Touch the Soil News #2048 (photo – Food Bank) (Courtesy of Morning AgClips (Ag News Service) recently posted a story by the Associated Press Journalist Jessica Damiano. The story covers all the topics new household gardeners might visit when planning their first vegetable garden. The article suggest keeping a focus on your tastes and your…
Touch the Soil News #2029 (photo – Food Market) ( Public Domain, USDA) Most farmers believe their occupations are forever ensured. And that is true. Even farmland has attracted the world of investors who want to ride the crest of the demand for food by owning farmland. NPR News recently reported that 44.2 million people…
Touch the Soil News #2001 (photo – Cities Without Hunger Farm in Sao Paulo – Photo Courtesy of Cities Without Hunger)) With a name like Cities Without Hunger, there are hints of a significant need in the background. Operating in the city of Sao Paulo with a population of 12.5 million, almost 2 million are…
Touch the Soil News #1952 (Feature Photo – Urban Farming at the Town Hall in Colombo, Sri Lanka – (Photo courtesy of International Water Management Institute) Sri Lanka is an island Nation of over 22 million people in the Indian Ocean. About 35 miles from India, this nation recently experienced a dramatic economic crisis in…
Touch the Soil News #1908 (Feature Photo – Cabbage – Public Domain, USDA) Urban Farmers and Conventional Growers are all trying – within the framework of our financial economy – to produce food in a way that feeds everyone. Then there are foodbanks that are also helping to bridge the gap. One Foodbank – Second…
Touch the Soil News #1890 (Feature Photo – Latin America – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Mexican Golden Eagle) Foodtank News brings up an interesting question regarding Latin America: How is it that, given our wealth of agricultural resources, we always seem to find ourselves on hunger’s precipice? After all, of the world’s 12 so-called mega…
Touch the Soil News #1879 (Feature Photo – Addie’s Grocery – Photo courtesy of Addie’s Grocery) The President of the nation of the Philippines, in concert with their Department of Agriculture and Department of Interior & Local Government have stepped up to the plate to make urban agriculture a national priority. When it comes to…
In response, the nation is looking at legislation that would, without hindering anyone’s rights, convert to urban farming, all idle or abandoned government or private lands, buildings, shipping containers, subdivisions or villages, public housing, open spaces in all urban, peri-urban and urbanizable areas in the country; and all available land resources and buildings in schools,…
Positive Future News #909 (Feature Photo – Thailand Farming – CCA SA 4.0 International, Takeaway) Thailand, a nation of over 70 million people, and a national history that goes back 800 years, is facing extensive hunger. It is no surprise that the solution that Thai people are pursuing is not buying food from the global…
FMT news journalist Mariam Mokhtar brings us stories about food security in Malaysia. A nation of almost 33 million people that have about one third as much land per person as the U.S. Interesting is that the Malaysian Flag is strikingly similar to the U.S. Flag. The primary situation in Malaysia, is that they cannot…
