Ensuring the Future of Food
Ensuring the Future of Food, a video on food sustainabilty in Japan.
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Livelihoods and Food Security
The Bright Future of Food: Empowering Local Economies and Ensuring Food Security
The Bright Future of Food – http://zipgrow.com Bright Agrotech is a leader in vertical, space saving aquaponics and hydroponics systems and a commercial producer in the high plains of Laramie, WY. We’re passionate about growing fresh, nutrient-dense, sustainable food for our local communities and empower other small urban farmers to do the same with our ZipGrow
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World Food Day 2013 video feature: Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security
A Vietnamese Recipe for a Food System that Works. What is a sustainable food system? One Vietnamese model harnesses tradition and bolsters that with technology and the right policy mix: ‘V-A-C’ farming. It’s a no-waste system integrating fish farming, raising livestock and growing fruit and vegetables, all on the same farm. It has assured sufficient,
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Forests for food security and nutrition
Forests provide an estimated one billion people globally with nutritious foods. Their products are consumed directly by people living in and around forests and are also sold, generating income for rural populations. In this way, forests and trees on farms make a major contribution to global food security. However, they have often been given little
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Feeding Nine Billion Video 6: Climate Change and Food Security
Brought to you by http://www.feedingninebillion.com By 2050 there will be 9 billion people on the planet – but will there be enough food for everyone? Food security expert Dr Evan Fraser guides you through a whiteboard presentation of his solution to the Global Food Crisis focusing in this video on the role of the local food
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Guide d’évaluation de la sécurité alimentaire
Ce guide pratique, publié par la Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge en 2005, a été conçu pour aider les Sociétés nationales africaines à planifier et réaliser des évaluations de la sécurité alimentaire dans les contextes de catastrophes, de crises chroniques et d’urgence humanitaire. Il fournit une introduction accessible aux concepts
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Shelter safety handbook. Some important information on how to build safer
This handbook presents some basic information on safe construction practices. Its purpose is to provide guidance on choices regarding settlement planning in risky environments, as well as on the building techniques to improve individual shelters. The contents may be used to develop trainings on participatory shelter risk reduction methods, such as PASSA. This guide is
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The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
The Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) provide a set of international guidelines and standards for the design, implementation and assessment of livestock interventions to assist people affected by humanitarian crises. LEGS aims to improve the quality of emergency response by increasing the appropriateness, timeliness and feasibility of livelihoods-based interventions. Read more… As well as the
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How to conduct a food security assessment. A step-by-step guide for National Societies in Africa
A food security assessment may be required when living conditions in an area/country change, and it is expected that communities are becoming vulnerable and/or are no longer able to meet their nutritional needs. In 2003 the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies adopted the Policy on Food Security and Nutrition in which
Global food security assessment guidelines. A step-by-step guide for National Societies
This guide aims to assist National Society staff and volunteers throughout the world in undertaking food security assessments. It does not require prior knowledge or experience of food security. The guide is a practical tool related to the Food security and nutrition policy, adopted by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (International Federation) in 2003, which encourages National
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