Brazil Archives - Real Food Media https://realfoodmedia.org/tag/brazil/ Storytelling, critical analysis, and strategy for the food movement. Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:51:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizon, Brazil, and Beyond https://realfoodmedia.org/portfolio/beginning-to-end-hunger-food-and-the-environment-in-belo-horizon-brazil-and-beyond/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beginning-to-end-hunger-food-and-the-environment-in-belo-horizon-brazil-and-beyond Thu, 01 Mar 2018 17:06:22 +0000 http://realfoodmedia.org/?post_type=portfolio&p=3534 Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for... Read more »

The post Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizon, Brazil, and Beyond appeared first on Real Food Media.

]]> Beginning to End Hunger presents the story of Belo Horizonte, home to 2.5 million people and the site of one of the world’s most successful food security programs. Since its Municipal Secretariat of Food and Nutritional Security was founded in 1993, Belo Horizonte has sharply reduced malnutrition, leading it to serve as an inspiration for Brazil’s renowned Zero Hunger programs. The secretariat’s work with local family farmers shows how food security, rural livelihoods, and healthy ecosystems can be supported together. In this convincing case study, M. Jahi Chappell establishes the importance of holistic approaches to food security, suggests how to design successful policies to end hunger, and lays out strategies for enacting policy change. With these tools, we can take the next steps toward empowering people throughout the world and ending all hunger, everywhere

The post Beginning to End Hunger: Food and the Environment in Belo Horizon, Brazil, and Beyond appeared first on Real Food Media.

]]> Taking on Big Food… From 1977 to Today https://realfoodmedia.org/taking-on-big-food-from-1977-to-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=taking-on-big-food-from-1977-to-today https://realfoodmedia.org/taking-on-big-food-from-1977-to-today/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2017 20:21:39 +0000 http://realfoodmedia.org/?p=1745 In 1977, a group of activists gathered to concoct a campaign to take on the international food companies that were marketing infant formula in the global south—and undermining infant health. (Rumor has it, my parents’ basement served as the staging ground for one of those early meetings). An audacious idea was hatched: A global boycott... Read more »

The post Taking on Big Food… From 1977 to Today appeared first on Real Food Media.

]]> In 1977, a group of activists gathered to concoct a campaign to take on the international food companies that were marketing infant formula in the global south—and undermining infant health. (Rumor has it, my parents’ basement served as the staging ground for one of those early meetings).

An audacious idea was hatched: A global boycott of the biggest pusher of infant formula, the Big Food giant Nestlé. The resulting campaign included the founding of INFACT (now known as Corporate Accountability International and home to Real Food Media) and, while the campaign didn’t end Nestlé’s marketing of infant formula, it dramatically restricted how, what, and where the company could market.

This multi-decade campaign of courageous leaders around the world working to promote health in the face of multinational food industry marketing was front-of-mind reading The New York Times deeply reported piece about Nestlé in Brazil. In the piece, you learn about how the global giant is still impacting the health and well being of people around the world, not only through its ongoing marketing of infant formula, but also KitKats, pudding, sugar-sweetened yoghurt. The Times pieces is powerful evidence that preventable diet-related illnesses are on the rise and the processed foods industry, including giants like Nestlé, are driving this public health scourge.

We at Real Food Media believe as a global community, we must stand up to Big Food and its attempts to influence our elected officials and demand real regulation and new policies for public health. The good news is we know there are policies that work—the ones we seek to amplify, through our videos, collaborations and media engagement—like restricting marketing to children (particularly in schools and hospitals), promoting healthy food procurement through initiatives like the Good Food Purchasing Program, and passing taxes like the sugary beverage taxes. (Ideas I shared in a Letter to the Editor, published here).

If you haven’t yet, we encourage you to read The New York Times piece and turn the heartbreak you may feel when you finish into positive action—what we try to do every day.

The post Taking on Big Food… From 1977 to Today appeared first on Real Food Media.

]]> https://realfoodmedia.org/taking-on-big-food-from-1977-to-today/feed/ 1