Tag Archives: food security

Reduce soybean demand and lower deforestation pressure

Posted on November 27, 2024 by borderslynn

On reading the Soil Association report ‘ An agroecological Europe in 2050: multifunctional agriculture for healthy eating’, I am struck by the soundness of this 10 year effort in Europe to move to Agro-ecological methodologies to provide sustainable farming methods … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agro-ecology, animal welfare, biodiversity, diet, disease, Europe, factory farming reversal, food security, health, land protection, organic farming, small farm development | Leave a comment

UK Import/ Exports: Peanuts

Posted on September 5, 2024 by borderslynn

I purchase about 4 x 500g organic peanut butter (palm oil free, as it is toxic to dogs) a month. Last year, for a single jar of 500g, it was going up from £5 to £6 and this year it … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, Covid cost, exports, food security, global trade, higher costs, imports, instability, less food, planning, resilience, resources, starvation, strategic thinking, unpredictability | Leave a comment

Double use oil trucks: food contamination

Posted on July 21, 2024 by borderslynn

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cml2kr9wkdzo Transporting cooking oil in contaminated fuel trucks was said to have been so widespread it was considered an “open secret” in the industry, according to one driver quoted by the newspaper. We require strict regulation throughout the world for … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged China, consumer harm, contamination, corporate fraud, food chain, food industry, food oil, food safety, food scandals, food security, fuel oil, human health | Leave a comment

Seaweed Potential: we could nutritionally feed the world using eco circular economy

Posted on October 1, 2023 by borderslynn

I was watching CNNs feature narrated by Zain Asher called Call to Earth,- https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/25/opinions/opinion-vincent-doumeizel-seaweed-scn-climate-c2e-spc-intl/index.html putting forward ideas by Frenchman, Vincent Doumeizel. He is senior Adviser at United Nations Global Compact on Oceans and director for the Food Programme for the … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged coastal fishing, detection of toxins, food safety, food security, ocean protection, seaweed, starvation, world food | Leave a comment

Desalination, long term solution to Drought

Posted on December 26, 2022 by borderslynn

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-who-rely-on-desalination.html From the above map we learn Saudi Arabia has the most desalination plants in the world: “eight plants using the reverse osmosis technology and 12 using the multi-stage distillation process. The country has the largest floating desalination plant in … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged climate change, conflict, desalination, desertification, drought, famine, food security, multi-stage flash, reverse osmosis, solutions | 2 Comments

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself”

Posted on October 14, 2022 by borderslynn

“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself,” Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote in 1937 following catastrophic dust storms and flooding in the United States. He was right. Soil deserves respect. A medium for plant growth, a source of nutrients, a … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, animals, carbon capture, climate change, fertilizer, food security, insects, land protection, life, organic, soil, survival | Leave a comment

Agricultural solutions

Posted on July 1, 2022 by borderslynn

I have just watched a Euronews coverage of how enterprising solutions have enabled Algerian farmers to utilise the water table below the desert and renewable electricity to grow potatoes and other foods in specially cultivated areas. Watch at: https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/27/from-sand-to-spuds-how-algeria-galvanised-its-agricultural-sector This … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged agriculture, Algeria, aquifer, brazil, building resilience, california, climate change, decontaminating soil, desert, drought, favelas, food security, garden initiative, goats not pesticides, healthy food, nature based solutions, organic, poverty | Leave a comment

Battle for Resources

Posted on March 16, 2022 by borderslynn

In Ruth Ben-Ghiat’s book ‘Strongmen’ she says geopolitics is when authoritarian regimes have a …. conception of the state as an organic entity with the right to defend itself from threats to its safety and the right to expand into … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged conflict, famine, farming practices, food price index, food security, land contamination, livestock feeds, oligarchs and privatisation, responsibility of war zone soil contamination, world shortages | Leave a comment

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