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Waste Not, Want Not

Posted on June 16th, 2014 by
Waste Not, Want Not

The United Nations (UN) predicts that 70% more food will need to be produced by 2050 to feed a global population of 9 billion. However current increases in crop yields will not be sufficient to meet estimated demands. In fact as we look to increase crop production, we will face further problems that restrict the way we look to live. Land is a very finite resource and competition is fierce. Much is lost to biofuels, meat production and urbanisation. As a result, arable land is overused leading (more...)

Barbara Stocking & Jonathon Porritt on Climate Change, Food Security and Poverty

Posted on May 30th, 2014 by
Barbara Stocking & Jonathon Porritt on Climate Change, Food Security and Poverty

On Friday June 13th, the Humanitarian Centre is delighted to invite you to join Dame Barbara Stocking and Sir Jonathon Porritt for a special conversation on climate change and food security as it affects the world’s most vulnerable people – and how we can work towards solutions to these challenges that benefit everyone.
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Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management?

Posted on April 9th, 2014 by
Hasn’t the time come for some brave new thinking on food management?

Andrew MacMillan asks the Humanitarian Centre and our network, “Hasn’t the Time come for some Brave New Thinking on Food Management?”
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2014 Innovation & Development Hackathon Finale Results

Posted on April 4th, 2014 by
2014 Innovation & Development Hackathon Finale Results

So you’re in the biscuit aisle of the supermarket, pondering your options for a teatime snack. Seemingly a simple decision . . . But of course every pack of biscuits has a story behind it – and as a conscientious, thoughtful person, you might like to know what that story is. Just as we ask how the animals were treated on the farm before they go to the butcher, and whether or not our vegetables grew in chemically-treated fertilisers or organic ones – so we might also like to know about the (more...)

MEAT the limit: Initiative challenges us to eat less meat

Posted on February 23rd, 2014 by
MEAT the limit: Initiative challenges us to eat less meat

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The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) states that almost 1 billion people are undernourished. But why is this the case, when we already produce more than one and a half times enough food to feed the entire planet? There are many reasons. This article examines the issue of meat production, a factor which is controlled by our own choices.
Alarmingly, the food we eat has a direct impact on the security of others and the long term sustainability of our planet. Levels of (more...)

Enough Food for Everyone IF Campaign Update

Posted on August 14th, 2013 by
Enough Food for Everyone IF Campaign Update

It was an amazing turn out at The Big IF in Hyde Park: 45,000 people came along; 200 campaigners met with their MPs; and 30,000 school children delivered hand-written messages on paper plates to David Cameron.
All-in-all 1.4 million actions were taken during the IF Campaign–so what were the outcomes of our actions at the G8? And what happens next? On 24th July supporters and campaigners of The IF Campaign (including me!) met with IF Campaign leaders to discuss exactly this.
In the IF Café (more...)

Innovation & Development Hackathon Finale

Posted on March 22nd, 2013 by
Innovation & Development Hackathon Finale

The Afrinspire Team gets to work on their challenge for the Innovation & Development Hackathon
“What exactly is a Hackathon?” This is a question that participants in the Innovation & Development Hackathon have answered many times over the past week.
The term hackathon is appropriated from the tech community; it is an event that brings different people together, for a period of intensive collaboration, to “hack” out a solution to a problem, or come up with a new, usable idea or (more...)

Hackathon Challenges

Posted on March 13th, 2013 by
Hackathon Challenges

On Saturday March 16, the Innovation & Development Hackathon kicked off as part of the Cambridge Science Festival. Enterprising students and professionals came together to find innovative new approaches to real development challenges faced by charities, social enterprises, companies and student start ups. The challenges they worked on are below.
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Osborne’s Big Budget – IF’s next challenge

Posted on February 13th, 2013 by
Osborne’s Big Budget – IF’s next challenge


On the 20th March George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will present his annual budget. This is the coalition’s chance to confirm its commitment to spending 0.7% of national income on aid – an opportunity for the British government to take the lead in the stand against global hunger.
However, the findings of the international development select committee earlier this month have begun to cast aspersions on the integrity of this commitment.
Their report outlines several efficiency (more...)

‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ launches in Cambridge

Posted on January 29th, 2013 by
‘Enough Food for Everyone IF’ launches in Cambridge

(c) David Godwin, The Cambridge Student
Last Friday representatives from charities Christian Aid and Partners for Change Ethiopia joined the Humanitarian Centre to host the local launch of the IF campaign. Chair of the Humanitarian Centre, Steve Jones, addressed a packed Great St Mary’s Church on the problems of world hunger that the campaign aims to reduce.
“the leading charities in the UK have come together as a major coalition, and it requires all of our support. There is enough food for (more...)

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