Since the food crisis in 2008, ActionAid supporters all over the world have been fighting hunger. Here are a few highlights from a campaign that has already mobilised hundreds of thousands of ActionAiders worldwide.

Kenya, September 2010: Saving the Dakatcha forest

• ActionAid discovers that 50,000 hectares of forest are to be turned into a biofuels plantation
• We mobilise supporters in Kenya to protect the forest and save 20,000 residents from being displaced
• Find out more on the ActionAid Kenya website

 
United Kingdom, Summer 2010: The HungerFREE summer

• Ahead of the UN poverty summit, 18,000 ActionAid supporters deluge the Secretary of State for International Development with emails, photo-petitions and phone calls
• The coalition government calls tackling hunger a 'tremendous priority' and releases £1.1 billion over three years to help
• Watch the video

United Kingdom, January 2010: Zero Meals per Gallon

• Over 12,000 ActionAid campaigners contact the Department for Transport urging them to put the brakes on increasing the amount of biofuel in UK petrol and diesel
  
• They responded by saying they would not commit to massive increases in biofuels use just yet 
• The campaign continues... take action now
  

Rome, November 2009: President Lula gloves up

• 180,000 ActionAid and Avaaz supporters take action to make G8 leaders deliver on a $20 billion pledge
• Campaigning pressure opens doors for us to hold them accountable to their promise
• Brazil's President Lula dons HungerFREE boxing gloves to show his support
• World Food Summit 2009

 
Tanzania, October 2009: Stopping the biofuels land grab

• ActionAid Tanzania put pressure on their government to take action against biofuels-inspired land grabs
• Tanzanian authorities put a moratorium on future biofuels investment until a sustainable biofuels policy is in place
• Read about it in the New York Times