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Wild foods: a food security strategy that's hard to swallow?
2013-07-03 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A recent FAO conference on Forests for Food Security highlighted the importance of wild foods for the food and nutrition security of millions of people. Often overlooked in food security strategies, these resources are both vital and under threat, and development actors have a valuable role to play in safeguarding them. Wild foods including fruits, nuts, leaves, mushrooms, roots, animals and eggs are important as part of coping strategies during times of food insecurity, but they are also...
How Re-greening Boosts Food Security; Curbs Climate Change
2013-06-27 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: President Obama is in Africa this week to discuss development, investment, health, and, notably, food security. The trip comes on the heels of the presidents groundbreaking announcement of a U.S. Climate Action Plan. So its a fitting time for Obama and other global leaders to take notice of a strategy that addresses both climate change and food security in Africa--re-greening. Re-greening--a process where African farmers manage and protect trees that grow on their farms, rather than cutting...
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Corn Growers Form International Maize Alliance to Focus on Biotechnology, Food Security, Stewardship, Trade Issues
2013-06-19 19:05:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
First-ever pact among largest corn exporting nations signals joint effort on GMO use. Corn growers from the worlds three largest corn exporting nations will collaborate on a global initiative to resolve common problems that restrict trade under a unique pact signed by grower leaders in May at Argentinas MAIZAR corn congress. The agreement the first of its kind among corn grower groups creates The International Maize Alliance (MAIZALL), which will work on biotechnology, food security, stewardship and trade issues. read more
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Climate change threatens water and food security in Antigua
2013-06-13 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: With their islands devoid of rivers or streams, farmers in Antigua and Barbuda have been building dams and ponds for centuries, harvesting rainwater to irrigate their crops and provide drinking water for their livestock. But now with the advent of climate change, they are facing major challenges. Stronger and more frequent storms regularly destroy trees planted around catchment areas as watershed as well as grass planted in and around these areas to slow evaporation. "Since 1995, since Hurricane...
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food
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water
Labor by the Bay: Social Security cuts, Fast food strikes, Lettuce Wars, Safeway...
2013-04-10 21:27:53| Grocery - Topix.net
ON THE CUTTING EDGE... President Barack Obama has once again signaled that he wants to cut Social Security benefits by reducing cost-of-living adjustments, as reported Monday in the lead story in Beyond Chron, but buried in verbiage in most of the mainstream media.
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