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The Humanitarian Water and Food Award's view: if the business of your business is not resulting in food on the table and roof over the head then that business has no business doiing business
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Stephen HintonApplications Manager
Where are you going?To workWhy?I have to…If I don’t I won’t get paidAnd then what?I won’t get food on my plate or a roof over my head
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Where are you going?To workWhy?I have to…If I don’t I won’t get paidAnd then what?I won’t get food on my plate or a roof over my head
Where are you going?To workWhy?I have to…If I don’t I won’t get paidAnd then what?I won’t get food on my plate or a roof over my head
Where are you going?To workWhy?I have to…If I don’t I won’t get paidAnd then what?I won’t get food on my plate or a roof over my head
Where are you going?To workWhy?I have to…If I don’t I won’t get paidAnd then what?I won’t get food on my plate or a roof over my head
Who says their business isn’t about food security?
How can we talk about it?
Food security = entrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship = prosperityProsperity = markets
Brand Strategy
C S RSustainable development,
Business impact on food securityHuman right to water and food
Not focus on WHAT you do
More how people FEEL as a result
of what you do
• The Humanitarian Water and Food Award highlights and rewards groundbreaking projects that are using effective solutions to provide water and grow food sustainably to make the knowledge and technology from these projects globally available for those communities that are struggling.
The Award searches for people creating food and water security for themselves and those around them in a way that cares for the Earth
The Award searches for people creating food and water security for themselves and those around them in a way that cares for the Earth
Grow local Eat Local
Using the power of the Internet, SEANET helps schools develop school gardens that feed students and stimulate community gardens that in turn feed local residents and help them get going with cash crops
CATCH, KEEP, USE RAINWATER
Katosi womens development trust trains women masons in the community in the skills of rainwater harvesting and building water tanks.
Community and kindness
In Todmorden, UK they grow food together everywhere and encourage people to take what they need. They show kindness works, and it is spreading to 33 other towns.
Intimate knowledge of where you live
CHRP in Maharashtra State: Community members create a detailed map of the village to identify water catchment areas. Then they landscape to retain the water as long as possible for agriculture.
Let nature do its work
In Growing Power’s aquaponics, plants clean the water that is fed to fish by gravity. The fish put nutrients into the water which is pumped up to the plants
Influence government using what works
The municipality of Port Elizabeth is willing to pay for watershed services and is in negotiation with the initiative Living Lands which has restored the water table as a result of bringing together local landowners, experts and residents
Bring Science close to people
MSSRF set up 17 village knowledge centres to bridge the rural-urban knowledge divide
Expressions“Ours is not an innovation in technology but rather, an innovation of the people within each community, to bring about social change and, thereby, uplift everyone from poverty and disease”The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)
