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Food
Posts in this category are about Food. People are often dependent on distant, unhealthy food sources; this reduces ties to the local landscape, further eroding the stability of the food system. A main priority is protecting the ability of people to access food and other resources from nearby wildlands, provided that care is taken to maintain the health of these ecosystems. Enhancing regional food systems and drawing on the entire landscape will reconnect people with place and provide a nutritious diet.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
More maize ethanol may boost greenhouse gas emissions
Mandated increases in the production of maize-derived ethanol will lead to land-use changes that boost carbon dioxide emissions enough to make the fuel a worse environmental option than burning gasoline, according to a new analysis.
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(0)RIGHTS: "Famine Marriages" Just One Byproduct of Climate Change
UNITED NATIONS, Mar 9 (IPS/TerraViva) - The negative fallout from climate change is having
a devastatingly lopsided impact on women compared to men, from
higher death rates during natural disasters to heavier household
and care burdens.
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The Local Food and Farming Revolution
...Most of us know in our bones that a sea change is coming in agriculture. But the biggest driver of that change is not going to come from the issues that I ve mentioned so far. The biggest driver is going to be the increasing cost and decreasing availability of fossil fuels, especially oil. Because agriculture is so dependent on oil, the entire system is extremely vulnerable to oil depletion"and to oil price spikes. The situation brewing on the horizon regarding oil compels us to begin rethinking how we grow our food, and even how we eat.
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