"Via Campesina proposal to Solve Food Crisis: Strengthening peasant and farmer-based food production
OPEN LETTER to Mr Jacques Diouf Secretary General
of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime
Minister of Japan, President of the G8, Mr. John W. Ashe, Permanent UN
representative, Antigua and Barbuda's Permanent and Chairman of the Group of 77
From: Henry Saragih, International Coordinator for La Via Campesina Jakarta,
April 28, 2008
10th Annual Oregon Small Farms Conference
The 10th Annual Oregon Small Farms Conference will be held February 27th on the Oregon State University campus. The annual Small Farms Conference is a major event of the Oregon State University Small Farms Program and a means for featuring information on small scale sustainable agriculture, farm direct marketing, and food policy from farmers, researchers and food advocates. The conference includes 15 sessions plus a keynote address by David Mas Masumoto and a capnote address by 5th district Congressman (and farmer) Kurt Schrader.
17th of April: International Day of Peasant's Struggle
Farmers mobilize around the world and propose solutions to the food price
crisis
(Jakarta, 17 April 1008)
Small farmer's organizations and their allies are celebrating today the International Day of Peasant's Struggle commemorating the massacre of 19 landless workers, women and men struggling for land in Brazil 12 years ago. Today dozens of groups, communities and organizations in about 20 countries around the world are organizing farmer's markets, conferences, direct actions, cultural activities, demonstrations... to defend their right to food and to feed their communities.
1998 Human Rights Hearings
Successful Food First Hearing on Capitol Hill
September 23, 1998
1999 Economic Human Rights Bus Tour: Georgia
About the Tour
Across the United States dynamic citizen organizations are sounding the call for economic human rights. Despite the efforts to promote the right to a living wage, need for comprehensive and affordable health and childcare, and locally driven community development, the gap between the wealthy few and the many poor continues to widen at an alarming pace.
2007 Farm and Food Policy Platform of the California Coalition on Food and Farming
In 2007, Congress will renew the Farm Bill. Unfortunately for California, we have never received our fair share of Farm Bill benefits. Historically, Farm Bill subsidies have flowed disproportionately to very large farms growing a handful of commodity crops in a few regions of the country. Much less support has gone to diversified farming regions like California that grow fruit and vegetable crops. Far too little funding has gone to support sustainable farming practices that deliver maximum environmental benefits and healthy food.
A Legal Right to Food?
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Olivier De Shutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food asserts that to solve the food crisis, the human right to food needs to be legally recognized and positively enforced. His presentation at the Madrid High-Level Meeting on Food Security for All. (January 26-27, 2009) places the issue squarely on the agenda of the world’s governments. The importance of “justiciability”—the legal recourse to violations of one’s right to food is an important step in reducing the vulnerability of the world’s poor to the injustices that cause hunger.
A NYC conversation with Food First executive director, Eric Holt-Giménez
Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice
Join Eric Holt-Giménez, author and Executive Director of Food First, for a stimulating discussion of his latest book (co-authored with Raj Patel) Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice. Learn about the root causes driving the food crisis and the powerful movements that have risen in response.
Sponsors include the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY, in partnership with WhyHunger, the Brooklyn Food Coalition and the Small Planet Institute
This event is free and open to the public -- bring your friends!
Accelerating into disaster – when banks manage the food crisis
Declaration of High Level Meeting on Food Security
--Madrid, January 26-27, 2009