wfe5 - feeding the planet, energy for life

WfE5 - LUISA VINCIGUERRA - IIW BOARD DIRECTOR 1

WOMEN FOR EUROPE 5 – WfE5

International Inner Wheel

PAPER «FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE -

The Role of Inner Wheel» By Luisa Vinciguerra

IIW Board Director 2013\2014

Section: Sustainable Use of Nature Resources

The paper «FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE - The Role of Inner Wheel» is

part of the section devoted to the Sustainable Use of Nature Resources and is linked

to the important event worldwide «EXPO MILANO 20151». We consider the theme of

the paper as vital and complementary to all those will be developed in this

Conference «LET’S LEAVE OUR CHILDREN A SUSTAINABLE PLANET».

Having nourished us across the millennia, it is now planet Earth that requires nurture,

in the form of respect, sustainable behaviours, the application of advanced

technologies and new political visions that will allow us to strike a new and better

balance between our resources and our consumption.

1 Expo Milano 2015 is a World or Universal exposition. World Expos take place every 5 years and have duration of 6

months. Participants include countries, international organizations, NGOs (as Inner Wheel and Rotary), corporations and other institutions such as the European Union. The size of the site is unlimited and participants build their own pavilions.


One important challenge that Expo Milano 2015 will address in its Theme is that of

gender, seeking to highlight the role of women in relation to nutrition and food

safety/security, food production and preparation. The central role of women has been

recognized: the U.N. actively promotes enhanced access by women to resources,

credit, education and training as part of sustainable development projects.

The Theme ‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’ sums up the most important issues

that human beings must address in an effective manner to safeguard life on the planet.

A balance between natural resources and the production of food and energy is a

fundamental condition for ensuring the survival of the system, with this balance being

globally recognized in the concept of ‘sustainable development’.

Important is also to go through, and deepen, the thematic itineraries. Generate and

spread knowledge and information about the relationship between natural resources,

food security, and biodiversity. Important is to promote innovation processes in the

technological , contributing to the development of human capital and professional

skills, especially in applied research.

A) EXPLORE AND DEBATE

We invite Inner Wheel Clubs and other Bodies to explore and debate the theme of

EXPO 2015 «Feeding the planet, energy for life» and its interesting thematic

itineraries, identifying the quality and quantity of the initiatives that Inner Wheel

must implement in this area to play an active and effective role:

in accordance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals2;

in continuation of the Programme Europe 2020: A European Strategy for

Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth;

in accordance with the Theme Statement of EU participation on the Expo

2015, that is Growing Europe’s future together for a better world3;

in accordance with the new vision4 of Inner Wheel.

2 The Expo Milano 2015 Theme is linked to certain objectives of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals,

including: • The first: eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, and reduce by 50%, the proportion of people throughout the world who suffer from hunger; • The fourth: reduce by two thirds the mortality rate for children under the age of five years; • The fifth: improve maternal health and, in particular, reduce the maternal mortality rate by three quarters; • The seventh: ensure environmental sustainability, in particular by supporting sustainable development policies and programmes in order to reverse the loss of environmental resources and reduce biodiversity loss; • The eighth: develop a global partnership for development. 3 “Growing” connects with the agricultural theme of the Expo. “Growing Europe’s future” sets the EU’s goal: making

the EU more successful and better, in particular at addressing future challenges to the environment and the food supply chain. 4 The new vision has inspired Projects dedicated as Women for Europe - the Role of Inner Wheel, now at the 5th

Edition; Inner Wheel Women for the World; Women for Africa - Role of Inner Wheel; and the Theme of IIW President 2013\2014 Gabriella Adami We, for Women.


Because:

1. INNER WHEEL IS A NETWORK OF 100.000 WOMEN AROUND 103

COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

2. Our IW members often have worked and are working - like yesterday in Turin

and today here in Hanasaari - on the sustainability issues.

3. Our IW members can really continue to be leaders IN PROMOTING also the

food’s right worldwide

What future must be built together for the upcoming generations in terms of

sustainability?

Environmental sustainability is achieved via a new alliance between food and culture,

nourishment of the body and nurture of the mind and the freedom to use it.

Inner Wheel Women are called with the Women of the entire world upon to come

together to educate, teach and nurture a fairer, more balanced, more sustainable

planet, a planet open to the future…

for Happier Futures!

International Organisations can contribute to achieve the aims of Expo.

