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Statement from the People’s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty, US Social Forum 2010
Republished from the Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative listserve: Statement from the People’s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty, US Social Forum 2010 Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010, agriculture, climate change, communities, corporate, democracy, diet, ecological, economies, farmers, farmworkers, food, food production, food sovereignty, food systems, GMO, growing, harvest, hunger, immigrants, land, People’s Movement Assembly on Food Sovereignty, poverty, racism, resources, seeds, statement, sustainable, US Social Forum, water, women, workers
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Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto Hybrid Seeds: Yes! Magazine
Posted today on Yes! Magazine, BEVERLY BELL reports: (…) In an open letter sent May 14, Jean-Baptiste, both Executive Director of MPP and the spokesperson for the National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay (MPNKP), called the entry of … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, biodiversity, creole, farmers, farming, food, food sovereignty, GMO, Haiti, hybrid, import, land, Monsanto, MPNKP, National Peasant Movement of the Congress of Papay, opposition, seeds, self-determination, Verrettes
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Louisiana Wetlands Blanketed With BP Crude Oil, Video: Huffington Post
Read the post and see two videos here.
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Tagged biodiversity, disaster, environment, grass, Gulf of Mexico, land, Louisiana, marine life, nature, oil, sea, water, wetlands
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U.N. Reports Eco-Systems at ‘Tipping Point’: CNN
CNN reported today: The world’s eco-systems are at risk of “rapid degradation and collapse” according to a new United Nations report. The third Global Biodiversity Outlook (GBO-3) published by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) warns that unless “swift, radical … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, biodiversity, CNN, coral reefs, disaster, Earth, eco-system, environment, extinction, freshwater, lakes, land, pollution, rainforest, rivers, sea, United Nations
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Building an Agricultural Community: The Model Self-Sufficient Village in Haiti: Wyclef Jean
Written by WYCLEF JEAN and published by Huffington Post here.
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Tagged agriculture, community, food, Haiti, land, model, self-sufficiency, Wyclef Jean
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Bringing People Back into the Economy: Vandana Shiva
“Bringing People Back into the Economy”, an excerpt from Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis, written by Dr. Vandana Shiva, published in 2008, and found online at the Center for Ecoliteracy.
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Tagged agriculture, Dr. Vandana Shiva, ecoliteracy, ecology, economy, India, land, people
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Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?: NYTimes Magazine
IN the age of global food crisis, those financing export agriculture play the rest of the planet a most dangerous game: read the NYTimes Magazine feature here: (…) spurring financial firms like Goldman Sachs and BlackRock to invest hundreds of … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, crisis, Ethiopia, export, farming, food, hunger, industrial, land, land grab, Rift Valley
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World Hunger Round 1: Vandana Shiva, Raj Patel Define the Debate
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Tagged agriculture, biotechnology, debate, Dr. Raj Patel, Dr. Vandana Shiva, ecology, economy, farmers, farming, Green Revolution, hunger, India, land, petroleum, soil, water
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Day of Action for Giving Thanks
SEEN on Monday’s edition of The Black Commentator:
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Tagged 1970, action, Aquinnah Wampanoag, giving thanks, indigenous, land, mourning, speech, Thanksgiving, Wampsutta
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Food is Freedom By LaDonna Redmond, The Nation Magazine
Chicago, USA: LaDonna Redmond writes about the connection between food and freedom in the September issue of The Nation: I believe that all communities should have access not just to food outcomes but to the production and distribution methods by … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago, communities, food, freedom, LaDonna Redmond, land, soil, The Nation, Urban Agriculture, urban farming
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In Brooklyn, a Prarie Springs from Former Landfills: NYTimes
BROOKLYN, USA: Former landfills becoming a thriving ecological reserve. In a $200 million project, the city’s Department of Environmental Protection covered the Fountain Avenue Landfill and the neighboring Pennsylvania Avenue Landfill with a layer of plastic, then put down clean … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, bushes, city, Department of Environmental Protection, development, dump, ecology, environment, habitat, land, landfill, nature, New York, transformation, trash, trees, waste
