An Alternative Economy of Care in Portland
Gabriel Baron first heard about Crisis Kitchen through a call for support he saw on Facebook. The mutual aid group was providing free meals around Portland, Oregon, to combat food …
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UK: Food banks outnumber McDonald’s restaurants
More people than ever in the United Kingdom are suffering from food poverty, with even working families turning to charities for help, aid agencies say. In a damning statistic issued …
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Pandemic “doom shopping” is clogging up shipping ports. That means a lot of food destined for export is getting stuck.
Ocean carriers are making it more difficult and costly to ship American food exports. Industry groups want federal regulators to clamp down on “unreasonable, unjust practices.” U.S. exporters are struggling …
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Nutri-Gardening Initiative Promises Better Nutrition for Tribal Women Farmers
Khunta, one of the remote blocks of North Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, is yet to overcome malnutrition. For years, rain-fed agriculture and collection of forest produce constituted a major source of livelihood …
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Rainbow Trout Aquaculture in Nepal: Promise Amid Shocks
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake was a singular natural disaster that has defined Nepal’s economic development in the latter half of the 2010s. Hit particularly hard by the earthquake was the …
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Returning to the Roots of Community Resilience in Hawai‘i
“There are four things you should know,” says David Fuertes to the youths he mentors. “You should know your origins, because your ancestors have paved the way. You should know …
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The Future of Food
From the publisher: By the middle of this century, we will have nine billion mouths to feed and nobody who wants to be a farmer. Projections suggest we might not …
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Central Eating
Pam Warhurst is an impressive community leader with a CBE for her efforts. She has been a council leader, chaired the Forestry Commission and has sat on other influential boards. …
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Fast-food giants gobbled up $1 billion in federal aid for small businesses
Franchisees with hundreds of restaurants flew under the radar, in one case collecting $60 million in PPP loans. Relief grants meant to buoy small businesses at the onset of the …
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Grassroots aid grows in middle-income Chile, as COVID-19 drives new needs
Up and down the length of Chile, people are turning to soup kitchens for their hunger needs as the coronavirus pandemic broadens inequality after lockdown measures shuttered the informal economy …
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