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Community Gardening (City Farmer News / Journal of Community Health)
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/12/26/impact-of-a-community-gardening-project-on-vegetable-intake-food-security-and-family-relationships-a-community-based-participatory-research-study/ Impact...
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We are all small farmers (IRIN News / UN News / Willem Van Cotthem) )
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95080/GLOBAL-Joined-up-thinking-on-water-energy-and-food Joined-up thinking on water, energy and food and...
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1000 sustainable gardens for Africa (Tomorrow is Greener / Slow Food / Terra...
Read at : http://www.tomorrowisgreener.com/1000-sustainable-gardens-for-africa/ Posted by Greener Tomorrow Slow Food is helping schools, villages and communities in Africa grow fruits, vegetables and...
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A simple question about hunger, a difficult answer (Willem Van Cotthem)
Today, all over the developed world, important parts of the population are combating the economic crisis and in particular the food crisis by switching to production of fresh food. Produced at home,...
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Are you looking for nutrition-smart food systems ? (Willem Van Cotthem)
What are the nutrition-smart food systems we are looking for ? By Dr. Willem Van Cotthem (University of Ghent, Belgium) Today, I have been reading with great interest the article on “Why Our Food...
View ArticleBrasil : CITIES WITHOUT HUNGER: COMMUNITY GARDENS (H. D. TEMP, Organização...
Dear Sirs, The purpose of our contact is requesting your authorization so that we may send you information on a social inclusion project carried out in impoverished outskirts of Brazilian metropolises...
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“Addressing immediate hunger needs is a critical long-term investment” But...
Please read attentively my former posting on : “UN AGENCIES URGE ACTION BY G8 LEADERS TO SUPPORT WORLD’S HUNGRY” (UNNews of July 7, 2009) Let me select some interesting paragraphs of this excellent...
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The desertification and malnutrition bells are ringing (Willem VAN COTTHEM)
It was one of my happiest days when I was reading one of the messages on UNNews of yesterday (One of the best ways to make sure poor people have access to food). Indeed, for many years I have been...
View ArticleSmall-scale farming and gardening to alleviate malnutrition, hunger and...
As the representative of the Belgian experts on desertification, I had the privilege and honour of being a member of the Belgian delegation at all the meetings of the INCD (Intergovernmental...
View ArticleA passion for growing and sharing good food with others (Google / Tifton...
Read at : Google Alert – gardening http://www.tiftongazette.com/opinion/local_story_234232905.html Help grow community gardening This week, Aug. 23-29, is National Community Gardening week, and across...
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Small-scale gardening : a giant step forward (Willem VAN COTTHEM)
Day after day reports on the effect of small-scale farming or gardening on the daily life of rural people in the drylands confirm that it is a giant step forward towards sustainable development. More...
View ArticleFOOD AID TO THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES IN YEMEN (UNNews)
UN REFUGEE AGENCY DISTRIBUTE FOOD AID TO THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES IN YEMEN New York, Sep 3 2009 6:05PM The United Nations has shipped much needed food supplies to thousands of mainly Somali refugees in...
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TIME TO ACT TO COMBAT GLOBAL HUNGER IS NOW (UNNews)
Read at : UNNews TIME TO ACT TO COMBAT GLOBAL HUNGER IS NOW, IRELAND TELLS UN DEBATE New York, Sep 28 2009 7:05PM The fact that one billion people on the planet suffer from hunger represents a...
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Community gardens or kitchen gardens to combat hunger (Willem Van Cotthem)
Saving families from chronic lack of vitamins and mineral elements : installing a small kitchen garden for every family in the drylands or a community garden for a village or a refugee camp. Here are...
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Community Food Gardens/Food Banks/Allotments (Google / Green living tips)
Read at : Google Alert – gardening http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/352/1/Community-food-gardens.html Community food gardens By Green Living Tips What is a community food garden? In previous...
View ArticleCommunity Supported Agriculture (CSA) –“food with the farmer’s face on it”...
Read at : Green living tips http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/332/1/CSA-farms.html Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) – “food with the farmer’s face on it” Michael Bloch Green Living Tips.com...
