Re-Terra – Time to Get Serious About Food

Touch the Soil News #1736  (Feature Photo – Quezon City, Philippines –  CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Patrickroque01) The Philippines is a small island nation with at population of 107 million people – one third that of the United States. However, their nation is very small. The land area of the Philippines is just a little…

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Singapore Government Gets Behind High Tech Urban Food

Touch the Soil News #1687 (Feature Photo – Singapore Botanic Gardens – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Calving Teo) The island nation of Singapore with almost 6 million people has taken interest in urban food. So much so that the government is putting out $40 million to help 9 farms expand and enhance their production. While…

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Food Crisis Can Follow Political Warfare

Touch the Soil News #1526 (Feature photo The City of Doha, Qatar – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license, StellarD). Voice of America news brings us a sobering story of how one small nation – Qatar – had its food imports blockaded by neighboring nations. This is tough survival time when almost 100…

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Rob Greenfield – Living Only on Foraging and Your Food Garden

Positive Future #584 (Feature photo – Rob Greenfield – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Sean Aranda) Inhabitat journalist Teresa Bergen talks to Rob Greenfield, and adventurer and environmental activist. Greenfield’s current project is to go for 1 year eating only what he can grow or forage for. Nothing like someone that actually does what they preach.…

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