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2. Content
• Introduction to
• Measures of
• Impact of their venture
• Credits of sources
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3. 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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4. 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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6. 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

7. How they work for Food Rights
• Sustainable Agriculture
• Women Farmers
• Land Rights
• Food Crisis & Policy
• International Food Security Network
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8. 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.

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tends to citrus seedlings in her
nursery.
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10. 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.

11. Jane Hawara, 57, grows maize on her
portion of communal land in Rumphi District,
Malawi.
Photo: Graeme Williams/Panos
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12. 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.

13. Zenia Rueben, a Malawian farmer, was able to
claim her land by learning about land rights.
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14. 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.

15. Alicket Masenda, 52, Sande Village,
Malawi cannot buy any food due to rising
prices.
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16. 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

17. ActionAid and IFSN co-organised
a workshop on Africa's
agricultural model at the 2011
WSF.
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18. international organization
believe the people whose lives our work
effects should decide how they run.
Land Rights
Food Crisis & Policy Sustainable Agriculture Women Farmers
International Food Security Network

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