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Exploring the Implications of Vertical Farms1 comment

aylara wrote 5 days ago: A Response to Growing Skyscrapers: The Rise of Vertical Farms, Scientific American, Nov. 2009 By Car … more →

Tags: sustainability, Sustainable Development, Innovation, vertical farms, Dickson Despommier, undernourishment, Agriculture, Scientific American, Urbanization

2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon

seansandvik wrote 1 week ago: 2010 Food Crisis Means Financial Armageddon … more →

Tags: 2010 food crisis, means financial armageddon, financial armageddon, 2010, crisis means, Financial

Govt to consider imports to boost food supply - FM1 comment

V SEKHAR wrote 1 week ago: Reuters | Thu Dec 17, 2009 | 2:43pm IST A vendor arranges vegetables at a market in Siliguri in this … more →

Tags: Indian Economy, India, Rise of Food Commodities, food inflation, food prices, Food Imports

LIBERIA: Rewarding nutritional risk-takers (IRIN)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 weeks ago: Read at : IRIN LIBERIA: Rewarding nutritional risk-takers GBARNGA-TA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) – … more →

Tags: hunger / famine, malnutrition

Hunger or Famine ? What about growing your own food ? (Mother Earth News)

willem van cotthem wrote 3 weeks ago: Read at : http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/Square-Foot-Gardening-Food.aspx?utm_conte … more →

Tags: food / food security, hunger / famine

Monsanto Controlling The World's Food

Kat wrote 3 weeks ago: Click Here for Video Watch it all! Wake up people! … more →

Tags: Environmental, food control, gardening, health, Monsanto, Conspiracy, Life

The Resourceful Ganges River

feww wrote 3 weeks ago: Image of the Day: Day of the Dead on Holy Ganges River “THE UNCARED FOR.”  A dead body f … more →

Tags: Human Evolution, Religion, Water crisis in india, water pollution, Ganges River, Hinduism, Rituals, Superstition, uttar pradesh

Let's Celebrate Thanksgiving Everyday1 comment

janiec52 wrote 4 weeks ago: I’m scared of pie. That’s right, you read that correctly.  I am scared of its soft, swee … more →

Tags: mmm food, Being Thankful, food banks, Global food market, pie, Thanksgiving

Simple Everyday Green Ideas to Reduce Carbon Footprint3 comments

James Ang wrote 4 weeks ago: How Simple and Effective Ways Can Reduce Carbon Footprint. Whenever we think of carbon footprint red … more →

Tags: peer learning, Innovation, vertical farm, Food security, Urban Farm, Gen Y, City Farming, Collective Intelligence, crowd wisdom

SYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall (IRIN)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : IRIN SYRIA: Drought response faces funding shortfall DAMASCUS, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) … more →

Tags: food / food security, Drought, WFP

The World Food Summit, November, Rome 2009

Kay Chapman wrote 1 month ago: When compared with donor focus on “the food crisis” that was so evident last year,  there has been a … more →

Tags: Agriculture, development, FAO, World Food Summit, Cs

"The hungry cannot wait” (ENB / IISD)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : World Summit on Food Security Bulletin · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · … more →

Tags: food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition

The global food crisis: A second serving?2 comments

Matthew Ericson wrote 1 month ago: Remember the global food crisis? There was a big jump in commodity prices in 2007 which caught every … more →

Tags: Agricultural Economics, biofuels, capitalism, Commodities, consumption, Economic Policy, Economics, food policy, food prices

If words were food, nobody would go hungry (The Economist)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : The Economist http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14926 … more →

Tags: food / food security, hunger / famine, Agriculture, IFPRI

Fill a hungry belly this Thanksgiving (Friends of the WFP)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : Friends of the World Food Program <info@friendsofwfp.org> Fill a hungry belly this T … more →

Tags: food / food security, hunger / famine, WFP, malnutrition

TIME Online Poll for The 50 Best Inventions of 2009

James Ang wrote 1 month ago: Breakthrough Ideas and Gadgets Range From Simple Designs to Hi-tech Product Designs. For the past fe … more →

Tags: clean tech, Food security, Innovation, Insight, peer learning, carbon footprint, City Farming, Collective Intelligence, creative mind

Food aid that gets you two for the price of one (IRIN)

willem van cotthem wrote 1 month ago: Read at : IRIN Food aid that gets you two for the price of one JOHANNESBURG, 18 November 2009 (IRIN) … more →

Tags: food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition

UN Urges Online Haves to Chip in to the World Food Basket

tradetimes wrote 1 month ago: The UN is pinning hopes on its “A Billion for a Billion” campaign, which appeals internet users to d … more →

Tags: Business, Global economy, Economy, A Billion for a Billion, UN Members Reject Annual Agri-development Fund, josette sheeran, WFP Statement, World Summit on Food Security

2009 World Food Day1 comment

roofingbird wrote 1 month ago: Oct 16th was World Food Day. On this day “The World Summit on Food Security” convened in Rome and wi … more →

Tags: Politics, Children, JUST SAY NO DEAL, Women, Feminism, The New Agenda, 51 Percent, I Own My Vote, Now


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