Manifesto for more equitable and secured access to food

As an impact driven hub, we are thrilled to share a moment commemorating and signaling a massive step towards more equitable and secured access to food for the people of Geneva. This is particularly following COVID-19, where thousands of people in Geneva found themselves in a situation of food insecurity.

Following months of preparation, the first "Forum Demopratique 2023 on the Right to Food and Food Sovereignty" was finally launched on the 19th of April 2023 in Refettorio Geneva. The three days forum was organized by Chef Walter el Nagar, founder of MATER Fondazione, and in collaboration with FIAN International the Global Shapers Community of Geneva, la fondazione pistoletto, and the Social Gastronomy Movement.

The forum followed the method of Demopraxis" by Fondazione Pistoletto, founded by the influential artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. It strived to engage experts and various stakeholders from the public/private sector, academia, and direct beneficiaries to demo-practically and constructively create a political proposal and launch a campaign to support the inclusion of the right to food and food sovereignty in the canton's constitution. That is in light of the recent parliamentary initiative to include the Right to food adopted by the grand council (cantonal parliament). The population of Geneva will be asked to vote on this inclusion in June 2023.

It is with honor that we share that the head of the coordination and facilitation of the forum was our newly joined shaper, Masa Awad.

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Here she signs the manifesto outcome of the forum, which will be introduced into the Geneva constitution if the people of Geneva vote in favor of this inclusion.

MEET THE SHAPER

Masa AWAD