Damien Glez cartoon removed for copyright reasons You can view it at: http://www.afronline.org/?p=2205 Land Grabs & Food Security “land is not just a resource to be exploited, but a crucial vehicle for the achievement of improved socio-economic, biological, and physical environments” Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (1999) Your presenters Alan Parkinson Secondary Curriculum Development Leader Geographical Association John McLaverty Youth and Schools Coordinator, London & SE Oxfam GB Geographies of Food “Living Geography” Carl Warner Foodscapes image removed for copyright reasons http://www.carlwarner.com/information.html Context 2009: Manchester Controversial Issues: Resourcing the Food Crisis http://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/foodsecurity/ 2010: Derby Second Helpings: the food crisis one year on http://geography.org.uk/cpdevents/onlinecpd/geographyoffood/ ‘Geography’ article Food as geopolitics http://cravesydneyfoodfestival.com.au/ Images of food flags removed for copyright reasons http://cravesydneyfoodfestival.com.au CURRICULUM PEDAGOGY Curriculum Making Food in the Curriculum KS3 GCSE ‘A’ level ‘Land Grabs’ seem to be everywhere… Imperial Expansion United Fruit Company graphic removed for copyright reasons You can view it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/books/review/Kurtz-Phelan-t.html ‘Banana Republics’ 21st Century Food A New Age of Scarcity? Land Grabs - What’s new? • Scale A single farm in Ethiopia is 300,000 hectares – 75 Total land under contract globally – x size of the UK • Foods and biofuels rather than cash crops • State and parastatal investment rather than private companies miles across Who’s grabbing? The Economist, May 21 2009 Where’s getting grabbed? Foreign land acquisitions map removed for copyright reasons It can be viewed here: http://www.economist.com/node/13692889 The Economist, May 21st 2009 Grabbing – good or bad? Image of women working on crops removed for copyright reasons Who are the stakeholders? (on the ground/behind the scenes) • winners? How? • losers? How? • make a judgement Making ‘Land Grabs’ Fair Re-read the case studies Design a charter of rights or ethical guidelines • Protecting people • Protecting the environment • Getting a fair deal Final thought Are land grabs really water grabs? Images of crop irrigation removed for copyright reasons Learn More www.oxfamblogs.org/fp2p www.guardian.co.uk/global-development www.globaldashboard.org Do more Oxfam Water Week 11 – 17 July www.oxfam.org.uk/waterweek Resources on land grabs Autumn 2011 www.oxfam.org.uk/education Thankyou! John McLaverty Youth and Schools Campaigner jmclaverty@oxfam.org.uk 0207 802 9981 Where are land grabs happening ? http://bighugelabs.com/map.php Global Warming Recipe Ingredients Cooking Instructions • Fossil fuels •Deforestation •Cattle •Rice 1.Liberally burn fossil fuels from the industrial revolution to the present Making sure none of the carbon is offset At the same time, cut down significant numbers of trees and replace with pastoral land Put significant numbers of cattle on the pastoral land, ensuring they are fed with high protein feed, allow them to pass huge volumes of methane Make sure you are growing significant amounts of rice as a side to the main dish Continue to cook for at least a hundred years and serve piping hot Design Designaageographical geographicalrecipe recipe With Withthank thankto toTony TonyCassidy Cassidyfor forinspiration inspirationhere here