#FoodSecurity

European Parliamentary Researc

1 day ago

Been hella busy with #FoodGardening tasks too. I transplant at least 50 #FoodPlants daily while also working on busting up our old lawns for #biodiversity #rewilding purposes.

#GardenersOfMastodon #SDFgardeners #zone8 #plants #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #'GrowFoodNotLawns #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #YYJgardeners #gardening #GrowItEatIt

Tons of new food plants transplanted into new pots.

My bird's eye view of part of my garden potting work space. Lots of plants!

martydlogan

2 days ago

Huge, perennial shortages of fertiliser in Nepal. Look who’s to blame 👉🏾 A corporate cartel fertilizes food inflation https://iatp.org/corporate-cartel-fertilises-food-inflation #foodsecurity #nepal #farming

2 days ago

The #G7 and global #foodsecurity
https://wp.me/p2qdgs-fxc
#foodcrisis #GLOBSEC2023

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EP_ThinkTank/status/1661758270036492289

J blue

3 days ago

Redbud flower and ramp pickle (adapted after “amazu shoga” Sakai, p.87) with southern magnolia flower, American spikenard and rat’s tail radish.

Allium tricoccum, Aralia racemosa, Cercis canadensis, Magnolia grandiflora, Raphanus sativus var caudatus (nonnative)

See AltText for tasting notes.

#gardening #GrowYourOwn #organic #permaculture #NativePlants #FoodSecurity #cooking #bloomscrolling #florespondence #vegan

A black background and a black speckled plate. On the plate are three white magnolia petals of different sizes. They have a pink puddle of pickled redbud flowers sitting in the natural curve of the petals. Between the petals are long thin rat tail radish pods that are dark pink and green and a cut stem of 3 leaves of a spikenard plant.

Pickle was fine. It didn’t taste as sweet probably bc of the ramp. Very piquant but nice. Has more possibilities.

Magnolia flower raw tastes like pine-sol then like rose then like ginger. It’s very pungent but doesn’t leave a lingering aftertaste. Definitely not for eating raw. Will try a blanching, steaming and pickling recipe if I can find more flowers that are low enough to reach.

Spikenard leaf was like a faint mint with some anise and lettuce. It was ok. Better as a mixed green then a bunch by itself. The stalks were too fibrous to steam/boil even though they were very thin.

Rats tail radish tastes like a tame radish, kinda nice. Like if a sugar snap was daikon flavored.

Entomological Soc. of America

3 days ago

"Tomberlin said there is incredible interest in public and private investment that is propelling the insect for food and feed sector. Stakeholders view the field as a way to address climate change and food security challenges in sustainable ways that also incorporate nutritional benefits of insects into feed for livestock, poultry and fish as well as pets." #entomology #insects #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2023/05/24/food-and-feed/

Frau Mensch 😷

https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/chapter/chapter-5/

Observed #climatechange is already affecting #foodsecurity through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events. Food security will be increasingly affected by projected future climate change.

#Fruit and #vegetable production, a key component of healthy diets, is also vulnerable to climate change.

Food security and climate change have strong #gender and #equity dimensions.

#GardenersOfMastodon #AsianMastodon #SDFgardeners #GrowFoodNotLawns #zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #GreenLiving #FoodGardeners #GrowItEatIt #FoodGardener #GrownFromSeed #MyPlants #PlantLovers

One of my #iris & mixed #PollinatorGarden bed is full of #blooms & more will #flower daily 😍
In front of bed are a bunch of pots with #transplanted #beans & a few pots that I'll be transplanting turnips & sorrel into.

Pollinator attraction bed. Filled with colourful iris flowers & dames rocket blooms. In front are assorted large pots. Several are filled with bean plants. Some are empty & waiting for plant transplants.

#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #MakeYourOwn #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #dehydrated #DriedFood #Useful #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #AllNatural #AirDried #FrugalLiving #SimpleGoodLife #BackToBasics #SimpleGoodness #EasyToDo #CitrusFruit #FruitPeels #CitrusPeels

I'm processing assorted #dried #citrus peels this morning. Grinding some up. Breaking others into small pieces for easier, longterm pantry storage in airtight containers.

