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Tag Archives: food availability
Call for articles: Nutritional values and family farming
Originally posted on AGRICULTURE BLOG…..:
Farming Matters | 30.2 | June 2014 We are told of the great advances that have been made in ‘modern’ agriculture in the last 60 years. Yet there are more hungry and malnourished people on…
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to food, agroecology, biotechnology, cash crop, conservation, crop, development, family farm, farmer, fertiliser, finance, food, food availability, food loss, food quality, food security, food sovereignty, food waste, forest, genetic modification, Green Revolution, intensive, iron, knowledge, land use, local community, nutrition, obesity, poverty, rural, smallholder, trade, tradition, Vitamin A, woodland, yield, young person
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Revisiting the “eat local” Idea
Originally posted on Thought + Food:
I just came across this review of a book called “The Locavore’s Delusion”, and yes, it is a nod to that other book, in case you were wondering! The authors of the book tried to…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to food, biotechnology, climate-ready crop, flood, food, food availability, food quality, food safety, food security, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, grocery, local breed, local community, local variety, marker assisted selection, plant_monocot, Scuba rice, selective breeding, staple food, sustainable, trade, transport
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Breast milk, indigenous food: A mother’s recipe for healthy children
Here’s Velvet Escario Roxas, a Filipino mother, telling us that children in the Philippines need breast milk and indigenous foods, not Golden Rice. Mrs Roxas says that Filipino women should breastfeed as she did. After weaning, she says these women … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged Asia, biotechnology, child, crop diversity, food availability, food sovereignty, fruit, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, leaf, local variety, mango, milk, moringa, nutrition, papaya, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, rice, sweet potato, tradition, vegetable, Vitamin A, woman
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Act locally
We’ve all heard the slogan, ‘Think globally, act locally.’ Here in Britain that can mean getting involved with Garden Organic’s Healthy Communities. Gardener or not, organic or not, you can be part of this. For example if you’re in Farnham, … Continue reading
Posted in food, horticulture
Tagged allotment, Europe, family farm, food availability, fruit, gardener, local community, organic, vegetable
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It’s 2014, So Why Are So Many People Still Hungry? Part 2
Originally posted on ZombieChicken.org:
Read Part 1 of this article here. The Root Causes The food emergency is an indication of a food framework in emergency. Terrible climate, high oil costs, agrofuels, and hypothesis are just the proximate reason…
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Tagged access to food, development, food, food availability, food security, food sovereignty, poverty
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It’s 2014, So Why Are So Many People Still Hungry? Part 1
Originally posted on ZombieChicken.org:
Read Part 2 of this article here. The planet prepares enough food to sustain everybody. The horticulture industry prepares 17 percent more calories for every individual today than it did 30 years prior, notwithstanding a…
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Tagged access to food, development, food, food availability, food security, food sovereignty, poverty
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Biodiversity for food security and nutrition
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) gives us this neat summary of why biodiversity is key to sustainable, efficient, resilient and nutritious food production. CBD says that food security depends on these: – Physical availability of food – Economic and … Continue reading
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Tagged access to food, biodiversity, food, food availability, food use, nutrition, politics, sustainable
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