What is GROW
Soon there
will be nine billion of us on the planet. Our societies must grow to meet our
needs, so we can put enough food on the table for everyone.
Already, almost a billion of
us go to bed hungry every night. Not because there isn't enough. But because of
the deep injustice in the way the system works. And because too many of the
ways we grow today are using up and destroying the natural resources on which
we all rely.
We can grow in a better way
– one that contributes much more to human wellbeing, and ensures that
everyone on the planet will always have enough to eat.
A broken system
Food and oil prices. Flat-lining yields. Climate change.
Unfair trade. Failing markets. Inequality between men and women. Land grabs.
All of these issues are connected. And all of them are contributing to a global
food system that is dominated by a few powerful governments and companies. A
system that is failing the rest of us.
We need a new way of thinking, and ideas that hold a promise
of a better future for the many, not just the few.
It's time to GROW
We can grow more food more fairly and more sustainably. We
can press governments and companies to take urgent action to reform bad
policies, to preserve scarce resources and share them fairly.
We've got a lot of plans, but we're also all ears. Because
GROW has space for all of us to share ideas and views about better ways to
grow, share and live together.
Oxfam
launches Grow Campaign:
Oxfam
launched a new campaign called Grow, which aims at securing the world’s food supply
by calling on governments, businesses and consumers to take action on climate
change, minimising food price fluctuations, preventing landgrabs and halting
the move toward biofuels.
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The campaign
is based on their recent report - Growing a Better Future, Food justice in a resource-constrained
world. The report catalogues the symptoms of today’s broken food
system and warns that we have entered a new age of crisis where depletion of
the earth’s natural resources and increasingly severe climate change
impacts will create millions more hungry people
Regards,
Leticia
Zeferina Marta Alves | National Policy&Advocacy Manager | Oxfam
Rua
Jacinto Candido, Bidau Akadiru-Hun, Dili – Timor Leste
Tel
: + 670 331 2605 | Fax + 670 332 1792 | www.oxfam.org
