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Food Security Learning Center

Country

United States

Region

Global, North America

Programme Summary

Launched in 2002 by the United States (US)-based World Hunger Year (WHY), the Food Security Learning Center is a web-based effort to provide tools for building a food-secure world that is sustainable and healthy for all people, communities, and the environment. This information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) project is being run in collaboration with the Community Food Security Coalition and support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Communication Strategies

The Food Security Learning Center website is designed to provide information about, and motivation to mobilise around, a variety of issues, such as: community food security (including sub-topics such as community food assessment, community gardens, community supported agriculture (CSA), and food policy councils), nutrition, rural poverty, and family farming. Amongst the other tools here for educating those living in the US and elsewhere are searchable databases (e.g., a national (US) hunger clearinghouse), a hunger and poverty research guide, news items, and blueprints and examples of models that work.

The Learning Center is also an illustration of the use of ICT to engage people in activity and advocacy around food system change - from the grassroots to the global level. From getting local food into school meals to promoting farmers markets in food-insecure communities, the Learning Center offers ideas for taking action. For example, the "Action Alerts" page provides background about such issues as the the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, which WHY contends exacerbates labour and human rights violations in Colombia. Concrete suggestions are made here for how to take action - e.g., by calling one's members of Congress (a link to an organisation providing talking points on responsible trade is offered).

Development Issues

Hunger, Poverty.

Partners

WHY and the Community Food Security Coalition, with support from the Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program of the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service of the USDA.

Contact

Food Security Learning Center

World Hunger Year (WHY)
505 Eighth Ave., Suite 2100

New York NY
10018-6582
United States
Tel: 212 629 8850
Fax: 212 465 9274

Placed on the Communication Initiative site July 09 2008
Last Updated July 28 2008

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