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What a waste: Britain throws away £10bn of food every year
Global food shortages, soaring prices and alarm over the environment. But every day, Britain throws away 220,000 loaves of bread, 1.6m bananas, 5,500 chickens, 5.1m potatoes, 660,000 eggs, 1.2m...
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A Multipronged Approach to Ensuring Food Security
From Innovations Report 14.05.2008 In 1996, 180 nations—including Canada—met in Rome for the World Food Summit (WFS) to discuss ways to end hunger. Nations pledged to eradicate hunger and committed...
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Urban Fruit Gleaning
Portland Fruit Tree Project provides a valuable service that helps communities benefit directly from local resources. Fresh fruit that grows on neighborhood trees is collected by volunteers, and...
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FoodShare: sweet urban agriculture in Toronto
“Carrots!” says this young intern from FoodShare, a Toronto non profit urban agriculture program IDRC Photo by Laura Berman FoodShare is an organization that take a broad look at the entire food system...
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Eat the View: Urban agriculture at the White House
I’ve been hearing recently about a proposed plan to plant and maintain a kitchen garden on the White House lawn. It would be a great way to spread the word about urban and kitchen gardening. Here’s...
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CBC’s Dispatches reports on “Food crisis: City Farming” – Uganda, Ghana
Linked by Michael Levenston at City Farmer.info IDRC Photo: Monica Rucki Urban Farming in Accra “While we in the urban West congratulate ourselves on innovations like the 100-Mile Diet and eating food...
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Urban agriculture meets the Jetsons: Some wacky and some plausible ideas for...
Here are some designs for crazy urban agriculture from the past, present, and future We always laugh at ideas from the past- This page from the 1982 book, Our Future Needs (World of Tomorrow) by Neil...
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Rocket Science – An edible rooftop garden in Portland
Photo by Kym Pokorny from her blog “Dig in with Kym”. “If you look around and see all the flat roofs, you can start to imagine a food-sustainable city,” says Marc Boucher-Colbert, one of the partners...
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Growing in Seattle: Food aid from the home front
Seattle, known as the emerald city to some, has urban agriculture popping up all over the place. I’m actually going there in the fall to work with Seattle Youth Garden Works as one of their AmeriCorps...
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Cuba’s Urban Agrarians Flourish
City Gardens Abound In Cuba, Where 70% Of Vegetables And Herbs Are Local And Organic HAVANA, June 4, 2008 (CBS/ Reinaldo Gil) (CBS) This story was written by CBS News producer Portia Siegelbaum in...
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