White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health

Greater than 50 years have handed since america convened the White Home convention that helped elevate starvation as a nationwide precedence and sparked main enhancements and expansions to the federal vitamin packages—meals stamps (now SNAP), faculty meals, and WIC—paving the way in which to important reductions in meals insecurity for tens of millions of people and households. However we nonetheless have a protracted method to go.

Now could be the time to exhibit with coverage change and different actions that ending starvation in America stays a nationwide precedence. We stand able to work with the administration, Congress, and a big selection of various stakeholders to eradicate starvation and meals insecurity on this nation.

We assist a complete strategy that may embody varied federal, state, native, and Tribal policymakers, anti-hunger, well being and personal sectors, and other people with lived experience of starvation. It’s important that the convention stay as much as its Congressional mandate to look at the foundation causes of starvation and undernutrition, how they affect well being and the prevalence of persistent illness, and the way they are often addressed.