All Blog Posts Tagged 'Food' (14)

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

Many of us are thinking about the changes we want to make this year. For some, these changes will be financial; for others, physical or spiritual. But for all of us, there are important resolutions we can make to “green” our lives. Although this is often a subject focused on by industrialized nations, people in…

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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet project

Hamburgers, pizzas, french fries, and sugary drinks-in today's fast-paced world, these foods have become staples for many Americans. But this unhealthy diet has led to an increase in chronic health problems such as obesity, diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, and high blood pressure. According to the U.S. Centers…

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Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet project



The volatility of food prices, in particular price upswings, represents… Continue

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet





Policymakers around the world need to… Continue

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

 

As the global population increases, so does the number of mouths to feed. The good news is that in addition to providing food, innovations in sustainable agriculture can provide a solution to many of the challenges that a growing population presents. Agriculture is emerging as a solution to mitigating climate change, reducing…

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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



In Kenya, for the over 5,000 people living in rural communities on or near its shore, Lake Victoria—the largest body of freshwater in Africa—is a life line. It is the main source of water for bathing, drinking, and cooking in the area and its fish populations… Continue

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



In the Maradi area in south central Niger, where 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, the months before the harvest are called “the hunger season.” From mid-July to… Continue

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



Throughout the Sahel, recurrent drought since the late 1960’s is turning once crop covered land into desert. And the sand is spreading. Picked up by wind, dunes created by soil particles from the West African coastline and the Sahel are covering villages, roads, crops, and… Continue

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Around 1 million people in South Africa—the majority of whom are

recent arrivals from the former apartheid homelands, Transkei and…

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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Before Kenya’s independence, the Migori District’s economy was driven by the Macalder Mining Company, the area’s largest employer. When the company shut down in 1966, it left behind a lot of abandoned land—and a lot of unemployed miners. These miners, some of…

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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Between the years of 1975 – 1976, the Cambodian farmer, Name Name, like most farmers in the country during that time, grew vegetables and rice to feed the soldiers of the Lon Nol regime.…

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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

By: Molly Theobald…

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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.



By Ronit Ridberg



In part one of this two-part interview, award-winning writer, activist and academic Raj Patel talks about food sovereignty and global agricultural policies.…



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