Contribution to the programme of Brot für alle (East)

Right to food: Agricultural policies in favour of small scale peasants rather than of industrial agro concerns are needed in order to ensure food security for all. A fair food policy also comprehends the questions of patent law and preservation of the genetic diversity. Food production has to be protected from the agro fuel industry. Local as well as regional production has to be enhanced. Agricultural policy and global trade are closely linked.
Climate: Climate change threatens the most the poor living in the Southern hemisphere and raises a question of social justice. Changed weather conditions and the increasing number of extreme events mostly threaten poor countries.
Anticorruption: Whole nations are suffering from corruption, a phenomenon that penetrates all social classes. Corruption can be tackled by raising awareness, by codes of conducts and by increased transparency.
Fair trade: developed countries and transnational corporations govern the global economy in their own interests. The liberalisation of markets did cost the sub-Saharan economy about 272 billion USD in the last 20 years. This amount would have allowed the region to absorb all its foreign debts and to provide vaccine and school enrolment to every child. To give developing countries a real chance in the global economy, trade must be reorganized so as not to undermine human rights and poverty reduction.

Bread for all aims at a democratic, fair and holisitic global development. People need to be empowered to have the required skills and possibilities to lead their lives with dignity, social and economic security in an environment worth to live in.

Risultati fasi precedenti:  

Fase 1 01.01.2013 - 31.12.2014   (Completed)