Surplus Books, IFAA, Project 90 by 2030, the PHA Food and Farming Campaign, and the Baha’i Faith Community invite you to a celebration of World Food Day. This event will feature a film screening of the acclaimed documentary “The Ants and the Grasshopper” and a presentation, focusing on Climate Change and Food Security.
“When the effects of climate change show indisputable signs of irreversible damage, African farmer Anita Chitaya travels to America to meet with activists and legislators to persuade them to save her home by first saving the planet.”
“The filmmaker Raj Patel will be present via Zoom. Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and academic. His first book was “Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.” His second, “The Value of Nothing,” was a New York Times and international best-seller. His first film, co-directed with Zak Piper and filmed over the course of a decade in Malawi and the United States, is the award-winning documentary “The Ants & The Grasshopper.””
To bring awareness to a more local struggle for both food and water security, Nazeer Sonday will do a presentation of the Philippi Horticultural Area, in person. He is a small-scale farmer and chairperson of the Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign. The PHA Food & Farming Campaign works to protect the Philippi Horticulture Area for the benefit of all citizens of Cape Town. It is currently campaigning to arrest the City of Cape Town’s plans to convert part of this area, rich in urban agriculture, to commercial and residential use.
The PHA Food & Farming Campaign took gold in the 2022 Eco-Champions Ecologic Awards. The Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), a 3,000-hectare, 630km² jumble of land, plays a vital role in the local food economy of greater Cape Town, supplying about half the city’s fresh produce.
We are joining hands with a number of organizations to bring this important message to communities on the Cape Flats, especially young people. The following organizations will bring along the communities they work with:
- The Peace Centre, focusing on youth crisis and direct involvement in schools.
- Project 90 by 2030, a climate change and energy, specifically electricity, organization working with community workers and activists both over and under 35 years of age.
- Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), which promotes alternative ideas on social, ecological, and economic transformation by engaging civil society.
- The Bahá’í Faith community.
- Supporters of the PHA Food and Farming Campaign.
We will pool our resources together to offer our participants a lunch pack and transport reimbursement where possible. Project 90 will commit to some of this and the PHA for Food & Farming campaign will provide veggies, and perhaps also the cooking.
IFAA will provide virtual access to the event via Zoom, and Project 90 by 2030 will provide audiovisual equipment where needed, for both screening and sound.
If you have anything to offer, please feel free to do so.
You may bring your banners and pamphlets to share with the audience.