The Humanitarian Water and Food Award's view: if the business of your business is not resulting in food on the table and roof over the head then that business has no business doiing business

1. Stephen Hinton
Applications Manager

2. Where are you going?
To work
Why?
I have to…
If I don’t I won’t get paid
And then what?
I won’t get food on my plate or a roof
over my head

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Where are you going?
To work
Why?
I have to…
If I don’t I won’t get paid
And then what?
I won’t get food on my plate
or a roof over my head
Where are you going?
To work
Why?
I have to…
If I don’t I won’t get paid
And then what?
I won’t get food on my plate
or a roof over my head
Where are you going?
To work
Why?
I have to…
If I don’t I won’t get paid
And then what?
I won’t get food on my plate or a
roof over my head
Where are you going?
To work
Why?
I have to…
If I don’t I won’t get paid
And then what?
I won’t get food on my plate
or a roof over my head
Who says their business isn’t about food security?

5. How can we talk about it?

6. Food security = entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship = prosperity
Prosperity = markets

7. Brand Strategy
C S R
Sustainable development,
Business impact on food security
Human right to water and food

8. Not focus on WHAT you do
More
how people FEEL as a result
of what you do

9. •
The Humanitarian Water and Food Award
highlights and rewards groundbreaking
projects that are using effective solutions to
provide water and grow food sustainably to
make the knowledge and technology from
these projects globally available for those
communities that are struggling.

10. The Award searches
for people creating
food and water
security for
themselves and
those around them
in a way that cares
for the Earth

11. The Award searches
for people creating
food and water
security for
themselves and
those around them
in a way that cares
for the Earth

12. Grow local Eat Local
Using the power of the Internet, SEANET helps schools develop school gardens that feed
students and stimulate community gardens that in turn feed local residents and help
them get going with cash crops

13. CATCH, KEEP, USE RAINWATER
Katosi womens development trust trains women masons in the community in
the skills of rainwater harvesting and building water tanks.

14. Community and kindness
In Todmorden, UK they grow food together everywhere and encourage people to take what
they need. They show kindness works, and it is spreading to 33 other towns.

15. Intimate knowledge of where you live
CHRP in Maharashtra State: Community members create a detailed map of the
village to identify water catchment areas. Then they landscape to retain the water
as long as possible for agriculture.

16. Let nature do its work
In Growing Power’s aquaponics, plants clean the water that is fed to fish by gravity. The fish
put nutrients into the water which is pumped up to the plants

17. Influence government using what
works
The municipality of Port Elizabeth is willing to pay for watershed services and is in
negotiation with the initiative Living Lands which has restored the water table as a
result of bringing together local landowners, experts and residents

18. Bring Science close to people
MSSRF set up 17 village knowledge centres to bridge the rural-urban knowledge
divide

19. Expressions
“Ours is not an innovation in technology but rather, an
innovation of the people within each community, to bring
about social change and, thereby, uplift everyone from
poverty and disease”
The Comprehensive Rural Health Project, Jamkhed (CRHP)