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The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ... - Huffington Post
The Urban Canopy Aims To Bring Rooftop Urban Farming To Chicago's South Side ...
Huffington Post
Rooftop farming can be a vital part of the local agriculture movement to create the sustainable and equitable food system we desperately need. So, for those of us completely lacking green thumbs, could you explain what exactly the Urban Canopy has ...
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Breakthrough Innovation -- Solve for X -- Bring on the Moonshots - Huffington Post
Breakthrough Innovation -- Solve for X -- Bring on the Moonshots
Huffington Post
Some of the areas discussed include: healthcare, education, transport, energy and the food system. We heard a presentation about a new mode of package transport called MatterNet. MatterNet proposes to build a network of ground stations for a fleet of ...
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How £50m in UN food aid for starving went to buy wheat from Glencore - The Guardian
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How £50m in UN food aid for starving went to buy wheat from Glencore
The Guardian
Patel, the author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World's Food System, said: "It's a shocking amount of money to be funnelling to one of the largest commodity traders. That financial entities are now making their ...
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Farmers Can Grow Food for All, as Long as Ecosystems Hold - Bloomberg
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Farmers Can Grow Food for All, as Long as Ecosystems Hold
Bloomberg
Unrest is likelier today because there's less slack in the global food system. Inventories of wheat, corn and rice are lower than a decade ago, even as the world added more than 700 million people. Rising prices, declining crop yield growth and ...
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Anne Mazar: College students act to bring 'real food' to their campuses - Corning Leader
Anne Mazar: College students act to bring 'real food' to their campuses
Corning Leader
The current “Occupy” generation of students is looking for change, and for some, it is a desire to have access to fresh, organic, local and ethically sourced food at an affordable price, which, ironically, is often hard to find on a college campus.
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Chefs We Love: Alice Waters - Huffington Post
Chefs We Love: Alice Waters
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Waters opened our eyes to the possibilities that could exist if we put ourselves in a position to effect change in the food system that we had gotten lazily accustomed to -- that of pre-packaged, canned, store-bought, and trucked from afar foods.
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Abolish the Food Industry - The Atlantic
Abolish the Food Industry
The Atlantic
But it does little to change the circumstance that renders those foods a caloric raft for the poor, nor does it address deeper injustices within the food system spawned by corporate power. But a better food system needn't be limited to one where food ...
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Productivity boost can ward off famine - The Australian
Productivity boost can ward off famine
The Australian
Addressing climate change and the extreme weather conditions -- such as the current flooding and frequent cyclones afflicting Australia -- is another priority, Professor Andersen says. "So what I am saying is that if food production can increase, ...
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Down to Earth: Fed up with school food? - Daily News Transcript
Down to Earth: Fed up with school food?
Daily News Transcript
The current “Occupy” generation of students is looking for change, and for some, it is a desire to have access to fresh, organic, local and ethically sourced food at an affordable price, which ironically is often hard to find on a college campus.
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Finstad to discuss Reindeer: Tundra Gold - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Finstad to discuss Reindeer: Tundra Gold
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
Caribou and reindeer are an important part of the food system for many rural Alaska communities. The majority of the reindeer industry is centered on the Seward Peninsula, where reindeer are managed over large, rugged and remote areas with little or no ...
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How Do We Fix Our Food System? Experts Weigh in on This and Other Probing ... - Audubon Magazine (blog)
Audubon Magazine (blog)
How Do We Fix Our Food System? Experts Weigh in on This and Other Probing ...
Audubon Magazine (blog)
By Julie Leibach What would it take to solve climage change? Or to create sustainable ocean fisheries? What about supplying the world with clean energy? These and other probing questions garner contemplative responses from various experts, ...
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Fred Magdoff & William Camacaro - Monthly Review
Fred Magdoff & William Camacaro
Monthly Review
by Monthly Review Press Growing Change follows the filmmaker's journey to understand why current food systems leave hundreds of millions of people in hunger. It's a journey to understand how the world will feed itself in the future in the face of major ...
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Patch Chats with Debbie Schmill - Patch.com
Patch Chats with Debbie Schmill
Patch.com
These actions are all important, but little attention was being given to the impact of the industrial food system on the climate (what we eat and where it comes from really does matter), or to the growing disconnect between people and nature.
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Board of Supervisors establishes Food Policy Council - UI The Daily Iowan
Board of Supervisors establishes Food Policy Council
UI The Daily Iowan
Jason Grimm, a food-system planner at Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development who will serve as an adviser to the council, said he hopes the new organization will help local farmers and food vendors receive more support in the county.
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Eating healthy food right in Richmond's backyard - RVANews
RVANews
Eating healthy food right in Richmond's backyard
RVANews
Nina said that bees are a main pollinator for our food system and that the local bee population is on the decline. “The more bees that we can have, the better.” Although honey bees typically flee their hives in the morning, returning later in the day, ...
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Social and mobile technologies boost local food movement - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Social and mobile technologies boost local food movement
BurlingtonFreePress.com
Gradually, Foodtree's collective local food profiles will be connected with many more businesses creating a comprehensive map of the regional food system. Users will contribute content, too, about the food they find and profiles will be enriched, ...
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Eastern Market: A Food Hub for Metro Detroit and Beyond - Metromode Media
Metromode Media
Eastern Market: A Food Hub for Metro Detroit and Beyond
Metromode Media
"It's the next step in the devolution of a food system into a stronger regional system, encouraging smaller growers." By small, he means small. "One of our city growers on six lots (is) looking to buy nine acres in the suburbs -- not to replace but ...
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Homegrown: February 2012 Calendar - The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Homegrown: February 2012 Calendar
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
“Consumers are demanding local foods wherever food is served- at their grocery stores, restaurants, and even at catered events,” said Jason Grimm, Food System Planner from Iowa Valley RC&D. “This year's event strives to make it easy for food buyers to ...
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A Biblical garden story - The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
A Biblical garden story
The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
According to Farmscape's Rachel Bailin, the organization “started in Claremont three years ago ... as a group of college graduates who wanted to change the food system and bring equal access to good-quality fresh food across Los Angeles.
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Wildlife, trade, susceptibility amplify food risks - American Veterinary Medical Association
American Veterinary Medical Association
Wildlife, trade, susceptibility amplify food risks
American Veterinary Medical Association
"As we look to the developing world and we try to help people change behavior from hunting endangered species, what do we do?" Dr. Daszak asked. Wildlife trade is booming in Chinese markets where SARS first emerged, he said, showing a photo of two men ...
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