DanChurchAid
Food Security
Sustainable food security
The objective of DanChurchAid's right to food policy is: Local communities and groups of impoverished and marginalized people are increasingly capable of claiming and upholding their right to food and livelihood sustainability, as well as of addressing the immediate and structural causes behind their food insecurity.
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Mikkel Østergaard
In focus
- Sustainable access to food and adequate nutrition through production, entitlements and increased purchasing power for women and men
- Advocacy for increased and gender sensitive food security at national and international levels
- Empowerment of the poorest to influence resource allocation and reduction of vulnerability to adverse changes
- Strengthened links between the right to food and: reduced vulnerability to hiv/aids; improved resilience to natural and man-made disasters; and efforts in relief and rehabilitation.
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Articles about food security
Refugees are now seriously returning to South Sudan. Expectations are high but there is very little to come home to
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In the days, months and years directly after the war in the eastern part of Katanga province in Congo has ended, life has been far from easy. The 650 men, women and children of Kalombo village are just barely getting back to normalcy, since 2003 when the last armed attack occurred.
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Farmers in Cambodias Kompong Speu province are working to make their villages more resilient to the recurring natural disasters, such as drought or floods, hitting the area as a result of changes in the climate. See the video about clean drinking water and audioslideshow about a ricebank here.
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The poor people in the development countries are the ones who must pay the biggest price for the climate changes even though it is largely our way of living in the rich countries which contributes the most to create the climate changes.
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Increasing prices of food heavily affect the poorest people in Honduras who can no longer afford to buy enough food every day – the increased production of biofuels in the US is one of the main causes
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DCA's Humanitarian Mine Action programme concentrates on clearing agricultural land of mines, in order to link mine clearance with food security for the population in affected areas.
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Millions of poor people are in danger of being affected by hunger and famine as prices on food will remain on a high level during the next ten years. This is predicted in a new report ahead of the summit in Rome where the only item on the agenda is the global food crisis
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In light of the global climate changes one of the biggest challenges the world has to face in this century is to create food security for all human beings.
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Ethiopia is on the verge of a hunger disaster. In the Southern Oromiya region people are already suffering.
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Prosecutors in Honduras are on hunger strike now for more than one month as a protest against corruption, impunity and gross political interference in the Justice system.
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Not every year can tell good news about the harvest in Ethiopia. But after last year’s drought which affected millions of people, and huge floods affecting another hundreds of thousands, the Ethiopian government announces that a good harvest is expected in 2007.
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When companies invest in third world countries, they often forget that their activities can have serious consequences for the local inhabitants' access to water. Access to water is limited for millions of poor people. Corporations have an important role to play as their investments may also effect water supply and access.
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DanChurchAid's food security work is focused on the right to adequate and nutritious food and adresses the structural barriers to food security in Zambia .
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Almost all poverty indicators are in regression in Zambia. The situation affects the poor people’s rights, the health system and the food security.
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