food security

Food security at the individual or household level means access to enough nutritious food to sustain an active and healthy life. The Community Food Securition Coalition defines community food security as a "condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice," which covers six basic principles:

• Low Income Food Needs - Focusing on meeting the food needs of low income communities, reducing hunger and improving individual health.
• Broad Goals - Addressing a broad issues, such as increasing poverty and hunger, disappearing family farms, urban food deserts, rural communities, suburban sprawl, and ag- and food-related air and water pollution.
• Community focus - Building up a community's food resources to meet its own needs, through farmers' markets, gardens, community-based food processing ventures and urban farms, for example.
• Self-reliance/empowerment - Building individuals' abilities to provide for their food needs.
• Local agriculture - Building stronger ties between farmers and consumers.
• Systems-oriented - Crossing many boundaries and incorporating collaborations with multiple agencies.

Blogs that address food security include World Watch Institute and U.S. Food Policy.

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• Canadians trimming food budgets in face of higher prices, RBC says

  
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• Global organizations team up to improve conditions for small food producers

  
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  WNN WorldFOOD (WNN) Rome, ITALY, WEST EUROPE: The FAO – Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with the international Slow Food organization agreed on May 15, 2013 to band together to develop actions to improve the livelihoods of smallholders and others working within agri-farming efforts to produce ...
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• Human-caused damage to environment impacts global water

  
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  WNN Earth Watch (WNN/VOA) Bonn, GERMANY, WEST EUROPE: Scientists say a new geologic epoch has begun where humans are causing major damage to global water systems. They warn of a planetary transformation comparable to the retreat of the glaciers more than 11,000 years ago. Scientists are meeting in Bonn, Germany May ...
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• A Glimpse Into Food Rights

  
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  The trial of Vernon Hershberger, an Amish dairy farmer begins today.  He is on trial for selling raw milk to his private milk club members. Take note that the outcome of this trial will have far reaching implications for many of us and those who seek alternatives in what we eat and who we get our food from.  ...
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• ALLEVIATION OF MALNUTRITION AND HUNGER BY SMALL-SCALE CONTAINER GARDENING (Jojo ROM / Willem VAN COTTHEM)

  
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• About To Throw the Switch on our Hydro

  
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• 150,000 People Forced to Flee As Devastating Floods Hit Mozambique

  
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• Amazon clearance for agriculture is ‘economic own goal’ for Brazil

  
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• Lost in Paradise: The Chained-Up Mentally Ill of Bali, Part 1

  
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• Bananas for Mother’s Day

  
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• Harvest, Meet Market: How a New Fund Will Accelerate Agricultural Infrastructure in Africa

  
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• The Stream, May 10: World’s CO2 Hits 400ppm Mark

  
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• ‘Nothing improves an economy as efficiently as agriculture’–Bill Gates to US Senate

  
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• Greening our meat: A vegan conservationist speaks out, and considerately, on controversial food issues

  
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• Conflict And Returnees Strain South Sudan Food Security

  
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