Planetary Healthy Food, not Tobacco!!

A planetary healthy diet means that people should be able to feed themselves locally and sustainably and to live in a tobacco-free environment.

There is knowledge and there are plenty of practical ideas and best practice examples. What’s lacking is the political will to put both human and environmental health before the profits of global food and tobacco corporations. In response to government interventions in the name of public health, food corporations are using the same strategies that tobacco companies have used for decades.

But tobacco control has shown which policies are successful in limiting corporate power: taxes, advertising bans, information. In the area of nutrition, there are even more opportunities, and community catering could play a pioneering role in planetary health diets.

In our webinar we want to discuss how to get policy makers to adopt policies that protect public health and the planet. Join us for our three-course meal !

1) Starter: Clarifying what we are talking about
What is planetary health diet? – Dinah Startenwerth (Foodjustice, Germany, tbc)
Why is tobacco a barrier to planetary health? – Sonja von Eichborn (Unfairtobacco, Germany)

2) Main course Learning from successful strategies
How to take on Big Tobacco and its allies – Paula Johns (ACT Health Promotion, Brazil, tbc)
How to take on Big Food with information – Philip Jakpor (CAPPA Africa, Nigeria)
How to grow organic, healthy food instead of tobacco – Farida Akhter (UBINIG, Bangladesh)

Discussion of future strategies to achieve Planetary Health

3) Dessert An Artistic Approach to Planetary Health (Surprise!)

Moderation: Saskia Richartz (Ernährungsrat Berlin, Germany)
Languages: English, German interpretation

This webinar is intended for civil society actors.

Please register at Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KT2B-treSfeWVUMY8QigUg

The event is funded by Engagement Global with financial support from the BMZ, by the Landesstelle EZ of the Berlin Senate, by the Evangelical Church Development Service (Brot für die Welt), Misereor and the Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation.