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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.

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