Originally posted on the Pursue blog. It was 6:20 p.m. on Tuesday night and already a line had formed outside the Local: Mission Eatery, the four month old restaurant founded by Yaron Milgrom-Elcott. Dinner wasn’t served on this chilly summer evening. Instead guests were sampling a chilled avocado soup, bread, olive oil, almonds, and tangy deviled …
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The headline of Sunday’s front page New York Times article reads, “India Asks, Should Food Be a Right for the Poor?” Of course it should. The article recounts the sobering fate of India’s countless citizens who, after enduring extreme starvation and malnutrition, have fallen through the country’s social safety net. An excerpt from the article: …
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Check out “Hands That Feed,” a new film about Haiti’s food crisis and grassroots sustainable agriculture efforts [Civil Eats] Water wars are intensifying India-Pakistan relations [New York Times] The status of food aid in Chad [IRIN] The U.N. is worried about a lack of funds for Somalia [AlertNet] Unemployment and rising food prices are increasing hunger …
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Originally posted on the Pursue blog. For months now, I’ve been getting emails from food sustainability organizations with subject lines like “Kiss Your Organics Goodbye!” and “48 Hours to Stop Monsanto’s GM Alfalfa!” They’re in reference to a genetically modified strain of alfalfa that is in testing for public use by the United States Department …
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The relationship between farming, food and climate change is complicated, and it’s something we’ve written about before. Thanks to the Slow Food blog, I recently learned about a brand new online film called “The Food and Climate Connection: From Heating the Planet to Healing It,” released by WHY Hunger. From Slow Food: “How we farm …
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When I think about international food aid, what comes to mind are the challenges of distribution—who’s getting what and how much of it? But then there are the hidden costs of shipping. A recent IRIN article discusses the results of a Cornell University study that revealed the alarming fact that U.S. taxpayers spend about $140 …
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AJWS’s Josh Berkman tells Change.org that millions of hungry families are not a market opportunity [Change.org] Climate-related farmer suicides are surging in eastern Kenya [AlertNet] Villagers in South Africa are harvesting fog to deal with drought [AlertNet] In Mali, more aid is needed [IRIN] The cereal export ban is lifted in Ethiopia [IRIN] In a …
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Today is the six-month anniversary of the Haiti earthquake and, even though the world’s attention is fading, there’s been a lot of newsandblogcoverage about the work that lies ahead. Most of the focus has been on Port-au-Prince and, while the earthquake took its major toll on an urban center, we can’t forget about the devastating …
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Solar kit brings green power to Kenya’s rural poor, helping them cook [AlertNet] In Burkina Faso, local food plays a vital role [IRIN] More on Cambodia’s land rights crisis [AlertNet] Africa needs a brown (not green) food revolution [Christian Science Monitor] A commitment to global food security [Voice of America] Aid agencies call for a …
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A few weeks ago, I wrote about Cambodian farmers’ fight for land rights in a country where land grabs are disturbingly common. An estimated 85 percent of Cambodian households lack land titles. Many villages lose their livelihoods as a result of the Cambodian government routinely leasing large tracts of rural land for agro-industrial exploitation. Over …
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