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Food Security and Sustainable Development
MADRE provides humanitarian aid to communities suffering from acute hunger and malnutrition as a result of economic and political violence and supports projects that ensure a reliable, long-term source of food, potable water and income for women and their families. MADRE also offers trainings that empower women to advocate for their social and economic rights, including the right to food as outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Rome Declaration on World Food Security.
MADRE Articles
- Crisis in Haiti redirect
- G8 to Poor Women: Let Them Eat Dirt
- A Women's Declaration to the G8: Support Real Solutions to the Global Food Crisis
- Food Policies Leave People Hungry
- Confronting the Global Food Crisis
- Solving the Global Food Crisis Starts with Women’s Rights
- New Year, No Resolutions on Climate Change
- 11 Solutions to Halting the Environmental Crisis
- Food for Life
- Reshape Food Aid: A MADRE Alert
- US in Africa: Partnership or Pillage?
- A Women's Rights-based Approach to Climate Change
- Women Say "No" to the WTO: A MADRE Statement on the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the World Trade Organization
- Indigenous Women and Sustainable Development
- Hunger in Palestine
Additional Resources
- The Dictatorship of Debt: The World Bank and Haiti (Counterpunch)
- The Climate Crisis Coalition
- The Struggle for Latin America’s Water (Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, NACLA)
- Women and Water Privatization (Women’s Human Rights Net)
- Food Security, Farming, and the FTAA and WTO (Global Exchange)
- Region Grapples with Complex Water Issues (David Boddiger, Tico Times)
- Mugged: Poverty in Your Coffee Cup (Oxfam)
- Separation fence forces expanded UN food program (Amira Hass, Haaretz Daily)
- Iraq: Briefing paper on food security (IRIN News)
- UN Food and Agriculture Organization Fact Sheets (The Right to Food; Women, Agriculture and Food Security; HIV/AIDS, Food Security and Rural Livelihoods; etc.)