WFE5 FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE - THE ROLE OF INNER WHEEL

1LUISA VINCIGUERRAIIW BOARD DIRECTOR 2013\2014

LUISA VINCIGUERRA - IIW BOARD DIRECTOR - WfE5

«LET’S LEAVE OUR CHILDREN A SUSTAINABLE PLANET»

WOMEN FOR EUROPE 5 – WfE5Hanasaari, Espoo, Finland - 29th-30th March, 2014 -

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Sustainable Use of Nature Resources SECTION


4LUISA VINCIGUERRA - IIW BOARD

DIRECTOR - WfE5

The Role of Inner Wheel

FEEDING THE PLANET ENERGY FOR

LIFE

5 INNER WHEEL AT EXPO 2015 IN MILAN

The paper «FEEDING THE PLANET, ENERGY FOR LIFE - The Role of Inner Wheel» is part of the section devoted to the Sustainable Use of Nature Resources and is linked to the important event worldwide «EXPO MILANO 2015 ».


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Having nourished us across the millennia, it is now planet Earth that requires nurture, in the form of respect, sustainable behaviours, the application of advanced technologies and new political visions that will allow us to strike a new and better balance between our resources and our consumption.

PLANET EARTH REQUIRES NURTURE


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The Role

of Wome

n

Nutrition

Food safety & security

Food production

& preparatio

nThe central role of women

has been recognized: the

U.N. actively promotes

enhanced access by women

to resources, credit,

education and training as

part of sustainable

development projects.

The Expo in Milan will be the first Gender Expo, a good example for future ones.

FROM THE DEBATE…

TO THE PROJECTTHE ROLE OF INNER WHEEL

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‘Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life’ sums up the most important issues that human beings must address in an effective manner to safeguard life on the planet. A balance between natural resources and the production of food and energy is a fundamental condition for ensuring the survival of the system, with this balance being globally recognized in the concept of ‘sustainable development’.

THE THEME

1. ‘The History of Humanity, stories of food’.

2. ‘Abundance and shortage: the contemporary paradox’.

3. ‘The future of food’.4. ‘Sustainable food = fair world’.5. ‘Taste is knowledge’.

THE THEMATIC ITINERARIES

FEEDING KNOWLEDGE TO «FEED THE

PLANET»


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• in accordance with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals;

• in continuation of the Programme Europe 2020: A European Strategy for Smart, Sustainable, and Inclusive Growth (addressed and developed in Turin during the International Colloquium «WOMEN FOR EUROPE4 – THE ROLE OF INNER WHEEL, TOWARDS EUROPE 2020», November

2011); • in accordance with the Theme Statement of

EU participation on the Expo 2015, that is Growing Europe’s future together for a better world;

• in accordance with the new vision of Inner Wheel.

We invite Inner Wheel Clubs and other Bodies to explore and debate the theme «Feeding the planet, energy for life» and its interesting thematic itineraries, identifying the quality and quantity of the initiatives that Inner Wheel must implement in this area to play an active and effective role…

THE FUNDAMENTAL ROLE OF INNER

WHEEL

…IN ACCORDANCE & CONTINUATION…

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INNER WHEEL IS A NETWORK OF 100.000 WOMEN AROUND 103 COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD.

Our IW members often have worked and are working - like yesterday in Turin and today here in Hanasaari - on the sustainability issues.

Our IW members can really continue to be leaders IN PROMOTING also the food’s right worldwide.



«Environmental sustainability is achieved via a new alliance between food and culture, nourishment of the body and nurture of the mind and the freedom to use it».

Inner Wheel Women are called

with the Women of the entire

world upon to come together to

educate, teach and nurture a

fairer, more balanced, more

sustainable planet, a planet

open to the future…

for Happier Futures!

What future must be built together for the upcoming generations in terms of sustainability?

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FAO, IFAD, WFP… WORKING TOGETHER

AND INNER WHEEL?

