#food security

[ireton]

THE GERMAN FARMERS WON

After Bringing Berlin to a complete halt, the Government have backed down on several ludicrous taxation & net zero policy impacting food production. Of course you won’t see this on fake news MSM as they don’t wish you to know the wider narrative and/or implications of. This however is just the battle & not the war.

#Germany #Farmers #Well Done #Food Security #Advocate for Agriculture #Support Local Farmers #No Farms - No Food #No Farmers - No Food - No Future #Like Minded People #Make Tumblr ★ Great Again

[vox-anglosphere]

As with doctors, British farmers make their daily rounds too.

#English farmer #Lake District #English countryside #ATV #UK #trailer #pet dogs #all-terrain vehicle #farmhouse #rural britain #agriculture #food security #farming #hard work #dedication

[probablyasocialecologist]

What if Tucson’s million new trees — and the rest of the country’s — didn’t just keep sidewalks cool? What if they helped feed people, too? That’s what Brandon Merchant hopes will happen on the shadeless south side of Tucson, a city where about one-fifth of the population lives more than a mile from a grocery store. He’s working on a project to plant velvet mesquite trees that thrive in the dry Sonoran Desert and have been used for centuries as a food source. The mesquite trees’ seed pods can be ground into a sweet, protein-rich flour used to make bread, cookies, and pancakes. Merchant, who works at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, sees cultivating mesquite around the city and surrounding areas as an opportunity to ease both heat and hunger. The outcome could be a network of  “food forests,” community spaces where volunteers tend fruit trees and other edible plants for neighbors to forage. “Thinking about the root causes of hunger and the root causes of health issues, there are all these things that tie together: lack of green spaces, lack of biodiversity,” Merchant said. (The food bank received half a million dollars from the Biden administration through the Inflation Reduction Act.) Merchant’s initiative fits into a national trend of combining forestry — and Forest Service funding — with efforts to feed people. Volunteers, school teachers, and urban farmers in cities across the country are planting fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and other edible plants in public spaces to create shade, provide access to green space, and supply neighbors with free and healthy food. These food forests, forest gardens, and edible parks have sprouted up at churches, schools, empty lots, and street corners in numerous cities, including Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Seattle, and Miami. “It’s definitely growing in popularity,” said Cara Rockwell, who researches agroforestry and sustainable food systems at Florida International University. “Food security is one of the huge benefits.” There are also numerous environmental benefits: Trees improve air quality, suck carbon from the atmosphere, and create habitat for wildlife, said Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, an urban forestry expert at James Madison University in Virginia. “I think food forests are gaining popularity alongside other urban green space efforts, community gardens, green rooftops,” she added. “All of those efforts, I think, are moving us in a positive direction.”

#food forest #trees #urban trees #food security

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) will be issuing the long-promised "grocery rebate" payments to eligible Canadians on July 5.

Months after Parliament passed the one-time benefit first unveiled as part of the 2023 federal budget, the payments will be hitting Canadians' bank accounts on Wednesday.

The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians.

Essentially a re-branded GST rebate boost, the payment will be issued through Canada's GST/HST tax credit system, alongside the regular quarterly GST/HST payments. [...]

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#cdnpoli #food security #food insecurity #CRA #neoliberalism

[acti-veg]

The FAO roadmap was published at the Cop28 climate summit in December and accepts that diets “absolutely must [change] for human and planetary health”. But its 120 actions do not include reducing meat and dairy consumption in nations where most people already eat unhealthy amounts. Instead, many of the FAO’s recommendations are to intensify the efficiency of animal farming techniques.

“It’s very striking: the FAO doesn’t include one of the clearest interventions that would help meet both environmental and health targets,” said Cleo Verkuijl, of the Stockholm Environment Institute US and one of the eight authors of the commentary from academic institutions in the US, the Netherlands and Brazil.

“Also really surprising is the fact that the FAO completely dismisses alternative proteins,” she said. These had been shown to have far smaller environmental impacts than conventional meat but the FAO claimed, without providing evidence, that plant-based meats had “nutritional deficiencies”, the experts said.

