Friday, July 09, 2010
Food Issue Seminars: What We Need to Do to Establish Food Safety-Net in Japan (July 27)
Food Issue Seminar No.1: What We Need to Do to Establish Food Safety-Net in Japan
Thank you very much for everybody who attended the seminar! We had a lot of participants at the event. A report about the seminar is on World Food Month’s website (in Japanese). Please check it out!Date: July 27, 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 12:40 Open / 13:00 - 14:30
Venue: JICA Chikyu Hiroba Seminar Room 301
One minute walk from Hiroo Station
Map: http://www.jica.go.jp/hiroba/about/map.html
* There will be no parking space. Please use the public transportation.
Language: Japanese and English
No fees charged - We will also hold a rice drive at the venue. Please hand out a bag of rice to our receptionist at the entrance. Your generous rice donations will be greatly appreciated!
Overview
More than 750,000 people do not have sufficient food every day in Japan. While it’s said that more than one billion people live in hunger all over the world, hunger is not an issue somewhere distant. Food banking, a system to deliver food that would otherwise go to waste to those in need, has been in Japan for 10 years now. The founder of Second Harvest Japan (2HJ), Charles McJilton, and 2HJ COO, Masahiro Otake will discuss food safety-net in Japan and what food banking can do to build it.
Food Issue Seminars marks the World Food Day month, which is October 1, 2010 to Octber 20, 2010. Eight nonprofits will discuss how Japan is related to the hunger issue in the world and try to seek a solution to the hunger issues one billion people in the world are facing. From July through October, different speakers will speak about various issues along with workshops.
To attend this event, please contact us at 03-3838-3827 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Please let us know your name and your organization if you belong to one.
About the World Food Day (October 16)
The World Food Day was established by the United Nations as a day to consider world food/hunger issues in the world.
The World Food Day was established in 1981 based on the decision at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)‘s general meeting. The goal of the World Food Day is to reconsider your current life and improve it so that the world can be more sustainable for all the people. In Japan, initiated by Hunger Free World, many organizations hold various events for several months. Nonprofits dealing with hunger and food issues get together to advertise the campaign to spread the word regarding the issues to as many people as possible.
http://www.worldfoodday-japan.net/
Participating organizations: Africa Japan Forum, Women’s Empowerment 21 Japan, JAICAF, FAO Liaison Office in Japan, Second Harvest Japan, Japan International Food for the Hungry, Hunger Free World, and Action for Greening Sahel.
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