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Tag Archives: food waste
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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When your produce gets wasted, it’s really a cry for help
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture
Tagged fertiliser, food waste, fruit, garden, gardener, grocery, organic, vegetable, waste, water
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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…
Food waste in Britain and the first social supermarket
Laurence Gibbons at Food Manufacture says that good food is being wasted in Britain. Huge amounts of good food. You can scroll down for his infographic about this scandal. Supermarkets are blaming fussy shoppers but they’re also promising to change … Continue reading
Posted in food, horticulture
Tagged access to food, food waste, grocery, poverty, supermarket
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Insects as Nutrition
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Mealworm Stir-fry Insects can be appreciated and investigated from many points of view. Interest in insects as a future food source is high because human population increases will require more production and new…
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged arthropod, entomoculture, entomophagy, feed, food, food waste, insect, livestock, microlivestock, waste
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The global food supply has a demand problem
argylesock says… Here are sensible words from Jonathan Foley. I decided not to link to this post, but to reblog it, because I simply want to say what Dr Foley says.
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to food, food, food security, food sovereignty, food waste, nutrition, population, yield
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Why not feed insects to other livestock?
Here in Britain, our Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) coordinates PROteINSECT. This is about farming insects (entomoculture) as a source of protein for animal feed. FERA is part of our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). I’m … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged aquaculture, arthropod, bird, black soldier fly, chicken, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, egg, entomoculture, entomophagy, feed, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Environment Research Agency, food safety, food waste, housefly, insect, International Livestock Research Institute, invertebrate, larva, law, livestock, manure, meat, microlivestock, milk, poultry, research, technology, vertebrate, waste, welfare
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Developing advanced biofuels
In the United States, the Agriculture Secretary is Tom Vilsack. He’s offering money to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. ‘Advanced biofuels’ means that these fuels are to come from non-food sources. … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture, money and trade
Tagged algaculture, algae, biobased industry, biofuel, biotechnology, conservation, corn, finance, food waste, forest, fuel, land use, maize, palm oil, plant_monocot, tree, waste, woodland
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Food waste from a British supermarket
Our leading supermarket chain in Britain is Tesco. Today, the BBC says that Tesco introduces measures to reduce food waste. ‘The statistics show that 68% of salad to be sold in bags is thrown out, 35% of it by customers.’ … Continue reading
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