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  • Ancient seeds, new roots: Cherokee corn thrives at St. Edward's University's food forest

    October 08, 2024 |

    Hilltop Views |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A food forest at St. Edward’s University has cultivated two heirloom varieties of Cherokee corn, helping Cherokee peoples connect to their ancestors and agriculural history.

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  • The Californians Rescuing Surplus Produce to Fight Hunger

    October 01, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Bell, California

    At a 10,000-square-foot warehouse in Bell, California, Food Forward employees race to take in and redistribute 265,000 pounds of fresh produce every day. The organization receives excess fresh fruits and vegetables from wholesale businesses for free and delivers them to 300 nonprofits working to address food insecurity.

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  • The Urban Gardens Where Gender and Climate Justice Grow

    September 11, 2024 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

    The city of Quito’s Participatory Urban Agriculture Program creates sustainable access to food by providing land and agricultural training, and it prioritizes empowering vulnerable populations, particularly women.

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  • North Center's Common Pantry Provides Free Nutritional Education Amid Increased Demand

    September 06, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Common Pantry provides assistance to those facing food insecurity, and recently opened a new facility to offer housing information and assistance with job searches, government benefits, health care and other services. The Pantry also started a nutrition program, teaching people about the science between food and health, as well as how to cook healthy meals at home.

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  • Across California, jurisdictions work collaboratively to comply with regulations put in place by the state's food recovery legislation

    August 27, 2024 |

    Waste Today |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In 2016, California adopted a law to reduce the amount of organic waste in state landfills by 75 percent, which led cities and counties to develop their own organic waste diversion programs, such as organic waste collection and edible food recovery. In 2022, 11.2 million tons of organic waste were diverted, while 201,000 tons of edible food were recovered that year.

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  • Can Backyard Farming Fix Kampala's Food Prices?

    August 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Residents of Kampala, Uganda, are turning to various urban farming practices to grow their own food in light of rising food prices. Many of them grow enough excess that they're able to sell crops at local markets for additional income.

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  • 'Nuisance' Organic Waste Offers Farmers Better Fertilizer, And Feed Deal

    August 26, 2024 |

    Solutions Now Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The social enterprise Marula Proteen Limited is providing farmers in Uganda with a cheaper source of livestock feed, allowing them to stay in business. The enterprise uses soldier fly larvae produced with food waste to create animal feed and crop fertilizers.

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  • Waste not, want not: FoodCommune rescues food from landfills to help feed the community

    August 16, 2024 |

    Canopy Atlanta |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    FoodCommune aims to reduce food waste by rescuing food before it ends up in landfills, redistributing about 6,000 pounds of food per week. FoodCommune gathers food from farmer’s markets, grocery stores, restaurants and other sources, redistributing enough to feed about 300 people each week.

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  • Slow Steps Through a Minefield

    August 16, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Ukraine

    MinesEye is prototyping a drone, which has conducted more than a hundred flights, to help Ukrainians identify mines and other potentially dangerous objects deposited in agriculture fields. The drone and its software combine data from aerial photography, magnetometers, and infrared cameras. As of reporting, the system found 18% of the 146 explosive devices planted using its cameras, and adding magnetic scanning data to the analysis, the hit rate rose to 90% of metal-containing projectiles.

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  • Why Opening Grocery Stores Alone Doesn't Solve Food Deserts

    August 09, 2024 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    Programs such as the Healthy Food Financing Initiative provide government funding to help build grocery stores in areas with little access to fresh food, with the goal of addressing “food deserts” and bolstering local economies. However, due in part to a lack of enforcement of fair competition regulations, small, independent grocery stores struggle to offer competitive pricing compared to big-box stores, and nearly half of stores that received funding from the initiative in 2020 and 2021 have either closed or have yet to open at all.

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