The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) works build community by increasing and enhancing community gardening and greening across the United States and Canada. The ACGA works with churches and synagogues to plant organically grown fruit and vegetable gardens to help feed poor communities.

The Earth Day Network was born out of the first Earth Day in 1970 and works with more than 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. In addition to coordinating Earth Day activities, the network, which is based in Washington, D.C., works throughout the year to promote green policies. […]

Food, Inc. is a documentary in which filmmaker Robert Kenner looks at what he calls “the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.”

Written by Michael Pollan. Pollan investigates the process that brings food from the source to American’s plates and the political, economic, psychological and moral implications that entail.

IBTS is a leading centre of post-graduate theological study for Baptist Christians and other evangelical believers. They emphasize environmental and eco-friendly study.

CARE USA Annual Report on world hunger.

Bread for the World’s facts and figures on global hunger and poverty.

The Cultural Cup Food Bank in Phoenix serves needy people who have religious or health dietary restrictions. It was founded by Zarinah Awad, a Muslim, but serves the wider community. Contact through the website.

Joachim von Braun is director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute, whose mission is to seek sustainable solutions to end hunger and poverty. Based in Washington, D.C., it is one of 15 centers supported by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, an alliance of 64 governments, private foundations, and international and regional organizations.