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Populations Expanding Where It's Most Difficult to Grow Food | NYT
Proportionally, the countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East are among the fastest growin
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Kosher Wars | NYT
Some in the ethical-kashrut movement describe it as a return to the traditional values of kashrut: community-based supervision of the food supply, reverence for agriculture and animal husbandry and attention to detail.
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Cooking up a Storm | Food Climate Research Network
The UK Government should commit to achieving a 70% or more absolute reduction in food-related GHG emissions by 2050 and should set out how it intends to achieve these cuts.
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The Locavore's Dilemma | Grist
To mount a real challenge, we'll need a clear-eyed grounding in the history and economics of food production, in addition to locavore zeal.
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Kristof: Obama’s ‘Secretary of Food’?
Renaming the department would signal that Mr. Obama seeks to move away from a bankrupt structure of factory farming that squanders energy, exacerbates climate change and makes Americans unhealthy - all while costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
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Ensuring the Future of Food | Japan's Ministry of Ag
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: Food is indispensable to our survival. But today, it is undergoing great change.
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Wes Jackson and Wendell Berry: A 50-Year Farm Bill | NYT
For 50 or 60 years, we have let ourselves believe that as long as we have money we will have food.
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Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa | UN
Organic agriculture can be more conducive to food security in Africa than most conventional production systems, and it is more likely to be sustainable in the long term.
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Alex Evans: The Feeding of the Nine Billion | Chatham House
This report aims to assess what action policy-makers need to take now to ensure global food security in the future.
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Agency and Community Resilience
The capacity of an individual or community to plan or initiate action is known as the exercise of agency.
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Eating Less Meat Could Cut Climate Costs | New Scientist
Cutting back on beefburgers and bacon could wipe $20 trillion off the cost of fighting climate change.
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Vilsack Establishes The People's Garden Project | USDA
Secretary Vilsack announced the goal of creating a community garden at each USDA facility worldwide.
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Local Lunch | Think Out Loud
According to a recent report, local lunch grants of about $66,000 dollars turned into more than $225,000 spent on local products.
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Michael Pollan: Redefining Technology | Long Now
What I suggest is that a really smart rotation like the eight-year rotation in Argentina is as clever and powerful a technology as the latest genetically modified seed.
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Cary Fowler: When it comes to food, we’re all in this together | Grist
Sovereignty and independence play well in certain political circles and amongst many teenagers, but are out of place in the biological sciences.
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Tom Philpott: Big Ag and Climate | Grist
Food production practices play a pivotal role in climate change - both mitigation and adaptation.
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Buying Farmland Abroad | The Economist
Countries that export capital but import food are outsourcing farm production to countries that need capital but have land to spare.
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Massive Imbalances in Global Fertilizer Use | Science
Most agricultural systems follow a trajectory from too little in the way of added nutrients to too much, and both extremes have substantial human and environmental costs.
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Agriculture and Climate Change | International Food Policy Research Institute
The potential of carbon sequestration in soils and vegetation together is equivalent to a draw-down of about 50 parts per million of atmospheric CO2 by 2100.
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