Touch the Soil News #1365 (Feature photo – North Korean Farm Without Adequate Equipment – Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (Stephan) at Flickr and http://nk.subnetwork.org/) While the news on North Korea is generally about potential armed conflict and weapons, North Korea is facing a food crisis. While trying to wave military threats to the…
Positive Future #487 (Feature photo – Inside Grocery Store on Wheels – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license – Zache) In a world seeking to serve exclusive high ends, what about a world seeking to serve those on the edge of being excluded? Affordable Housing Finance Magazine…
Touch the Soil News #1339 (Feature photo – Singapore Coat of Arms – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Xavi Garcia) The small nation of Singapore is mostly urbanized on an island near the equator. It has a problem – it must import 90 percent of the food its citizens must eat. With the United Nations calling…
Touch the Soil News #1287 (Feature photo – Local Farmers – Public Domain) An interesting article showed up in the U.S. News and World Report about growing food in cities. It is one of the most in-depth articles about food security for cities ever to hit mainstream media. What makes cities important is that there…
