Monday's Menu:
Breakfast: Porridge with water, frozen fruit and sugar
Lunch: Homemade Soup
Dinner: Small Portion of Curry and Rice
This month has really opened my eyes to how blind I have been to the suffering of millions across the globe. Hunger and malnutrition in childhood will trap almost a billion young people in poverty by 2025. It is estimated that
malnutrition will cost developing countries an annual $125 billion (£78 billion) in lost economic
output by 2030. This is not ok. Great strides have been made in reducing poverty and 14,000 fewer children are dying each day
than in 1990. But hunger is threatening to reverse these achievements. Hardworking poor farmers,
especially women and their children, vulnerable and ordinary people everywhere face the highest
food prices in a generation. 
‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ is the largest coalition of its kind in the UK since Make Poverty History in 2005. It calls on Prime Minister David Cameron to use this year's UK’s G8 presidency to take action on the root causes of the hunger crisis. The ‘IF’ movement challenges the Prime Minister to tackle 4 big IFs to help there be enough food for everyone. Over the past few days I have touched on these big IFs. Today I am going to talk about Land...
Enough Food For Everyone IF we stop poor farmers being forced off their land, and we grow crops for food, not fuel.
Some of the world's poorest farmers are loosing their land to large companies who don't seem to care that the land is being used by local people to grow food. Small scale farmers do not have formal access to, or control over, the natural resources they need to produce food and secure their livelihoods. Land grabs are being facilitated behind the scenes by investment banks and the World Bank. Not only this but land is increasingly being used by these companies to grow fuel for cars and not food. This needs to be stopped. Stopping this could stop millions of people from going hungry.
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