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A Land Ethic: edge::regenerate blog
Posted last month on edge regenerate blog, NICHOLAS MANG delivers briefly for a culture that supports an ethical treatment of the land. He makes his point by asking the reader to remember that as: “(…) culture has awakened to the … Continue reading
Street Farmer: NYTimes Weekend Magazine, July 5th
MILWAUKEE, USA: This weekends NYTimes Weekend Magazine includes a compelling 4 page feature on Will Allen, urban farming genius and Growing Power’s CEO and founder. Written by ELIZABETH ROYTE, the article is linked here. (…) Show Allen a pile of … Continue reading
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Tagged access to food, arugula, beehives, beets, castings, chard, cilantro, community, compost, composting, ecology, economy, employment, equity, farmers, food access, food desert, food justice, food production, food waste, greenhouse, grocery store, growing food, Growing Power, health, healthy, housing project, industrial food system, jobs, land, local food, lombicomposta, microbe, Milwaukee, nutrients, polyculture, processed food, restaurants, safet, safety, schools, soil, spinach, transportation, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban food system, wealth, Will Allen, work, worms
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Documentary: East New York’s Urban Agriculture
From Urban Omnibus (which I first saw linked through City Farmer): East New York is a documentary video in five chapters, explaining how East New York’s urban agriculture movement developed. The five chapters of the video focus on Local Farmers, … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural organizing, asset mapping, City Farmer, city government, city planning, documentary, East New York, eating, farmers, farmers markets, farming, food, health, jobs, land, land transfers, New York, Urban Agriculture, urban farmers, urban farms, video
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For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the Farm: NYTimes Global Business
YOKOSHIBAHIKARI, Japan: Rural Labor Squad, a government pilot program started recently by Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s stimulus plans, has so far helped place more than 2,400 Japanese youth into farming jobs, through a program that: ” (…) stems from … Continue reading
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Tagged agrculture, business, creative stimulus, economic recovery, economic stimulus, economy, farming, farms, government, Japan, japanese, job creation, job placement, jobs, land, pilot program, Rural Labor Squad, stimulus, work, workers, youth
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Beginning Farmer Rates Make Land Affordable: DTN/Progressive Farmer
Marcia Zarley Taylor, Executive Editor of the DTN/Progressive Farmer, reports that the USDA is offering 1.5 percent, 20-year fixed interest rates on farm mortgages for beginning or limited resource farmers. See the full story here: Farm Service Agency’s Down Payment … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008 Farm Bill, agriculture, applicants, apply, Congress, Department of Agriculture, Down Payment Program, DTN, economy, Farm Service Agency, farmers, farms, FSA, government, interest rate, land, loan, money, mortgage, Progressive Farmer, Treasury rates, USDA
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Permanent Culture: Tiffany Tong at UBC terrytalks
University of British Columbia: Redefining boundaries: Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong, from terrytalks on Vimeo., video 18min 06 sec.
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Tagged agronomy, British Columbia, Canada, carrots, catalyst, cities, City Farmer, Cuba, eating, empowerment, food, gender, global food system, Global North, Global South, growing food, Havana, India, jobs, Kenya, land, local food systems, milk, nutrition, permanent, rural, soil, technology, trash, Uganda, Urban Agriculture, urban farms, urgent, video, World War II
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Urban Farming Movement ‘Like a Revolution’: CNN
ATLANTA, USA: From a report today on CNN– Read the full story here: On a plot of soil, nestled against the backdrop of skyscrapers in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, a group of residents are turning a lack of access to fresh … Continue reading
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Tagged access to food, Atlanta, CNN, community, cultivate, empowerment, food, food access, food security, food system, fresh food, fresh produce, fruit, Georgia, Ghana, grocery stores, growing food, Growing Power, HABESHA, land, necessity, neighborhood, nutrients, poverty, rainwater catching, renaissance, roots, Sankofa, self-empowerment, self-reliance, Sustainable Seeds, traditions, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban farms, urban gardens, vegetables, Will Allen
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