1. E nd poverty together.
Done By: Laurence
Jing Jie
& Daryl
2. Content
• Introduction to
• Measures of
• Impact of their venture
• Credits of sources
3. Who are they?
They’re an international organization,
working with over 25 million people in
more than 40 countries for a world free
from poverty and injustice.
4. Their head office is in Johannesburg.
They are the only large international
evelopment organization with their
head office based in Africa, with offices
in Asia and the mericas connecting
their work in Europe. They believe the
people whose lives our work effects
should decide how they run.
5. Food rights
Every day, one in six people goes to bed
hungry. Yet the world produces more than
enough food for everybody. We’re tackling
the causes of hunger, so that everyone
can enjoy the right to have enough to eat.
6.
7. Why are so many people hungry?
There is enough food in the world to feed
everyone, but food, and the economic and
political power to get it, isn't equally shared out.
• Hunger results from the unequal distribution of food, and the
lack of access to and control over resources.
• Climate change is already having a devastating impact on
hungry people - Floods, droughts and other extreme weather
conditions are destroying poor people’s lives.
• Global food prices have skyrocketed by 83 percent in the last 2
years (wheat has gone up 181 percent) – The world’s poor,
those who already spend 60 to 80 percent of their budget on
food, are the hardest hit.
• Growing demand for biofuels and large-scale corporate land
grabs are driving poor farmers off their land and threatening
their livelihoods.
8. How they work for Food Rights
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Women Farmers
• Land Rights
• Food Crisis & Policy
• International Food Security Network
9. Sustainable Agriculture
Climate change threatens the livelihoods
of many farmers around the world. More
long term changes in the patterns of
temperature and precipitation from climate
change will harm poor smallholder farmers
who do not have the means to cope.
10. Rose Cicy, 35, a mother of 7 children
tends to citrus seedlings in her
nursery.
Photo: James Akena/ActionAid
11. Women Farmers
Women smallholder farmers in many
countries are responsible for not only
producing the food but also feeding their
families and communities. Yet, they face
multiple constraints in ensuring their food
security.
12. Jane Hawara, 57, grows maize on her
portion of communal land in Rumphi District,
Malawi.
Photo: Graeme Williams/Panos
Pictures/ActionAid
13. Land Rights
Despite its importance for realising the
right to food, many poor and excluded
communities around the world, especially
women, lack access to and control over
land due to perverse government
policies.In situations like this, the rural
poor are considerably disadvantaged as a
result of discrimination and the exclusion
from key decision-making processes and
access to justice.
14. Zenia Rueben, a Malawian farmer, was able to
claim her land by learning about land rights.
Photo: ActionAid
15. Food Crisis & Policy
• Households around the developing world
spend on average 70 percent of their
income on food. Any increase in food price
is therefore likely to have a
disproportionate effect on the poor and
hungry.
16. Alicket Masenda, 52, Sande Village,
Malawi cannot buy any food due to rising
prices.
Photo: Frederic Courbet/Panos
Picures/ActionAid
17. International Food Security
Network
By building solidarity through movements
and networks, the International Food
Security Network (IFSN) aims to leverage
civil society groups’ influence on
advocating for pro-poor food security
policies at local and global levels
18. ActionAid and IFSN co-organised
a workshop on Africa's
agricultural model at the 2011
WSF.
Photo: Youjin B. Chung/ActionAid
