As I was scrolling through my Instagram feed, I found posts upon posts featuring great food production pics and commentaries by National Geographic on and after World Food Day – such cool pics that I need to share! Here they are, in no particular order:
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Steve Winter: “I photographed these Buddhist monks sharing a meal while working on a @NatGeostory on the Irrawaddy river. I call this image Monk Mandala. Monks rely on the generosity of others to provide them with their daily meals as they aren’t allowed to cook for themselves or store food overnight. Much like how monks rely on their community for this basic necessity, we as a global community need to figure out how to provide this basic need to those living in hunger, especially in light of our rapidly growing population.“
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Jim Richardson: “Last year at this time I was traveling the world meeting and photographing farmers for our National Geographic series on feeding the planet in 2050 when will have 9 billion people. Yesterday’s World Food Day was a reminder to me of what a great experience that was. So to all those farmers, like Shewakena Wube who was winnowing wheat in Ethiopia when I visited him, I say thanks and I wish you well with the next harvest.“
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Robert Clark: “On the shores of Lake Titicaca, two Cholita women winnow grains in the dry air of the Andean altiplano. Lake Titicaca is the highest navigable body of water in the world, at 12,507ft (3812m). People of the Andean Altiplano consume a disproportionate amount of grain and hardy produce relative to the rest of the world. Because of the arid conditions of their ecology, their diets are composed sparse, easy to preserve foods. These cultures survive in the face of food scarcity, and quinoa, a staple portion of the Andean diet, was discovered to be a #superfood and has gained popularity in Europe and North America as such.”
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Ami Vitale: “Cattle on the @jbarlmontanaranch. Cattle live side by side with wildlife on the unique, conservation-friendly ranch nestled into the wide open land of the Centennial Valley in southern #Montana. outside Yellowstone and the Red Rock Preserve. The ranch finishes their cattle on grass, in contrast to the vast majority of ranches in the U.S. that send cattle to feedlots.“
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Georg Steinmetz: “The largest egg farm in Brazil, Granja Mantiqueira, produces 2.7 million eggs a day without ever being touched by a human hand. For more pictures of industrialized farming by George Steinmetz, go to @geosteinmetz“
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Vincent J. Musi: “Some of the earliest domestications of plants and animals happened in the Fertile Crescent 13,000 years ago. Today you will still find semi-nomadic Kurdish families shepherding animals and harvesting wheat.“
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Paul Nicklen: “Hunters travel along the Porcupine River with freshly hunted caribou. The First Nations of Old Crow have a deep connection to the land and respect the nutrition that nature provides them year round.“
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Michael Melford, photo shot on a family farm in upstate New York.
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Ami Vitale: “Children eat the staple diet of rice from a communal bowl in Guinea Bissau in 2000. At the end of the dry season, there is little food and many will have only one meal of rice each day.“
Do you follow NatGeo yet on Instagram? What is your favorite World Food Day picture they put up?