growing local food justicel
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Local food movements are part of a grassroots movement toward community food security globally, not just in Canada; Foodgrains Bank participates in these discussions but focuses on its own role in food justice.TRANSCRIPT
Food Justice
Supporting international Partnerships to end hunger
Influencing Public Policy to end hunger
Engaging Canadians in efforts to end hunger
• Farmers on the prairies donated grain in response to reports of food shortages in Bangladesh
1983
“Hunger is not an issue of charity. It is an issue of justice.”
~ Jacques Diouf - FAO Director-general
From Food Aid / Food Assistance
Food Security
Nutrition
Right to Food
Roughly 70% of the world’s hungry people rely on food production for their livelihood
Why are they hungry?
Trade Policies (globalization)
Conflict and Governance (access to resources)
Access to land, employment, health care, etc (structures and systems)
Disasters (climate and geography-related)
ROOT CAUSES of HUNGER
Give a man a fish…and he’ll eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish…and he’ll for a lifetime.
Teach a woman to fish…and the whole family will eat for a lifetime.
But what if they have no access to the pond?
Untying Canada’s Food Aid Program
• Began as fully tied
• 2005 down to 50%
• 2008 fully untied
Renegotiating the Food Aid Convention (with TAFAD)
• Adopting Right to Food approach• Recipient country representation • Nutrition rather than tonnes of
grain• Based on need rather than
availability
Aid for Agriculture
• lobbying CIDA
• resilience / adaptation
• working in coalition (Canadian FSPG)
• constituent support
Last year CIDA announced a focus on “increasing food security”
What is this going to mean?
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Projections are now a reality that most developing countries are negatively affected by climate
change
Canada must do more to help small farmers in
developing countries adapt!
What about you?
Citizens or Consumers?
Over a billion People on the Planet are Hungry.
(That’s One in Six.)
Almost the Same Number
on the Planet are Overfed.
How Can We Respond?
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Tread lightly on the Earth.
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Make purchases that honour those who produce your food.
Advocate for food policies that are just and sustainable…
…at all levels!
Liberia
Haiti
WHAT CAN YOU DO? • Talk to Elected Officials about the
importance of Food Security• Eat, Live, and Shop Consciously• Write to your MP, MLA or Councilor• Support and cooperate with farmers• Support Canadian Foodgrains Bank
or other agencies which provide food
• Think About Entitlements and “Enough”
• Learn and Share
Write a letter or send a postcard to Prime Minister Harper and the Minister of
Environment
Ask them to help small-scale farmers adapt to the negative effects of climate change