Today is World Food Day - The Right to Food for All!
Posted in Events, Models, Movements by fedwards on October 15th, 2007
Today, October 16th is World Food Day, a day coordinated by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This year’s theme is the “Right to Food”.
Stories about food - on issues of hunger, urban agriculture, food miles, water and carbon costs, food security and sustainability, etc - are welcome to be posted on SustainableCitiesNet.com to raise awareness of this issue in the media. To post a story simply email fedwards @unimelb.edu.au or visit the “Contribute a post” tag at the top of SustainableCitiesNet.com.
Food related stories that have been submitted on SustainableCitiesNet.com include:
Model - A Call to Farms - SPIN-Farming
Model - The Vertical Farm project & discussion group
Research - Design project investigates local food
Model & Launch - “A Growing Movement: A Decade of Farm to School in California”
Model & Review - New Book on School Food Gardens Published
Model & Resource - How Cuba survived peak oil
And more! Simply click on the ‘Food‘ tag to see what’s happening around food issues in our world’s cities.
Tags: Carbon-neutral, energy, Food, Health, Urban Design and Built Form
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