Food security and access to food resources are central to the work of some of the

most important Agencies of the United Nations, as the FAO, the IFAD and the WFP.

The United Nations will be present! And the fact that the deadline to meet the

objectives of the UN Millennium Development Goals falls in the same year as Expo

is of added significance.

The theme of food and nutrition adopted by Expo Milano 2015 will provide a

PLATFORM FOR DISCUSSION in which new objectives for a sustainable future

will be launched, where biodiversity is safeguarded while knowledge, traditions and

entire cultures are also protected.

And Inner Wheel?

Inner Wheel has to take an important position in this international debate.

Governments, Institutions, International Organisations, and also civil society, can

offer a positive contribution to finding new solutions for the common good. Inner

Wheel has to be present in the PLATFORM for formulating ideas and proposals

which will be the basis for future commitments and the Final declaration of the 2015

Universal Exposition.

IW Clubs, Districts, National Governing Bodies can intervene…


We want to involve the Inner Wheel Organization to promote an incisive action,

taking part in an interesting Project, reserved for women.

B) INNER WHEEL INSIDE «WE, WOMEN FOR EXPO»

We want to involve Inner Wheel worldwide to join the PROJECT: WE – Women

For Expo!

«WE WOMEN FOR EXPO» is a Project in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of

Foreign Affairs and the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation. This project

seeks to create a network of women reaching across the entire world: working all

together on the issues of nutrition, they can become leaders of change for the food’s

right.

THE WOMEN AT THE HEART SINCE MANY YEARS

IN OUR IW PROJECTS, AS IN THE THEME OF THE IIW PRESIDENT

GABRIELLA ADAMI.

SEE THE SEQUENCE

We want to derive into the context of «We, Women for Expo» a SECTION with a

name registered at the Expo, which could be: INNER WHEEL INSIDE «WE,

WOMEN FOR EXPO»

2014 – INNER WHEEL INSIDE «WE-WOMEN FOR EXPO» – Project,

at the beginning

2008 – WOMEN FOR EUROPE,

THE ROLE OF IW – Project, still in

progress

2012 – IW WOMEN FOR THE WORLD – Project, still in

progress

2012 – WOMEN FOR AFRICA,

ROLE OF IW – Project, still in

progress

2013 - WE, FOR WOMEN -

Presidential Theme by

Gabriella Adami


Some stages of the Project:

The Recipe for Life: Drawing on memory and experience (personal, familial,

collective) our IW Members will share their recipe with WE - Women for Expo and

their ideas for promoting a new equilibrium between nurture and nutriment.

Ambassadors: our IW Members, involved in the theme of food and nutrition, will

promote and encourage the participation of as many women as possible, regardless of

their sphere of action, working together with them to valorize their stories, their

testimonies.

Leaders: Our IW Clubs, Districts, National Bodies will organize conferences on the

issues of nutrition responsibility, in contributing to the diffusion, awareness and

production of ideas for a more sustainable future, inviting women experts who fill

leadership positions in the international scientific community, in the business

community, in institutions and culture.

Writers: Our IW Members will be engaged to participate to “The World Novel”, a

mosaic of voices of leadership and excellence, written by many hands and

representative of each country.

Artists: Many IW Members are very talented. Women artists and creative minds

from all over the world will be called upon to create a collective visual itinerary on

the theme of nutriment, a bona fide artistic narrative titled “Global Creative

Thinking”.

THE MISSION

The mission of this Project, in connection with Expo 2015, is:

«create a network of Inner Wheel members reaching across the 103 Countries

with IW Clubs, working all together on the issues of nutrition for the food’s

right».

AIMS

We would like to involve our Inner Wheel Members in the future, where the Women

have a important role, because their creative and effective cooperation of thought and

action and their commitment can change the world.

We would like to see our Inner Wheel as signer of THE WOMEN’S CHARTER

will be a manifesto of values drafted, acted upon and collectively experienced by all

WE WOMEN, and bequeathed by Expo Milan 2015 to United Nations, as a

contribute to the fulfilment of development’s goals for post-2015.


A NETWORK OF INNER WHEEL MEMBERS THROUGH…

The Communication & Interaction will be facilitated through social networks by

opening a dedicated PAGE on Facebook, using Twitter and Linkedin, by connecting

to the official website of Expo.

Luisa Vinciguerra Board Director 2013\2014

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