Food Security

In 2000, world leaders agreed to halve the number of people living in poverty. Currently, there are more than 800 million people who do not have adequate access to food. This, despite a long-standing acknowledgement by the countries of the world that everyone has a “right to have access to safe and nutritious food.”

For Dóchas members, the right to food is a crucial element in the fight against global poverty and injustice. Without access to food, there will be no development.

There are a number of key elements in what we call “food security”: People should have access, to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that is culturally appropriate, at prices that they can afford.

Dóchas Resources

• Hunger: The Face of Poverty

• Models of Agricultural Investment (2012) 

• Eliminating Global Hunger: Towards a Strategic Irish Response (September 2010)

• NGOs welcome Irish Aid focus on world hunger crisis

• A New Green Revolution for Africa - Dóchas Forum Report

• Irish NGOs welcome renewed commitment to tackling poverty and inequality – and its public face, Hunger

• A New Green Revolution for Africa - Threats & Opportunities for Small Farmers (29 May 2008)

• Dóchas Submission to the Irish Aid Hunger Task Force (October 2007)

Other resources

• The EU’s common agricultural policy - Ensuring the EU’s development and agricultural policies evolve together 

• Hunger Task Force Report (2008)

• Food Security Communications Toolkit 

• Seed Laws that Criminalise Farmers - Resistance and Fightback