A big plastic collander bowl, filled with assorted dried citrus fruit peels

#GardenersOfMastodon #AsianMastodon #SDFgardene #GrowFoodNotLawns #zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #GreenLiving #LiveOutYourValues #FoodGardeners #GrowItEatIt #SimpleGoodLife #FoodGardener #GrownFromSeed #MyPlants #PlantLovers #botanical #PlantRoots #LifeRoots #nature

Look at these gorgeous healthy #Chinese watermelon #radish #plant #roots 😍
I love the beautiful complexity of roots & enjoy admiring them!

Beautiful Chinese watermelon radish plant roots. I'm holding up some of the baby plants, with great root systems, before transplanting them.

#NonMonetaryTrade #BackToBasics #GrowAndTradeFood

Just got home from work & getting some #plants ready for my first #GardenersOfMastodon in person exchange with fellow #VancouverIsland #FoodSecurity & #SelfSufficiency #FoodGardener 👩‍🌾🤘
I hope to meet & do more plants & harvest exchanges with fellow small #FoodGrowers on #VanIsle 👍 When I lived in Youbou & Cedar - did lots of these trades with fellow backyard food farmers & it was beneficial in multiple ways for me & the fab folks I traded with.

Some Asian food plants that I'm exchanging for some food producing trees.

ECR Group

👨‍🌾 "The movement towards more guidelines instead of rules is positive. Flexibility is vital for farmers."

"#FoodSecurity should also be enshrined into the proposal."

🗣 @vrecionova MEP weighs in on the @EP_Agriculture text on the sustainable use of plant protection products

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ecrgroup/status/1661028164519469064

Ana McKellar

For every £ spent on food, farmers and growers receive only around 9 pence. Most are making a fraction of minimum wage while working eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, all year.
Time for change away from the highly exploitative and extractive supermarket stranglehold model
https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/news/supermarkets-attend-no10-food-summit-amid-warnings-of-market-failure
#FoodSecurity #HealthyFood #SustainableAgriculture

The EPP Group will resist any proposals that are a “danger to farmers’ work and the #FoodSecurity of European citizens, says @HerbertDorfmann.

We can reach the @EU_Commission's goals for #NatureRestoration with fitted local and national measures!

Read: https://epp.group/65gn0l

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1661024283718737926

"Mr @TimmermansEU,

We have two proposals which, today, we cannot even discuss, and the only solution we see at the moment is to withdraw them."

Watch @MEPDanielBuda address the Commissioner on the Pesticides and Nature Restoration laws.

#FoodSecurity

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1660955983722496001

#GardenersOfMastodon #AsianMastodon #SDFgardene #GrowFoodNotLawns #zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #GreenLiving #LiveOutYourValues #TrueToSelf #FoodGardeners #GrowItEatIt #GrewItEatingIt #SimpleGoodLife

Today's #FoodGarden #harvest was some #kale & mixed #mizuno #SaladGreens 👩‍🌾 We fry up the flowers in oil & garlic - yummy!

My harvest of kale & Asian salad greens today.

For as long as Russia's war in Ukraine continues to put economic pressure on Europe, the @EPPGroup wants to postpone new laws that:

🔵make food more expensive

🔵endanger renewable energy

Read @Esther_de_Lange on #FoodSecurity ⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1660669459944595461

Today, @EU_Commission Vice-President @TimmermansEU is in the European Parliament to try to prove the EPP Group wrong.

But our position is clear:
We want to protect biodiversity, but the current proposals on nature restoration & pesticides are not fit for purpose!

#FoodSecurity

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1660661945849004032

We want to protect biodiversity, but the current proposals on nature restoration and pesticides are not fit for purpose ❗

We will not support any laws that could endanger the roll out of renewable energy and #FoodSecurity.

@SMuresan ⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1660647396794040328

📆Discover our priorities for the week:

🔵 No to laws that endanger renewable energy or #FoodSecurity

🔵 Confiscate criminals' money

🔵 Make Europe a green tech pioneer

Read more: https://epp.group/8c1tww

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1656584803544707072

Canadian Association For Food Studies

2 weeks ago

🚨Commission initiatives against the need for #FoodSecurity in Europe!

We denounce that @EU_Commission initiatives such as the Nature Restoration Law & the Action Plan to Protect #Marine Biodiversity are incompatible with the EU fisheries sector's reality.

Read @GabrielMatoA⬇️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1656560008677539841

#Food #FoodStudies #FoodScholarship #FoodWays #Foodie #FoodSovereignty #FoodSecurity #Nutrition #SchoolFood #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #JustPublished

Are you presenting at #CAFS2023 #CongreSSH in #Toronto or #Virtually?

