All Food Rights Features
World Food Day: This is Thoko’s Story
Oct 20, 2009
Take a moment on October 16 to learn about the challenges facing 1 billion hungry people each day and ActionAid’s work to combat the growing crisis.
Brazilians Struggle With Rising Food Prices
Sep 17, 2009
The global economic crisis is hitting poor and excluded Brazilians. ActionAid is working with communities to address their challenges.
ActionAid Begins Cash for Work Program in Northern Afghanistan
Sep 3, 2009
New initiative provides 8,000 poor Afghan families with the opportunity to earn a livelihood and secure food, while improving their nation’s infrastructure.
Vietnamese Struggle to Secure Food
Aug 6, 2009
Today, 13.5 million people are living in poverty in Vietnam, with between 5 million and 6 million going to bed hungry. ActionAid is empowering poor people to fight for their right to food, while also helping communities meet their immediate food needs.
G8 Makes Progress on Ending Hunger but More is Required
Jul 15, 2009
ActionAid praises the G8 for making strides towards the goal of ending hunger, but the world leaders must consider new solutions to the global food and climate crises
Improving Banana Production and Women’s Access to Land in Uganda
Jul 2, 2009
Uganda is one of the leading world producers of bananas, yet smallholder banana farmers remain poorly resourced and women farmers often struggle to inherit land. ActionAid is working throughout the country on both challenges.
James Purefoy Partners with ActionAid to Improve Poor Farmers' Livelihoods
Jun 24, 2009
James Purefoy, star on NBC's “The Philanthropist," took a break from his new show to partner with ActionAid and visit women farm workers living on poverty wages in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Congressional Briefing on Biofuels and Hunger
Jun 19, 2009
International demand for biofuels is creating new food production and land use challenges for developing countries. Join ActionAid on June 25 for a Congressional briefing on biofuels and hunger.
Banana Flour Identified As Promising Commodity in Senegal
May 8, 2009
Senegalese and ActionAid explore banana flour production as a new commodity rural farmers can produce to earn a livelihood.
Senegal’s Quest to Balance Food Security Against Biofuels
May 8, 2009
The expansion of biofuels production in Senegal highlights the risks of an excessive focus on fuel crop production against the tremendous need to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods through a process that fully engages local farmers.
NewsHour Discusses Nigerian Food Crisis with ActionAid
Apr 16, 2009
On NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ActionAid discusses Nigeria’s food supply challenges and the migration associated with it.
Millions of Kenyans at Risk for Hunger During Latest Drought
Mar 19, 2009
ActionAid is on the ground assisting the estimated 10 million Kenyans at risk for hunger this season due to the ongoing drought that has destroyed crops.
Ghana: Women Lose Their Farms to Biofuel Production
Mar 16, 2009 (allAfrica.com)
Ghanaian small scale farmers, particularly women, are facing displacement from their farm lands. ActionAid Ghana, in collaboration with FoodSPAN, is implementing a two year project on biofuel production in Ghana.
Ghana's Exploration of Biofuels vs. Food Security
Mar 2, 2009
Biofuels has emerged as a contentious topic of debate in Africa. ActionAid Ghana is working with local farmers, women and consumers to learn the reality of the situation and to propose solutions that would balance food needs with energy security.
Keep Up the Pressure to End Global Hunger
Feb 24, 2009
Last summer, sharp increases in food prices led to riots and turmoil in country after country. World leaders announced new plans to combat hunger. Sadly, by year end, the number of people living in chronic hunger had actually increased to more than 963 million. It's time to move forward with new ideas.
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.
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