All Food Rights Features
Report Urges Global Evaluation of Biofuel Policies
Nov 17, 2008
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?
Oct 16, 2008
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.
ActionAid in UN Dialogue on the Right to Food
Sep 6, 2008
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
Aug 31, 2008
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.
Elders join ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign to demand urgent action on global food crisis
Jul 18, 2008
Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Mary Robinson and other Elders joined forces with ActionAid’s HungerFREE campaign July 16th to continue the fight against the global food crisis.
ActionAid Challenges G8 on Response to Food Crisis
Jul 2, 2008
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
Jun 20, 2008
Every year the US ships millions of tons of food aid overseas through a system that scandalously inefficient. The new Farm Bill provides for a $60 million pilot program to test local and regional purchase of food aid. Join with ActionAid to thank Congress for this new initiative and to urge it to take bolder actions soon.
Rising Food Prices: Time to Fix a Broken Global Food System
May 2, 2008
According to the United Nations, rising food prices threaten to plunge 100 million more people into hunger. This global food crisis is the direct result of decades of misguided agricultural policies that force poor countries to import food instead of producing it themselves. Only a major overhaul of those policies can address the root causes of this problem. Join with ActionAid to demand action to cushion the immediate impact on hungry people and insist on policy reforms to avoid similar crises in the future.
Call for a New Trade Policy
Mar 20, 2008
No country has ever become developed by following a free-trade model from the outset. Yet the world’s richest countries continue to force the poorest countries to open their markets to global competition. Join ActionAid in the fight for trade policies that support sustainable development.
Demand Changes in US Food Aid Policies
Mar 20, 2008
Each year, millions of tons of food are shipped around the world from the United States to respond to crises caused by droughts, conflicts and severe poverty. While there is little doubt that this food aid has saved countless lives, it is also clear that the US program is enormously inefficient. Find out how you can help bring about sensible and efficient food aid.
Climate Change
Mar 20, 2008
The poorest countries in the world are hit first and worst by the impacts of climate change. While the richest countries in the world produce a disproportionate amount of the carbon emissions that cause global warming, poor countries are dealing with the droughts and floods that result. Learn more about Climate Change and how it relates to the growing inequity among rich and poor nations.
Adaptation Funding
Mar 17, 2008
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.