How can we make people more responsible so that they maintain a balanced development between producing food and exploiting resources? The theme of food and nutrition adopted by Expo Milano 2015 will provide a PLATFORM FOR DISCUSSION in which new objectives for a sustainable future will be launched, where biodiversity is safeguarded while knowledge, traditions and entire cultures are also protected.

International Organisations can contribute to achieve the aims of Expo.

Food security and access to food resources are central to the work of some of the most important Agencies of the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme (WFP).

The United Nations officially confirmed in April 2011 that it would take part in Expo Milano 2015, and the fact that the deadline to meet the objectives of the UN Millennium Development Goals falls in the same year as Expo is of added significance.LUISA VINCIGUERRA - IIW BOARD DIRECTOR - WfE5

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INNER WHEEL HAS TO…

Inner Wheel has to take an important position in this international debate. Governments, Institutions, International Organisations, and also civil society, can offer a positive contribution to finding new solutions for the common good. Inner Wheel has to be present in the PLATFORM for formulating ideas and proposals which will be the basis for future commitments and the Final declaration of the 2015 Universal Exposition.

IW Clubs, Districts, National Governing Bodies can intervene…

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FROM THE DEBATE…

TO THE PROJECTTHE ROLE OF INNER WHEEL


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We want to involve the Inner Wheel Organization to promote an incisive action, taking part in an interesting Project, reserved for women.

We want to involve Inner Wheel worldwide to join the PROJECT!

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«WE - WOMEN FOR EXPO» is a Project in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation. This project seeks to create a network of women reaching across the entire world: working all together on the issues of nutrition, they can become leaders of change for the food’s right.

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THE WOMEN AT THE HEART SINCE MANY YEARSIN OUR IW PROJECTS,

AS IN THE THEME OF THE IIW PRESIDENT GABRIELLA ADAMI

2014 – INNER WHEEL INSIDE «WE-WOMEN FOR EXPO» –

Project, at the beginning

2008 – WOMEN FOR EUROPE, THE ROLE OF IW – Project,

still in progress

2012 – IW WOMEN FOR THE WORLD – Project, still in

progress

2012 – WOMEN FOR AFRICA, ROLE OF IW –

Project, still in progress

2013 - WE, FOR WOMEN -

Presidential Theme by Gabriella

Adami

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We want to derive into the context of «We, Women for Expo» a SECTION with a name registered at the Expo, which could be:

INNER WHEEL INSIDE «WE, WOMEN FOR EXPO»


• The Recipe for Life: Drawing on memory and experience (personal, familial, collective) our IW Members will share their recipe with WE - Women for Expo and their ideas for promoting a new equilibrium between nurture and nutriment.

• Ambassadors: our IW Members, involved in the theme of food and nutrition, will promote and encourage the participation of as many women as possible, regardless of their sphere of action, working together with them to valorize their stories, their testimonies.

Some stages of the Project:


Some stages of the Project:• Leaders: Our IW Clubs, Districts, National Bodies will organize

conferences on the issues of nutrition responsibility, in contributing to the diffusion, awareness and production of ideas for a more sustainable future, inviting women experts who fill leadership positions in the international scientific community, in the business community, in institutions and culture.

• Writers: Our IW Members will be engaged to participate to “The World Novel”, a mosaic of voices of leadership and excellence, written by many hands and representative of each country.

COMMUNICATION AND

INTERACTIONThe communication will be facilitated through social networks by opening a dedicated PAGE on Facebook, using Twitter and Linkedin, by connecting to the official website of Expo.



We would like to see our Inner Wheel as signer of THE WOMEN’S CHARTER will be a manifesto of values drafted, acted upon and collectively experienced by all WE WOMEN, and bequeathed by Expo Milan 2015 to United Nations, as a contribute to the fulfilment of development’s goals for post-2015.

THE WOMEN’S CHARTER

«LET’S LEAVE OUR CHILDREN A SUSTAINABLE PLANET»

THANKS FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTIONLUISA VINCIGUERRA

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