Food Security and Sovereignty Organizations
Note: Many of these Organizations are in the WiserEarth database. jp
Food Security and Sovereignty Organizations
American Community Gardening Association <http://www.communitygarden.org/>
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association <http://www.biodynamics.com/>
Canadian Hunger Foundation CHF <http://www.chf-partners.ca/>
Center for Ecoliteracy <http://www.ecoliteracy.org/>
Center for Food Safety <http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/>
Center for Science in the Public Interest <http://www.cspinet.org/>
Centre for Studies in Food Security - Ryerson University <http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/>
Community Food Security Coalition CFSC <http://www.foodsecurity.org/>
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR <http://www.cgiar.org/>
Cornucopia Institute <http://www.cornucopia.org/>
Cuba Organic Support Group - Grupo para el Desarrollo Integral de la Capital <http://www.cosg.org.uk/>
Dialogue on Water, Food and Environment <http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/>
Earth Center [The] <http://www.theearthcenter.com/>
Ecoagriculture Partners <http://www.ecoagriculturepartners.org/>
Ecology Action <http://www.growbiointensive.org/>
ETC Urban Agriculture <http://www.etc-urbanagriculture.org/>
Farm and Food Policy Project <http://www.farmandfoodproject.org/>
Farmaid <http://www.farmaid.org/>
Farmers Without Borders <http://farmerswithoutborders.org/>
Focus on the Global South <http://www.focusweb.org/>
Food Commission <http://www.foodcomm.org.uk/>
Food Democracy <http://www.fooddemocracy.org/>
Food First <http://www.foodfirst.org/>
Food Secure Canada <http://www.foodsecurecanada.org/>
Food Share <http://www.foodshare.net/>
Food Trust <http://www.thefoodtrust.org/>
GE Food Alert Campaign Center <http://www.gefoodalert.org/>
Global Environmental Change and Food Systems GECAFS <http://www.gecafs.org/>
Global Justice Ecology Project <http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/>
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment <http://www.gracelinks.org/>
GRAIN <http://www.grain.org/front/>
Green Guerillas <http://www.greenguerillas.org/>
Henry A. Wallace Center for Sustainable Food Systems at Winrock International <http://www.winrock.org/wallace/>
Inter-Agency Working Group on Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, <http://www.fivims.net/>
IPC Food Sovereignty <http://www.foodsovereignty.org/new/>
Indigenous Permaculture <http://www.indigenous-permaculture.com>
International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI <http://www.ifpri.org/>
John Hopkins University Center for a Liveable Future <http://www.jhsph.edu/clf/>
Kitchen Gardeners International <http://www.kitchengardeners.org/>
la Via Campesina : International Peasant Movement <http://viacampesina.org/main_en/index.php>
Land Institute [The] <http://www.landinstitute.org/>
Land Stewardship Project <http://landstewardshipproject.org/>
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture <http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/>
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture <http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/>
National Coalition for Food and Agriculture Research <http://www.ncfar.org/>
National Family Farm Coalition <http://www.nffc.net/>
National Farm-City Council <http://www.farmcity.org/>
National Organic Coalition <http://nationalorganiccoalition.org/>
New England Small Farm Institute <http://www.smallfarm.org/>
Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group NESAWG <http://www.nesawg.org/>
Organic Consumers Association <http://www.organicconsumers.org/>
Organic Farming Research Foundation <http://www.ofrf.org/>
Pesticide Action Network North America <http://www.panna.org/>
Resource Centre On Urban Agriculture and Forestry <http://www.ruaf.org/>
Rooted in Community <http://www.rootedincommunity.org/>
Rural Advancement Foundation International USA RAFI-USA <http://www.rafiusa.org/>
Rural Coalition <http://www.ruralco.org/>
Seed Savers Exchange <http://www.seedsavers.org/>
Soil Association <http://www.soilassociation.org/>
South East Asian Council For Food Security And Fair Trade <http://www.seacouncil.org/>
Sustain <http://www.sustaintech.org/>
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders <http://www.safsf.org/>
Sustainable Agriculture Education SAGE <http://www.sagecenter.org/>
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education <http://www.sare.org/>
UK Food Group <http://www.ukfg.org.uk/>
UN System Network on Rural Development and Food Security RDFS <http://www.rdfs.net/>
Urban Harvest <http://www.uharvest.org/>
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service <http://www.csrees.usda.gov/>



I am very glad to come accross this wonderful work World Farmily is doing here on Wiser Earth. Although it doesn't mention what we at Better World Cameroon are doing, I like to add my voice too that food sovereignty is more an issue in Africa now than ever before because of the financial crisis and extreme poverty. These have come to complicate an already very bad situation.
For example no body's been able to explain to our small holder farmers why their seed system no longer exist. Why they must cough up large sums of money for imported seeds which are different from what they are used to eating; and fertilisers which they do not need or why the goverment imports rice to the detriment of the local people producing paddy. Government has completely abandoned the small holder to themselves to the benefit of plantation corporations and when you imagine that palntation workers are so poorly paid that they and their farmilies go hungry for producing what they do not eat, you can begin to see the importance of the Better World Permaculture programme (permanent agriculture) which we have pushed our Ministry of Agriculture and Local development to support in other to make ecological agriculture attractive to yong people who are deserting the plantations and coming to the city to look for work. there has already been enough trouble with them rioting because of food prices. We recently sent one of our Volunteers to train in Permaculture in Zimbawe and Malawi to be able to deliver Permaculture Design Courses in the Civil Participation Centres set up in the country for young people. Through the Better World web site given below you will have the opportunity to expore and have detailed information ablout our food sovereignty campaigns based onthe Better World Cameroon Permaculture Vision.
PERMACULTURE: A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUNGER
Permaculture design is a mixture of sustainable organic gardening and organic/eco architecture.
Generally, permaculture entails the use of less sophisticated garden tools and takes into account temperature, water, sunlight, altitude, etc which are all factors of climate.
Permaculture encourages the growing of crops quite close to the market so that transportation cost would be minimised and the crops will be served fresh.
A good demonstration of what Better World Cameroon is doing can be seen on our web site (underconstruction) www.betterworld-cameroon.com
African Spirituality on world ecology is the inspiring principle by which Better World Cameroon is constructing the concept of LIVING WITH NATURE on the World Family. We will be grateful for all who are willing to sahre with us.
Joshua Konkankoh,
National Coordinator,
Betterworld Cameroon.
Tel: =237 77891580
E Mail: foundation@betterworld-cameroon.com">foundation@betterworld-cameroon.com