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Spotlight: Food Crisis
Frances Moore-Lappé
Frances Moore-Lappé

Last month, we featured Vandana Shiva calling for food sovereignty on this page. But Vandana Shiva is not the only Right Livelihood Award Recipient who offered solutions to this world-wide crisis before it even became one:

For example, there is Frances Moore-Lappé, who received the prize "for revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them."

Frances Moore-Lappé has always stressed that hunger is caused not by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. Her bestselling book 'Diet for a small planet" continues to remind us all of the power of our everyday choices to create the world we want.

Organic agriculture, biodiversity, GMO-food, permaculture, farmer's rights, perennial crops ... Our current food crisis is interlinked with various issues and as diverse are the solutions to it.

Filter our Laureates-Page for the Recipients working with food, agriculture and consumerism: Tewolde Berhan, Wes Jackson, GAO, Ibrahim Abouleish, Cary Fowler, Pat Mooney, Percy & Louise Schmeiser, Bill Mollison, and many more.

Know more than what's on the news!

 

Upcoming event in Sweden
Manfred Max-Neef © Orla Connolly
Manfred Max-Neef
© Orla Connolly

Manfred Max-Neef (Chile, RLA 1983)

How can economy contribute to a local sustainable development?

Manfred Max-Neef will be in Stockholm next week.

Ekobanken, Social Venture Network Sweden and Sustainable Sweden have invited him for a seminar in Ytterjärna on May 23.

For more information (in Swedish) click here.

 

 

 

New: Right Livelihood Award World Map

You want to know at a glance how the Right Livelihood Award Recipients are spread all over the world? Check this out ...


Click on our new world map
to browse for Right Livelihood Award Laureates all over the world. You can zoom in and out, or, by using the right column, skip directly from one Laureate to another.

Please note that this map is based on Google Maps. If you encounter technical problems, please check your browser configurations and, if necessary, update your browser.
 

The Right Livelihood Award Foundation thanks Vladi Private Islands, especially Kai Bommersheim, for making this World Map possible.

In Short

The Right Livelihood Award celebrates and supports people of vision. People who have ideas and apply them in concrete initiatives for the public good. They give hope for tomorrow, for a world in peace and balance. They demonstrate how we can overcome oppression, war, poverty, the destruction of our environment, and a widespread sense of meaninglessness and fear.

Coming up

Congress in Italy

The 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress ‘Cultivate the Future’ will take place in Modena, Italy, from June 16 – 20.

The congress is based on the principles of organic agriculture – health, ecology, fairness and care.

Among the keynote speakers will be Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, Frances Moore-Lappé and Vandana Shiva.

Learn more ...