Background of the Project
The right to food is really no less than the right to life. Few people would seriously dispute the notion of food as a basic human entitlement. Food, like air and water, is indispensable to survival. Hence, on humanitarian grounds, no person should have to go without it. ANGOC's 200-Village Project is built upon this perspective.
It is a food security initiative, which aims to generate solid and community-based information for village planning and policy advocacy in promoting household food security in the Asian region. It specifically concerns Asia, where two thirds (800 million) of the world's poor are found. In the process, it hopes to contribute to poverty eradication by overcoming hunger through community action.
The 200-Village Project is primarily conceived to monitor and determine the extent to which World Food Summit (WFS, 1996) commitments have been achieved at the household and community level. In a statement issued by the NGOs in 1996, and which has become known as the Bangkok Declaration, they called for a food security compact based on the integrity of local farming communities and national food self-sufficiency. As a follow-up to the WFS, ANGOC formulated a strategy for grassroots-based action that adopts the basic principles laid out in the Bangkok Declaration. In 1998, ANGOC put the strategy to work through the 200-Village Project, a combination of community-based projects and complementary initiatives to influence policy at the national, regional and global levels, all working towards improving household- and community-level food security in Asian villages.
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