Category: Activism
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IYFF – 2014: International Year of Family Farming
The United Nations recently launched 2014 to be the International Year of Family Farming. As our friends at FoodTank have posted:”This the first United Nations year that is the result of a campaign by civil society–the World Rural Forum (WRF) campaigned heavily for the year and it was backed by more than 360 civil and…
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Launching new advocacy tools
November 24, 2013 – We are preparing to launch two new tools to support us in ramping up global advocacy footprint: a new component of our website – advocacy.thp.org – and a new weekly email update, the (which will replace our earlier Washington Weekly Update). Many of the pages are under construction – our immediate…
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2012 Top Ten Trends in Ending Hunger and Poverty
This year saw a continuation and expansion of many of the positive trends in the 2011 list: civil society consultation, gender mainstreaming, transparency, small farmer empowerment. And it saw new initiatives to fill gaps in achieving the MDGs. Yet we also witnessed pushback: organized threats to women’s human rights and civil society that remind us…
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2010 Election Poll
Alliance to End Hunger Hunger Message Project 2010 Mid-term Election Poll (Provided by the Alliance to End Hunger) Since 2002, the Alliance to End Hunger has regularly conducted national, non-partisan polls of voters’ attitudes on domestic and global hunger known as the Hunger Message Project. The result is an extraordinary body of evidence demonstrating that voters…