A report from the UN Environment Programme (Unep), published in December, said “alternatives to animal products such as meat and dairy may contribute to significantly reducing the environmental footprint of the current global food system”.

#vegan #resource use #environment #food security #articles

[igottatho]

I like to see videos like this, not just because it’s happier than the massacres and blood shed, but to remind everyone that these are just normal people, normal children and normal everyday helpers. And even in the darkest of times, happiness can found in sharing with each other, and helping one another.

PS. I don’t understand any Arabic, really, but the heart knows, right?

I found this via instagram, on Nour Talal Alnajjar’s page, which you can find here.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #free gaza #food security #help Gaza #Gaza is starving #flour massacre #nour_alnajjar96 #instagram #video #Arabic #children of Gaza #helpers of Gaza

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Foraging has become a REALLY hot topic over the past few years. We even saw a surge of interest at the start of the pandemic fueled both by the shutdown, and by concerns about food security due to grocery shortages. My foraging classes are consistently the most popular ones I offer, and the Facebook groups I'm on are absolutely teeming with new people interested in getting started.

But as with any extractive activity, foraging has its downsides. The more people out in the woods and fields looking for edible mushrooms (and plants), the more strain that puts on local ecosystems. In my classes I advocate for only taking 25% of a given species in an area (unless you find, like, three chanterelles, in which case just pick the three chanterelles.) A lot of people have less restraint, and of course you have commercial mushroom hunters who will clean out every single marketable mushroom they find, leaving nothing for anyone else.

This is a topic that I don't feel gets enough attention in the foraging world, but we desperately need to be talking about it more. Most of us who forage do not rely on it as a primary form of food security, and have other reasonable options for acquiring food. Yes, it can be fun to go out looking for mushrooms and berries and such when we're out hiking and camping, and I am a big fan of what I call "incidental foraging"--picking things you find while you're doing something else. It's good to know how to identify edible and it's a nice treat when I run across something. But unless my situation changes to where my food security is seriously threatened, I do not personally feel the need to be one of those foragers where 90% of what they eat is something they foraged, especially when I am financially secure enough to be able to go to the grocery store whenever I want. I think most foragers these days are in a similar situation, though there are always going to be people for whom foraging is a necessary and vital part of food security.

So yes, I am strongly in favor of bag limits for non-indigenous people, hardship permits for those in financial need (and don't make the application process too much of a hurdle), and curbs on widespread commercial mushroom harvest. It's not just to save something for other people, but to reduce wear and tear on the land. Those mushrooms need to be spreading spores for the next generation, and I worry that overharvesting is going to have deleterious effects both on the mushroom species being harvested, and the health of the ecosystems they are a part of.

#foraging #mushroom foraging #mushroom hunting #mushrooms #fungi #fungus #mycology #food #food security #nature #outdoors #ecology #environment #conservation

[nuroful]

via kandaka magazine on Instagram

#Sudan #Africa #kandaka magazine #UN #food security

[balkanradfem]

I've seen so many influencers buying things carelessly that I'm starting to get a dangerously twisted view of the world. So, a reality check, radfems, tell me whats your economic state of distress in a grocery store.

#poverty #food security #economic poll #radfem #grocery store #buying things #finances #economy #trying to see how normal people live #by normal I mean radfems #I'm in poverty but i rarely go to the store I am mostly making and growing stuff at this point

[macgyvermedical]

How to Cook Cheap Staples:

I recently learned that in the USA, on average, each person eats about 1,670 calories per day of just 4 foods: wheat, corn, rice and soy.

Wheat, corn, rice and soy also happen to be some of the cheapest foods available in US grocery stores. If you buy them as wheat flour, corn meal, rice, and soybean oil. If you buy them as bread, soda, rice cakes, and fried foods, they can also be some of the most expensive.

