Musings on sustainable food systems, agriculture vs. agroecology, and more!
A lot? A little? Nothing at all? The World Food Programme (WFP) challenges you to test your hunger IQ and help feed a child in the process! For every submitted quiz, a child will receive a warm meal thanks to an anonymous donor. The WFP website also has a ton of additional resources, such as … Continue reading How Much Do You Really Know About Hunger? (+ Help The WFP Provide Relief in the Philippines!)
Well, after another couple of hours of editing (why does the final version always take so long to get consistent? And why did we nearly forget to include our most important source in the bibliography? Questions…) I finally sent off our Cost Benefit Analysis project to our teacher and thought that since my friend and … Continue reading Drilling in the Rainforest – Is it Worth It? Our Yasuni CBA
(click through for a larger pdf version) The FAO has just released a new infographic showcasing some of the facts and numbers its statistics unit, FAOSTAT, regularly collects. Some of the numbers that stand out to me: More than 840 million people worldwide are undernourished. Compare that with the fact that the average annual food … Continue reading The Current State of Agriculture (According to the FAO)
I’m assuming the answer is yes. Which might be why the cut in food stamp benefits in the US – between $11 per month for a one-headed household and $36 for a four-headed one – that came into effect on November 1st may not have been a big-ticket news item, and went unquestioned by policy-makers. … Continue reading Could You Live With $10 Less Grocery Money?
Happy Friday! It’s my last exam day which means I am so excited for the weekend and catching up on life! Do you feel the same? Keeping with the theme of food art, I thought I’d share a gorgeous website that my friend found yesterday, before going back to the more heavy policy issues over … Continue reading Oh I See Red! – And I See Gorgeous Food Art
How about something light-hearted to get over Hump Day? I’m currently marred in trying to memorize trade models and social accounting matrices, but found this cool link about a coffee table book about the art of food photography – which features really really cool illustration techniques (such as where they cut cooking utensils in half to let … Continue reading What's Going On Inside That Casserole?
You guys. This is one of these speeches where I just want to yell “hear, hear!” after every single sentence – and it is all the more remarkable where Dr. M Jahi Chappell, the director of agroecology and agricultural policy for the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, made this speech: at the World Food … Continue reading "Science ≠ Production, and Production ≠ Food Security" – A Message to the World Food Prize
I was going to write this up as well, but saw Noah already did a superb job on it – so, apparently climate change WILL affect food supplies in big ways until 2050. Lots of work cut out for us in the food policy business!
It’s finals week over here, which explains the scarcity of posts – I am spending most if not all of my time glued to Excel spreadsheets and Word documents, trying to make convincing cases to save Ecuador’s rain forests and re-energize the Mexican agricultural sector, and then there are exams as well, sigh! But I … Continue reading Is Your Lifestyle Pre-Designed?