View ArticleTo fast or not to fast, that may be the question (Willem VAN COTTHEM)
Did you too get FAO’s message on Wednesday Nov. 11, 2009 ? “The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (<“http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/37300/icode/”>FAO) on Wednesday called for a...
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Our message on smallholder farming came over loud and clear, five on five...
For many years we have been promoting the idea that the battle against global hunger can only be won by using small-scale farming as the most effective “war strategy”. Offering smallholder farmers, in...
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Delightful news from FAO and IRIN : urban gardens and food security (Willem...
For years we have been promoting family gardens (kitchen gardens) and school gardens, not to mention hospital gardens, in the debate on alleviation of hunger and poverty. We have always insisted on...
View ArticleThe Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America (SCRIBD / Nat. Gard....
Read at : SCRIBD http://www.scribd.com/doc/14331718/2009-Impact-of-Gardening-in-America The Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America National Gardening Association
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Malawi: Community gardens and chicken farm (Terr@dialoog)
One of the nice development projects of the Belgian non-profit organization Terr@dialoog can be found in Malawi. Lieve HOET, Chair of the Department ‘Schools for Schools’ within Terr@dialoog, has sent...
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Developing Community Resilience (Permaculture College Australia / Robyn Francis)
Read at : Permaculture College Australia...
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Community garden in Burkina Faso for food security (Willem Van Cotthem /...
Community garden for women of GUESWENDE in Niou In dryland countries, women and children have to work hard on their land in very harsh conditions. They live in close contact with the environment and...
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Roof gardens and community gardens (Dimidia)
Read at : Facebook Gardens: Good for Urban US. Good for Developing Countries by Dimidia, LLC on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 4:56am Here is a bit of irony. In today’s WashingtonPost newspaper, there...
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Community gardens bring food security in Burkina Faso (Willem Van Cotthem /...
A splendid project of the Committee Maastricht-Niou in Kakim-Kabouda (Burkina Faso): The community gardens Périmètre Sjef VINK, created in 2004. The Kabouda village is located 14 km south of Méguet....
View ArticleUrban desertification, brownfields, bioremediation and community green spaces...
Read at : http://www.asla.org/sustainablelandscapes/Vid_Brownfields.html From Industrial Wasteland to Community Park Key Facts: Brownfields are abandoned, environmentally-contaminated industrial or...
View ArticleVancouver’s micro-gardens: a challenge for international organizations...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/10/06/strathcona-community-micro-gardens-in-vancouver/ Strathcona Community Micro-Gardens in Vancouver Linked by Michael Levenston...
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An invitation to 5 billion non-hungry people on earth (Willem Van Cotthem)
INTRODUCTION Many people are looking for success stories of organic family gardening or farming in rural and in urban areas. Don’t search anymore: here is a splendid testimony of the results booked in...
View ArticleCommunity gardens can serve as an effective tool for community-based...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/12/06/review-and-analysis-of-the-benefits-purposes-and-motivations-associated-with-community-gardening-in-the-united-states/ Review and Analysis of the...
View ArticleCommunity garden earns funds (City Farmer News / Yorkregion)
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/12/10/community-garden-earns-funds-from-town-of-markham-ontario/ Community garden earns funds from Town of Markham, Ontario Linked by Michael Levenston...
View ArticleThe project started with a simple garden behind a rural clinic (DIG)
Read at : Development in Gardening (REAP LIFE) http://www.reaplifedig.org/Reap_Life/1_year_later.html The DIG Effect In all the years that DIG has been working on the ground, one group in particular...
View ArticleThere’s a waiting list at every community garden (City Farmer News / The...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/03/25/sharing-backyards-takes-root-with-the-landless/ Sharing Backyards takes root with the landless Linked by Michael Levenston Avid gardeners work their...
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IF BRITAIN IS GETTING GARDENING, WHY NOT THE DRYLAND COUNTRIES ? (Treehugger)
Read at : http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/mayor-of-london-free-tomatoes.php Free Tomato Give-Away to Get Growing Bonnie Alter, London Part of a photo by Bonnie Alter The Mayor of London was in...
