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Food for Thought Wall Chart and Videos

Extra resources to accompany Food for Thought

The Food for Thought resources are designed to be used with this wall chart, which allows pupils to track their learning and make a display of their work.



This page also includes a range of videos to help engage pupils with the issues.

Downloads

India's Broken Food System (shorter)

An overview video introducing pupils to some of the problems in the global food system. Use with the Can you beat the system game or as part of an introduction to the issues.

Vegetable Gardens in Honduras

Angelina Mungia talks about overcoming a very bad experience to go on and become an agricultural promoter working with local community organisation OCDIH to help people set up vegetable gardens to improve their lives and give them income. This links well to the Learn activities in English looking at farming heroes, and also the Think taking action examples.

Women taking action in Honduras

This video shows examples of women organising to overcome the challenges they face together. It uses the examples of COMUCAP, bringing together small women farmers through coffee production and knowing their rights, and OCDIH and vegetable gardening to illustrate the potential of small women farmers. This links well to the Learn activities in English looking at farming heroes, and also the Think taking action examples.

Beekeeping Co-operative in Ethiopia

This video shows the Zembaba Honey Cooperative in Ethiopia which has been supported by the Enterprise Development Programme (EDP). It illustrates the impact of supporting small farmers to adapt their techniques and access markets for their products. This links to the Science Learn activities looking at adapting to climate change, and also the Think taking action examples.

Producing Seed Oil Locally in Ethiopia

The Assosa Farm Association Unions in Ethiopia talks about the potential of setting up factories to process seed oil grown locally themselves instead of paying for imported oil. This links to the Science Learn activities looking at adapting to climate change, and also the Think taking action examples.

Lekea and Climate Change in Ethiopia

Showing Lekea Borena in Ethiopia, this video highlights the experience of small farmers trying to cope with changes to the weather linked to climate change. It links to the the Science Learn activities in looking at diet, climate change and local climate hearings.

GROW Campaign Video

To illustrate Oxfam's GROW campaign and inspire pupils to thinking about ways they can engage others using media, images and music for the act part of the project.