By 2024, at least eight million people in France were food insecure. The national response has been limited to emergency aid, without addressing structural causes. The mobilisation and coordination of all public policies to guarantee the right to food for all is still largely insufficient. The aim of Action Against Hunger’s strategy in France is to contribute to ensuring dignified access to sufficient, healthy and sustainable food for all in France.

In 2024, Action Against Hunger was a key player in the fight against food insecurity, playing a central role in numerous multi-stakeholder forums, and delivering strong advocacy messages to public authorities with its partners, notably through the publication of its report “Droit à l’alimentation : La France doit se mettre à table” (The right to food: France must come to the table). We also contributed to improving the coverage and efficiency of aid by sharing our experience and expertise with partners (needs assessment, monitoring and evaluation, cash transfers). In this way, we have been able to help dozens of actors to think together about how to improve the responses proposed.

Finally, in our two areas of intervention (Île-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur), Action Against Hunger has implemented several pilot projects with a learning objective, enabling us to provide direct assistance to several thousand people while stimulating public debate through innovative approaches (multi-purpose cash transfers, fruit and vegetable premiums, and social markets).