Check out the submission guidelines for Canadian Food Studies, the #Online #OpenAccess Journal of Canadian Association for Food Studies.

Get that paper published!

https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/about/submissions

EURACTIV Agrifood

MEPs push to dedicate 2024 as European Year of Food Sustainability https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/meps-push-to-dedicate-2024-as-european-year-of-food-sustainability/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EuropeanFoodForum #EuropeanYear #Foodsecurity #foodsustainability

EURACTIV

MEPs push to dedicate 2024 as European Year of Food Sustainability https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/meps-push-to-dedicate-2024-as-european-year-of-food-sustainability/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EuropeanFoodForum #EuropeanYear #Foodsecurity #foodsustainability

#LocalFood #FoodSecurity #Prepping #GetPrepared

Small circular economies are the best for surviving extreme events, short term and long term. If your pantry depends on vast mono-cropped food grown with large quantities of synthetic fertilizer and pesticides, huge distances with various modes of transport to get to you, you are not well prepared to survive climate disaster, crop failure, supply chain disruption, or political upheaval.

If your pantry is supplied by your own backyard with permaculture practices, local variety and seed saving/sharing, seasonal diversity, a barter system, CSA, and interaction of goods and services within your immediate area, you are way ahead of the game.

J blue

#phosphogeddon #organic #GrowYourOwn #gardening #foodsecurity

Purple pearl barley. 1/

This is more than 1/2 my harvest in a 1x2ft space. I won’t grow it again. For the space it takes up and time it takes to grow, it barely makes one serving.

I used normal home compost for fert and it was grown next to beans. My veg need to perform well with this for me to consider replanting and these did not.

The pic shows two trimmed heads of purple pearl barley. The one on the left is three times as large as the one on the right. The seeds (rachis) are a dark magenta-ish purple. It has along silvery white awns spiking out from the tops.

If you can imagine a bunch of purple tadpoles with long straight tails feeding at a trough, that is roughly what it looks like.

A bowl full of trimmed purple barley heads. You mostly see the dried awns scattered, striping in every direction. The purple awns are sort of concealed in the clutter.

Kitchen Priestess (she/her)

#LandUse #Urbanism #sustainability #FoodSecurity #Wilderness #Agriculture #Economy

A fascinating map of land use in the United States. I would never have guessed cow pasture makes up the largest usage, by far, dwarfing housing and local commercial, urban and rural together, by a longshot.

One thing I note in the alt-text - food production land is tiny compared to several other things on the map. If we took only 1/4 of the ridiculously oversized cow pasture land use, currently between 1/4 and 1/3 of the total continental US, and changed that to greenhouse operations, we could have affordable food year round for everybody.

I'm not going to get into it with any vegans, but there would be more sustainability out of that cow pasture land if a big chunk of it was changed to smaller animals, like chicken & lamb - not factory farmed, though. Also more composting, to eliminate phosphate imports by processing & using manure responsibly.

Anyway, it's interesting.

https://www.exploredplanet.com/guides/maps-that-show-us-a-new-perspective/

Land Use Throughout The United States

The United States has one of the largest landmasses at its disposal and a very diverse one at that. With 3.8 million square miles to work with, it’s only natural that the land making up the United States has various uses, depending on where it’s located.
Land Use Throughout The United States

On the map itself, the largest block by far, taking what seems to be somewhere between 1/4 and 1/3 of the United States land use, is cow pasture. The entirety of housing and local commercial, both urban and rural together, takes up only an amount of acreage the size of new england, essentially. The next largest land use after cows is private family timberland, followed closely by govt owned timberland. Corporate timberland, follows, and is just a bit larger than livestock feed, the next largest land use. Food we eat literally half the size of livestock feed. If we took only one quarter of the cow pasture and turned it into greenhouse operations, we could feed everyone all year round at very reasonable prices. But we don't.

#FoodPics #FarmFood #NonMonetaryTrade #FuckCapitalism #SmallFarmersRevolution #FoodSecurity #VancouverIsland #vanisle #PNW #PacificNorthwest

Everything in these photos are from my friend's #SmallFarm products on #VancouverIsland 🥰 I recently traded some tree rootstocks & food plant starters with small farm owner friends. Our family enjoyed the #pork #ribs & #tomatoes & #cucumbers salad tonight 👩‍🌾❤🤘

Delicious small farm raised ribs - after baking them.

