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1/ One of the perks of this job I have is I get to talk to and learn from some phenomenally inspiring people. People like Usman Camara, an organic farmer in Madrid, originally from Mauritania, help restore my faith in humanity, when it is sometimes challenged.
1/ One of the perks of this job I have is I get to talk to and learn from some phenomenally inspiring people. People like Usman Camara, an organic farmer in Madrid, originally from Mauritania, help restore my faith in humanity, when it is sometimes challenged.
2/ Usman is now in his mid-50s. He left Mauritania as a young man and arrived in Spain in 1995, and then worked in all sorts of jobs here and in France until 2011. At that point he was out of work, and started farming this plot south of Madrid.
3/ He leases a small plot of land from the Rivas-Vaciamadrid local government, where he grows organic kale, chard, broccoli, carrots, beets, tomatoes, aubergine, beans and so much more. And then he sells this to small food co-ops, and makes up vegetable boxes to order.
The 1st round of negotiations of the @UN_CFS Policy Recommendations on Agroecological and Other Innovative Approaches has started. Follow this thread for highlights from CSM in English, French and Spanish. 👇
#AgroecologyPolicy
#AgroecologyPolicy
We fully support the statements of @FAO and @SwissAmbUN_MIRO noting that assessments of the sustainability of agriculture must be #participatory and #inclusive. Both are basic notions which should be upheld as part of a human rights approach to food systems and nutrition.
Food systems need to be radically transformed through #agroecology, not merely enhanced. Argentina and Brazil's systematic rejection of the terms 'transition' or 'transformation' in the text is alarming!
#FutureIsFoodSovereignty #JustRecovery #AgroecologyPolicy
#FutureIsFoodSovereignty #JustRecovery #AgroecologyPolicy
CJI SA Bobde hears a case where petitioner states cancellation of Aadhaar cards has led to denial of ration to Tribals across India
CJI: this is for the high courts to decide
#SupremeCourt
#RightToFood
CJI: this is for the high courts to decide
#SupremeCourt
#RightToFood
Senior Adv Colin Gonsalves: More than 3 crores cards cancelled at Central level. Every state has 10 to 15 lakh cards are cancelled
ASG Aman Lekhi: There is grievance redressal under Food Security Act. The plea is misconceived
ASG Aman Lekhi: There is grievance redressal under Food Security Act. The plea is misconceived
CJI: we are persuaded to consider sincr Aadhaar card cancelled by Aadhaar authorities
Lekhi: If Aadhaar is not available alternate documents can be submitted. This point has not been argued
CJI: It's our order
@ceo_uidai
Lekhi: If Aadhaar is not available alternate documents can be submitted. This point has not been argued
CJI: It's our order
@ceo_uidai
The commitments we would like to see from the 3 candidates for Liverpool Mayor @CllrAnnaRothery @ann_obyrne & @CllrWendySimon.
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1. Oppose austerity. Commit to campaign publicly against government-imposed cuts.
2. Deliver a local Green New Deal to decarbonise the city’s economy, including the recommendations in @MerseyLGND's local manifesto.
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This defies belief.
The 🇬🇧 UK government's educational authorities have just announced that free meal coverage for kids🧒🏾 from low income families in England 🏴 won't continue over the February half-term break.
Instead some other winter grant scheme may kick in.
This defies belief.
The 🇬🇧 UK government's educational authorities have just announced that free meal coverage for kids🧒🏾 from low income families in England 🏴 won't continue over the February half-term break.
Instead some other winter grant scheme may kick in.
2/3 I'm appalled. The government has tried this before, making last minute u-turns -- at significant cost to families living on very low incomes and school staff -- after outcry.
Children have a #righttofood under intl human rights law. Like they have a #rightoteducation.
Children have a #righttofood under intl human rights law. Like they have a #rightoteducation.
3/3 It's so miserly and callous.
Every time you think finally a lesson about basic rights has been learned during the pandemic, you realize those making decision have learned: next to nothing.
And that's what some kids will be left with to eat in February: next to nothing.
Every time you think finally a lesson about basic rights has been learned during the pandemic, you realize those making decision have learned: next to nothing.
And that's what some kids will be left with to eat in February: next to nothing.
Absolutely. Buzzing.
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
Zoom call with @SFoodbanks, @IanByrneMP, and @Kartik__Raj #righttofood (wow)
These guys are REAL heroes and they dont even know it - their hard work and passion keeps families afloat, and dignity intact, and here's a thread about the importance of this:
2 Adversity hits the poorest hardest - and that includes natural disasters, accidents like Titanic, and austerity: cuts per head are highest for places with the sickest people, especially in the North. Infants of families who are in poverty are more likely to die.
