Positive Future #793 (Feature photo – Restaurant Closures – public domain) The global food price index has been rising steadily for the past 3 years as economies grew and more people could afford better diets. In 2020, with unprecedented purposeful global economic covid shutdowns, the food price index dropped, making food more affordable as the…
Positive Future #792 (Feature photo – Malaysia From Space – courtesy of NASA) Have you ever heard of the Forest City in Malaysia? It is one of the world’s largest planned city projects with an estimated cost of $100 billion. The project is a cooperative effort of a Chinese company and a Malaysian government sponsored…
Positive Future #791 (Feature photo – Vertical Harvest Concept – courtesy of Vertical Harvest) Agritecture brings us the story of Vertical Harvest’s plans to open another location in Westbrook. Maine, a small community of 20,000 people. The project is a 70,000 square foot facility that is almost four stories high is expected to produce 1…
Touch the Soil News #1666 (Feature Photo – American Poverty in the 1940s – Public Domain) In an unprecedented aligning of voices, the World Food Programme, UNICEF, The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization are calling for action in prioritizing nutrition among the world’s peoples. The socioeconomic side-effects – of coronavirus related…
Touch the Soil News #1665 (Feature Photo – Port Moody City Hall – Public Domain) Port Moody is a small city within the larger metropolitan area of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada – with a population of 2.9 million people. Port Moody, as a city, is looking to formally enter the urban farming landscape by…
Touch the Soil News #1664 (Feature Photo – Stressed Crops – USDA Public Domain) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s latest report on the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World is sobering. For the third year in a row hunger in the world is growing. The report finds that 2 billion…
Touch the Soil News #1663 (Feature Photo – Precision Agriculture – U.S. GAO Public Domain) Global watchdogs over the future of farming express concern over the impacts of climate change on crop yields – floods and droughts in specifics. While many futurists believe we need to double food production in the next 30 years to…
Touch the Soil News #1662 (Feature Photo – The World – By Augiasstallputzer~commonswiki – Own work, based on shoreline data from GSHHS (“crude” level), a public-domain source., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1055628) BrightVibes brings us the story of a new report from the World Economic Forum. The report affirms that pursuing a nature led approach to rebuilding…
Touch the Soil News #1661 (Feature Photo – Food Waste – CCA SA 4.0 International) Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us the story of upcycled food – food that would otherwise go to waste but is kept in the food chain. You can watch the story here:
Touch the Soil News #1660 (Feature Photo – Jake Counne of Backyard Fresh Farms – of Backyard Fresh Farms and Indoor Ag-Con) Chicago Tribune journalist Alexia Elejalde-Ruiz brings us the story of how a former real estate developer looks to transform a closed Target Store into an indoor vertical farm. You can read the story…
