The night of the Award Event, August 29th 2012, Copenhagen City/Town Hall, we choose a winner and present them with the Water and Food Award statuette as well as prizes provided by our sponsors.

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WATER AND FOOD FOR ALL – STRENGTHENING WHAT WORKS

The Winner of the Humanitarian Water and Food Award 2010, Permaculture Institute with their Greening the Desert project in Jordan, represented by Rhamis Kent, and Founder and General Secretary of WAF, Tina Lindgreen

TOGETHER SOLVING A GLOBAL CHALLENGE

Over 837 million human beings (1 in 7) are without access to clean water and more than 913 million are undernourished. Through The Water & Food Award, we strengthen innovative and sustainable initiatives that are making a significant difference by empowering the poor and forgotten.

To see the WINNERS 2010 click here

To read more about the first Award Event from the 26th November 2010 click here

State-of-the-art nominees click here

SUSTAINABLE SHARED VALUE PARTNERSHIPS

To maximize social, financial and environmental impact, WAF facilitates Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) opportunities for mutual gain. The strategic fit between a Corporations and Award Winner give both an opportunity to prosper.

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It is about human beings, about lives, about existence

The Water & Food Organisation has a vision – Water and Food for All. This concerns everyone and requires global outreach and collaboration. Award winners have the innovativeness and heart. Corporations the resources to scale up what works and can save many more lives.

The Water & Food Organisation conveys a message of hope and a call for public awareness about the Water and Food challenge. WAF calls for joint action across the business, citizen and public sectors of society.

Water is the universal elixir of life. It makes up more than 70 percent of our total body mass and covers the same proportion of the Earth’s surface. We can live without food for a month or more, but we will perish in a matter of days without water. Hence the

importance of keeping unseparated Water-and-Food as the most basic necessity.

 

 

Ambassador of Peace – Prem Rawat Honored in Potenza, Italy

“Our differences of opinion should be our strength, not our weakness. We have to learn to come together, and that can only happen when we see the necessity.”

Climate Action member of the Barroso Commission designate, Connie Hedegaard

“I am pleased to see that The Humanitarian Water & Food Award works for furthering Corporate Social Responsibility and the collaboration between business life and humanitarian organisations”

Former Danish Minister of Development, Ulla Toernes

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“Denmark is internationally at the forefront. The Award goes hand-in-hand with the government’s efforts. So I want to say best foot forward and I hope that it will be a yearly event”

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The Water & Food Award …

• offers a Corporate Social Responsibility platform for corporations who want to bring their best to help empower the poor and forgotten and expand their own business at the same time
• raises awareness of what works
• encourages that all people enjoy clean water and food in abundance
• short-lists humanitarian initiatives that make a significant difference and is scalable
• has fun volunteering – what can you do?

AWARD APPLICATION FOR 2012 IS OPEN

VIDEOS OF THE WINNERS 2010

Solvatten │ The Permaculture Institute│The Hunger Project │IKO toilets │ Sadhana Forest

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And other inspirational videos about positive initiatives

Read more about the award here…

“At this critical juncture in history, it is vital that we set global standards of accountability for corporations in order to put an end to the culture of impunity and double standards that pervade the international legal system. Polly Higgins illustrates how this can be achieved.” –Bianca Jagger, social and human rights advocate

This new book proposes new Earth law.  And it advocates a new form of leadership which places the health and well-being of people and planet first. Polly Higgins shows how law can provide the tools and be a bridge to a new way of doing business. She argues, in fact, that Earth is the business of us all, not the exclusive preserve of the executives of the world’s top corporations. Expanding on the proposal in her first book to make Ecocide an international crime, this book sets out the institutional framework for sustainable development and international environmental governance. It proposes new rules of the game to transform our economies, energy supplies and political landscape in a radical, but practical, way. The implications of Polly Higgins’ proposal are far-reaching and profound. Like her award-winning first book, Earth is our Business is written for anyone who is engaging in the new and emerging discourse about the future of our planet. Instead of merely examining the problem, Earth is our Business sets out a solution: new rules of the game. They are, says Polly Higgins, a new set of laws based on the sacredness of all life.

Included as appendices are a draft Ecocide Act, a proposal for revising World Bank investment rules, and the indictment used in the mock Ecocide Trial held in the UK Supreme Court in September 2011. Polly Higgins, barrister and international environmental lawyer, proposed to the United Nations in April 2010 that Ecocide be classed as the 5th Crime Against Peace alongside Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Crimes of Aggression and War Crimes.

In June 2012 world leaders will meet in Rio for the 20th anniversary of the first Earth Summit to discuss global governance mechanisms for creating a green economy. Making Ecocide a crime will be among the issues raised. Eradicating Ecocide won The People’s Book Prize for non-fiction in 2011.

‘…the book isn’t another wild diatribe against business – rather it is an examination of international law and how environmental protection has somehow been left by the wayside …[ It] asks everyone to re-examine the legal framework within which we are attempting to accomplish this, and provides business leaders with a golden opportunity of making it happen.’ corporate-eye.com

Be the first to read the opening chapter of Earth is our Business here.

Pre-order Polly’s new book here.

Brian Halweil, publisher of “Edible Manhattan,” discusses the solutions he’s found cropping up everywhere where food solves problem after problem!

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A vegetable garden can do more than save you money — it can save the world. At TEDxDirigo Roger Doiron shows how gardens can re-localize our food and feed our growing population.

Roger Doiron wants everyone to plant a garden. He’s the founder of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of home gardeners.

The Independent 06 April reports signs that the number of under-nourished and mal-nourished children in London is growing  dramatically: some 17,000 children in the capital, London, are being helped by the Charity Kid’s Company. Read here the heart-breaking stories of starving children in the sixth-richest city in the world.

Anyone intereted in understanding the complexities of the world food and water situation should watch this film. It carefull goes over the importance of theat which we give a negative namen to – dirt that may well be the most important piece of technology we have available to us!

Follow this link here for a fuller explanation

See this TED talk abput the Science of a full planet.

Writing in the British newspaper, the Telegraph, today, Sir Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin  Group, says

Business as usual is wrecking our planet. Resources are being used up. Air, sea and land are heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation, or because they cannot afford life-saving medicine. Nearly half of the world’s population lives on less than $2 a day and two out of three of these people have no access to drinking water.

Sir Richard believes that

Probably the greatest frontier is in creating businesses that protect and harness our natural resources – and reduce our carbon output – one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities of our lifetimes.

That puts us definitely on the same page as Sir Richard. Read his whole article here.

A new documentary “Finding North” premiers  at the Sundance Film Festival exposes how one in every four American children suffers from hunger, despite living in the wealthiest nation in the world, and nearly 30 percent of American families, more than 49 million people, often go without meals.

While Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich decries President Obama as “the food stamp president,” author Raj Patel in this interview on Democracy Now says what is really needed is a conversation about poverty and why the need for food stamps is so high. “It’s true that disproportionately people of color are affected by food insecurity. But what Gingrich is doing, of course, is racially coding poverty by calling President Obama ‘the food stamp president,’” Patel said. “He’s invoking these ideas of racialized poverty. Of course, if you look at the people who are on the food stamp program, you see that the majority of them are white and poor.” Patel is author of the popular book, “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.”

See the video on Democracy Now