Presidential Peace Conference by Beljean, Elsa: Food Plant Solutions Rotarian Action Group
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Presented during the 2017 Presidential Peace Conference in Atlanta. Track B, Session 4: Wicked Green Solutions
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Presidential Peace Conference by Beljean, Elsa: Food Plant Solutions Rotarian Action Group
- 1. Food Plant Solutions Elsa Beljean, PE 2017-2018 WeRotary, E-Club D5000 Hawaii 06/10/2017
- 2. 2 SOLUTIONS TO MALNUTRITION & FOOD SECURITY
- 3. 3 MALNUTRITION & FOOD SECURITY
- 6. 6 PROGRAMS
- 11. 11 TAKE ACTION NOW a world where children no longer die of hunger or disease IMAGINE
- 12. 12 TAKE ACTION NOW to existing aid programs LINK
- 13. 13 TAKE ACTION NOW local food plants GROW
- 14. 14 TAKE ACTION NOW Solutions to hunger and malnutrition SUSTAINABLE
- 15. 15 TAKE ACTION NOW start a community or school garden ENGAGE
- 16. 16 TAKE ACTION NOW solutions to hunger and malnutrition SUSTAINABLE
Editor's Notes
- One of the solutions to malnutrition in the world’s population is as simple as growing the right food plants in the right places.Many food plants from the local environment can have significant nutritional value and are able to provide a more stable food supply, due to better adaptation to local weather conditions and greater resistance to local pests and diseases. These plants thrive in their homelands, provide nutrition and, most importantly, provide a truly sustainable self-help solution to hunger, malnutrition and achieving food security.
- Imagine, if you could, a world that was free of chronic malnutrition. Where children as young as five did not die of hunger or disease. That could be a reality now thanks to the efforts of Tasmanian agricultural scientist and Officer of the Order of Australia recipient - Bruce French.
- Bruce has devoted a lifetime of work to devising a simple and sustainable solution to global malnutrition through establishing the not-for-profit organisation, Food Plants International. Through his work he has documented the world’s most complete and comprehensive database of edible plants including over 27,500 food plants. It contains descriptions of the origin of food plants, growing methods, photos, drawings, edible parts and cooking methods. In June 2007, Rotary and Food Plants International established the Food Plant Solutions project to provide information to people in developing countries to grow the most nutritious and viable food plants in their environment.
- Rotarian Action Groups conduct international service projects that further the Object of Rotary. In February 2011, Rotary International officially recognised the Food Plant Solutions Rotarian Action Group (RAG). The purpose of the Food Plant Solutions Rotarian Action Group RAG is to support the development of Food Plant Solutions programs based on the global database of Food Plants developed by Tasmanian agricultural scientist and Officer of the Order of Australia recipient – Bruce French. FPS aims to provide support to Rotary groups and other aid providers to develop programs throughout the developing world. With support, each program group will undertake its own projects, in its own way, in its chosen country of need. The objectives of Food Plant Solutions are to: -Promote the Food Plant Solutions program and its potential to Rotarians, clubs and districts internationally. -Facilitate the development of Food Plant Solutions programs in developing countries -Promote the incorporation of Food Plant Solutions into existing aid projects. -Develop a platform for communication between groups implementing Food Plant Solution programs to enable them to share information on the methods being used as well as information on the strategies that have been more or less successful. -Foster membership of the RAG. -Ensure the RAG is at all times compliant with RI regulations.
- Here is a map that shows all the current Food Plant Solutions programs in the world
- Food Plant Solutions empowers people in developing countries to understand local food plant resources to feed themselves and their families. No costly equipment or structural improvements are required to get people switched onto the advantages of growing local food plants including: - more certain production - better adaptation to local conditions – soil type, rainfall, temperature - better resistance to pests and diseases, hence lower costs for pesticides - simpler growing requirements, no need for extensive areas cleared for monoculture cultivation potentially better nutritional quality of local food plant The aim of the Food Plant Solutions project is to develop strategies to deliver the information in the food plants database to countries most in need.
- The Food Plants International database developed by Officer of the Order of Australia recipient - Bruce French, is a unique resource in the quest for sustainable self-help solutions to malnutrition and food security. Using the database local plants with the highest levels of key nutrients can be identified. Such plants can form the basis of a nutritionally improved diet. The graphs below highlight the relative nutritional value of many such plants and common Western food plants. The main obstacle to local people taking advantage of local food plants is a lack of knowledge about their importance and true nutritional value. Food Plant Solutions is focussed on imparting this knowledge to people in developing countries.
- The Food Plants International database developed by Officer of the Order of Australia recipient - Bruce French, is a unique resource in the quest for sustainable self-help solutions to malnutrition and food security. Using the database local plants with the highest levels of key nutrients can be identified. Such plants can form the basis of a nutritionally improved diet. The graphs below highlight the relative nutritional value of many such plants and common Western food plants. The main obstacle to local people taking advantage of local food plants is a lack of knowledge about their importance and true nutritional value. Food Plant Solutions is focussed on imparting this knowledge to people in developing countries.
- The Food Plants International database developed by Officer of the Order of Australia recipient - Bruce French, is a unique resource in the quest for sustainable self-help solutions to malnutrition and food security. Using the database local plants with the highest levels of key nutrients can be identified. Such plants can form the basis of a nutritionally improved diet. The graphs below highlight the relative nutritional value of many such plants and common Western food plants. The main obstacle to local people taking advantage of local food plants is a lack of knowledge about their importance and true nutritional value. Food Plant Solutions is focussed on imparting this knowledge to people in developing countries.
- Traditional and emergency responses to the problem in the human population have failed to come up with permanent solutions to the problem of hunger, malnutrition and food security. It is estimated that each year in developing countries, seven million children die from malnutrition. An alternative approach is needed to address malnutrition around the globe. Food Plant Solutions is a visionary approach to malnutrition – to grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of chronically malnourished people throughout the developing world.
- Traditional and emergency responses to the problem in the human population have failed to come up with permanent solutions to the problem of hunger, malnutrition and food security. It is estimated that each year in developing countries, seven million children die from malnutrition. An alternative approach is needed to address malnutrition around the globe. Food Plant Solutions is a visionary approach to malnutrition – to grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of chronically malnourished people throughout the developing world.
- Traditional and emergency responses to the problem in the human population have failed to come up with permanent solutions to the problem of hunger, malnutrition and food security. It is estimated that each year in developing countries, seven million children die from malnutrition. An alternative approach is needed to address malnutrition around the globe. Food Plant Solutions is a visionary approach to malnutrition – to grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of chronically malnourished people throughout the developing world.
- Traditional and emergency responses to the problem in the human population have failed to come up with permanent solutions to the problem of hunger, malnutrition and food security. It is estimated that each year in developing countries, seven million children die from malnutrition. An alternative approach is needed to address malnutrition around the globe. Food Plant Solutions is a visionary approach to malnutrition – to grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of chronically malnourished people throughout the developing world.
- Traditional and emergency responses to the problem in the human population have failed to come up with permanent solutions to the problem of hunger, malnutrition and food security. It is estimated that each year in developing countries, seven million children die from malnutrition. An alternative approach is needed to address malnutrition around the globe. Food Plant Solutions is a visionary approach to malnutrition – to grow the best local foods, that are highest in nutrients, to meet the nutritional needs of chronically malnourished people throughout the developing world.