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Report Urges Global Evaluation of Biofuel Policies
European and American policies encouraging biofuel production are making some of the poorest women across the world go hungry, warns ActionAid in its latest report,“Food, Farmers and Fuel: Balancing Global Grain and Energy Policies with Sustainable Land Use”.
Will Hunger be Forgotten on World Food Day?
October 16 is World Food Day, a day of reflection and action to combat global hunger. This year the global financial crisis threatens to sideline that focus. Join ActionAid to call on governments and aid agencies to honor their commitments to end world hunger.
Bail Out the Hungry! Demands ActionAid at World Bank/IMF Meetings
ActionAid urges leaders at the World Bank and IMF annual meetings to take action on global hunger. We call on finance ministers meeting in Washington, DC to ensure that aid to poor countries will not be cut. Aid for agriculture should be redirected to support sustainable production of staple foods for local consumption.
ActionAid in UN Dialogue on the Right to Food
The food crisis is not just the result of a lack of food production or even high food prices. It is about people's inability to access the food they need. On Friday August 29, ActionAid's Karen Hansen-Kuhn joined Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food and other NGO partners to discuss a human rights approach to ending the food crisis.
ActionAid Challenges G8 on Response to Food Crisis
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations meet in Hokaido, Japan, from July 7-9. The failure of G8 policies on food, biofuels, and climate change places up to 1.7 billion people – 25% of the world’s population – at risk of hunger. ActionAid makes recommendations to G8 leaders in our new report, “Cereal Offenders: How the G8 has Contributed to the Global Food Crisis and What They Can Do to Stop It.”
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United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nusa Dua - Bali, Indonesia, 3-14 December 2007.
