Touch the Soil News #1721 (Feature Photo – Hemp Plants – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Barbtorte) The Press Democrat journalist Guy Kovner brings the story of unusual dimensions. The City of Detroit, with a population of 670,000 is at the center of a metro area of over 4.3 million people. Detroit has over 35,000 vacant…
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200,000 Fruit Trees Planted in 1 Year
Touch the Soil News #1720 (Feature Photo – Pyrifolia Fruit – CCA SA 4.0 International, Pumpkin Sky) CBS Los Angeles brings the story of a group of people who just completed their 2020 vision. The vision was to plant 200,000 fruit trees before the end of 2020. There is a global Fruit Tree Planting Foundation…
Food Prices – Another Global Food Tremor Underway
Touch the Soil News #1719 (Feature Photo – Food – Public Domain) While it is true that Agriculture has been exempted from most economic lockdowns, in theory there are problems. Community gardens have been shut down and shipping ports have been constricted in the trade of food. However, it is not just the production of…
Is the Plantation – A Colonial Platform of Exploitation Still Alive?
Touch the Soil News #1718 (Feature Photo – Tea Plantations in Kenya – CCA SA 4.0 International, Wktoo) Farmlandgrab.org brings us a disturbing story of how land and labor have been exploited since the 1980s as Europeans brought mono-culture farming to Africa. The story is not a pretty one, but for the sake of understanding…
Farms not Arms – Peace Through Food Farms
Positive Future #841 (Feature photo – Combined Flags of the World – CCA SA 4.0 International, Baka888) Agritecture brings us the story of a group of designers, farmers, strategists, and agriculturalists that are building and envisioning food for all – especially those externalized by conflict. You can read the story here: https://www.agritecture.com/blog/2020/11/11/farms-not-arms-tackles-the-refugee-and-food-security-crises
Planned Economic Contractions – Leave People Vulnerable to Hunger
The Growing Food Pandemic
Touch the Soil News #1716 (Feature Photo – National Guard Distributing Food at the Monterey Food Bank in California – Public Domain) The Counter News Portal brings us the story of how 29 million American adults do not have enough to eat. Of concern is that this is a threefold increase from two years ago.…
The Future of Vertical Farming
Touch the Soil News #1715 (Feature Photo – Vertical Farming – CCA 2.0 Generic, Satoshi Kinokuni) MyFinTech News Portal brings us more of the story on Vertical Farming. Is there really an opportunity in high cost controlled environment farming? Since 2018, about $1.8 billion in venture capital has flowed into vertical farming start-ups. You can…
Why Hunger?
Touch the Soil News #1714 (Feature Photo – Fresh Vegetables – CCA SA 4.0 International, Tila Monto) WCBS News Radio brings us the story of urban farmers in New York pitching in to give food to food banks and work with local nonprofits to fight hunger. You can read the story here: https://www.radio.com/wcbs880/news/local/whyhunger-urban-farms-distribute-food-to-bronx-communities
An ATM For Food Grains?
Touch the Soil News #1713 (Feature Photo – World Food Programme Logo – Public Domain) India, a heavily populated nation of almost 1.4 billion people has lots of poor. Through national food security programs, many poor are given a daily allotment of subsidized grain at a discount price. Unfortunately, shops that offer the subsidized grain…