2019, year of the milk campaign
2019 was the year of the milk campaign to support dairy farmers, both at home and abroad ! The year was rich in awareness-raising actions among citizens and politicians with significant progress was made.
SOS Faim is a Belgian development NGO, active since 1964 in the fight against hunger and poverty in rural areas in Africa and Latin America.
821 million people in the world suffer from hunger, 50% of whom are peasants and their families who live mainly in developing countries. This is the paradox of hunger : while farmers feed the world, they are among its first victims.
Why such a paradox? Because they are poor. They do not have sufficient purchasing power to have access to sufficient food.
For SOS Faim, family farming is a model that allows farmers to have access, for themselves and for others, to food security and sovereignty.
Because a world without hunger is possible.
The overall objective of SOS Faim is to fight hunger and poverty by supporting family farming.
We work in two main ways :
We have no expatriates, we prefer to enter into partnerships: we work closely with local partners such as farmers’ organisations, producers’ associations or microfinance institutions.
We do not give handouts; rather we support our partners in their own actions to help people in the South become masters of their own destiny.
Responsibility | Solidarity | Autonomy | Respect for human dignity, gender and the environment | Fairness | Democracy | Humanism by putting men and women at the heart of the work of SOS Faim | Social, economic and climate justice.
The current agro-industrial model is showing its limits; we produce more food than we need to feed everyone, but nearly one billion people are going hungry. If hunger has that many victims today, how will we feed 9 billion people in 2050?
On the environmental level, the agro-industrial model also has many inconveniences: soil depletion, massive use of water reserves, land erosion, etc.
Family farming systems have immense potential to meet the challenges of food security, social equity and environmental sustainability:
2019 was the year of the milk campaign to support dairy farmers, both at home and abroad ! The year was rich in awareness-raising actions among citizens and politicians with significant progress was made.
The ambition of this annual barometer is to take a step back and take stock of the issues affecting family farming. For its 2019 edition, the barometer explores and deciphers four themes that are particularly topical.