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  • Planting Exotic Crops for the Sake of the Local Economy

    July 12, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Immigrants to St. Louis are capitalizing on urban gardens and helping to revitalize the city by repopulating it. The program enrolled 31 refugees and their families who plant food for their own household and to sell them. While the profits aren't huge, the entrepreneurial program offers refugees who may speak little or no English a chance to learn how to operate in the local economy.

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  • This hidden farm under London might radically change how we grow food

    July 11, 2015 |

    Digital Trends |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    More than 30-meters below the busy London streets, there is an eco-farm called Growing Underground that's part innovative agri-tech project and part sci-fi inspired netherworld. Created to provide increased food security and combat the environmental degradation caused by mass agriculture, this self-contained, zero-emissions, fully functioning farm provides an exciting opportunity as the world's population grows and food demands increase.

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  • This Isn't Your Average Home Ec Class

    June 30, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Culinary and agricultural education can sometimes take a backseat to the more academic side of high school. But Blue Hill is teaching high school students the importance of healthy cooking and home grown produce through a cooking class that was recently instituted in Manhattan high schools.

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  • Refugees given a chance to grow their future in US

    June 20, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The United States is facing a looming shortage in agricultural workers, as the vast majority of farmers are aged 65 or older and fewer young folks are taking up the trade. The International Rescue Committee has a win-win solution: many of the refugees resettling in the US bring with them in-depth knowledge of agriculture and farming, and by providing them with the land and resources, their New Roots program is addressing both the country's need for farm labor and these families's needs for a new start.

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  • Agroecology can help fix our broken food system. Here's how.

    June 17, 2015 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    What we sometimes call the “agri-food system” is broken — just ask farmworkers and food workers (exploited, underpaid), honeybees (collapsing), forested landscapes (fragmenting), the climate (warming), and the ever-growing number of people without access to nutritious food, or the land and resources with which to produce it. But a new branch of sustainability, agroecology, helps farmers and researchers develop farming practices that enhance soil fertility, recycle nutrients, optimize the use of energy and water, and, perhaps most importantly, increase the beneficial interactions of organisms in ecosystems.

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  • Can gardening transform convicted killers and carjackers? Prison officials get behind the bloom.

    June 07, 2015 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Westover, Maryland

    Eastern Correctional Institution is just one of the nation's prisons that's using gardening and agriculture as a way both to improve prison and community food systems, and to give inmates a sense of worth.

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  • This Country Just Banned Grocery Stores From Throwing Out Food

    May 26, 2015 |

    ThinkProgress |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Food waste costs billions of dollars a year and is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. French government just passed a law banning grocery stores from destroying or throwing away unsold food, and instead directing it to those in need.

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  • Japan's Future Farms

    May 25, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Japan, Fukushima, Tōhoku

    At the Fujitsu factory in Japan, a significant decline in demand for semiconductor computer chips meant the company had large empty factory space sitting unused. A new business approach allowed them to dually address both the need to evolve their business model with a global decline of viable agricultural space needed to grow the world's food. Now, the factory houses indoor vegetable gardens, soil free and less resource-heavy than traditional farmland.

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  • In South Korea, An Innovative Push to Cut Back on Food Waste

    May 20, 2015 |

    Yale Environment 360 |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

    According to the United Nations, approximately 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year, which is costly to the environment and the economy. In Seoul, technological waste bins calculate the weight of the garbage against a set limit, and if the disposal is too heavy there is a fee. To reduce landfill deposits, Seoul has also composted food waste by turning it into animal feed, fertilizer, and electricity generation.

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  • How to grow food in a slum: lessons from the sack farmers of Kibera

    May 18, 2015 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi Area

    A Kenyan government initiative is helping a growing community of residents to tackle food insecurity in one of the largest slum areas in Africa, championing an unusual form of urban farming: sack gardens.

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