Pathways to ensuring the
“Right to Food”
Credit: Sean Sprague
BANGLADESH
Susan Bentley: Caritas Australia
Global Education Adviser Queensland
susanb@caritas.org.au
CAMBODIA
Source:
• http://www.caritas.org.au/docs/secondary-school-resources/geographyresources-brochure.pdf?sfvrsn=10
• http://www.caritas.org.au/docs/primary-school-resources/geographyresources-brochure.pdf?sfvrsn=10
Who we are
A snapshot
Caritas Australia is an agency for international aid
and development.
Caritas Australia helps people to help
themselves, regardless of race, political beliefs,
gender or religion.
Capacity-building
Our core focus is the poorest of the poor
Module 1
What we do
Our work can be summarised as:
Humanitarian aid
Long term development
Advocacy and education
Staff from CRS visit Cagayan de Oro after Typhoon
Bopha, Phillipines.
Module 1
A woman from the
Xishuangbanna minority ethnic
group weaving. China
Credit: St. Jospeh’s Nundah
Credit: Caritas Australia
Credit: CRS
within Australia and with our International Partners.
A parish school ‘Walking for
justice’ as a PC fundraiser.
Source: http://www.caritas.org.au/learn/where-wework?mode=work
Food Security
The World Food Summit of 1996 defined food
security as existing “when all people , at all times,
have access to sufficient , safe, nutritious food to
maintain a healthy and active life”
live on
less than
$1.25
a
day
BILLION
people
Source: http://www.wfp.org/content/hunger-map-2014
Global Hunger statistics
http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats
• 98% of the world’s hungry live in
the majority world
• 43% farmers-women
• 65% of the world’s hungry live in
only 7 countries…………
A Human Rights Issue
“Everyone has the right to a standard of living
adequate for the health and well-being of
himself and of his family, including food,
clothing, housing, and medical care and
necessary social services, and the right to
security in the event of unemployment,
sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other
lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his
control.“ (Universal Declaration of Human
Rights-article 25, paragraph 1)
Millennium Development Goals.
• Goal One: Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger (Right to an adequate standard of
living)
• Goal Seven: Ensure environmental
sustainability (Right to environmental Health,
Right to water and sanitation).
Working with farmers as partners
Income diversification
Community based training
workshops
Sustainable Agricultural Techniques
Environmental conservation
• Fiji-ranked 88 on the HDI
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( 187 countries in total)
Australia is second
Fijian Life expectancy is 69.89
years
In Australia it is 82.5 years
( 69.1 years Indigenous men
and 73.7 years for Indigenous
women)
Population: 0.88 million
Mean years of schooling: 9.91
http://hdr.undp.org/en/data
Tutu Rural Training Centre in Taveuni
• Garden Island
• Makuna bean
• Crop diversification
Participants at the Caritas Australia supported
Tutu Rural Training Centre learn about the
benefits of pre-germination of seeds and the
use of nurseries.
• New
technologies
• Income
generation
The Tutu Rural
Training Centre also
runs a six month
Women’s course
where participants
learn personal life
skills as well as
income generating
activities such as
jewellery making.
Nepal: ranked 145 on HDI
Life expectancy is 68.41
Population: 27 million
Mean years of schooling3.24
Farmer Field School (FFS)
Learning by doing method.
Primary learning material for the farmers
is the trial field itself with IPM trial (250
square meter) and Farmer Trial (250
square meter) conducted by the farmers.
Farmers work in smaller groups (5-6
people) to manage their trial plots and
report to larger group of 25 to 30 people.
Farmer Field school activity is held once
a week for the whole of the crop season
(18-22 weeks for monsoon rice).
The weekly sessions = 6-8 hours one day
every week.
PRINCIPLES OF
Integrated Pest
Management ( IPM)
The poster here shows clock
wise the principles of IPM
Principle one: grow healthy crop
with suitable cultivation
practices,
Principle two: integrated pest /
disease control,
Principle three: regular
monitoring of field and
immediate addressing of
concerns,
Principle four: developing
farmers to be researcher/expert.
1. Grow healthy crop ( eg: Rice)
1.SELECT HEALTHY SEEDS
2. USE OF GREEN MANURE
3. GROW RICE IN NURSERY
4. PLANT SEEDLING (2 IN ONE PLACE) FAR
APART (20 CM X 20 CM)
2. Pest Management through biological,
cultural and organic methods.
1. Farmers identified the main pests that damage
their rice crops.
2. To control these they learned not to spray insecticide
and promote presence of natural enemies of
pests.
3. The farmers learned to prepare organic pesticide
from local plants.
4. Control pest by selecting rice varieties that have in
born trait to resist certain disease and pests
5. In irrigated areas, Flood rice fields or dry them to
control various pest
Farmer drawing and learning
of friendly insect/pest
3. Regular Monitoring of field called Agro-ecosystem Analysis
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Identification of physical, climate and plant growth parameters
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Consultation with small farmer group
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Assess best practice
4. Farmers
become trained
experts-”learn by
doing”
Train more than 15,000 farmers nation wide
72 day increase in food security for participants communities,
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Role of women
Cooperative Education
Workshop/training
“For my family there have been so many changes
We are not dependent on others for income now. We have no
need to take loans for school fees. We’re producing more
vegetables and rice to eat and also sell. Last year I started to
lease land for growing rice and wheat to sell at the markets”
KALURAM
Think resources-think Caritas Australia:
www.caritas.org.au
www.blueprintforabetterworld.org
Source:
• http://www.caritas.org.au/docs/secondary-school-resources/geographyresources-brochure.pdf?sfvrsn=10
• http://www.caritas.org.au/docs/primary-school-resources/geographyresources-brochure.pdf?sfvrsn=10
Caritas’ Geography Teaching
Resources
EG: Food Security, Sustainable
Development
Six countries. Six people.
Six communities.
www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion
NEW! INTERACTIVE GLOBAL FAMILY TABLE
Case studies from Caritas’ global
development programs
Education - Advocacy
www.caritas.org.au/act
What is to come in 2015?
Food Security
Toolkit
Indigenous
teaching resources
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Australia
caritasaustralia
@CaritasAust
“The fight against hunger must have
no colour, no religion, no political
affiliation. Ending hunger is absolutely
necessary if we want a truly
sustainable and more secure future. It
makes political and economic sense,
but morally and ethically, it is also the
right thing to do.”
Mr. Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General, UN Food
and Agriculture Organization, 2013.
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Promote Justice
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