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| We can find better ways to grow, share and live together. Let's share ideas and solutions for a future where everyone has enough to eat, always. |
Soon there'll be nine billion of us on the planet. But almost a billion of us go to bed hungry. Not because there isn't enough. But because of the deep injustice in the way the system works. Because large multinational investors are pushing people off the very land that provides for them. And because too many of the ways we grow today are using up the natural resources we all rely on.
Together we need to find better ways to grow, share and live, to help build a future where everyone on the planet always has enough to eat.
Food and oil prices. Flat-lining yields. Climate change. Unfair trade. Failing markets. Gender inequality. Land grabs. All of these issues contribute to a global food system that is failing all of us and destroying the natural resources we rely on.
We can grow more food more fairly and more sustainably. We can press governments to take urgent action to reform bad policies, to preserve scarce resources and share them fairly. We can help small-scale farmers to grow more and grow better.
Join our GROW campaign and let's share ideas and solutions for a future where everyone has enough to eat, always.
Practical positive change starts with each one of us. We need to begin a conversation in our homes, communities and workplaces. We need the insight of all generations and all cultures to solve a very big and complex problem.
This video from Oxfam International Youth Partnerships journeys through the broken food system and then looks at the transformation that is already underway to bring about change. It brings it back to you, the individual at the root level, and invites you to be part of the movement to grow a better future.
Check out this cool infographic produced by Oxfam and GOOD. It perfectly illustrates what is wrong with our food system:
Download Oxfam's report: Growing a Better Future. Food justice in a resource-constrained world. Information from this report informed the cover article in Element magazine on Monday 31st October.
Also available: Oxfam's introduction to the GROW campaign.
Do you have a regular meeting in your community which includes a meal; perhaps it is a Rotary meeting, or a club, or a coffee group. Would you like to turn this into a GROW dinner?
A GROW dinner is an opportunity to hear more about the global food system and why it is failing all of us and destroying the natural resources we rely on. It is also a chance to meet other Oxfam supporters and share ideas on food justice.
Oxfam has great presentations and talented speakers ready to help. Together, we can share the GROW message and find out how your community or organization can shape and assist the GROW campaign.
If you are interesting in sharing a GROW dinner please email John Stansfield, Director of Advocacy and Campaigns, at campaigns@oxfam.org.nz
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A campaign for everyone who eats food and the billions of men and women who grow it, to share solutions for a more hopeful future in which everyone has enough to eat.