Responding to Hunger: Right to Food in Europe

It was great to meet you at our first live session kicking off the Summer School on the Right to Food in Europe. We are excited about the diverse group of learners and look forward to the exchanges and discussions in the next weeks.

For those who were not able to join the live session you can find the recording and the presentations now on the e-learning platform in the Introduction part.

And as promised here are the links to the resources shared in the chat yesterday.

FIAN report Greece (2018) https://www.fian.org/fileadmin/media/publications_2018/Reports_and_guidelines/Democracy_not_for_sale_Greece_web_final.pdf

Eurostat statistics page: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Living_conditions_in_Europe_-_poverty_and_social_exclusion

The Food Insecurity Experience Scale https://www.fao.org/in-action/voices-of-the-hungry/fies/en/

Resource around critically assessing questions of food charity: https://rightsnotcharity.org

ActionAid reports (Italian): https://actionaid-it.imgix.net/uploads/2021/10/Report_La_Fame_Non_Raccontata.pdf

https://actionaid-it.imgix.net/uploads/2020/10/AA_Report_Poverta_Alimentare_2020.pdf

Interesting discussions encompassing many food issues from a systemic approach:

https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast .           

Resource about the commodification of food and financialization of food:

https://www.tabledebates.org/podcast/episode5-rebroadcast  

La Via Campesina: https://viacampesina.org/en/

National Family Farm Coalition: https://nffc.net/

Scotland example:

            https://www.nourishscotland.org/campaigns/right-to-food/

            https://www.nourishscotland.org/campaigns/good-food-nation-bill/

            https://www.scottishhumanrights.com/our-law-and-policy-work/right-to-food/

On the resilience of small-scale food production (CSA/LSPA) during COVID: https://urgenci.net/enacting-resilience-the-response-of-lspa-to-the-covid-19-crisis/

More information on the European peasant organizing: https://www.eurovia.org/

Thanks again to everyone for your participation and see you this week 7^th of July at 2pm CEST for the second live session. We will send a reminder out closer to the date.

If you have any questions in regards to the course let us know!

Nathalie & Sam