Tackling the Global Food Crisis
A new report, The High Food Price Challenge: A Review of Responses to Combat Hunger, released by the UK Hunger Alliance and the Oakland Institute, reveals that a major initiative on food security launched by the G8 a year ago has failed to address the global hunger crisis, which currently affects more than a billion people. Read the press release and download the report PDF here.
Students Debate Food Security
This year, the Peel District School Board – one of the largest in the country – invited USC-Canada Executive Director Susan Walsh to deliver the keynote address for their 15th Annual Student Model United Nations (UN). Global food security was the hot topic, and Susan provided some valuable insights into world food issues. The Peel District serves a large and diverse suburban region just west of metropolitan Toronto.
Signs of Transformation
Every day, we’re seeing more and more signs that the local food movement is well on its way; growing firm roots. This recent Globe & Mail story is another signal of a positive big-picture change: our food system is transforming – and for the better. Read More…
Produce More Food, Naturally
With a billion people hungry in the world today, we need a form of agriculture that’s more productive and less damaging to the environmental resources our food system relies on. In a recent interview, Olivier De Schutter – the UN special rapporteur on the right to food – says agro-ecology continues to rack up points as the solution to the problem – with major research to back it up. It’s time for the world to sit up and take notice. Read More…
Leading the Diversity Charge
Cuba’s Coco Pedro Felipe, now 80, is a respected farmer-leader in his community. That respect, however, is due to more than just age; Coco has spent the last decade convincing his fellow farmers to find and protect underused seed varieties, restoring seed diversity and the farmer skill and knowledge to manage it. Read his story…
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