photo: Kevin Lallier / Creative Commons The latest edition of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization ‘s Food Outlook report warns that 2011 may be a difficult year for food in the world’s poorest and most food-deprived nations , with national food import bills climbing… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Food Prices in World’s Poorest Nations May Rise 20% in 2011
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Image via Green Space Today Rouge Tomate is an upscale, Michelin Star-winning restaurant situated in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But what sets it apart from the countless other restaurants that fit that exact description is a genuine dedication to achieving some bright green ideals — there’s a heavy emphasis on local foods featured on the menu items, the design standards sate the Green Restaurant Association’s requirements, and, yes, they compost all biodegradable waste. Rouge Toma… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Meet Rouge Tomate: The Restaurant with Both a Michelin Star and a Composting Room
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Image credit: Mr. Kris /Flickr A dangerous geopolitics of food scarcity is emerging in which individual countries, acting in their narrowly defined self-interest, reinforce the trends causing global food security to deteriorate. This began in late 2007 when wheat-exporting countries, like Russia and Argentina, attempted to counter domestic food price rises by limiting or banning exports. Viet Nam banned rice exports for several months, and several other minor exporters also restricted exports. While these moves reassured those living in the exporting countries, they created panic … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity
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A previous do-gooding design campaign. Photo via Slowalk From educating people about food miles and food security to encouraging them to use less paper, the Korean group Slowalk puts its graphic-design skills in the service of do-gooder causes. The latest target of their clean-lined advocacy? A government project to
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Designing Their Way Out of a Dam Mess
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Photo via benketero California is simultaneously in a water crunch and one of the nation’s most important food sources. California is the world’s fifth largest supplier of food and agriculture commodities, and in 2007, California exported more agricultural products by air than 23 other states did by all modes of transport. That says a lot for how important farming is to the state, and we all know how important water is to farming. That brings us to the incredibly political and tumultuous issue of water rights and regulations within the state. In order to address a rising water … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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New Water Reporting Requirements Have California Farmers On Edge
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Image via Science Daily “The Biggest GM Crop Scandal in Germany to Date” A genetically modified strain of maize classified as NK603 — one that is explicitly banned in the European Union — has been unleashed in Germany. The crop has been unwittingly planted on nearly 7,500 acres so far, and is continuing to spread. The source of the contamination has not yet been determined, but it is believed that it could cost farmers millions of euros to eradicate the tenacious GMO crop…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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GMO Crop Takes Over Thousands of Acres in Germany
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