Silent disasters: Cambodia floods and food insecurity
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Livelihoods and Food Security
How to feed a family with grains from the ground
A mother of ten struggles to feed her family in southern Niger. The drought has led to a food crisis meaning half the population has limited access to food. The Red Cross is providing food and seeds to help 385,000 people but more support is needed.In this short film Saray Amadou talks about her daily
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Ensuring the Future of Food
Ensuring the Future of Food, a video on food sustainabilty in Japan.
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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, healthy
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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.comBy 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 system.
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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
In 2003 the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies adopted the Policy on Food Security and Nutrition in which it encouraged National Societies to conduct food security assessments. This guide is intended for National Society staff and volunteers in Africa who want to undertake food security assessments, but have no background knowledge on food security or assessments.
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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