ActionAid 'grabs' land in several European countries, prevents land grabbing in Kenya and exposes shortfall in G8 promise to fight hunger.
- January – Biofuels Campaign - ActionAid activists grab land in Milan, Paris and Copenhagen to highlight the problem of European companies grabbing land in Africa for biofuels.
- February - the UK government decides to hold off on committing to a biofuels plan under pressure from campaigning
- April - The UK Department of transport respond positively to ActionAid campaigning and agree to stop subsidising the biofuels industry by ending the generous tax exemptions it has been giving to all biofuels.
- March - ActionAid launches Public Financing of Agriculture Research in Malawi; Kenya and Uganda to find out where money aimed at farmers is going and publishes ‘Fertile Ground’ showing that less than one per cent of the agriculture budget is targeted at women despite their central contribution to the production of food.
- July - ActionAid works with local community in Marafa, near Kenya’s coast on the Indian Ocean, to stop a massive landgrab by an Italian biofuels company.
- January to September - Travelling through The Gambia, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Kenya, South Africa, Brazil, Uganda, Nigeria, Greece, France and the UK, more than 200 Activistas from ActionAid’s global youth network campaign and mobilise 100,000 young people and farmers through the ‘Journeys to End Hunger’.
- July - G8 – ActionAid exposes shortfall in G8 promise to fight hunger. One year on from the G8’s L’Aquila Food Security Initiative which promised $22bn to developing country agriculture, ActionAid produced an accountability report, highlighting the fact that only S6bn of the promised money was new money and highlighting the poor quality of aid to agriculture.
- September - ActionAid launches its HungerFREE Scorecard rating governments’ action on hunger, with massive media coverage - and holds protests at UN summit on the Millenium development goals – with Farmyard animals calling for investment in farmers.
- October 15th Rural Women’s Day - ActionAid publish ‘What Women Farmers Need: A Blue Print For Action’: a toolkit for farmers organisations and governments setting out key types of interventions that are critical for any government to put in place. The pack will help farmers and farmers groups push their governments for the right policies. October 15th Rural Women’s Day and October 16th World Food Day - 16 ActionAid countries put pressure on governments to meet their obligations to recognize the rights of the women farmers, to ease their burden and to provide basic services and supports for smallholder agriculture.