Launching Campaign: "Kieku l-Ikel Jitkellem"

On October 16th hundreds of organizations from around the world marked the "World Food Day". The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN holds that "at a time when the global economic crisis dominates the news, the world needs to be reminded that not everyone works in offices and factories. The crisis is stalking the small-scale farms and rural areas of the world, where 70 percent of the world's hungry live and work".

On the occasion of the World Food Day, KKĠ formally launched the "Kieku l-Ikel Jitkellem" (if food could speak) campaign. The launch took place at St. James Cavalier, Valletta (2pm) and got various media coverage.

Through this campaign, several NGOs, cooperatives and political organizations shall be shedding light on several issues relating to food security and scarcity such as:

Concern over Economic Partnership Agreements
Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust joined hundreds of civil society organizations from Europe in voicing their concern over Economic Partnership Agreements that have been concluded between the Europe and the world's poorest countries. On the 30th September KKĠ petitioned all Maltese MEP encouraging them to ensure that EPA fulfill their primary goal, namely that of enhancing development in poor countries.

Kieku l-Ikel Jitkellem (WorldFest 2009)
 

WorldFest '09

Is-Sibt, 9 ta' Mejju 2009

Ġnien l-Indipendenza, Tas-Sliema

10.00am - 10.00pm, dħul b’xejn

 

Ikel u artiġjanat tal-Kummerċ Ġust mill-ħanut L-ARKA; prodotti tal-biedja lokali

 

11.00am – 12.30pm – Stejjer, tpinġija u xogħol tal-idejn għat-tfal, 7-10 snin

 

1.00pm – Tfal jiżirgħu pjanti organiċi (Food First Malta)

 

5.00pm – Preżentazzjoni dwar Fuelling or Fooling Europe? (FoE, Malta)

 

5.00pm – 6.30pm – Stejjer, tpinġija u crafts għat-tfal, 7-10 snin

 

6.00pm – Tfal jiżirgħu pjanti organiċi (Food First Malta)

 

6.00pm – Public Forum, If food 

could speak

Chairperson: William Grech

Riccardo Franciolini (Italy), Rural Development in Small Islands of the Mediterranean and food sovereignity

Eric Van Monckhoven (Belgium, Italy) – The Ecology of Food

Carmel Cassar, Slow Food Malta

Vince Caruana, Food First Malta

Victor Galea, Ager Foundation (Gozo)

 

7.00pm –Forum Pubbliku, Meta l-ikel jitkellem

Tmexxi: Anna Zammit

Angele Deguara, Koperattiva Kummerċ Ġust

Ġwann Xerri OP

Joe Galea, Koperattiva Rurali Manikata

Evarist Bartolo, PL, Tfal ikkundannati għall-mewt

Carmel Cacopardo, AD

Philip Mifsud, PN

Clement Azzopardi, Koperattiva Ċentrali tal-Bdiewa

 

7.00pm – Bejgħ ta’ ikel minn Malta, il-Palestina, l-Eritrea, u s-Somalja. Jinkludi qassatat mill-Koperattiva Rurali Manikata bir-ross tal-Kummerċ Ġust u ikel Palestinjan bil-kuskus tal-Kummerċ Ġust.

 

8.00pm – Kunċert bis-sehem ta’ kittieba minn Malta u l-Irlanda, u l-mużiċisti Danjeli, Antoine Vella u Brikkuni

  

http://www.l-ikel.org

dan il-proġett

Għadd ta' nies minn oqsma differenti tas-soċjetà f'Malta, qed jaħdmu fuq it-tema tal-ikel għall-festival tal-kummerċ ġust WorldFest organizzat mill-Ħanut L-Arka li se jsir f'Mejju 2009 - it-tmien edizzjoni ta' dan il-festival. Huma mnebbħa mill-fatt li rivoluzzjoni fil-produzzjoni u d-distribuzzjoni tal-ikel kapaċi taqleb id-dinja, ħafna drabi inġusta tagħna, ta' taħt fuq.

 

Qed jagħmlu riċerka u jaħdmu b'mod artistiku fuq id-dritt tal-ikel, il-produzzjoni lokali u l-impatt fuq in-natura u l-kultura ta' Malta, il-ġustizzja ma' produtturi fqar fin-nofsinhar tad-dinja, l-ikel u l-kummerċ ġust, il-ħolqien ta' prodotti lokali u globali li jkunu ġusti u organiċi...
 

L-ewwel fażi tal-proġett tilħaq il-qofol tagħha fil-WorldFest fid-9 ta' Mejju 2009 fi Ġnien l-Indipendenza, Tas-Sliema, iżda l-proġett jibqa' sejjer sal-WorldFest f'Mejju 2010.

 

Food sovereignity is “a vision with some fairly clear ideas about what needs to happen so that small farmers can survive, that the environment is maintained, and that there is global justice."

Wayne Roberts notes that the subject of food helped him “feel the world as connected.” Life is rich and "it’s great to be part of a movement based on the joy of sharing abundance,” which, for him, “is what the food movement is all about.” It’s the “food revolution.”

Wayne Roberts

The No Nonsense Guide to World Food (2008)

 
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