8 december 2015 delivered by lourdes youth and community services lycs think global eat local 1

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8 December 2015

Delivered byLourdes Youth and Community

Serviceswww.lycs.ie

LYCS Think Global Eat Local

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Agenda12 Intro with Rachel Dempsey12.30 Speakers:

Georgina Buffini – Healthy Food For AllJoanne Butler – Community Gardens Network

12.50 Who is doing what?1.10 Organic Lunch with The Soul Food Company 2.10 Small Group Discussion – barriers to good food?3pm Speakers:

Anne Marie Butler, Uplift - TTIPBasil Miller, No Fry Zone Campaign

3.20 Small Group Discussion – what action next?4.15 to 4.30pm

Evaluation & Close

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Who is LYCS? LYCS is a long standing community development

project based in Dublin’s North East Inner City.

One of the ways that LYCS seeks to empower local people to play a part in transforming their communities is through ‘Development Education’.

We provide FREE training & events for community workers and those who work with adults in the community sector.

We provide resources and support for trainers, including a revised trainers manual ‘Connecting Communities’.

Visit us : www.devedlycs.wordpress.ie & Facebook

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Healthy Eating Without Costing The Earth

Our free training for community workers/activists

Looks at global food/environmental crisis, food choices, where our food comes from, what is in our food and how to make better choices.

Reached people all over country.

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LYCS cookery class

Run by volunteer chef Aoife Allen, we ran a 10 week cookery class for local community members

Weaved info on health, sustainability, label awareness, avoiding waste, buying local into a fun participative cookery class

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Research & Training ProjectSep-Dec 2015Participants carried out research on food issues in local community/organisation

Reported back this morningRepeat course in Feb/Mar

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Proposed Map of Sustainable Food

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Pictures from ‘Chew On This’

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What is wrong with the Global Food

System?

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Problems with the system

Profit driven Hunger Obesity, diabetes, cancer Climate Change (uses lots oil) Labour Exploitation, unfair trade Crisis for (small) farmers- suicide, debt,

leaving land Animal cruelty and over fishing Soil, air, water pollution Food waste Not sustainable Power of corporations not people

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Western diet now worldwide

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Globalisation

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Industrial FarmingMonoculture – huge farms, one

cropGMOToxic chemicals – fertilisers,

pesticides, herbicides esp. Monsanto’s Round Up

Deforestation for soya, palm oil, beef

Decline of beesFood Processing & junk food

normalised

Soy Bean Plantation Brazil

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Hunger - Decreasing

• About 793 million people are undernourished globally, down 167 million over the last decade

• 2 billion have micronutrient deficiencies

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Obesity - IncreasingWorldwide obesity has more than

doubled since 1980.

2 billion adults overweight -39% 600 million obese adults - 13%Most of the world's population live in

countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.

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Hungry Planet - Mali

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Hungry Planet - Mexico

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Hungry Planet - Texas

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Development?

As people are lifted ‘out of poverty’ they are generally removed from the land, brought into an often exploitative labour market and encouraged to spend their earnings on poor quality food.

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Climate Change

The global food produces nearly 40% of carbon emissions. This includes producing, packaging, transporting, storing and cooking food.

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1/3 to ½ Global Food Wasted

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Corporate Concentration Six corporations – Monsanto, DuPont, Dow,

Syngenta, Bayer and BASF – control 75% of the world pesticides market.

Factory farms now account for 72 percent of poultry production, 43 percent of egg production, and 55 percent of pork production worldwide.

Only four corporations – ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus – control more than 75% of the global grain trade. They overwhelmingly push commodity crops like corn and soy on local farmers at the expense of native crops.

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Handful of corporations control every step of food industry

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Ireland

1 in 10 experience food poverty

60% Irish are overweight or obese.

Ireland is 2nd ‘fattest’ nation in Europe.

1 in 4 Irish children overweight/obese.

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Individual Choice?

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Normalisation

Sugary processed food is cheap & is everywhere

People WILL choose what is cheap & convenient & normal in the culture.

We need to create and promote healthy, sustainably produced food for local communities.

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Food Sovereignty

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Irish Food Sovereignty Proclamation – Please signGo to

http://www.foodsovereigntyireland.org/

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Group Discussion 1

What is stopping people in your community eating healthier, more sustainably produced food?

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Group Discussion 2

What actions, projects, campaigns and interventions are most needed in general and in your area?

What can you do next?