Policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition.
A billion people are hungry and the number increases. Women are especially hard hit. There is an urgent need for shift in policies and actions. The documents presented at www.eradicatehunger.org provide proposals for policies and actions to eradicate hunger and malnutrition. They are based on the experiences and political work of social movements, non governmental organisations (NGOs) and others from all over the world during past decades and currently. It is based largely on the food sovereignty framework that embraces the human right to adequate food. Organisations and individuals are invited to sign on to the open letter and summary of the working document.
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FAO initiates debate on declaration for World Summit on Food Security
FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, has invited governments around the world to participate in negotiations to agree on a declaration for adoption by the World Summit of Heads of State and Government on Food Security, to take place from 16 to 18 November 2009 in Rome. To initiate the negotiation process, Jacques Diouf has sent a document to Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Development Cooperation and Agriculture of members of FAO and the United Nations.
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Peoples’ Comprehensive Framework for Action to Eradicate Hunger: first draft available
The very first draft of the "People' Comprehensive Framework for Action To Eradicate Hunger" is now available in English, French and Spanish. We do encourage as many organizations as possible to contribute to the development of the document. Inputs and comments will be collected until the 1st of September.
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Declaration from governments to eradicate hunger and malnutrition
A group of individuals and organizations is now working on promoting an initiative for a declaration of commitment by governments to eradicate hunger and malnutrition by 2025.
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Take part in creating a peoples’ framework to eradicate hunger!
The organizations of the More and Better campaign are now cooperating with the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) for developing a peoples’ framework to eradicate hunger. This framework will be presented to governments, international institutions and media in October, in Rome at the meeting of FAO’s Committee for World Food Security. Aksel Naerstad, the international coordinator of More and Better encourages people and organizations who are working with hunger, the right to food, food security and sovereignty to send in their views, proposals, etc as soon as possible.
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The Farmers’ Organizations of Africa address the G8 Agricuture
On 14 and 15 April 2009 five African regional networks of farmers’ organizations (EAFF, PROPAC, ROPPA, SACAU, UMAGRI) have meet in Rome in order to adopt a Common Declaration on the state of african agriculture addressed to the G8 Agriculture that took place in the province of Treviso from 18 to 20 April 2009.
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Pathways to resilience: smallholder farmers and the future of agriculture
This discussion paper is the result of the efforts of Canadian Food Security Policy Group to examine how the work of our partners in the South might inform Canada's response to the Global Food Crisis. It argues that this response must acknowledge the central role of smallholder agriculture and its long-term sustainability and resilience. A series of six case studies have been written to accompany this discussion paper.
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Case studies and country reports: deadline has been extended
In 2009 More and Better will publish a book in English, French and Spanish about aid to agriculture and rural development in developing countries. The organizations of MaB are crucial to make it happen. The book will include: short country reports; case studies about good or bad aid/support to agriculture and rural development, based on the common principles developed by MaB; facts and figures about the global and regional support for agriculture and rural development.
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More Aid for African Agriculture: policy implications for small-scale farmers
Members of the UK for Food Group are calling on governments to increase Aid for small-scale African farmers in ways that will help them to feed their people, improve their livelihoods and sustain the environment.
