey Orielle Lake
At the end of the Mississippi River, in the place the Chahta (Choctaw) call Bvlbancha, the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, People of the Sacred Medicine Trail, a network of femme and nonbinary Indigenous gardeners, is working urgently to respond to the climate crisis.
2021 Global Educator Award - Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Blythe Lappé
Produced by:The MY HERO Project
Learn about Frances Moore Lappé & Anna Blythe Lappé in this video celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Book Diet for a Small Planet.
Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary
By: Deborah Neff, MY HERO Staff writer
Frances Moore Lappé’s Diet for a Small Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary with new edition.
Heros Feeding CHILDREN
Marcus Rashford MBE - Football Hero and Hunger Campaigner
By: Abigail Richardson
Marcus Rashford is an England Premiere League footballer who rose to fame playing for Manchester United and England and more recently for his work with FareShare[i] to help tackle childhood hunger in the UK.
SGT. PUSHUP | Helping Children One Pushup at a Time (Trailer)
Brandon Hill, Maverick Farrah
Patrick Parker, a decorated war veteran who loves his country, created the character of 'Sgt. Pushup' to feed children
David Hertz / Gastromotiva / For this Brazilian chef, stopping world hunger starts in local kitchens
By: Cathryn J. Prince, Correspondent
David Hertz and his nonprofit, Gastromotiva, seek local solutions to ending world hunger.
MY HERO Suggested Video
"Athletic, Concerned College Students Deliver 626,000+ lbs of Produce to Food Banks in Need" (2020) by The Farm Link Project
Get involved at FarmLink.org
Vegan Food Heroes
Gaz Oakley – Vegan Chef and Food Hero
By: Abigail Richardson
Gaz Oakley, known as the Avant-Garde Vegan, is a vegan chef and cookbook author from Cardiff, Wales.
Gary Yourofsky
By: Nicole from San Diego
An American animal rights activist and lecturer. He has had a major influence on contemporary veganism.
Food Stories for Young Readers - by Young Readers
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
By: Jacob from Westerville
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed)
is a much loved American hero and legend.
Listen & Read Along
This story has an audio version for ESL students and the visually impaired!
Robin Emmons
By: Sydney from Roseville
Robin Emmons
is an organic farmer who has created a foundation to fight hunger.
Posters and Artwork that illustrate the concerns about our food today
Know Your Seafood- Sustainable fish choices
By: One World One Ocean
Hungry? October 16 is World Food Day
By: unknown
Farmers Feeding the World
By: AgWeb
Farmers Feeding the World is an ongoing industry-wide campaign operated by the nonprofit Farm Journal Foundation to rally American agriculture for the war against hunger.
Zapatista Women, Roots to Resistance Postcard & Poster Campaign
By: Denise Beaudet
Zapatista women resisting the policies of a government (a world really) which spiritually, economically, environmentally and physically disregards and disenfranchises indigenous peoples.
Urban Farmer Will Allen
By: Robert Shetterly, AmericansWhoTelltheTruth.org
Retired basketball player who became an urban farmer is a positive role model
Food Crusader Alice Waters
By: Robert Shetterly, AWTT.org
Advocate for children's nutrition and farm to table California chef
Film
Feed the Future
Natalie Wylie
Illustrates the environmental effects of meat consumption, emphasising the strain it will cause for future generations.
Edible City - Joy Moore
Produced by:Andrew Hasse
Joy Moore, longtime food activist, teaches gardening and nutrition to high schoolers at Berkeley Technology Academy, makes them smoothies, and discusses her views on social justice, food, and education.
Growing a Healthy Community
Produced by:Light House Studio
A documentary about Growing for CHANGE made by students in the Westhaven Community.
#WorldFoodDay is calling for global solidarity to help all populations, and especially the most vulnerable, to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to make food systems more resilient and robust so they can withstand increasing volatility and climate shocks, deliver affordable and sustainable healthy diets for all, and decent livelihoods for food system workers. We are also giving thanks to the world’s #FoodHeroes who, produce, plant, harvest, fish or transport our food. No matter the circumstances, they continue to provide food to their communities and beyond - helping to grow, nourish and sustain our world. Grow, nourish, sustain. Together. Our Actions are our Future.
Interview with Youth Activist Sophie Healy-Thow
Kitty Richardson
Food Matters - Trailer
Producer: James Colquhoun & Laurentine ten Bouche
"Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food." -- Hippocrates
Taaru Askan
Producer: Nicole Dewing and Hamza Azeroual
A 5-minute video on the mission and the activities of Taaru Askan Organic Farm in Senegal, West Africa.
Mother Porridge
Producer: Fary Sakho
MAIMOUNA FALL is known as Mother Porridge in her village in Senegal.
Christian Science Monitor Stories
Relief from the fields: Tackling food waste, hunger in one swoop
Credit: Francine Kiefer/The Christian Science Monitor
Links
Displays the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) along with ways to achieve them.
UN Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger
Credit: UN
"A specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger."
Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN
Credit: FAO
Supplies ways to help during World Hunger Day
UN World Food Day 2019 Activity Book: Eating Healthy Matters
Credit: UN
"[A] mission to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children, young people, adults and families around the world, with a focus on combating the physical, social and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS."
KCA: Keep A Child Alive
Credit: KCA
Our Curators
Hero Stories curated by MY HERO General Editors Deborah Neff and Abigail Richardson.
