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Call to Action to End the Food Crisis |
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Updated: 12/19/2008
Our food system is broken. One billion people across the globe face hunger and food insecurity. But together we can make change.
On October 15th, World Food Day, a group of food, farm, labor, and justice organizations from across the US put forth a Call to Action calling on the next administration to take rapid steps to address the food crisis through fundamental changes to the government's food, agricultural, labor and international aid policies. This ad-hoc group, The US working Group on the Food Crisis, represents various sectors of the food system, including anti-hunger, family farm, community food security, environmental, international aid, labor, food justice, consumer, and other groups.
On December 15th, this Call to Action was sent to President-elect Barack Obama asking him to take immediate action.
There is still time to add your and/or your organization's name to this growing list of concerned individuals and groups.
Equal Exchange and a number of our food co-operative and Interfaith partners have endorsed this call. We believe that it's past time to get our food system working for small farmers, consumers, and the environment. Changing government policies is imperative. Equally critical are efforts to support progressive businesses that are trying to change the food system by constructing an alternative economic model, based on solidarity principles. At Equal Exchange, we are continually challenging ourselves to learn about the food system, questioning what got us to this point, calling for appropriate policy changes, and taking concrete steps to support local farmers, farmer co-operatives, and businesses that live their values and are constructing alternative economic models that work for people. We encourage all of you to do the same – other models are possible!
Click here, to read the press release about this bold Call to Action.
To read the Call to Action and to add your name, Click here.
To read the letter sent to President-elect Obama (in Word format), Click here.
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