Category - food

Scrap farm export subsidies, says Swiss theological ethicist

Ecumenical News International — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:32:48 +0100

Agricultural export subsidies in rich countries which destroy local food production and the income of poor farmers in the global South need to be withdrawn to alleviate the world food crisis, says ethicist and priest Christoph Stückelberger.

Food arrives in Kenya as Tutu continues to press reconciliation

staff writers — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:35:31 +0000

A convoy of trucks carrying 666 tonnes of food and vegetable oil to alleviate the humanitarian crisis resulting from post-election political violence The African Union and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu are pushing for a settlement.

Marks and Spencer to power stores using fairtrade, food and farm waste

staff writers — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:51:52 +0000

Marks & Spencer, which has been pushing forward fairtrade as a retailer of food, clothing and home products, has now started using food waste to power some of its stores.

Give the gift of school dinners

staff writers — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:58:15 +0000

School dinners encourage children living in poor communities to go to school and learn to read and write. The lack of food in places such as East Africa, though has meant children have gone without education. Click here to vist the Oxfam Unwrapped Gift Collection

CAFOD Lent Fast Day

Jordan Tchilingirian — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:13:44 +0000

Start: 02/02/2007 - 00:00

End: 02/02/2007 - 23:59

CAFOD Lent Fast Day
Part of the Live Simply campaign. Prmoting people to live sustainably and in solidarity with people who are poor.
Web http://www.cafod.org.uk/get_involved/livesimply

Peace church puts anti-hunger cash where its resolution is

staff writers — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:40:29 +0000

A half-million US dollars to counter world hunger, and to give substance to a commitment the UN Millennium Development Goals, was raised in 2006 by the Global Food Crisis Fund and the growing projects it spawned through the Foods Resource Bank - reports the Church of the Brethren, an Anabaptist denomination which sponsors the anti-poverty work.