Cucumbers & tomatoes salad with Greek feta salad dressing.

#AsianMastodon #GardenersOfMastodon #MastodonGardeners #SDFgardeners #zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #GrowPlantsNotHate #PlantAGarden #Garden #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #GrowItEatIt

Here's the other 2 #FoodPlant #seeds that I sowed today. Some #Chinese #WatermelonRadish & #sorrel seeds 👩‍🌾✌

#AsianMastodon #GardenersOfMastodon #MastodonGardeners #SDFgardeners #zone8 #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #GrowPlantsNotHate #PlantAGarden #Garden #SeedsOfTheRevolution #SilentSunday

Here's some of the #seeds that I sowed today. #GMOfree seeds are so important for our #FoodSecurity futures.

Without quality seeds - we would all starve. I'm huge on #SeedsSaving & seeds sharing & local #food security & personal #SelfSufficiency ✌

Julien M.

4 weeks ago

Ruth Harris (February 2, 2023)

I think one of the biggest aspects of the war that I think is probably something that we're really kind of just getting our heads around is the kind of #FoodSecurity aspect. [...] We know it's one harvest and that has had complications around it. But I think the second, you know, second, third harvest, it's not just the fact they can harvest the grain this year. They've not been able to sow it. They've not been able to, you know, to prepare the ground, to do all the things they have. So the situation is just going to get worse and worse. Now, that has economic implications for #Ukraine, for sure, but it has implications across the world. [...] because if we reflect on the places that #Ukraine gave grain to are areas that have a real fragility in it in terms of #ClimateChange, in terms of other security issues, including #Yemen, including #Bangladesh, you know, these are areas that suffer anyway.

https://www.rand.org/multimedia/audio/2023/02/02/rand-experts-discuss-the-first-year-of-the-russia-ukraine-war.html

New deep pink Spring snapdragon flowers & buds.

The Conversation U.S.

https://theconversation.com/food-forests-are-bringing-shade-and-sustenance-to-us-cities-one-parcel-of-land-at-a-time-197388

Food forests – essentially, edible parks – are small but impactful gathering spaces that can transform cities for the better.

#climatechange #conservation #environment #foodsecurity #gardens

michael

#science #genome #FoodSecurity #beans

28-Apr-2023
New bean genome unveils potential to boost food security and resilience in drought-prone regions

Results pave way for genetic improvements of native legume to promote widespread cultivation that could yield nutritional and economic benefits https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/987740

Wendy M. Grossman

This week's net.wars, "The privacy price of food insecurity", reads @BigBrotherWatch's work on privacy and supermarket loyalty cards and tries to imagine forward to an extortionate futture: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2023/04/28/the-privacy-price-of-food-insecurity/ #NetWars #privacy #FoodSecurity #DataProtection

#gardening #homesteading #prepping #GetPrepared #SelfReliance #SelfSufficiency #spring #FoodSecurity

Since the property I live on has no natural topsoil (like NONE, just grit and rock that somehow grows quack grass and invasives very well) I have been gardening in raised beds. The standing dead log surrounds that came off the mountains around here have finally given up and will go back into the earth. The new frames are cedar that is eco-logged from the mountain across the lake. Not kiln dried and has the smallest trip from there to here. In fact, it is almost impossible to see the area that is logged and has been for the last 30 years. This way is the right way. The riparian areas are not damaged, the wild ungulates have grazing, the nesting trees are not disturbed.
The raised beds will be ready for planting in a couple of days. This may seem like boring mundane work but for me and my family, there is nothing more important.

michael

https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2022/04/war-feeding-further-crises.html

2022's features in #CurrentBiology now in the #OpenArchives (8/24):
The impacts of the #Ukraine war on global #FoodSecurity

the photo shows a wheat field in Ukraine under a blue sky, the motif that has also inspired the design of the Ukrainian flag. (Photo: © Raimond Spekking/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).)

Greens/EFA in the EU Parliamen

Conservatives claim protecting #nature will threaten our food production & #FoodSecurity.

They only aim to uphold the nature-destructive methods of big agribusiness, at the expense of farmers, consumers & nature.

#NoNatureNoFood.
Stop this madness: http://act.greens-efa.eu/no-nature-no-food

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GreensEFA/status/1647895037320085505

Illustration of a farm land showing wildflowers, insects and pollinators and fruits trees.

