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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.
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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.
All over the UK, people like Sophie
are taking control of where their food
comes from. Buying less and growing
and producing more for themselves...Her solution.A global revolution.
“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.
“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
Grow big And if you really get the grow-your-own bug, why not get stuck in at your local allotments.
Join Sophie and get growing.
From organic seeds to beekeeping, here’s some more inspiration:www.gardenorganic.org.ukwww.allotment.org.ukwww.bbka.org.uk
Grow tall Kate Sweetlove told us about Mike’s greens which are growing tall in these recycled drinks bottles.
Grow small Tight on space? This veg patch is just one square metre but fits in all sorts of greens.
containergardening.wordpress.com
Love food.
Hate waste.
Love food.
Hate waste.
Love food.
Hate waste.
Love food.
Hate waste.
Love food.
Hate waste.
www.lovefoodhatewaste.com
The UK alone trashes 15 million tonnes* of edible food every year.
*Household and commercial waste.
Ten films that challenge how the world does food
Ideas worth watching.
1. Food, Inc. 2. Super Size Me3. Our Daily Bread4. The Power of Community:
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil5. King Corn
6. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
7. The Price of Sugar8. All in This Tea9. Food Fight.The Documentary 10. The Real Dirt on Farmer John
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Ten best food movies of all time 1. Big Night 2. Julie & Julia 3. Tampopo4. Ratatouille5. Chocolat6. Babette’s Feast7. Woman on Top8. Soul Food9. Tortilla Soup10. Waitress
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4. Shopped The shocking power of British supermarkets.
5. Food Rules An eater’s manual.
6. The Kitchen Diaries A year in the kitchen.
7. The Food Our Children Eat How to get children to like good food.
1. Not On The Label What really goes into the food on your plate.
2. Fast Food Nation What the all-American meal is doing to the world.
3. Stuffed and Starved Markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system.
Ideas worth reading.
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Seven food books to
get stuck into.
The reality: 97% of the world’s 3 billion farmers
live in developing countries.
The injustice: 80% of hungry people are directly involved in food production.
3 Distributors
Global grain
7 billionconsumers
Controlover supplyand pricing
Three giant corporations control 80% of the
world’s grain – and the world’s food prices.
What’s wrong with our food?
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.
One billion hungry
Harry’s nutsGood 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
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
Ideas worth buying.
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From buying local produce,
to buying fair trade here are
a few great ways to use your
purchase power.
A new people-
powered way to do
food locally.
www.thepeoplessupermarket.org
Two great ways to bake
and make a difference.
Ideas worth making.
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
Gilvan Barreto/Oxfam
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Food power means...
Write your ideas
in here.
Keep this book as
a reminder that
you’re part of a
global food
revolution.
Her solution.A global revolution.
Back in March, Ellen gave up buying food and made her supermarket bins, well, her supermarket.
Ellen is one of hundreds of people across
the country who are getting together to
take on the massive issue of food waste…
Amazingly, she was totally
overwhelmed with the
volume of food available
and was even able to make
a ‘free food box’ to share
with her housemates.
Join Ellen and watch your waste.
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Ellen’s efforts were all in aid of FareShare, a brilliant organisation that collects and distributes food that would otherwise be thrown away to people in the UK. www.fareshare.org.uk
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.ukwww.feeding5k.orgwww.foodcycle.org.uk
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*Look out for Ruif, Amy and Helena in a festival field near you as they are all campaigning with us this year!
Every night, one in seven of us goes to bed hungry.
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.
Oxfam is joining forces with farmers like
Esteras worldwide who are using their food
power to make sure they can earn more,
eat better and change their own lives...
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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Join Esteras and farmers worldwide.
You can take action and support
farmers all over the world with
Oxfam’s GROW campaign at
www.oxfam.org.uk/foodpower
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 Oxfam-supported 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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Get involved.If you’d like to get more involved with
Oxfam’s food campaign your local Oxfam
activists would love to hear from you.
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
“Change will do you good!” Nicola (North) [email protected]
“Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes!” Nina (Midlands) [email protected]
“The revolution will not be televised!” Lucy Aitken-Read (London) [email protected]
“What needs fixing is the system!” Lousie Weinzweig (Wales) [email protected]
“Talkin’ bout a revolution.” Caitlin Shepherd (Southwest) [email protected]
“Get Up, Stand up!” Sara Cowan (Scotland) [email protected]
7OOOOOOOOO
Let’s build a world where all seven billion of us have enough food.
7OOOOOOOOO
www.oxfam.org.uk/foodpower
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.
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.
www.oxfam.org.uk/foodpower
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