End poverty together.

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• Impact of their venture

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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.

Their head office is in Johannesburg. They are the only large international evelopment organization with their head office based in Africa, with offices in Asia and the mericas connecting their work in Europe. They believe the people whose lives our work effects should decide how they run.

Food rights

Every day, one in six people goes to bed hungry. Yet the world produces more than enough food for everybody. We’re tackling the causes of hunger, so that everyone can enjoy the right to have enough to eat.

Why are so many people hungry?

There is enough food in the world to feed everyone, but food, and the economic and political power to get it, isn't equally shared out.

• Hunger results from the unequal distribution of food, and the lack of access to and control over resources.

• Climate change is already having a devastating impact on hungry people - Floods, droughts and other extreme weather conditions are destroying poor people’s lives.

• Global food prices have skyrocketed by 83 percent in the last 2 years (wheat has gone up 181 percent) – The world’s poor, those who already spend 60 to 80 percent of their budget on food, are the hardest hit.

• Growing demand for biofuels and large-scale corporate land grabs are driving poor farmers off their land and threatening their livelihoods.

How they work for Food Rights

• Sustainable Agriculture

• Women Farmers

• Land Rights

• Food Crisis & Policy

• International Food Security Network

Sustainable Agriculture

Climate change threatens the livelihoods of many farmers around the world. More long term changes in the patterns of temperature and precipitation from climate change will harm poor smallholder farmers who do not have the means to cope.

Rose Cicy, 35, a mother of 7 children tends to citrus seedlings in her nursery.Photo: James Akena/ActionAid

Women Farmers

Women smallholder farmers in many countries are responsible for not only producing the food but also feeding their families and communities. Yet, they face multiple constraints in ensuring their food security.

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

Land Rights

Despite its importance for realising the right to food, many 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 as a result of discrimination and the exclusion from key decision-making processes and access to justice.

Zenia Rueben, a Malawian farmer, was able to claim her land by learning about land rights.Photo: ActionAid

Food Crisis & Policy

• Households around the developing world spend on average 70 percent of their income on food. Any increase in food price is therefore likely to have a disproportionate effect on the poor and hungry.

Alicket Masenda, 52, Sande Village, Malawi cannot buy any food due to rising prices.Photo: Frederic Courbet/Panos Picures/ActionAid

International Food Security Network

By building solidarity through movements and networks, the 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

ActionAid and IFSN co-organised a workshop on Africa's agricultural model at the 2011 WSF.Photo: Youjin B. Chung/ActionAid

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