The distorted system of food safety and environmental crisis leave millions of people in hunger throughout the world. Today, one million people in the world go to bed hungry every day, although the world can feed everyone. According to the following study “For a better future” carried out by Oxfam International British Organization the distorted system of food safety and environmental crisis swirl back the recorded progress of decades in the world. There is an alarm that the prices of basic consumer goods will double within the next 20. This will destructively affect the world's poor people, who spend almost 80 percent of their income on food. Moreover, according to forecasts, food demand will increase by 70 percent up to 2050 y., while our ability to promote its production volume is weakening. The average rate of the growth of agricultural output has decreased by half since 1990, and will continue to decrease during the coming decade, becoming less than one percent. This is a turning point. The normal development of our society is in danger, as today the development is based on inequality, unequal distribution of resources and inefficient use of the natural resources such as fertile soil, stable climate and sustainable water. Oxfam is launching a new global GROW campaign, which aims to promote positive changes in production, consumption, distribution and management process of food and other resources. It is our and millions of other people’s global campaign with the following slogan: "The world without hunger-Grow more, feed the planet". Oxfam GROW campaign aims to reform the failed polices of governments that encourage the inequality and unfair distribution of resources rooted in society, contribute to a sharp rise in food prices, as well as to reveal nearly 300-500 powerful companies, which make benefit all of it and struggle for maintaining their dominant position. It is already 70 years that Oxfam responds to food crises. Now it calls on governments to pass into a fairer and more stable system of food by investing in agriculture, using the natural resources of the world efficiently, showing equal treatment towards women, who produce the majority of food in the world. Oxfam calls on the private sector to pass into the business model, where profit is not achieved on the expense of poor producers, consumers and the environment. The global financial crisis left a great impact on Armenia's economic development. The recorded economic growth was reduced by 14.1 percent in 2009. Poverty rate continues to grow and currently is of 34.1 percent in Armenia. Poverty rate in rural areas is 34.9 percent, where poverty increase is more rapid than in urban communities. According to the official data of RA NSS, in Armenia consumer prices increased by another 9 percent in May compared to the same month of the last year, including food prices which increased by 16.2 percent. It is noteworthy that the share of food of an Armenian is great in the consumption basket: up to 40-50 %, while the main stimulus of inflation is just the rise of food prices. The Armenian office of Oxfam UK has initiated a comprehensive study, which will reveal the impact of inflation on the people’s lifeline and the growing poverty level in the country. Taking into account the global food crisis which threats our country too, the Armenian office of Oxfam UK and Civil Society Partnership Network, on behalf of 27 NGOs, call upon RA authorities to restrain the growing food inflation on the domestic market. In order to mitigate the negative impact of climate on agriculture one should invest in small farms and agricultural cooperatives, control the prices of imported food products; promote local agricultural production and investments. We believe that the change is possible and this begins with each of us. «The world without hunger-Grow more, feed our country".

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