FOOD SECURITy
Help families around the world gain access to nutritious meals.
Despite our ability to produce enough food to feed the global population, hunger still exists.
Food is an essential part of sustaining life; proper nutrition supports growth and development, while also helping to reduce health risks.
Our goal at World Renew is to help end world hunger by helping farmers improve crop production through training in sustainable agriculture and educating families on improving their health through proper nutrition.
Importance of global food security
The benefits food security brings
Access to enough healthy and nutritious food is a fundamental part of our quality of life. Having secure access to food can have many positive impacts including:
Economic growth
Sustainable economic growth can only occur when people have proper access to food.
Access to enough food and nutrition is often compromised where poverty and inequality are present within a country.
As a result, a government may be forced to invest in short-term solutions to these problems, leaving no room for long-term economic growth.
For this reason, helping communities achieve better food security can help fuel sustainable economic growth.
Helping communities to produce more and diversify products can help them generate income, enhance their agricultural or non-agricultural enterprise, and ultimately improve the quality of life of community members.
Strong communities build strong nations, and this is why World Renew works at a community level.
Reduce poverty
Help reduce poverty with our food security programs
Hunger can impact a person’s ability to function; it delays development on the cognitive, social and emotional level, and more.
When parents don’t have to worry about the next meal, they can dedicate more time and effort to improving their children’s education, securing their jobs, and more.
Our food security programs are geared towards helping families escape from chronic poverty through giving them the skills and resources necessary to grow and sustain their own food.
Improve health
Help families around the world avoid malnutrition
While eating the wrong foods can lead to malnutrition, a lack of access to proper food is the main culprit behind malnutrition around the world, causing kwashiorkor (swollen stomach), stunted growth, chronic diarrhea, and more.
With the right food security program in place, we can walk alongside vulnerable families to help them recognise their talents and resources so they can achieve long-term food security.
“If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday.”
– Isaiah 58:10
How we help end food insecurity
The areas World Renew works in to alleviate malnutrition and starvation
World Renew is dedicated to ending food insecurity around the world by helping families sustainably grow their own food, providing assistance in disasters, as well as training programs.
Sustainable Agriculture
One way we strive to improve food security for the vulnerable is by giving farming families opportunities to participate in training in sustainable agriculture. You can find more about sustainable agriculture here.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
As a founding member of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank we are committed to fighting hunger. Together, we help meet emergency food needs and achieve solutions to world hunger. To learn more about our partnership with the Foodgrains Bank, click here.
World Hunger Campaign
We try to bring attention to the struggles of those burdened by hunger whenever possible. One way we do this is by setting aside a special Sunday once a year to focus on world hunger. We provide educational and support materials for this day of prayer and fasting.
Stories of hope
Farmers in the Netrokona District of Northcentral Bangladesh face challenges to their livelihood from all sides — soil quality, erosion, too much rain, not enough rain, amongst other factors. And with the new COVID-19 restrictions on distribution, and marketplace lockdowns, they are under even more stress and struggles.
Through a previous World Renew project, two forums were established with men and women farmers under the leadership of the Meghna Society. This new initiative seeks to build on that work, continuing to improve the productivity, income, and resilience of these small-scale farmers in order to achieve food security.
Play your part to help achieve global food security
We have all heard the adage: “Give a man a fish and he can live for a day, teach him how to fish and he can live a lifetime.” At World Renew, we indeed believe that handouts only provide temporary solutions and through education and training communities are better able to overcome hunger for the long haul. Our food security programs aim to help communities around the world develop their own capabilities to sustain themselves for generations. Your support is what helps us walk alongside communities as they journey to food security.