Based on the least expensive versions of these staple crops available on Amazon (because I didn't want to get off the couch to go to the store for you all), you can get 23,380 calories (the average 1,670 calories per day for 2 weeks) in 5lb of brown rice ($6.20), 5lb of wheat flour ($2.49), 2lb corn meal ($2.98), and 32oz of soybean oil ($6.48).

This means if you make all your own staple foods, 3/4 of your calories could be taken care of for about $9/week. You could even go cheaper than this if you buy white rice. I just threw the brown stuff in there for flair and fiber.

Here's how to cook your staples:

Yeast Bread Loaf

Quick Bread Loaf

Tortillas

Pancakes

Fresh Pasta

Hand Pie/Pierogi/Dumpling Dough

Polenta (don't need the cheese or butter)

Cornbread (can replace butter with oil and buttermilk with milk or water)

Corn Cakes

Tortillas (masa- this is different than cornmeal)

Tamale dough (masa)

Steamed Rice

Congee

Rice Pudding

Rice Cake

If you're trying to save money, shoot for a meal plan that basically includes your staples as the primary food, and adorn with your protein and vegetables. That means, say, a bowl of polenta with tomato-beef sauce. Or rice with black beans, onions, peppers, and spices. Keep in mind that since your staples have been taken care of, you just need about 400 calories in legumes, meat, fruit, and vegetables per day to meet a 2,000-calorie target. That's pretty much an apple and peanut butter for breakfast, a little tomato-beef sauce at lunch, and a handful of beans flavored with onions, bacon, and peppers at dinner.

If that sounds like you're eating mostly starch and fat, you're right, but technically if you're the average American you're already doing that. This is just doing it cheaper.

#food #food security #cheap #tightwadery

[ireton]

GERMAN FARMERS WIN AGAINST GLOBALIST GOVERNMENT

This however is just a battle in a much larger war.

GOD, Family & Community

No Farms - No Food

No Farmers - No Food - No Future

Freedom - is the sound of Truck & Locomotive air horns

Freedom - is the smell of Diesel Fuel

Freedom - is the sight of a Truck Convoy moving in unison

Freedom - is the touch of a man with Rough Calloused Hands making contact with a soft weak liberal politician & leaving a lasting impression on the civil servant

Freedom - is the taste of Hope for a better Future.

#Germany #Olaf Scholz #Farmers #Convoy #Food Security #Advocate for Agriculture #Support Local Farmers #No Farms - No Food #No Farmers - No Food - No Future #Like Minded People #Make Tumblr ★ Great Again

[losech]

Did you know that the best way to have a beautiful lush lawn isn't to drench it in synthetic fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides? It's rotational grazing.

That's right, livestock.

The impact animals have on grass is tremendous. They crop it short, trample it into the ground, and shit on it. All of which, when not done excessively, is exactly what the grass needs. Grazing stimulates new growth. Stomping and scratching "till" plant matter into the soil without disrupting it. Manure adds essential nutrients back to the ground.

A key to this process is the word rotational. Keeping the animals in one spot and never moving them will eventually result in no plant matter, and if you don't add enough bedding or remove manure on time, an unpleasant smell. You need to put the animals into a pen or "tractor" and move them every day or every few days, allowing them to graze and forage without eating and digging everything up. Each patch of grass needs a rest period where no animals are present for a while so the grass can regrow and the manure break down into the soil. This is a well documented, low impact, and highly successful process that many small (and some large) farms and backyard livestock enthusiasts employ.

You cannot accurately replicate this process with mechanical and synthetic means. You create a sterile polluting environment devoid of important microbes, insects, topsoil, and plant diversity. It needs constant attention because it's not a thriving symbiotic ecosystem.

A huge benefit to small scale livestock such as chickens and rabbits is they can give you that beautiful grass with very little cost. Chickens can eat leftovers, taking care of an important source of food waste. They also eat bugs and greatly reduce the umber of pest species without killing all the beneficial pollinators as well. Chickens provide eggs and meat in return. Rabbits love plants like clover and dandelions, put them in areas with weeds and they will take care of them for you. A few rabbits can provide several pounds of highly nutritious meat.

