End poverty together.

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Content• Introduction to

• Measures of

• Impact of their venture

• Credits of sources

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Who are they? They’re an international organization, working with over

25 million people in more than 40 countries for a world free from poverty and injustice.

• Head office is in Johannesburg. • Large international envelopment

organization • Head office Africa, Asia and Europe. • They believe the people whose lives

our work effects should decide how they run.

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Food rights

• Every day, one in six people goes to bed hungry.

• Produces more than enough food for everybody.

• Tackling the causes of hunger, so that everyone can enjoy the right to have enough to eat.

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Why are so many people hungry?

Hunger results from the unequal distribution of food due to• Climate change • Skyrocketing global food prices• Growing demand for biofuels and large-scale corporate

land grabs

How they work for Food Rights

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Women Farmers

• Land Rights

• Food Crisis & Policy

• International Food Security Network

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Sustainable Agriculture

• Climate change threatens the livelihoods of many farmers around the world.

• Long term changes in the patterns of temperature and precipitation from climate change

• Harm poor smallholder farmers who do not have the means to cope.

Rose Cicy, 35, a mother of 7 children tends to citrus seedlings in her nursery.Photo: James Akena/ActionAid

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Women Farmers

• Women smallholder farmers

• Responsible for producing the food and also feeding their families and communities.

• Yet, they face multiple constraints in ensuring their food security.

Jane Hawara, 57, grows maize on her portion of communal land in Rumphi District, Malawi.Photo: Graeme Williams/Panos Pictures/ActionAid

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Land Rights

• Poor and excluded communities around the world, especially women

• Lack access to and control over land due to perverse government policies.

• In situations like this, the rural poor are considerably disadvantaged

• Result of discrimination and the exclusion from key decision-making processes and access to justice.

Zenia Rueben, a Malawian farmer, was able to claim her land by learning about land rights.Photo: ActionAid

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Food Crisis & Policy

• Households around the developing world spend on average 70% of their income on food.

• Increase in food price is likely to have a disproportionate effect on the poor and hungry.

Alicket Masenda, 52, Sande Village, Malawi cannot buy any food due to rising prices.Photo: Frederic Courbet/Panos Picures/ActionAid

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International Food Security Network

• Building solidarity through movements and networks

• International Food Security Network (IFSN) aims to leverage civil society groups’ influence on advocating for pro-poor food security policies at local and global levels

ActionAid and IFSN co-organised a workshop on Africa's agricultural model at the 2011 WSF.Photo: Youjin B. Chung/ActionAid

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international organization

believe the people whose lives our work effects should decide how they run.

Sustainable Agriculture Women Farmers

Land Rights

Food Crisis & Policy

International Food Security Network

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