Choosing Zero Hunger – Defending the Right to Food in the Climate Crisis

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | 4.15 p.m. | GER | Palais KulturBrauerei

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Right to Food guidelines of the Committee on World Food Security, and the 10-year existence of Action Against Hunger in Germany, we look back: What progress has since been made in fighting hunger worldwide? And we direct our discussion ahead: How can we achieve a future in which the right to food is fulfilled for all – despite new threats created by the climate crisis?

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Guests: 

Audrey McLean (Youth Delegate for Sustainable Development), Dr. Martin Frick (Director World Food Programme Germany), Renate Künast (Member of the German Bundestag), Jan Sebastian Friedrich-Rust (CEO Aktion gegen den Hunger)

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Screening afterwards:

Following the talk, the film Our Land, Our Freedom was shown. 

About the Film

 

About the header image: Bol Gatkuoth cultivates his rice field in Paguir, South Sudan, where repeated flooding has destroyed crops. Action Against Hunger has promoted rice cultivation as a climate adaptation strategy, because while millet and maize are prone to drowning, rice thrives under such conditions.

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