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The irrefutable evidence of the FAO : decisive victory for city gardening in...
Citizens of Ghent/Belgium (here in the allotments Slotenkouter) produce enough vegetables for the family all year long (Photo WVC) Neighbours in allotments all over the world are motivating each other...
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Once upon a time UNICEF launched a project in the refugee camps in S.W....
With great attention I have read the former posting on this blog : SURVIVAL OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN IN HORN OF AFRICA AT RISK, WARNS UNICEF (UN News July 8, 2011). This UN-message informed us that :...
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Agriculture must be harnessed to improve nutrition and health in Guinea...
Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=93169 GUINEA: Nutrition finds a place in agriculture plan DAKAR, 7 July 2011 (IRIN) – The quality of a baby’s first solid food and teaching...
View ArticleKenya and the MDGs (Google / The Global Herald)
Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://theglobalherald.com/kenya-desertification-presents-a-challenge-to-millenium-development-goals/22254/...
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Reforestation and community gardens in Ivory Coast (Willem Van Cotthem)
In 1993, the FIFTY ONE Service Clubs of Belgium and Ivory Coast decided to sponsor one of the projects of the Botany Department of the University of Ghent (Belgium) : “Reforestation and community...
View ArticleI’m Dancing and Singing in the Drought (Willem Van Cotthem)
You probably know I’m not the actor Gene KELLY, that’s why I’m not dancing and singing in the rain, but in the drought. The reason for my optimistic mood today is quite simple : there are so many...
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Bottom-up view on effective, long-term solutions to combat desertification,...
Reading every day a number of publications on drought, desertification, hunger, malnutrition, famine, poverty and conflicts, I noticed that more and more voices are raised about the urgent need for a...
View ArticleUrban agriculture and community gardening bring food, jobs and money to local...
Read at : Google Alert – vertical gardening http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/making-a-case-for-the-urban-garden Making a case for the urban garden In addition to providing...
View ArticleA new garden on the UA campus for the community to grow fresh produce (Google...
Read at : Google Alert – desert gardening http://www.kold.com/story/15879761/ua-has-a-green-thumb UA has a green thumb By David Gonzalez TUCSON, AZ (KOLD) – The University of Arizona is planting the...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture in the Bronx, New York City (City Farmer News / NCBI)
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/11/18/community-gardens-an-exploration-of-urban-agriculture-in-the-bronx-new-york-city/ Community Gardens: An Exploration of Urban Agriculture in the Bronx,...
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What comes first: Strategies for combating climate change or for creating...
Let me recommend to read very attentively the former posting on this blog : UNICEF: Children most vulnerable to climate change...
View ArticleJoining private gardens into giant allotments (City Farmer News / The Oxford...
Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2011/12/19/plan-to-pool-gardens-to-create-giant-city-allotment-in-oxford/ Plan to pool gardens to create giant city allotment in Oxford Linked by Michael Levenston...
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In Burkina Faso they love the zaïs
http://kaabnoogo.blogspot.be/, Burkina Faso Beating back the desert in Burkina Faso, field by field by Romaric Ollo Hien EXCERPT In Burkina Faso, what was once stony semi-wasteland is now covered in...
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First help the local people to decent food
Photo credit: WVC 1997 Photo taken at the start of the community garden photographed 12 years later by Willemien (see photo of 2009-02 in Niou). At the first training session, the local women learn how...
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25,000 die each day
Photo credit: Community garden in Niou (Prov. Kourweogo, Burkina Faso) in 2009 – Project Committee Maastricht-Niou and TC-Dialogue Foundation (Belgium) started in 1988. – Soil conditioned with TC –...
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Back in 2009: If they do it in Washington, D.C. and Sulphur, LA, why don’t we...
In September 2009 I wrote: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/washington-d-c-students-plant-vegetable-garden-on-h-street-google-gw-hachet/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van Cotthem (Ghent...
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Just a reminder: The role of urban gardens, family gardens and school gardens.
My publication in January 2010: https://containergardening.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/the-role-of-urban-gardens-family-gardens-and-school-gardens-willem-van-cotthem-irin-fao/ by Prof. Dr. Willem Van...
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