{"id":162241,"date":"2022-06-23T17:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/ca\/the-food-crisis-and-canada\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T23:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:21:48","slug":"the-food-crisis-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/ca\/stories\/the-food-crisis-and-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"The Food Crisis and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend the world\u2019s most powerful global leaders will convene in Germany for yet another meeting of the G7, facing a convergence of crises that have only worsened over the last year and are putting hundreds of millions of lives at risk.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And last Friday, ONE Canada was in front of Parliament Hill to tell Prime Minister Trudeau that we want him to go to the G7 Summit with a real plan to tackle these converging crises. Getting out of these crises needs strengthened investment, a vision for the future, and urgent action.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The challenge we face could seem daunting. <\/span>New analysis by ONE and based on research from the University of California<\/span><\/a> shows that for the first time since records are being kept, global life expectancy decreased between 2019 and 2021, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re still struggling to finish that fight and vaccinate the world, and the world is at the same time tackling one of the worst global food and hunger crises, struggling to rebuild global health systems to prepare for the next pandemic and manage the impacts of the climate emergency. Worse still, they have been <\/span>exacerbated by Russia\u2019s ongoing war in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a question of if people will die — millions are already losing their lives, and we\u2019ve reversed decades of progress on global health and development risking our collective futures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The G7 has the tools at its disposal and it\u2019s time to use them — and it\u2019s on Canada to leverage its leadership to get this done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concretely, we want Canada to:<\/span><\/p>\n