GhostOnTheHalfShell

#clinateChange #foodSecurity #food #Asia

Food security is not topical in the US/West but it's more prominent in Asia. The farmer base of Asia is in duress as many are small plot farmers. As they age out and are subject to increasingly marginal yields, the societal stability of the world's factory is a bit tenuous. None of this is made better by the large Panda to the North.

1 hr video (long for me!)

Running on Empty: https://youtu.be/QU0B1pZ995g

Food_Is_Important

@QasimRashid
Use direct, community-led actions to provide the essential resources of healthful nourishment to all in our communities.
Take the power away from those who are not leaders, they are representatives. Begin modeling behavior worth being represented.
The failure of those who only promote outrage and not direct action to circumvent the gridlock are as obsolete as what they rage against.
Learn more about this community's actions here: https://www.patreon.com/TheCollectiveCommunityDinner?fan_landing=true
#foodsecurity #Communalism

#MastodonGardeners #YYJgardeners #FoodGarden #GrowingFood #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #Westcoast #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #zone8

These are some of the new #FoodPlants I will be #growing this season. I add a few new to me varieties, each year. These are all from my fave #SeedsSource - #SaanichOrganics - very high #germination rates. Way better than #Westcoast Seeds packs! #HighlyRecommend their #GMOfree seeds.

My food seed packets from Saanich Organics.

#Garden #Spring #GardenersOfMastodon #MastodonGardeners #YYJgardeners #FoodGarden #botanical #GrowingFood #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #BritishColumbia #Canada #Westcoast #brassica #FoodSecurity #SelfSufficiency #Permaculture #PNWgardeners #zone8 #purple

Letting some of my #PurpleBroccoli go to flower so I can save seeds & plant more of them. They produce many mini heads of purple broccoli, not 1 big head like regular #broccoli #plants 👩‍🌾

EURACTIV

Poland’s grain glut shows our food system is dysfunctional https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/polands-grain-glut-shows-our-food-system-is-dysfunctional/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Agrifood #Foodsecurity #Ukraine

#greenhouse #gardening #prepping #homestead #FoodSecurity

Greenhouse update. The spinach and turnips took off the last couple of days even with mostly cold rain. The nights are still freezing except for last night which was just pounding rain. It's nice to have chives to pick this early. All the seedlings are doing fantastic, even the peppers. Lettuce and radish will be ready to eat in another 2 weeks.

Seed turnip in the greenhouse is flowering bright yellow flowers. About 2 feet tall.

Via Philip Lewis:

#NorthDakota #GOP senators voted to increase their own meal reimbursements, 10 days after voting against a bill to expand free school lunches for low-income students

#ProLifeMyAss #FoodSecurity

https://t.co/S6pHKcNttq

GhostOnTheHalfShell

https://youtu.be/GZMjE4sm0cg

CNA Insider: Asia's Falling Rice Yields: What Threatens Our Rice Bowl? | Insight | Full Episode

45 min video documentary

This is a highly informative documentary on rice production and food security issues facing Asia. I find it brings home the realities of climate change we don't feel much in the West (yet).

CNA is part of Singapore's national broadcasting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNA_(TV_network)

#climateChange #foodSecurity #Asia

FreebirdFrolic

Kitchen Priestess (she/her)

#canadanews #canadapolitics #foodsecurity #foodie #ndpoli
Loblaw Determined That Galen Weston Wasn't Paid Enough
https://www.readthemaple.com/loblaw-wants-you-to-know-that-galen-weston-isnt-paid-enough/?ref=the-maple-newsletter

"Grocery executive Galen Weston received a $1.2-million raise in 2022, bringing his total pay to $11.79-million."

Since there are many new people, it may be time for a new #introduction.

I'm a married mother of four adults, one of whom is #trans. I'm an #LGBTQAlly.

I'm a #SmallBusiness owner since 1993, doing #transcription work originally, then #bookkeeping & #nonprofit administration. I specialize in 990 forms & compliance.

My first degree was in #Architecture w/ Distinction, & my next one was in #Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, with 2 minors: #Linguistics & #JudaicStudies. Later I received Smicha as a #Kohenet - a practitioner of eco- #feminism #kabbalah #mysticism via liturgy & ritual. I have a fledgling #art & #crafts side gig, creating #Jewish & #FeminineDivine works.

I'm a Conservative (Masorti) Mashgiach at our shul, and was head of the kitchen from 2012 until 2020 (ie Covid).

