Take the GROW Challenge

Oxfam Australia has launched a six month campaign - The GROW Challenge - to promote sustainable and fair eating to help ensure that everybody has enough food, always.  

One in eight people in the World goes to bed hungry every single night. That’s 870 million of us.

And that’s not right.

The Grow Method is a better way of thinking about food – how we buy, prepare, eat and dispose of it.  Signing up to the GROW Challenge involves making commitments to:

• Buy food that’s in season - reducing greenhouse gas emissions
• Support small farmers - to ensure that they get a fair deal
• Eat less meat and dairy - reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and water use
• Reduce food waste - making the most of the precious resources that go into growing food and reducing the pressures on landfill
• Cook smart - saving energy
• Grow and eat sustainably - avoiding the use of chemicals & restoring the health of our lands and water systems

This month's challenge is to support small scale farmers by visiting a local farmer's market or community market, taking a photo of yourself or your friends and posting it on Oxfam Australia's Facebook page.