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📢NEW REPORT JUST LAUNCHED! 📍#FoodFromSomewhere makes the case for close-to-home markets and #food chains to combat the global #hunger crisis, improve #FoodAccess, build resilience, and boost healthy diets & community cohesion. With progress on world hunger in reverse, the real hunger solutions are closer to home. 👉 https://lnkd.in/efnYdFqN

As we mark International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we recognise the land grabbing & violence against #IndigenousPeoples, which go hand-in-hand with the disappearance of seeds & loss of #biodiversity. We know it is Indigenous Peoples who protect biodiversity best. #IndigenousDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay

As we mark International Day of the World's #IndigenousPeoples, we recognise the land grabbing & violence against Indigenous Peoples, which go hand-in-hand with the disappearance of seeds & loss of #biodiversity. We know it is Indigenous Peoples who protect biodiversity best. #IndigenousDay #IndigenousPeoplesDay

🥣"The greatest threat to #resilient food systems is the growing concentration of corporate power… undermining livelihoods and agency in the #foodsystems, undermining ecological integrity, undermining #foodsecurity" our Jennifer Clapp tells Food Tank #FoodFromSomewhere https://lnkd.in/eknHz9CZ

🚨 Bad news. The EU Commission has given the go-ahead to a $34B merger between two grain trading giants: the already too large Bunge and Viterra (the grain arm of Glencore). As if yet more concentration in this hyper concentrated market were called for. As if there hadn't been a #greedflation scandal in food and grain markets in recent times. As we warned a year ago, this merger will mean further concentration of soybean and canola processing and distribution across the Americas. https://lnkd.in/emftr7qp

🌍🍲 Food and food systems have been dominating my thoughts lately, and for good reason. The latest United Nations report on global hunger paints a sobering picture of our world's nutritional state. I've been diving deep into the excellent reporting and analysis by Thin Lei Win, which offers crucial insights into this complex issue. 🚨 Climate, Conflict, and Debt: A Perfect Storm Keeping Hunger High ⚠️ We're facing a third major food crisis in just 15 years, exacerbated by the pandemic, erratic weather, and inflation. The New Humanitarian's series highlights emerging hunger hotspots, even in countries that traditionally haven't needed food aid. 📊 Key findings from the UN's State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report: 1 in 11 people globally faced hunger in 2023 In Africa, this rises to 1 in 5 people Over 2.3 billion people are experiencing moderate or severe food insecurity 35% of people globally cannot afford a healthy diet 🏦 The Debt Burden: A Critical Roadblock Raj Patel, from the IPES-Food, puts it starkly: "Debt servicing at these insane interest rates is making it even harder for countries to ensure the hungry are fed. In Kenya, a neoliberal government has met its citizens' hunger not with food but with violence and tax increases. This is, alas, an augury of the world to come." The cost of inaction is staggering: Lifting 700 million people out of hunger by 2030 would require £402 billion over just six years (2025-2030). 💡 Can We Course-Correct? David Laborde from FAO emphasises the complexity: "COVID was a major shock, like the Great Recession, and contributed to increasing inequalities, but today the multiplication of conflicts and extreme weather events, fuelled by climate change, put us in a much more complicated situation." The SOFI report criticises current financing as ineffective due to fragmentation, lack of consensus on priorities, and prevalence of small, short-term projects. 🌱 Innovative Solutions Needed Laborde suggests: Using public money to de-risk private investments Leveraging climate finance for triple benefits (social, economic, environmental) Implementing concepts like living income to benefit rural communities 🌡️ Climate Change: A Major Threat Patel warns: "Climate change is a headwind for yields in all staple crops, and without debt forgiveness and climate reparations, the future looks bleak, particularly for the most indebted low- and middle-income countries." ⏳ Time is running out to meet our 2030 goals. Addressing hunger isn't just about food – it's about reshaping our global systems for a more equitable and sustainable future. 💡 What are your thoughts on this global challenge? How can we address the debt burden while tackling hunger and climate change? What innovative financial solutions could make a difference? #GlobalHunger #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction #SustainableDevelopment #DebtRelief #InnovativeFinance

The latest UN #hunger figures (#SOFI2024) are a major wakeup call. "This is not just a blip, the global industrial food system is disastrously vulnerable to increasing #climate, conflict and economic shocks – with climate crisis increasingly pounding farmers. Building climate-resilient food systems is now a life-or-death matter. As is establishing social protection floors and ensuring workers are paid living wages," – says our Olivier De Schutter Global hunger remains catastrophically high, with 733 million people still going to bed hungry every day – 36% more than a decade ago. And 2.8 billion people unable to afford a healthy diet – meaning for one in three, wages are too low or social protection too weak to have adequate nutrition.

World’s Biggest Meat and Dairy Companies Spend More on Ads than Cutting Emissions. Brazilian meat giant JBS invested just 0.03 percent of annual revenues into climate measures, despite being among the world’s largest polluters, Changing Markets Foundation research finds. Company spending on advertising outstripped that on low-carbon solutions.

Close to home #food markets "feed as much as 70% of the world. They are especially important in terms of serving marginalized communities and providing diverse nutrition at affordable prices. But they do so much more as well…" — our Jennifer Clapp talks with Food Tank about our report #FoodFromSomewhere.

“Debt servicing at these insane interest rates is making it even harder for countries to make sure the hungry are fed. In Kenya, a neoliberal government has met its citizens' hunger not with food but with violence and tax increases. This is, alas, an augury of the world to come. #Climatechange is a headwind for yields in all staple crops, and without #debt forgiveness and climate reparations, the future looks bleak, particularly for the most indebted low- and middle-income countries” our Raj Patel tells Thin Lei Win. Read all about last week's UN #hunger report #SOFI