Home » Posts tagged 'food security' (Page 2)
Tag Archives: food security
No scientific evidence of GM food safety
No scientific evidence of GM food safety It is “premature” to declare GM safe due to “incomplete” scientific knowledge, finds report commissioned by Norwegian Environment Agency A new study commissioned by the Norwegian government, and conducted by a nationally recognised scientific authority on the safety of biotechnologies, concludes that available scientific data on GM crops […]
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy
City Region Food Systems – Part IIIA – Scale and Production Strategy This is the first of a two-part blog looking at scale and production strategy. In this piece I analyze critiques of smaller scale and alternative production strategies from several angles. In the second I will discuss problems inherent in the argument that small […]
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom A right worth fighting for Sustainable farming activist Joel Salatin and author of Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal returns this week to talk about the importance of a basic human right: to choose what to eat. In past podcasts, he’s described the challenges facing farmers who want to grow organically. […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
UK Government-backed scientific model flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040
UK Government-backed scientific model flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040 New scientific models supported by the British government’s Foreign Office show that if we don’t change course, in less than three decades industrial civilisation will essentially collapse due to catastrophic food shortages, triggered by a combination of climate change, water scarcity, energy crisis, and […]
Monsanto and the Subjugation of India
Monsanto and the Subjugation of India Control the Food, Control the State After a study of GMOs over a four-year plus period, India’s multi-party Parliamentary Standing Committee on Agriculture recommended a ban on GM food crops stating they had no role in a country of small farmers. The Supreme Court appointed a technical expert committee […]
If Food Is a Right, Who Should Provide It?
If Food Is a Right, Who Should Provide It? Nearly 850,000 Canadians visited food banks in one month last year. At a recent public forum in Victoria, B.C. about the right to food, the first audience question was about federal politics and the October election, which put the panelists in an awkward position. “We all […]
The Gardens of Plenty
The Gardens of Plenty Editor’s Note: In France, Gardens of Plenty help provide not just vegetables but training and job skills. Yardfarms can be developed not just in backyards but in community spaces around towns and cities, helping to train others to not just make a living but to make their communities more sustainable, more food […]
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity […]
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus There is growing concern over future food production and increasing competition for resources in the food, energy and water nexus are reflected in a new interest for investment in land and water. “I cannot farm myself out of this water problem,” says Mark Shannon, a farmer […]
What is Food Security?
What is Food Security? Food Security means that all people at all times have physical & economic access to adequate amounts of nutritious, safe, and culturally appropriate foods, which are produced in an environmentally sustainable and socially just manner, and that people are able to make informed decisions about their food choices. Food Security also […]
Thought for food | Ensia
Thought for food | Ensia. How on Earth are we going to figure out how to feed the 9.5 billion people who will be inhabiting this planet by 2050? Perhaps by looking to the ultimate problem-solver — nature. On Jan. 19, the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation will launch a worldwide design challenge. Their goal? “To show […]
One-fifth of Global Farm Soil Degraded by Salt – Our World
One-fifth of Global Farm Soil Degraded by Salt – Our World. Salt is degrading one-fifth of the world’s irrigated land and causing around US$27.3 billion per year in economic losses, according to a new assessment from the United Nations University (UNU). That’s because every day for the past 20 years, an average of 2,000 hectares […]
