Toward food sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food systems [pdf]

 

 Looks alike a long worthwhile read.
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agriculture/multimedia-publication-towards-food-sovereignty-re>

  Use the above link as below was broken now fixed by me.
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5.  Toward food sovereignty: Reclaiming autonomous food systems [pdf]
<http://www.iied.org/natural-resources/key-issues/food-and-
agriculture/multimedia-publication-towards-food-sovereignty-re>

The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has
gone above and beyond in crafting this multimedia book that brings
together full color photo illustrations and linked video and audio
files. The work was
finished in 2009, and it "describes the ecological basis of food and
agriculture, the social and environmental costs of modern food systems,
and the policy reversals needed to democratize food systems." Visitors
will note that examples are drawn from all over the world, and it's easy
to download the various chapters for offline consultation.

 The chapter sections include
"Local adaptive management of food-producing environments" and
"Strengthening civil society". Anyone with an interest in public health,
community organizing, and civil society will find a great deal to learn
from this publication. [KMG]

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  

 




    LOL! Lordy, another one. "Why don't we get together and call
ourselves an 'Institute'" --Paul Simon.
    One can't help wondering how much real good such "institutes"
that'd presume to tell the world what it "needs" could do in that same
world if they used their resources and efforts to actually DO SOMETHING
that might make some poor bastard's life a little less miserable or a
little more "sustainable" instead of promulgating yet another
"multimedia" propaganda broadsheet that accomplishes absolutely nothing
except to make a cadre of intellectual twits, mistaking "thinking"
writing and talking for actually _doing_, feel a little less guilty
about its lifestyle. I do not believe for one instant that a single
child will go to bed with a fuller tummy tonight, a year from now, or
five years from now as even an indirect result of the "efforts" of this
"Institute" or of a thousand others like it.
    What the hell does the unrelenting stream of obsolete 19th-Century
"leveller" collectivist socio-economic propaganda in the ng have to do
with actual gardening, anyway? Isn't there a forum in which the
world-changers can get together to natter at each other about their
refined and superior sensibilities?

 

 balvenieman@invalid.net wrote:


 So in less than 3 hours you have pronounced judgement on  a document
that you have not looked at.

I'm impressed with your physic abilities.

--
Bill  S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
     What use one more wake up call?  

 

Bill who putters wrote:

That's usenet,  lacking the reminder of a face or a voice it is too easy to
depersonalise whoever is typing to you.  If you realise this and try to
avoid it you will be forgiven the odd lapse, at least I hope so 'cause
otherwise I have a whole lot of unforgiven errors circling out there in the
ether.

David

 



We have a Senator here in Australia who is quite an interesting chap.  His
name is Bill Heffernan and on some issues, he's to the right of Genghis Khan
and on some issues he's quite left wing.   He belongs to a party on the
right of our political spectrum but because he lives in rural Australia, he
often says things that would never be said by anyone from the city and which
I can strongly identify with.

The other day I was listening to him being interviewed and he was railing on
about climate change and food.  His comment was that he didn't care two
hoots about how, why or indeed even 'if', we were suffering from climate
change.  Agriculture was in a huge mess and unless and until people started
thinking more about what was in their fridge rather than what was in their
garage, the situation would continue to be a massive cock up.  I'm still
thinking about that but I think that there is a fair chance that he's right.

We (as industrial western societies) don't pay enough attention to our food.


Well I can understand the tempatation to rip shit out of someone especially
when they either don't read what is written or don't think before posting.