The world produces more than enough food to feed everyone. But still one billion people go hungry. Right now, from Manchester to Malawi, people like you are fighting back. Using their own ideas to take on global hunger. And it’s working.
From buying fair trade bananas to growing more for ourselves, the choices we all make can help feed seven billion people.
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“I am a beginner gardener and setting up a blog is my way of saying, ‘Hey if I can do this, anyone can!’.” Sophie Bebb
In September 2011, campaigner Sophie started her own blog to show the world that anyone can grow their own veg and live a more sustainable lifestyle.
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Grow big And if you really get the growyour-own bug, why not get stuck in at your local allotments.
Grow tall Kate Sweetlove told us about Mike’s greens which are growing tall in these recycled drinks bottles. containergardening.wordpress.com
Grow small Tight on space? This veg patch is just one square metre but fits in all sorts of greens.
From organic seeds to beekeeping, here’s some more inspiration: www.gardenorganic.org.uk www.allotment.org.uk www.bbka.org.uk
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Ten films that challenge how the world does food 1. Food, Inc. 2. Super Size Me 3. Our Daily Bread 4. The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil 5. King Corn
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6. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers 7. The Price of Sugar 8. All in This Tea 9. Food Fight.The Documentary 10. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
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1. Big Night 2. Julie & Julia 3. Tampopo 4. Ratatouille 5. Chocolat 6. Babette’s Feast 7. Woman on Top 8. Soul Food 9. Tortilla Soup 10. Waitress
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1. Not On The Label What really goes into the food on your plate.
4. Shopped The shocking power of British supermarkets.
2. Fast Food Nation What the all-American meal is doing to the world.
5. Food Rules An eater’s manual.
3. Stuffed and Starved Markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system.
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6. The Kitchen Diaries A year in the kitchen. 7. The Food Our Children Eat How to get children to like good food.
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The injustice: 80% of hungry people are directly involved in food production.
Extreme weather events like heat waves, droughts and floods are getting more frequent and severe, and the seasons that people rely on to grow crops are getting even more unpredictable.
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1. The Fairtrade Foundation Look for the label and make sure poor farmers get a fair deal. www.fairtrade.org.uk 2. Shop at Oxfam and 100% of the profits go to help fight poverty. www.oxfam.org.uk/shop 3. The Co-operative Fair trade pioneers and local food heroes. www.co-operative.coop/food 3
Harry’s nuts Good old Harry Hill. Make sure to get your hands on his Fairtrade nuts at your nearest Oxfam shops. Join Harry on facebook: www.facebook.com/harrysnuts
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Left: The brilliant Craftivist Collective are making tomato jam and stitching messages of support for Oxfam’s GROW campaign on to jam jar lids. You can find the recipe and a quick stitching tutorial at www.craftivist-collective.com Right: Katie Sharp sent us this banana loaf recipe – a great way to use up over-ripe bananas. GROW is Oxfam’s campaign for a fairer world where everyone has enough food.
“Never underestimate the power of a few committed people to change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.� Margaret Mead
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Get the app
Ruif* told us about an app that you can download which helps reduce your waste – check out www.greeneggshopper.com
Get together
Amy* Gallimore, Bristol, told us how her and her friends hold Baking Fridays – a communal eating day to use up leftovers and help them ‘watch their waste’.
Get active
Helena* Brown told us about Feeding the 5,000 a community action group that is asking people reduce their food waste and get businesses to do the same. “They are demonstrating that a wonky carrot that doesn’t even make it onto our shelves, need not be thrown out by the industry.” More ways to campaign against food waste. www.thisisrubbish.org.uk www.feeding5k.org www.foodcycle.org.uk *Look out for Ruif, Amy and Helena in a festival field near you as they are all campaigning with us this year!
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Esteras Matteo lives in La Mohaga, Honduras. He’s part of a farming cooperative that’s supported by Oxfam. They now sell their vegetables directly to local shops, cutting out the middle man and making a more reliable, fairer income.
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Esteras is really proud of what he’s grown and what he’s been able to achieve as part of the co-operative. He is hopeful for the future.
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Noograi Snagsri is just one of hundreds of farmers who, with support from Oxfam, are now growing and selling organic, fair trade produce in the Yasothorn Province of Thailand.
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Leyla Kayere lives in Mnembo, Malawi, where an Oxfamsupported irrigation system is transforming small, low-yield crops into high-volume cash crops like tomatoes – providing 400 families with food and a reliable source of income.
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GROW is Oxfam’s campaign for a world where everyone always has enough to eat. It’s about making food fair for everyone. Today, the global food system is broken. It’s not just drought. Or famine. Or a bad harvest. A whole host of interlinked factors are stopping one billion people worldwide from having enough to eat. We believe that, by working together, we can build a future where no-one goes hungry. Ever. www.oxfam.org.uk/foodpower
“Get Up, Stand up!” Sara Cowan (Scotland) SCowan@oxfam.org.uk
“Change will do you good!” Nicola (North) NSansom@oxfam.org.uk
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes!” Nina (Midlands) NGora@oxfam.org.uk
“What needs fixing is the system!” Lousie Weinzweig (Wales) LWeinzweig@oxfam.org.uk
“Talkin’ bout a revolution.” Caitlin Shepherd (Southwest) CShepherd@oxfam.org.uk
“The revolution will not be televised!” Lucy Aitken-Read (London) LAitkenRead@oxfam.org.uk
Let’s build a world where all seven billion of us have enough food.
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We can all do food differently. Here’s how we’d sum it up: Think about how you buy and eat food. Take action with us to build a fairer world. Get involved locally and help your community to use its food power.
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This little book is jam-packed with food ideas from people across the UK and beyond. Look out for people in your area who are doing food differently.