Interests: #astronomy #geology #UrbanAg #gardening #Cooking #Sustainability #Urbanism

Advocacy: #WomensRights #ProChoice #ClimateCrisis #FoodSecurity #BLM

Oppose: #WhiteNationalist #ChristoFascist #bigots

Sabine Hiller

#Bees are undoubtedly important, but this study shows that #moths pollinate flowers at a faster rate than day-flying insects. Sadly, many moths are in serious decline, affecting not just #pollination but also food supplies for many other species ranging from bats to birds. Simple steps, such as allowing patches of bramble to flower, can provide important food sources for moths (and a blackberry harvest for us!)
#insects #biodiversity #FoodSecurity https://phys.org/news/2023-03-moths-efficient-pollinators-bees.html

Philip Loring

3 months ago

Just about eveyrone saw this coming TBH #verticalfarming #foodsecurity #agriculture https://www.fastcompany.com/90824702/vertical-farming-failing-profitable-appharvest-aerofarms-bowery

Law Geek

3 months ago

Had to share this excellent reaction from the other place to Therese Coffey's utterly nonsensical ramblings on the subject of UK #foodsecurity

Philip Loring

3 months ago

#Agroecology, as not just a production system but a response to an unjust #foodsystem, is rising in Canada. Informative new report here: #sustainability #justice #foodsecurity https://researchcentres.wlu.ca/centre-for-sustainable-food-systems/news/2023/agroecology-report

Philip Loring

Artist trying to stay inspired

“People aren’t going hungry because we cannot feed the poor. People are going hungry because we cannot satisfy the rich.” - Mohamad Safa
#foodsecurity #hunger #justice

40C here today but permaculture foodforest still giving food, tree lettuce, strawberry quavas, moringa, cassava, bananas, turmeric. #Regenerative #Foodsecurity #Regenerativeagriculture #Solarpunk #Permaculture, #Savesoil #Slowfood #Climatecrisis #Climatechange #Globalwarming

#FoodSecurity #SmallFarms #RuralLife #sustainability

If you want eggs from miserable caged hens with zero quality of life, go ahead and bitch about the price of eggs while searching for dollar-a-dozen ones.

If you want eggs from hens that have names, a big yard to scratch and explore in, fresh air, sun, and hen friends for security and comfort- pay the damn price that small-hold farmers and backyard chicken people need to get to keep the chickens in the first place.

Florian U. Jehn

#bcpoli #abpoli #food #water #foodsecurity #farming #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #ActNow
https://canadatoday.news/ca/most-glaciers-in-western-canada-will-melt-in-80-years-according-to-a-study-by-the-university-of-northern-bc-2-217490/

You can now subscribe to my long form posts about #existentialrisk, #climate, #foodsecurity and other global scale topics on substack: https://existentialcrunch.substack.com/

Jim Baird

5 months ago

'Most of Western Canada's glaciers will melt in 80 years'

"We will lose freshwater sources for much of the year and we will be more vulnerable during times of drought."

Warming to “decimate” glaciers around the world in the coming decades

"In some cases, it will take millions of years for some of the effects of our actions to be reversed"

Scientist Rebellion

5 months ago

According to United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), 160 metric tones of DDT is produced per year for use in agriculture contrary to the Stockholm Convention. (2/2)

#farming #foodsecurity #environment #africa #globalsouth

Scientist Rebellion

5 months ago

David Jesero, a Scientist Rebellion activist in the Southern Province of Rwanda, takes action against DDT pesticide use. DDT is toxic to a wide range of living organisms and can often enter the human food chain. (1/2)

#farming #foodsecurity #environment #africa #globalsouth

Quinten Steenhuis

#eviction #HousingStability #FoodSecurity

Many of us make our annual #donations to #charity at the end of the year. Consider moving it up a month or two, or making it monthly!

#Housing stability is close to my heart and I support local charities https://www.homestart.org ( #EvictionPrevention with just a few hundred $/tenant) and https://www.rosiesplace.org (independently funded #shelter with great day services for women), as well as https://www.gbfb.org/

Bernice Hillier

So a bit about me, because I really want to connect with you all on here: I'm a #CBC #journalist in #Newfoundland #NewfoundlandandLabrador, & I cover stories that touch on #healthcare, #education, #inflation, #costofliving, #Indigenous issues, #poverty, #equity, #foodsecurity, the #arts, #windenergy, #womens issues, #politics, #cdnpoli, & more.

