World Food Day

World Food Day

World Food Day.

What it’s all about: drawing attention to eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, particularly in rural areas.

Public Matters has been doing World Food Day everyday since it started working in healthy food access. We’re taking time today to look back on all the great work that’s happened, and to generate new thinking on how to improve healthy food access and health outcomes in communities across Los Angeles.

To start our brainstorming, we’re re-watching these classics from our collaboration with the South L.A. Healthy Eating Active Community(HEAC) Initiative and students from The Accelerated School (TAS):