PHM-Exch> Requesting to contribute case studies- PHM Food and Nutrition thematic circle

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Deepika Joshi <deepika at phmovement.org>




As you know, at the Fourth People’s Health Assembly held in Dhaka, PHM set
out its intended thematic areas of work for the next few years. One of
these areas of work focuses on Food and Nutrition and our statement released
 after the Dhaka PHA 2018 can be found here
<https://www.worldnutritionjournal.org/index.php/wn/article/view/659/576>
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Over the last few weeks the Food and Nutrition working group has met to put
together a programme of work that intends to capture the impact of the
Covid-19 Pandemic on hunger and starvation in PHM country circle countries.
The rationale for this programme of work is briefly described in the
background note, which we attach here.



We are writing to your country circle, because we would like to request
your ideas and inputs  on the state of hunger and starvation in your
country in the context of Covid-19. Your contributions could draw on a
range of data - media reports, anecdotal evidence, academic publications,
and interviews with key actors (including PHM activists). We would like to
use these contributions as the basis for a webinar to be held in October,
and eventually, for a publication that maps PHM activism around Covid-19
and hunger in participating countries across the world. We have created a
list of questions that might assist you to give your inputs as below.
Further, we understand that it may be difficult to get a response to all
the five questions, in which case country circles can decide as to which
questions they can work on and proceed accordingly to provide us with the
information available.



We would like for each country contribution to be organised around the
following questions:



   1. How has hunger and access to food in urban and rural communities been
   affected by the Covid-19 pandemic?
   2. In your country, what evidence is there that food insecurity and
   hunger have increased amongst groups that were formerly food secure, e.g.
   the urban middle classes who have been hit by unemployment?
   3. How has Covid-19 impacted popular struggles around the right to food
   in your country?
   4. How, if at all, has Covid-19 encouraged mobilisation around the
   gendered dimensions of food access, production and consumption?
   5. What community-level initiatives have emerged around the country in
   order to promote access to food and mitigate hunger?



The Covid-19 pandemic marks a critical moment in the intertwined struggles
for food sovereignty, against neoliberal globalisation, and for *Health for
All - NOW*. Through these country case studies we hope to document the
contributions that PHM country circles can make/are making to identifying
the characteristics of these struggles in this historical moment. We hope
to identify information, tactics and strategies that can advance the right
to food during this pandemic and after.

We request you to kindly send the country case studies by 25th October
2020. You may write to <lparemoer at gmail.com> or <deepika at phmovement.org> to
express your interest in contribution.


Looking forward to your responses.

Yours comradely,



The PHM Food and Nutrition Thematic Group


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