Global Hunger Alliance is an international coalition of non-profit, non-governmental organizations united in support of effective, ethical, equitable, and environmentally sustainable solutions to hunger and malnutrition.

Global Hunger Alliance was founded in 2001 in advance of the 2002 World Food Summit, with partners in the coalition signing onto its Statement of Principles. At the Summit and the parallel NGO Forum for Food Sovereignty, GHA worked to educate governments and NGOs about the environmental, economic, and ethical hazards of industrial animal agriculture and about the promise of plant-based solutions to the world’s hunger and water crises. Several of our ideas were incorporated into the action plan adopted by participants in the NGO Forum. In 2002 and 2003, GHA participated in several international meetings, including the European Social Fourm, the World Social Forum, and the SDPI annnual conference on Sustainable Development in South Asia.

GHA meeting in Rome, 2002

Recognizing the urgency of the current feed-food-fuel crisis as well as the growing emergency of climate change, GHA is reforming in 2008 to continue the dual work of opposing globalized industrial animal agriculture while promoting sustainable cultivation of ecologically and culturally appropriate food plants for local consumption. As before, GHA will concentrate on educating decision-makers at the international level, promoting more ethical eating in affluent countries, and providing technical and material support to NGOs in regions where agricultural neo-colonialism and dietary imperialism imperil the health of local people and ecosystems.

Activists and organizations interested in working with GHA can write to gha (at) globalhunger.net.