FOOD CRISIS: WHAT CRISIS?

This September, world leaders will meet at the United Nations to discuss progress against the Millennium Development Goals, which include a pledge (MDG1) to halve hunger and poverty by 2015. They will meet in the knowledge that despite their promise, more people than ever before (1.02bn) are going hungry.

HungerFREE is demanding urgent action on the major causes of hunger – and offering solid solutions:

• Sustainable smallholder agriculture offers a key solution to tackling hunger, as well as addressing poverty and climate change issues.
• Encouraged by governments, land previously used to grow food is being switched to grow plants like sugar cane and corn to produce fuel for cars. Stop Fueling Hunger
• Poor farmers are suffering the worst from the impact of climate change. Tackle Climate Change
• Women’s unequal social and economic status creates poverty, hunger, violence and abuse. Stop Excluding Women
• The hike in global food prices means that more than 1 billion people can not afford to feed themselves adequately. Control the Food Market
• Social protection measures - actions by states to protect the most vulnerable people from hunger and poverty - are failing to ensure that people can get food. Welfare Provision is Lacking