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Roummane: Food desert in West Oakland, California
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Food desert in West Oakland, California. City on a Hill Press (Jan. 15). Roach asked her why she was feeding her child candy instead of nutritional food. She replied, “Mr. Roach, where can I find any good food around here? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food is our being. Food is a basic human right. Food is our history and future. This world is full of food contradictions and a food revolution is brewing in people's conscience ac...
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Roummane: Food security discourse in Kenya
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Food security discourse in Kenya. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). News clippings and information about food culture, food justice, food sustainability, food insecurity, and vulnerable livelihoods. This is also our food journey and experimentations with eating local food, cooking, culture fusion, green resistance, and path towards a sustainable existence- one step at a time. Food is our being. Food is a basic human right. Complexit...
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Roummane: Arctic metldown and food
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Thursday, March 26, 2009. Arctic metldown and food. New Scientist (March 25). The bigger picture has got much less attention: a warmer Arctic will change the entire planet, and some of the potential consequences are nothing short of catastrophic. Changes in ocean currents, for instance, could disrupt the Asian monsoon, and nearly two billion people rely on those rains to grow their food.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food is our being. This world is fu...
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Roummane: GM food in Kenya
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. GM food in Kenya. Business Daily (March 26):. Genetically modified foods will eventually provide answers to the food security situation in Kenya, according to agribusiness leaders. Kenya Government has strongly supported GM foods and made into law the Biosafety Bill 2008 last month. The basis of the support is that it will increase food production. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food is our being. Food is a basic human right.
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Roummane: Kansas City CSAs
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Kansas City Star (March 24). CSAs feed the locavore movement — people who strive to eat food grown within 100 miles of their dinner table — but they’re also fostering a common-sense approach to eating.". When the expo was organized 11 years ago, only a dozen farmers participated. Now that number has grown to 50. Last year 1,600 local consumers attended the expo to learn more about CSAs.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This worl...
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Roummane: Hungry Namibia
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Don't talk about food prices in Namibia. Wedged between costly imports from South Africa and failing projects to achieve food security, Namibians are upset, and hungry". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Roummane (رمان, rumman) is the Arabic word for pomegranate. Roummane symbolized love, fertility, and immortality in ancient Egypt and Phoenicia. Several decade old pomegranate, olive, and fig trees standing in the backyard of...This ...
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Roummane: GM food imports in the US
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Thursday, March 26, 2009. GM food imports in the US. 8216;the USDA has no controls in place that would identify… undeclared transgenic plants unknown to the US regulatory system’.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food is our being. Food is a basic human right. Food is our history and future. This world is full of food contradictions and a food revolution is brewing in people's conscience across the globe. Some live with hunger, others are stuffed, and...
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Roummane: Eat your winter season in New England
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Eat your winter season in New England. The Boston Globe (Feb. 11). In the winter, however, even the most committed New Englander could be forgiven for falling off that wagon. People cite deeply felt reasons for becoming locavores, or those who choose to eat food grown and produced in the region where they live. Not necessarily, say many who eat predominantly local food throughout the winter. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). This w...
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Roummane: Food security in Indonesia
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Tuesday, April 28, 2009. Food security in Indonesia. The Jakarta Post (April 28):. The number of poor people is growing. Most of these people are small scale farmers (petani gurem) with less than 0.25 ha of land, or agricultural-wage laborers. In accordance with the World Food Programme (WFP, 2005), poor and malnourished people in Indonesia will almost certainly not be able to escape poverty unless drastic changes are made to policies.". Food is our being.
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Roummane: Farming Detroit
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Experimentations in being with a conscience. Friday, April 3, 2009. Detroit Free Press (April 2). With an estimated 40 square miles of vacant parcels, Detroit offers many sites where, in theory, a big farm operation might work. Hantz, a resident of Detroit's Indian Village district, is tentatively looking at a blighted area near Eastern Market, but exact boundaries would depend on whether he wins the city's cooperation.". Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Food is our being. Food is a basic human right.
