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  • To get young Filipinos into farming, initiatives reach them via TikTok, school

    October 27, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines

    Kids Who Farm, an initiative co-founded by a 12-year-old in the Phillippines, is working to teach young people how to start micro-farms and grow the waning youth interest in agriculture.

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  • South Minneapolis grocery store offers a special on helping

    October 21, 2022 |

    Minnesota Star Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Good Grocer, a grocery store in Minneapolis, is a nonprofit run by volunteers who receive an additional discount on groceries for their work. The store’s food outlet offers discounts of up to 70% and provides affordable, healthy foods to combat food insecurity.

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  • 'Tiny Farms' Bring Agriculture Jobs to the Work-Life Balance Generation

    October 20, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Tiny Farms is making agriculture more accessible to people in Germany by allowing those interested in part-time farming to rent land for micro-farms that supply food locally. The company also gives farmers access to training, cultivation programs, seeds, and takes care of transport and organic certification.

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  • A Jordanian Collective Works Toward Food Sovereignty Through Urban Farming

    October 11, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    The Al Barakeh Wheat Project is working to regain food sovereignty through urban wheat farming in Amman, Jordan, by partnering farmers with families to teach them how to grow and harvest wheat.

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  • Record Heat Waves And Droughts Can't Dry Up This Native Garden In Phoenix

    October 10, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    To tend their urban garden in extreme heat, the healthcare clinic Native Health of Phoenix partners with two nonprofits, Keep Phoenix Beautiful and the Salt River Project, to use flood irrigation techniques built on Huhugam agricultural practices and canals. Every other week during the hottest months 1,600 gallons of water flow through the garden and drain out.

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  • Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

    October 03, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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  • Can an Urban Farm Run by Police Create Jobs, Feed People, and Build Trust?

    September 14, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Alameda County, California

    Dig Deep Farms provides sustainable jobs for people coming out of jail, who have a difficult time finding work. The farm employs about 15 people who grow food for county health initiatives, runs a job-training program for formerly incarcerated people, and operates a food hub to distribute fresh produce to people in need and recently increased its acreage to provide even more opportunities and resources.

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  • How One Rust Belt College Is Transforming Its Local Food System

    September 12, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Kalamazoo Valley Community College is revitalizing the local food system by connecting people to farmers and educating the community about the system. The college is also providing a food hub that aggregates local farmers as well as free boxes of fresh food for students.

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  • Oasis in the Desert: Walker River Paiute Tribe Builds Food Pantry

    August 03, 2022 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Schurz, Nevada

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic making access to groceries more difficult, The Walker River Paiute Tribe created a food pantry to support members of the tribe and local farmers. The food pantry has since become the largest in the state, by volume of distributed food, having distributed about 6,500 bags of food to over 355 households.

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  • Ukrainian vegan cuisine: how volunteers in Uzhhorod organize healthy food for displaced people

    July 14, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Uzhhorod

    The volunteer-run Vegan Kitchen of Ukraine project provides vegan meals for displaced people in cities across the country and sends meal packages to soldiers. The volunteers prepare the food in their homes or during donated time at local kitchens.

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