NationalWorld News

🔵 We have teamed up with our National World PLC sister titles to launch a winter campaign supporting food banks across the UK through the Trussell Trust.

As the #CostofLiving crisis deepens, here's how you can make a difference: https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/nationalworld-trussell-trust-food-bank-support-campaign-how-to-donate-3927220 #food #donate #news #foodsecurity

Corsair

Just spotted this on the bird page,

Plant-forward diet as source of food security? Interesting paper. “A transition towards the EAT-Lancet’s planetary health diet in the European Union and the United Kingdom alone would almost compensate for all production deficits from Russia and Ukraine.” #climatecrisis #foodsecurity #vegan https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-022-00634-4

European Commission

#EUSolidarity #FoodSecurity

EU-Ukraine #SolidarityLanes are a lifeline for the Ukrainian economy and key for global food security.

We are now boosting them with a €1 billion investment.

Check out the complete fact sheet here: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/FS_22_6862

The visual describes how Ukraine is important for global food security. At the top, the header reads: "EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes — Lifeline for Ukrainian economy, key for global food security." Below, an illustration shows that Ukraine is the 3rd highest global exporter of barley, 4th of maize, and 5th of wheat. Due to Russia's war of aggression, wheat production is down by 35%.

not ch1c

today is likely the last warm dry day for me to work on our evolving #climate #resilience and #FoodSecurity #FoodSovreignty #FoodAnarchy and #herbalism driven #garden expansions until April, so some pics of #plants / @plants from last summer while I wait for the light

Close up view of a psychedelic purple and white passionflower grown from seed as part of an attempt to push the range far north

Top of a stalk of motherwort which I’m obsessed with growing, little purple flowers and fuzzy sharp pointed green leaves

Purple and crimson flower of a pea variety I think is called Schweitzer-Riesen

Crowded corner of a nut tree nursery area showing a bunch of one-year chestnuts and squirrel-proof boxes with (not really visible) butternut and white oak seedlings, some temperate tulsi gone feral creeping in from the left

Deb Ong 翁诗美

#Introductions #Newbie #TwitterMigration

So after a couple of days of snooping around and butting into conversations, I guess it's #introduction time 😁

I'm originally from Singapore, but moved to Naarm (Melbourne, Australia) in 2004.

I have been in the hospitality industry for 18 years.
The last 12 of which have been spent in the kitchen as a chef. I post about #food a lot 😏

I also have a background in #Anthropology, #SocialTheory and #HumanNutrition.

Am currently in the middle of a #PhD in #Education - researching community #foodpedagogies as well as food education in #PublicHealth.

I am passionate about #SocialJustice, #FoodSecurity, #Decolonisation and dismantling systems that perpetuate division and inequity.

I am a #dancer, #SciFi geek, a novice gardener and have a regular #yoga practice.

Open to meet anyone and everyone. Excited to be here and looking forward to many amazing conversations and friendships! 💜

Pedro 🤖

Hey, All: #Introductions are in order.

Tweeted since ‘09 but it was time to find a new home 🙃

#Media/#Advertising Exec here, focused on #Web3 & #Metaverse. Work in #NYC but #travel often. Champion for #Equity and focused on #FoodSecurity.

Into #Entertainment, #HarryPotter, #Hiking, #Music, #WhitneyHouston, #Gay #Fiction, #Broadway, #Tennis, #Art, #Fashion, #Running, #LetterWriting, and #Architecture…lots more!

Want to meet curious, fun, friendly people!

#IVoted early 🙌🏾

Emma Wordsworth

A quick intro:

I'm a PhD candidate in #History @ Cambridge, comparing British #FamineRelief efforts in India, China, + the Ottoman Empire in the 1870s. Broadly interested in power structures (economic, racial, gendered, religious, sexual) shaping #humanitarianism + #FoodSecurity discourses, past + present.

Interested in following historians as well as policy-makers, journalists, activists + researchers involved in humanitarianism, food security, climate justice, etc.

Moves between #ANZ + #UK

gabington

#introduction
Hi all, good to be here, thanks for your patience with us new users slowly figuring out the platform!

Keen to connect with people interested in:
#books #literaryfiction #scifi
#poetry #ecopoetry #permaculture #degrowth
#foodsecurity
#environmentaljustice
#mutualaid #repair #reuse #circulareconomy #foodpreservation #gardening #crochet #ruralLife #nature #baking

Koritsi