You can put a pen of chickens or rabbits in one spot for a while, continuously adding new hay and straw (this is important) until it's built up a bit, then remove the animals and let it compost. Put your garden there the next year. Or, if you have a set spot the animals live, collect their manure and bedding, compost it, and add it to your garden. Composted animal waste and bedding is a wonderful addition to gardens that synthetics can't come close to.

These small animals solve two issues at once: that perfect green lawn and food insecurity.

But often, keeping small livestock, especially within city limits and in HOAs, is illegal. With the current climate surrounding inflation, supply chain issues, and increasingly erratic weather, having a stable food supply not only close to but at home is becoming more and more important.

But people aren't allowed to feed themselves, due to legislation telling them what they can and cannot do on *their* property.

It's absolutely ridiculous and needs to change.

#food #food security #farming #chickens #rabbits #livestock #gardening #HOAs suck #legislation #mind your own fucking business #i hate lawns

[probablyasocialecologist]

About a fifth of food is wasted, sometimes through profligacy or poor planning, sometimes from a lack of access to refrigeration or storage, according to the UN Food Waste Index report, published on Wednesday, at a global cost of about $1tn a year. Households are responsible for most of the world’s food waste – about 60% of the 1bn tonnes of food thrown away annually. But commercial food systems are also a substantial contributor: food services accounted for 28% of waste, and retail for about 12% in 2022, the latest data available. These figures exclude an additional 13% of food that is lost in the food supply chain, between harvest and market, often from rejection or spoilage of edible food. Not only is this waste squandering natural resources, it is also a big contributor to the climate and biodiversity crises, accounting for close to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and displacing wildlife from intensive farming, as more than a quarter of the world’s agricultural land is given over to the production of food that is subsequently wasted. Inger Andersen, the executive director of the UN Environment Programme, which wrote the report in conjunction with the UK’s Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap), described food waste as “a global tragedy”, and contrasted this with the fact that a third of people face food insecurity, unsure of where their future meals will come from.

#food #food waste #hunger #food security

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Toronto is about to be home to a pay-what-you-can restaurant that allows everyone barrier-free access to food. Created by Chef Jagger Sean Gordon, Feed it Forward is an organization that's working towards ensuring affordable access to quality foods across the city through a number of different initiatives, and they're about to add one more. Residents in the St. Clair West area of the city recently noticed something exciting going into a vacant space — a new location of Soup Bar by Feed it Forward, one of the organization's many PWYC restaurant concepts. Soup Bar has existed in the city in various forms over the years, including a pop-up at Market 707 back in 2017, and the latest iteration will be officially opening for business on March 1 for at least six months serving hot and frozen soups, stews and chillis.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #ontario #toronto #mutual aid #cost of living #food security #community aid #food access

[hussyknee]

Idk how people go into social science research knowing that you're anyway going to spend your entire life arguing with wilfully ignorant fuckwits over stuff like "keeping one-tenth of the world's GDP locked up in a handful of people's accounts is bad for a functional economy'', "you shouldn't have to pay money to stay alive", "letting people mind their own business won't hurt you", "knowledge is good actually", "people have the right to do whatever they want with their own bodies", "children are people too", "germs are real", "spreading disease is bad for society", "genocide is bad actually", "letting the government kill people puts everyone in danger because everyone is people", "access to long-distance murder weapons increases the chances of getting murdered", "you can't give a clump of cells the same rights as a human being" ad fucking nauseaum until you die.

#maybe we should just use small words and picture books #make up a ''why people dont need murder weapons'' song #hotline for explaining ''it's called human 'rights' because you can't take them away'' #social justice #ableism #anti vaxxers #human rights #abolition #homelessness #universal healthcare #universal basic income #food security #military industrial complex #child rights #body autonomy #pro choice #gay rights #trans rights #acab #anti intellectualism #racism #disability justice #compassion fatigue #knee of huss

[urbansoulfarmer]

Mercado la Paloma edible garden managed by Urban Soul Farmer.

#losangeles #urbansoulfarmer #urban gardening in los angeles #food security #food forest