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Tag Archives: food loss
Owen Paterson wants Roundup Ready crops in England
Helen Wallace at GeneWatch UK tells us that a committee within our UK Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA, headed by Owen Paterson), hopes to see Roundup Ready crops on English farms. Those are genetically modified (GM, genetically … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged biotechnology, corn, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, Europe, feed, food loss, food security, fruit, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, law, livestock, local food, maize, maize GA21, maize NK603, Paterson_Owen, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, precision farming, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, soya, supermarket, sustainable, technology, trade, vegetable, weather, yield
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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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Consultation on Food Losses and Waste
Originally posted on Food Governance:
The High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) has launched a consultation on the draft of the study: Food losses and waste in the context of sustainable food systems. The draft study can…
Xmas-time news! :)
Originally posted on Passion in Food and Field:
Hey dear readers! 🙂 If you’re already full of meat and sweets and fish and wine and… the Christmas binge in general, come and nourish your brain now for a little bit…
2013 State of Food Insecurity in the World
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The 2013 UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World, was launched recently, which summarises the number and location of people suffering chronic…
Posted in food, human health
Tagged access to food, child, data, food, food loss, food security, food waste, human, nutrition, population, waste
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Reducing food waste: more than just cleaning your plate
Food waste is wasteful. It offends me whenever I see it. I grew up with parents who’d lived in England through the 2nd World War. They’d known ration books. We learned ‘waste not, want not.’ I learned to ‘have eyes … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health
Tagged compost, farm, farmer, food, food loss, food processing, food safety, food waste, garden, gardener, grocery, history, human, nutrition, poverty, prosperity, storage, technology, war, waste
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Reducing food loss and waste
The World Resources Institute (WRI) tackles the big stuff ‘at the intersection of environment and human needs.’ My word, that’s big. Today I’m thinking about one of WRI’s topics, the titchy little matter of food loss and waste. This not-for-profit … Continue reading
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Tagged development, food, food loss, food waste, human, population, sustainable, waste
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Food, Waste, Change
Originally posted on Organikos:
While we are on the subject of looking at food differently, as well as depending on others for new perspective, we can wrap all that around last week’s emphasis on food waste. We will not let that…
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Tagged data, food, food loss, food waste, knowledge, sustainable, waste
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There is no global crisis of food production
Edward Carr at Open the Echo Chamber says, ‘There is no global crisis of food production.’ He urges us to stop thinking about food scarcity and to consider other ways to get everybody fed.
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Tagged access to food, development, food, food loss, food security, food waste, storage, trade, transport, waste
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