Full Coverage: Food

30.11.2006 Pohjois-Nicaraguan pienissä käsityöläispajoissa on syksyn aikana riittänyt töitä. Pääasiassa naisista koostuvat työntekijät elävät syrjäisillä ja kuivilla maaseuduilla, joilla maanviljely ei pahimmassa tapauksessa tuota edes alkeellisinta toimeentuloa kylän asukkaille. Uudet käsityöhankkeet kuitenkin takaavat toimeentulon käsityöläisten perheille.

30.11.2006 Governments have not given ample priority to agriculture, the lifeblood of the rural areas where over 70 percent of the world’s hungry people live.

30.11.2006 The Slow Food Movement encourages a return to traditional recipes and more direct links between producers and consumers.

30.11.2006 As more and more Americans become familiar with the amount of artificial ingredients, pesticides, genetically modified organisms, and chemical preservatives that exist in processed foods, they are increasingly turning toward organic products.

30.11.2006 Take a closer look at what's in the food we eat.

30.11.2006 From organizing small farmers to locally sourcing food aid, there are plenty of innovative projects being implemented around the world to minimize hunger and poverty.

30.11.2006 Make responsible food choices, support family farmers around the world, volunteer, host a film screening, and more!

30.11.2006 OneWorlders weigh in from Kenya, Chile, India, North Carolina, Nigeria, and beyond.
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30.11.2006 Food should give life, cleanse the body, and uplift the spirit. What you put on your table is both a political statement and a mirror of who you really are.

30.11.2006 The simple choice to eat locally produced food can have important consequences for the environment, our health, and economies worldwide.

30.11.2006 Among the priorities of many environmentalists is to shorten the distance from farm to table.

30.11.2006 From seed breeding to GMOs, do new technologies hold the solution to world hunger? Or are they a pandora's box?

30.11.2006 A growing number are choosing more organic and locally produced products, eschewing the hidden costs in the conventional food system.

30.11.2006 Rural poverty, urban migration, biotech's promise, the supermarket boom, and more.

30.11.2006 In a world where there is enough food for everyone, why is hunger still so pervasive and how can agricultural policies make a difference?

28.11.2006 Desde las oficinas de Greenpeace en Estados Unidos nos informan que el barco Peregrine proveniente de Estados Unidos, muy probablemente contiene un arroz que ha sido contaminado con una variedad transgénica denominada como Liberty Link 601 la cual no sido aprobada para consumo humano por ninguna agencia de regulación.

24.11.2006 Between January and March of this year, more than 1 million tons of fresh vegetables and spices were harvested on small-scale plots tucked away in the island’s urban centers.

24.11.2006 Sólo entre enero y marzo de este año se cosecharon más de un millón de toneladas de hortalizas y condimentos frescos cultivados en parcelas, patios, huertos o canteros ubicados en las ciudades, actividad que se conoce como agricultura urbana.

16.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 16 (OneWorld) - A leading anti-poverty organization is urging U.S. President George W. Bush to skip a meal today as a symbol of his resolve to fight hunger worldwide.

14.11.2006 NEW YORK, Nov 13 (OneWorld) - Seafood consumers in industrialized countries can help save the world's wild fish stocks, according to a new study that provides a ray of hope just days after researchers announced that if current trends continue, all world fisheries will collapse around 2048.