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Put a Fork in»Em: Subverting Global Food Systems by Keeping It Local Ali Berlow, Julie Castillo Sunday, October 11, 1:00 - 2:00 pm Room 16, Legislative Plaza

Earlier this year, hundreds of people from around the world took on a challenge to fix our global food system by looking to nature for design solutions.

Using Nature's Design Principles to Feed Nine Billion Finalists announced for the world's first food system - focused biomimicry innovation accelerator Earlier this year, hundreds of people from around the world took on a challenge to fix our global food system by looking to nature for design solutions.

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Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

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It is the only certification system recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers certificates for primary production, food manufacturing and distributFood Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers certificates for primary production, food manufacturing and distributfood manufacturing and distribution.

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«By strictly utilizing the HACCP safety system, BRC Global Food Safety Standard, and implementing good manufacturing practices, Maple Lodge Farms is able to provide customers with the assurance that our products are of high quality, safe and nutritious.»

Our current global food system, which is dominated by industrial meat and dairy, is pushing our land and water resources to their absolute limit.

The SQF program is administered by a division of Food Marketing Institute (FMI) and is one of several certification systems recognized by the Global Food Safe Initiative (GFSI), as well as retailers and foodservice providers around the world that require HACCP food safety and quality management systems by their suppliFood Marketing Institute (FMI) and is one of several certification systems recognized by the Global Food Safe Initiative (GFSI), as well as retailers and foodservice providers around the world that require HACCP food safety and quality management systems by their suppliFood Safe Initiative (GFSI), as well as retailers and foodservice providers around the world that require HACCP food safety and quality management systems by their supplifood safety and quality management systems by their suppliers.

Greenhouse gases created by the food system — including production, distribution, and waste — are responsible for one - third of global emissions.

Global Map of food systemsIn Organic 3.0, food chains are succeeded by food systems.

It is the only certification system recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers certificates for primary production, food manufacturing, distribution and agent managemFood Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers certificates for primary production, food manufacturing, distribution and agent managemfood manufacturing, distribution and agent management.

The product standards resulting from our quality systems exceed those required by all national and global food agencies.

We take extraordinary food safety steps through Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification to repay that trust by making sure every product we make delivers unsurpassed food safety and consistent food qualfood safety steps through Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) systems and Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification to repay that trust by making sure every product we make delivers unsurpassed food safety and consistent food qualFood Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification to repay that trust by making sure every product we make delivers unsurpassed food safety and consistent food qualfood safety and consistent food qualfood quality.

It is the only major system recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers third - party accredited certification for primary production, food manufacturing, distribution and agent / broker managemFood Safety Initiative (GFSI) that offers third - party accredited certification for primary production, food manufacturing, distribution and agent / broker managemfood manufacturing, distribution and agent / broker management.

The global food system is growing more fragile, and a changing climate and increasingly volatile weather patterns could reduce food production globally by 2 percent this century.

The global food system is growing more fragile, and a changing climate and increasingly volatile weather patterns could reduce food production globally by 2...

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cafood system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the caFood Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the cards.

«This resonates with the cautionary message of the landmark 2015 study by Lloyd's of London, which showed that the global food system is actually under significant pressure from potential, coinciding shocks, such as bad weather combined with crop disease outbreaks,» Braun said.

FThe global industrial food system relies on crops that have been bred primarily for higher yield and ease of transport, while farmers involved in local food systems often place a higher value on plant varietals that are more nutritious by virtue of their variety (i.e., not bred for yield alone) or by their method of production.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

The Biomimicry Institute's Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, sponsored by the Ray C. Anderson Foundation, asks participants to tackle any aspect of the food system that could be improved by looking to nature for design guidance.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

Some works, like the one by Michelangelo Consani The One Straw Revolution (2015), show how today the capitalist system has turned soil and food into commodities, into objects of global speculation.

(The meeting also saw the release of a new report pointing to ways to address stresses on the global food system, summarized nicely by Justin Gillis on the Green Blog.)

To ease global food crisis, rice with submergence tolerance is needed: -2007 Bangladesh Tista / Jamuna Rivers flooded million hectares up to 3 weeks; cyclone Nargis flooded 1.75 M Irawaddy - grain supply affected by population growth, diversion of grain to biofuels and to livestock as more people eat meat - funding contraints on R&D - crippled developing world extension systems

As global food networks become more complex and interdependent, how concerned should we be about the stability of the system being disrupted by geopolitical, economic, and climatic events?

In recent decades, much research on these topics has raised the questions of «tipping points» and «system flips,» where feedbacks in the system compound to rapidly cause massive reorganization of global climate over very short periods of time — a truncation or reorganization of the thermohaline circulation or of food web structures, for instance, caused by the loss of sea ice or warming ocean temperatures.

Translating the above to climate science, if you tell me that in 100 years earth inhabited by your children is going to hell in a handbasket, because our most complicated models built with all those horrendously complicated equestions you can find in math, show that the global temperatures will be 10 deg higher and icecaps will melt, sea will invade land, plant / animal ecosystem will get whacked out of order causing food supply to be badly disrupted, then I, without much climate science expertise, can easily ask you the following questions and scrutinize the results: a) where can I see that your model's futuristic predictions about global temp, icecaps, eco system changes in the past have come true, even for much shorter periods of time, like say 20 years, before I take this for granted and make radical changes in my life?

Dr Monica Zurek, a senior researcher at the ECI, added to this gloomy picture by explaining how emissions from the global food system are also on the rise, already making up 25 - 35 % of greenhouse gases.

With the U.N. - affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.

From climate change to the rights of Florida tomato farmers to the global geopolitics of food, Hungry for Change examines how the availability of food and its production, distribution and consumption are the workings of a deeply complex system that is affected by and affects all of us.

Moreover, at a time when we should be making massive cuts in the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere in order to reduce the threat posed by climate change, the food system is lengthening its supply chains and increasing emissions to the point where it is a significant contributor to global warming.

The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Mitigation and Food Security, by Eric Toensmeier (Chelsea Green) Among systems thinkers there is already a fairly robust literature on the use of...

The report by the UK - US Taskforce on Extreme Weather and Global Food System Resilience found that the world is going to be exposed to instability and conflict due to climate changes impacts.

Our food systems, technology, and other industries governed by provinces are also becoming more global.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

• Obtained public trust clearance issued by the US Department of Defense Client: Global Beverage, Snack, and Food Company 2008 • Executed data conversion procedures and system tests for direct procurement processes which were integral in the system integration of an Enterprise Resource Planning application.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.