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OneWorld Partners Focusing on Food & Agriculture
Here are OneWorld partner organizations focusing on food and agriculture. If your organization is not a OneWorld partner, click here for more information about joining the OneWorld community.

Action Against Hunger-USA
Action Against Hunger-USA is part of an international humanitarian relief network, focusing on eradicating famine and malnutrition worldwide. We directly deliver emergency aid and longer-term assistance to people in need. For more information, contact John Sauer at jws[@]aah-usa.org or (212) 967-7800.

Center for Global Development
CGD aims to reduce global poverty and inequality through research & engagement with the policy community & the public. For more information, contact Tony Kopetchny at TKopetchny[@]CGDEV.ORG or (202) 416-0700.

Center for Rural Strategies
A communications organization that seeks to improve rural life by increasing public understanding about the importance and value of rural communities. For more information, contact Michelle Reynolds at michelle[@]ruralstrategies.org or (606) 632-3244.

Cultural Survival, Inc.
Cultural Survival works to promote greater awareness of the challenges and issues facing indigenous communities. For more information, contact Lisa Matthews at lmatthews[@]cs.org or (617) 441-5400.

Earth Policy Institute
Earth Policy Institute is an independent environmental research organization founded in May 2001 by Lester R. Brown. EPI is dedicated to building an environmentally sustainable economy—an eco-economy—and providing a plan for how to get from here to there. For more information, contact Janet Larsen at jlarsen[@]earth-policy.org or (202) 496-9290.

Food First / Institute for Food and Development Policy
The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First--is a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action center. Our work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right. For more information, contact Marilyn Borchardt at marbor[@]foodfirst.org or (510) 654-4400.

Food for Life Global
Food for Life, as the name suggests, is a unique project for bringing food and life to the needy of the world through the liberal distribution of pure vegetarian meals. Food for Life's volunteers serve more than 150,000 free vegetarian meals daily from their many free food restaurants, mobile kitchens, and emergency services. It is the largest vegetarian/vegan food relief in the world. For more information, contact Paul Turner at pturner[@]ffl.org or (301) 987-0108.

Global Exchange
Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. For more information, contact Kirsten Moller at kirsten[@]globalexchange.org (415) 255-7296.

GlobalGiving
GlobalGiving is an internet-based marketplace that directly connects donors interested in making a difference with high impact grass-roots development projects around the world. For more information, contact Meredith Landis at mlandis[@]globalgiving.com or (202) 232-5784.

Global Partners for Development
Global Partners works with community leaders to create sustainable development programs in the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Since 1989, we have built clean water systems; increased access to health care; improved children's nutrition; empowered women's economic development; and supported primary education especially for girls upon whose future the development of Africa depends. For more information, contact Catherine Kirby at CKirby[@]gpfd.org or (707) 588-0550.

Grassroots International
GRI supports social change movements in six countries of the Global South and educates and advocates in the U.S. For more information, contact Jake Miller at jmiller[@]grassrootsonline.org or (617) 524-1400.

Heifer International
Since 1944, Heifer International has assisted over 4 million families in 120 countries to become self-reliant through the gifts of income-and food-producing animals and training. These families then pass on the gift to others in need. For more information, contact Dave Patterson at dave.patterson[@]heifer.org and (800) 422-1311.

InterAction: American Council on Voluntary International Action
InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing social justice and basic dignity for all. For more information, contact Julie Montgomery at jmontgom[@]interaction.org or (202) 667-8227.

International Food Policy Research Institute
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) seeks sustainable solutions for ending hunger and poverty. For more information, contact Veronica O’Connor at v.oconnor[@]cgiar.org or (202) 862-5600.

Lutheran World Relief
Lutheran World Relief works with partners in 35 countries to help people grow food, improve health, strengthen communities, end conflict, build livelihoods and recover from disasters. LWR woks to combat the root causes of poverty and to restore the dignity it robs from people's lives. For more information, contact Emily Sollie at esollie[@]lwr.org or (410) 230-2700.

Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities. Since 1979, Mercy Corps has provided more than $640 million in aid to 74 nations. The agency currently reaches more than 5 million people in over 30 countries. More than 91 percent of the Mercy Corps' resources are allocated to programs that help those in need. For more information, contact Eric Block at eblock[@]mercycorps.org or (503) 595-0541.

Oxfam America
Oxfam America seeks lasting solutions to hunger, poverty, and social injustice around the world. Through national and international policy research and advocacy, Oxfam America pursues systemic solutions to social, political & economic inequities. For more information, contact Helen DaSilva at hdasilva[@]oxfamamerica.org or (617) 728-2596.

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Works to replace pesticides and industrial agriculture with just, ecologically sound alternatives worldwide. For more information, contact Stephenie Hendricks at stephenie[@]panna.org or (415) 981-1771.

Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization that works for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society, in which the needs of all people are met without threatening the health of the natural environment or the well-being of future generations. By providing compelling, accessible, and fact-based analysis of critical global issues, Worldwatch inspires people around the world to demand new policies, investment patterns, and lifestyle choices. For more information, contact Andrew Wilkins, at awilkins[@]worldwatch.org or (202) 452-1999.

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