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  • Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

    May 31, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Wewoka, Oklahoma

    Indigenous communities are combining traditional knowledge and new technology to improve food production for its people. For example, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma partners with the startup Symbiotic Aquaponic that uses fish and plants in water to grow traditional foods like corn, pole beans, and squash. It can be expensive to get started, but the system uses less water than industrial agriculture and provides key nutrition for members of the tribe.

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  • Feeding Richmond: How community fridges tackle food insecurity

    May 19, 2022 |

    WTVR-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    The RVA Community Fridges addresses the issue of food insecurity by setting up household or industrial refrigerators outside of a host business, like a restaurant, non-profit or church. Anyone can swing by a fridge and take whatever they need or leave whatever they can. To fill the fridges, community members, local businesses, and other organizations donate purchased or cooked food.

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  • Gardeners transform food waste into fuel, aiding the climate

    May 14, 2022 |

    Royal Examiner |

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    Response Location: United States

    HomeBiogas systems use anaerobic digestion to convert compostable food waste into cooking gas and reduce methane emissions.

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  • One Square Meal a Day – Home-Grown Feeding Programme Keeping Niger State Children in School

    May 09, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Home-Grown School Feeding Program provides one square meal a day to students in public primary schools in an effort to combat poor school attendance and malnutrition, feeding thousands of students each day. In addition to improving the economic conditions for farmers and food vendors, as well as rates of malnutrition, the program has led to a 35.6% increase in school enrollment.

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  • How farmers in Earth's least developed country grew 200 million trees

    April 27, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Niger

    After years of drought and land-clearing that left Niger with few trees left, the country now boasts about 200 million trees, which have mostly been reestablished naturally. While the effects of climate change could threaten the future of these trees, this method has also increased crop yields in villages. This model of letting trees grow back with little human influence could be implemented in other countries.

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  • In the Battle Over the Right to Repair, Open-Source Tractors Offer an Alternative

    April 27, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Tarrytown, New York

    Amid a growing “right to repair” movement, farmers are calling for new, open-source production models, like The Oggún, a universally designed, easily modified tractor that farmers can customize to fit their needs. Farmers have found that the tractor cuts down on repair costs by enabling them to fix it themselves or take it to a local mechanic, rather than working with large commercial manufacturers.

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  • How "Kitovu Technology" Improves Small-scale Farming, Food Security In Nigeria

    April 26, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Iseyin, Oyo State

    Kitovu Technology is a social enterprise that aims to use data and technology to help farmers in Nigeria increase their crop yields and access new markets. Since 2017, the company has trained over 300 agents to work with about 12,000 farmers on using the mobile app to track their progress. The company also partnered with the government on a pilot program to introduce an electronic warehouse system to allow farmers to store their grains.

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  • Public Libraries Are Making It Easy to Check Out Seeds—and Plant a Garden

    April 25, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

    More and more public libraries around the United States are creating seed libraries as a way to encourage gardening, combat hunger insecurity, and build community resilience. For example, the Jefferson Public Library in Georgia has seen the number of people using the seed library grow to more than 300 in 2021. It can be a lot of work to maintain the seed libraries, but some librarians see it as a way to engage the community.

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  • University Students Repurpose Food Waste to Address Food Insecurity

    April 20, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The UGA Garden works with Trader Joe’s to gather viable produce the grocery chain gets rid of each Sunday. Student workers go through the food each week, compost what has gone bad, and use the rest to make meals for those in need. The organizations has gathered over 330,000 pounds of food so far and deliver over 700 meals per month.

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  • Athens Foodbank Fights Food Insecurity

    April 20, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    The City of Refuge food bank supplies food and groceries to locals in need through mobile drives, school drop-offs and community deliveries each week. The food bank has about 60 volunteers who come in weekly to package about 250 boxes of food for local residents.

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