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Category Archives: environment
Forget “From Farm to Fork”! What about “From Farm to Flush”? Visuals not included.
The overly used motto, “from farm to fork” often refers to the idea of thinking more holistically about where our food comes from, how it is processed and how we cook and consume it. Or put more simply, what is … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, eating, environment, food systems, malnutrition, nutrition, u.s. food system, undernutrition
Tagged digestion, farm to fork, flush, food chain, nutrition, value chain
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Get your econutrition on
What the hell is “econutrition” one might ask? Well, it can be whatever you want it to be. In the Food and Nutrition Bulletin, a supplement was released on this very topic. Econutrition is defined as “Econutrition integrates environmental health … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, environment, nutrition
Tagged ecology, econutrition, FNB, Food and Nutrition Bulletin
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Oxfam digs deep into the global food system
Oxfam has just launched a new campaign called “GROW“. The report is quite good and calls for some major changes in how our ‘broken’ global food system could be repaired. They propose some solutions and criticisms about land grabbing, GMOs, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, animals, biodiversity, diversity, environment, food systems
Tagged agriculture, beef, food security, global food system, GMOs, grow, nutrition, oxfam, smallholder
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nourishing the planet (and Africa) with a green revolution
I just got through reading Worldwatch Institute’s new report “Nourishing the Planet.” An interesting read, but unfortunately unaccessible for most at $19.95 for a PDF or paperback. Not sure how many in the developing world could buy the report at … Continue reading
Turning Camel’s Milk into Gold: A Northeastern Kenya pastoralist community thrives
Pastoralists are people who live mostly in dry, remote areas, whose livelihoods depend on their intimate knowledge of the surrounding ecosystem and on the wellbeing of their livestock (IFAD). Most pastoralists raise livestock and practice animal husbandry consisting usually of … Continue reading
Posted in african foods, animals, environment
Tagged biogas, camel, camel's milk, dertu, millennium village, northeastern kenya, pastoralists
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In the Village of Koraro Ethiopia, homes are reinventing themselves
The Millennium Village of Koraro is located in the Hawzien district in northern Ethiopia, an area surrounded by jagged escarpments and dusty, arid land. Koraro is in one of the poorest regions of Ethiopia, owing to a confluence of geographic, … Continue reading
Posted in environment
Tagged beehives, environment, ethiopia, injera, koraro, millennium village, pot drip irrigation
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The new organic – shade grown coffee
Did you know about “shade grown” coffee? It is being touted as the next big environmental savior in the world of coffee next to organic and fair trade. I started to do some research into it because I drank about … Continue reading
Posted in drinks, environment, fair trade
Tagged coffee, ethiopia, organic, shade grown
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World Food Programme and Millennium Villages launch a partnership
I feel somewhat obliged to blog on this being that I was behind the scenes working with Professor Sachs and our WFP colleagues to make this happen. Let’s hope the partnership is a success. Here’s to ending hunger! UN News … Continue reading
Livestock production, greenhouse gases and food miles
The agriculture sector, especially livestock production, accounts for one-fifth of total greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions globally (McMichael et al, 2007). Livestock production, including transport and feed, accounts for nearly 80% of the sector’s emissions (McMichael et al, 2007). Although CO2 is … Continue reading
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Eating “good” is not easy
New York magazine published an interesting article on the 17 most politically problematic foods but that is not what interested me as much as the introduction: “Eating was once an enjoyable, relatively uncomplicated experience; the biggest dilemma was how much … Continue reading
