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Biofuels in the Americas: Driving Farmers off Their Lands
The push to increase biofuels production is creating new pressures on land and food rights around the world. ActionAid met with family-farm, environment and development organizations from the US, Europe and Latin America to exchange information and support each others’ struggles for food sovereignty.
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.
Women Call for Food Sovereignty
Skyrocketing food prices hurt people all over the world. Women are not just suffering the impacts of this crisis, they are calling for new approaches to solve it. ActionAid supports women’s farmers groups in their demand for a restructuring of agriculture that puts human rights, women’s rights and the environment front and center.
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.”
Glimmer of Hope on Food Aid
With nearly a billion people facing chronic hunger, food aid is an important measure of last resort to address the crisis. Yet despite drastic rises in both food and fuel costs, the US government continues to ship its food aid thousands of miles overseas rather than paying less to purchase it closer to where it is needed.
Adaptation Funding
Climate Change, without question, is one of the most critical global challenges of this century. If we don’t take action now, millions of people will be affected by food shortages and climate-related disasters. ActionAid’s rights-based approach and more than three decades of experience have positioned us to take a strong lead in responding to this challenge. We ask you to join us in this fight.
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United Nations Climate Change Conference, Nusa Dua - Bali, Indonesia, 3-14 December 2007.
