industryterm:sustainable food

  • Watch 2015 - right to food and nutrition watch
    http://www.rtfn-watch.org

    Commonly referred to as ‘corporate capture’, the increasing control of businesses over food systems and resources, institutions, policy spaces and governance structures, is putting human rights at great risk. The world is witnessing this reality from the Americas to Asia, particularly since the 2008 world food crisis that shook societies across the globe. It is clear that the present economic model cannot guarantee the conditions for national governments to fulfill their human rights obligations, including the right to adequate food and nutrition.

    Corporate-based approaches have led to an artificial separation of nutrition and sustainable food systems, resulting invertical, technical and product-based solutions that ignore social, economic, political, environmental, health and cultural determinants. In a world where hundreds of millions go undernourished while half a billion suffer from obesity, communities worldwide see the prevention of corporate capture as a critical issue. Peoples’ nutritional sovereignty and core human rights principles are unalienable pillars in tackling inequity, oppression and discrimination and democratizing national and global societies.

    http://www.rtfn-watch.org/fileadmin/media/rtfn-watch.org/ENGLISH/pdf/Watch_2015/RtFNWatch_EN_web.pdf
    #alimentation

  • A Farmer’s Mini-Handbook : GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable Mini-Farming By Margo Royer-Mille

    http://www.growbiointensive.org/PDF/FarmersHandbook.pdf

    GROW BIOINTENSIVE (GB) Sustainable Mini-Farming consists of eight principles to guide the farmer to simultane- ously grow healthy food and care for the land. These principles are inspired by how plants grow in nature and are based on using natural processes to create a thriving and sustainable food-production system. A well-executed GB farm approaches sustainability as it becomes a closed system with no off-farm sourcing of inputs AND nurtures the soil and ecosystem to be self-sustaining. In the long run, a GB farm is a farm that will be vital and productive for generations, a monumental achievement! The eight principles of GROW BIOINTENSIVE are:

    1. Deep Soil Preparation
    2. Composting
    3. Intensive Planting
    4. Companion Planting
    5. Carbon Farming
    6. Calorie Farming
    7. Open-Pollinated Seeds
    8. Whole System Method

    #jardinage #biointensive