1. 8 December 2015 Delivered by Lourdes Youth and Community Services www.lycs.ie LYCS Think Global Eat Local 1

2. 12Intro with Rachel Dempsey 12.30Speakers: Georgina Buffini – Healthy Food For All Joanne Butler – Community Gardens Network 12.50Who is doing what? 1.10Organic Lunch with The Soul Food Company 2.10Small Group Discussion – barriers to good food? 3pmSpeakers: Anne Marie Butler, Uplift - TTIP Basil Miller, No Fry Zone Campaign 3.20Small Group Discussion – what action next? 4.15 to 4.30pmEvaluation & Close 2

3.  LYCS is a long standing community development project based in Dublin’s North East Inner City.  One of the ways that LYCS seeks to empower local people to play a part in transforming their communities is through ‘Development Education’.  We provide FREE training & events for community workers and those who work with adults in the community sector.  We provide resources and support for trainers, including a revised trainers manual ‘Connecting Communities’.  Visit us : www.devedlycs.wordpress.ie & Facebookwww.devedlycs.wordpress.ie 3

4.  Our free training for community workers/activists  Looks at global food/environmental crisis, food choices, where our food comes from, what is in our food and how to make better choices.  Reached people all over country. 4

5.  Run by volunteer chef Aoife Allen, we ran a 10 week cookery class for local community members  Weaved info on health, sustainability, label awareness, avoiding waste, buying local into a fun participative cookery class 5

6.  Sep-Dec 2015  Participants carried out research on food issues in local community/organisation  Reported back this morning  Repeat course in Feb/Mar 6

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9.  What is wrong with the Global Food System? 9

10.  Profit driven  Hunger  Obesity, diabetes, cancer  Climate Change (uses lots oil)  Labour Exploitation, unfair trade  Crisis for (small) farmers- suicide, debt, leaving land  Animal cruelty and over fishing  Soil, air, water pollution  Food waste  Not sustainable  Power of corporations not people 10

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13.  Monoculture – huge farms, one crop  GMO  Toxic chemicals – fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides esp. Monsanto’s Round Up  Deforestation for soya, palm oil, beef  Decline of bees  Food Processing & junk food normalised 13

15. About 793 million people are undernourished globally, down 167 million over the last decade 2 billion have micronutrient deficiencies 15

16.  Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.  2 billion adults overweight - 39%  600 million obese adults - 13%  Most of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight. 16

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20.  As people are lifted ‘out of poverty’ they are generally removed from the land, brought into an often exploitative labour market and encouraged to spend their earnings on poor quality food. 20

21.  The global food produces nearly 40% of carbon emissions. This includes producing, packaging, transporting, storing and cooking food. 21

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23.  Six corporations – Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, Syngenta, Bayer and BASF – control 75% of the world pesticides market.  Factory farms now account for 72 percent of poultry production, 43 percent of egg production, and 55 percent of pork production worldwide.  Only four corporations – ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus – control more than 75% of the global grain trade. They overwhelmingly push commodity crops like corn and soy on local farmers at the expense of native crops.more than 75% 23

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25.  1 in 10 experience food poverty  60% Irish are overweight or obese.  Ireland is 2 nd ‘fattest’ nation in Europe.  1 in 4 Irish children overweight/obese. 25

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27.  Sugary processed food is cheap & is everywhere  People WILL choose what is cheap & convenient & normal in the culture.  We need to create and promote healthy, sustainably produced food for local communities. 27

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29.  Go to http://www.foodsovereigntyireland.org/ http://www.foodsovereigntyireland.org/ 29

30.  What is stopping people in your community eating healthier, more sustainably produced food? 30

31.  What actions, projects, campaigns and interventions are most needed in general and in your area?  What can you do next? 31