FOOD JUSTICE

We found 16 additional articles filed under food justice. They're listed below, most recent first.

1. Prayer Calendar Reflection: April 2013
   02/28/2013 -- The Prayer Calendar is a tool of advocacy. Advocacy allows us to be agents of transformation by calling us to change the systems.
2. Food and Hunger
   02/05/2013 -- While overnutrition and undernutrition seem to be polar opposites, they are both forms of malnutrition.
3. Hunger and Poverty
   02/05/2013 -- The main cause of hunger is poverty and lack of power to access nutritious food.
4. Grassroots International: Palestine
   12/17/2012 -- In the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, just outside of Ramallah, 30 women have used the power of honey to keep their communities – and their livelihoods – cohesive and resolute.
5. Land Grabbing
   12/07/2012 -- The large-scale acquisition of land traditionally used by local communities, “land grabbing,” has accelerated exponentially, resulting in record levels of hunger, displacement and environmental degradation.
6. The Right to Food
   12/07/2012 -- When the world can produce more than enough food to adequately feed the global population, it shames us all that hunger and malnutrition exist.
7. Nelly's Story
   12/07/2012 -- In a village in Zambia, Nelly and her family once depended exclusively on chemical fertilizers to produce the crops on their farm. As years went by, the quality of their soil degraded to a point that hunger and poverty took over the family’s already preca...
8. Introducing Food Justice
   11/14/2012 -- Hunger and poverty have a cyclical relationship.
9. The Impact of Food Prices on Peace and Security
   11/14/2012 -- The poorest households in the developing world spend up to 60 to 80% of their incomes on food.
10. The Global Land Grab
    05/01/2012 -- Around the world impoverished peoples are fighting a foreign rush for wealth and control that threatens to strip them of land, food and water.
11. That We May All Live Together
    03/08/2012 -- Three of the ten United Methodist Women supported-delegates to the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations (CSW) attended the international meeting through the United Methodist Church partner, the Asian Rural Institute (ARI) in Japan.
12. United Methodist Women Explores Needs of Rural Women
    03/07/2012 -- United Methodist Women sponsored international participants who attended the first week of this year’s commission meeting, which began Feb. 27 and continues through March 9.
13. Ana Chã: Brazilian Landless Worker Emphasizes Health and Happiness for Rural Women
    03/02/2012 -- Ana Chã spoke to more than 100 people on Tuesday as part of the panel, “Voices of Rural Women,” co-sponsored by United Methodist Women and World Vision International, a side event of the Commission on the Status of Women.
14. Women's Division Statement to the Fifty-sixth Session of the Commission on the Status of Women
    01/24/2012 -- Statement submitted by The United Methodist Church General Board of Global Ministries, Women’s Division, a nongovernmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council to the Fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Stat...
15. Rural Women Panels Raise Issues on Food Security, Violence Against Women
    11/01/2011 -- In observance of International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day, United Methodist Women co-organized two panel discussions highlighting issues important to rural women around the world at the Church Center for the United Nations, Oct. 14, 2011.
16. International Day of Rural Women and World Food Day Event
    09/20/2011 -- On October 14, 2011, United Methodist Women and partners will host panel discussions on the role of rural women in food security and ending violence against women at the Church Center for the United Nations.

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