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«We are able to help East Bay families living in apartments divert their food scraps back into their local food system while getting useful data along the way that demonstrate reduced greenhouse gas emissions.»

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Jonathan works at the nexus of energy, water and food systems to promote farmland stewardship and improve ecosystem health while contributing to robust local food systems.

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While the French food culture in itself encourages eating local, there is another even bigger reason why the French school system can put locally grown foods on the school lunch menus: the monies for the school lunches are organized within local municipalities, not primarily on a federal level, as they are in America.

Summer Bock's mission is to radically improve people's health while empowering them to revolutionize the local food system using delicious, local and healthy food.

Although I dislike (and disagree with) some of the drama that surrounds the food topics that these books address, as a result of reading them I began to educate myself on our food system and eating in a way that feels right to me while keeping science, and local and global issues in mind.

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.

The short film Resilient: Soil, Water and the New Stewards of the American West is intended, at least in part, to spur discussion and awareness about food, water, and farming issues, and while the film is viewable in its entirety below, hosting a screening of it in your town could be a great addition to discussions about resiliency, local food, or food systems in general.

While various studies in the valley and nation have focused on ways to enhance regional food systems and distribution of produce grown on local farms, this is the first study in the Northeast, and likely the country, to develop a comprehensive, data - driven methodology for strategically protecting the farmland — the most fundamental ingredient for securing the productive capacity of the metropolitan region's foodshed.

The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

Others we've met at a Green Festival, the MREA's Energy and Sustainable Living Fair, or a farmer's market are finding creative ways to solve our problems today with renewable energy, energy conservation, and sustainable food systems, all while thriving in a local economy.

While dreams of our future food system may rely on the romantic image of local farmers, the reality is: this model can't do what we need it to do, that is, feed billions of people.

And while we're seeing a resurgence of interest in so - called «real food» or slow food and local food, it's going to take a lot more than a few urban rooftop farms in big cities, or the expansion of certified organic shipping container farms, or an explosion in countertop gardening units to go from our current wasteful food and agriculture system to a model that is ultimately sustainable and future - focused.