3 We know from @CPAGUK and others that rates of child poverty are unacceptably high - around 1 in 3 kids pre covid, and who knows what now... and that poverty impacts the things we take for granted - birthday presents, school uniform, and even food
WORLD FOOD DAY
Friday 16 October 2020
"Food is our right: the struggle for equitable food systems"
Register here or follow the link to watch on Facebook
#WorldFoodDay #WFD2020 #AfricanFoodSystems #RightToFood @CovidCoalition @PLAASuwc @FoodSecurity_za
plaas.org.za/world-food-day…
Friday 16 October 2020
"Food is our right: the struggle for equitable food systems"
Register here or follow the link to watch on Facebook
#WorldFoodDay #WFD2020 #AfricanFoodSystems #RightToFood @CovidCoalition @PLAASuwc @FoodSecurity_za
plaas.org.za/world-food-day…
Here's the programme for today's WorldFoodDay social dialogue on the #RightToFood and equitable #foodsystems with @FIANista @NETRIGHT @EsaffHQ @MasifundiseDT @abahlali_abm @FoodSecurity_za @boamonjane @afs_asa
Today on #WorldFoodDay we will be hearing from leading activists and academics from Africa and beyond about how the #RightToFood requires change in our food systems - something long evident in African agriculture @FutureAgrics @IDS_UK
"A good academic is prim, respectful and clinical.
A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."
How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?
Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event!
A good activist is irreverent, subversive and passionate."
How do scholar-activists navigate these contradictions?
Fantastic session ion with Prof Jun Borras at #JPSWriteshop - follow this to see outcome of today's event!
"Scholar activists should stop regarding themselves as martyrs. We are activists because of the joy political work gives us, because even when we fail, working to make society kinder, fairer, more just, gives a satisfaction like no other...." 1/2 #JPSWriteshop
2/2 ....because the comrades we find in the effort are friends like no other, and also because our activist efforts illuminate our social & political world in ways that scholarship alone never can." - Frances Fox Piven onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111… #JPSWriteshop
A recipe for a #sustainablefoodsystem - and #FoodForAll #Healthreimagined
"Community gardens need to be supported by local govt. Parklands need to be redesigned to provide food growing areas. Water needs to be returned to Australian farmers growing food...
"Community gardens need to be supported by local govt. Parklands need to be redesigned to provide food growing areas. Water needs to be returned to Australian farmers growing food...
"...Restrictions need to be in place to prevent our best soil being built on. All Secondary school students should be involved in growing food during yrs 7 to 10 so they understand where food comes from & how to prepare it....
"...Support the expansion of the Stephanie Alexander KGF (or similar) into secondary schools. Create a permaculture course in all Tafe colleges employing our existing accredited teachers....
The 2nd Special Rapporteur on the #RighttoFood, Olivier de Schutter, delivered his final report to the Human Rights Council of the UN General Assembly on 24 Jan 2014. It was titled "The transformative potential of the right to food"
De Schutter's 6-year mandate (2008-2014) coincided with the Global Food Crisis of 2007 - that preceded the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. He visited 13 countries, prepared 10 reports on thematic issues and 2 special reports on the Global Food Crisis - srfood.org
He said:"The #righttofood is the right of every individual, alone or in community w others, to have physical & economic access at all times to sufficient, adequate & culturally acceptable food that is produced & consumed sustainably, preserving access 2 food 4 future generations"
"Ppl who use food assistance...say they experience stigma, shame and hopelessness...seeking food assistance...is traumatic, stressful and detrimental to one's health & wellbeing' - @ChristinaPolla8 @DrSueBooth "Food Insecurity & Hunger in Rich Countries' - europepmc.org/article/pmc/pm…
'The Australian government is failing to fulfil its legal and moral obligation to guarantee the #humanright to #adequatefood for at least 1.2 mn people'. In a country that boasts about being #foodsecure & 'feeding 60 mn people', this is an indictment
The human right to adequate food is universal - everyone has it, regardless of who they are or how much money they have - and it is inalienable - it can't be forfeited or surrendered. Poverty is no reason for a person or group not to have access to adequate food at all times
We work with and support a Reference Group of people with lived experience of poverty. They’ve compiled their initial experiences, reflections and recommendations on COVID-19 in a briefing to @SP_EHRiC. Here are the key points 👇 [1/8]
Read in full at scottishhumanrights.com/media/2016/bri…
Read in full at scottishhumanrights.com/media/2016/bri…
The group have seen a disproportionate impact on people’s #RightToFood in rural communities. Carers also face particular challenges. And people with special diets due to health conditions or cultural requirements need to be considered when it comes to emergency provisions. [2/8]
The group is concerned that some people are not eligible for some support because “high risk” is defined too narrowly. They recommend government instead uses the social model of disability to guide its approach. [3/8]
