The Right for Food Seminar

After 60 years of the Human Rights Declaration...

...there is still much to achieve in

The Right for Food

A public seminar on Saturday 6th December, 5.00pm - 7.30pm

Millennium Chapel Hall, Paceville - free entrance

Followed by refreshments and music:

  • Pumpkin and Fair Trade rice qassatat made by the Manikata Farmers' Cooperative
  • Eritrean vegetable samosas
  • Home-made cakes with Fair Trade Chocolate, Spices and Sugar
  • Ethnic music from Sudan and Burkina Faso


Programme

5.00 - 5.15

Introduction by the chair, Dr. Adrian Grima

Part I – The Right for food, a theoretical approach

5.15 – 5.45

Ms. Borbála Simonyi, expert in food sovereignity

Part II – From global to local

The Maltese and the food production crisis

5.45 – 6.05

Mr. Mario Salerno, President of MOAM,

Malta Organic Agricultural Movement

6.05 – 6.20

Mr. Mario Cardona, board member,

Manikata Farmers' Cooperative

6.20 – 6.50

Dr. Gordon Knox, Inependent Lecturer, Malta

Part III - Fair Trade and the Right for Food

7.50 – 7.10

Ms. Claudia Piacenza, Enlarging Fair project

7.10 – 7.30

Open floor for questions and discussions


This seminar is being held as part of the project Enlarging Fair, in which Koperattiva Kummerc Ġust is the Maltese partner. The project is led by the Italian Fair Trade Organisation Pangea-Niente Troppo and also includes partners from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

 

"The Right for Food" seminar is being partially funded by the EC budget line EuropeAid.

New Youth Initiative Project for KKĠ

KKĠ has embarked upon a new Youth Initiatives project for 2009. The project entitled "Fresh Minds for a New World" seeks to raise awareness about the North-South divide, with special focus on Fair Trade as a recognized tool for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Through the project we shall be:

a. producing a series of posters that will educated the public about the 8 MDGs established by all governments at the UN and the ways in which Fair Trade helps achieve the MDGs,

b. organizing Fair Trade seminars in community and youth groups,

c. holding events related to Fair Trade and the MDGs in Gozo, and

d. receiving support to organize our annual WorldFest activity.

Sub-committees will be formed to coordinate different aspects of the project. Anyone interested in participating in any of these sub-committees is more than welcome.

Schools, local youth, community or church groups wishing to have a seminar about Fair Trade and the MDGs organized in their premises are encouraged to get back to us.

Palestinian Fair Trade Producers in Malta

Nostalġija ta’ libertà

Franica Pulis tintervista lil Suzan Sahori mill-Palestina (Illum)

Din il-ġimgħa kien hemm għaddejjin żewġ proġetti li jippromwovu d-diversità. Iżda mara Palestinjana kienet preżenti fit-tnejn - Suzan Sahori - Direttur għar-Relazzjonijiet Internazzjonali ta’ għaqda li tippromwovi kummerċ ġust tax-xogħol artiġġanali Palestinjan: il-Holy Land Handicraft Cooperative Society (www.holyland-handicraft.org).


Illum ltaqgħet ma’ Sahori biex titkixxef dwar il-ħajja vera li jgħixu l-Palestinjani u mhux dik biss li naraw fuq it-televixin. Tibda tirrakkontali kif qed tħossha Malta.

“Inħossni libera. Inħobbu nsuqu minn belt għall-oħra mingħajr man-nies iwaqqfuna biex jiċċekkjawlna l-karta tal-identità jew nistennew fil-kjus twal fil-postijiet ta’ kontroll. Nista’ nippjana l-ġurnata. Mhux bħal f’Ramallah. Biex nasal s’hemm irrid nippjana sagħtejn, tlieta qabel għax ma nafx kemm se jżommuni fil-postijiet ta’ kontroll. Jogħġbuni s-siti tagħkom u l-ġonna. Aħna ma fadlilniex iktar ġonna,” tgħid b’dispjaċir.
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