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Tag Archives: SDGs
How do you measure the number of hungry people in the world – and why did the numbers drop by some 130 million between 2018-19?
Although the number of hungry people in the world has been rising for the past 5 years, reaching 690 million in 2019, according to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World Report 2020, that total number shows … Continue reading
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Tagged Carlo Cafiero, FAO, food insecurity, food security, hunger, SDGs, ZeroHunger
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Transforming #agriculture to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs)
Hans Herren, CEO of the Millennium Institute, Washington DC and founder of Biovision Foundation for Ecological Development in Zurich, argues that the Sustainable Development Goals offer the way to reshape agriculture in a way that will help meet these goals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, agroecology, biodiversity, Farming, food, SDGs
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Getting the facts straight about #foodinsecurity
I just wrote this blog for the #EndHungerUK campaign, prior to its national conference on 17th October in London In September 2015, the British Government committed itself to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition. It was then that the … Continue reading
Posted in Comments
Tagged end hunger, FAO, food insecurity, food security, hunger, right to food, SDGs, UK, zero hunger
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#Gender, the right to #food and future priorities – a interview with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food
I met up with Hilal Elver, the UN’s 3rd Rapporteur on the Right to Food just before she took part in the fifth of a series of seminars on Ecofeminism, Food and Social Justice of the Food Research Collaboration at … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, food, Gender, Hilal Elver, Human rights, nutrition, right to food, SDGs, sustainable developmen goals, urbanisation
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Real Defence Spending Ensures Good Food for All
Here, I’m reposting a blog I wrote for the Rethinking Security website last week. I argue that there is no security without food security. Meeting the real security needs of humanity necessitates the progressive redistribution of military budgets toward ending … Continue reading →