Positive Future #840 (Feature photo – Pie – CCA SA 2.0 Generic, grabadonut) Brightvibes news portal brings us the story of an 89 year old woman who was inspired to bake pies to help feed the large wave of food insecure people that rolled out of the public reaction to Covid. In the UK, covid-related…
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
Touch the Soil News #1647 (Feature Photo – Latin America – By Heraldry – Own work,, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7185231) Latin America, a continent of 20 nations and 642 million people, is being economically disrupted. Global Food Security Officials are warning of dramatic increases in hunger and a lack of access to adequate nutrition. Protests…
Touch the Soil News #1578 (Feature photo – Children of South Sudan Before the Current Crisis – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Masiya) According to the latest news, the current coronavirus outbreak started in December 2019. So that means its about 90 days into its crisis. Estimates are that some 3,000 people have died so far…
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…
