Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
March 20, 2013
Nepal: Striving For A Healthy Future / @UN
Nepal - It's home to some of the most beautiful scenery on earth. But millions of Nepalese don't have enough to eat and many children are desperately malnourished. But efforts are underway to change all that ... and it seems to be working. Here's our story.
December 6, 2012
The New Vision for Agriculture / The World Economic Forum
Feeding the world sustainably, as the global population grows, is one of the world's major challenges. The World Economic Forum's New Vision for Agriculture initiative works in innovative ways to mobilize solutions to this challenge.
November 16, 2012
October 24, 2012
October 19, 2012
Environmental Atlas of Europe, p.8 / EEA
During the Soviet era, Dedoplistskaro in south east Georgia was the countrys main production area for wheat and sunflower seeds. That came to an end in 1991 when Georgia became independent and Russia cut off its energy supply. To survive the cold winters, the people resorted to cutting down trees for firewood, stripping the countryside of the windbreaks that protected the crops and soil from the harsh desert winds and provided a natural habitat for many species of animals and plants.
Environmental Atlas of Europe, p.6 / EEA
Silent except for the humming of bees and the distant hammering of woodpeckers, Białowieża Forest is a fairy-tale landscape of tall trees, peat bogs and meadows home to innumerable species of birds, invertebrates, lichens, fungi and other flora and fauna includ-ing grey wolves, lynx, elk and a large herd of rare European bison.
Environmental Atlas of Europe, p.5 / EEA
Ten years ago, a group of people in Ireland came together to try to reduce their overall carbon footprint by building an ecological community. They looked at how they could incor-porate sustainability into every aspect of their lives how they could build and power their houses, how they could earn their living, how they could travel and grow their food.
Environmental Atlas of Europe, p.4 / EEA
Producing sustainably works and it should be replicable all over the world. Antonio Lo Franco, Fattoria La Vialla. The family run Fattoria La Vialla in Tuscany is a shining example of truly sustainable farming. Every element of the production chain, from preparing the soil through to packaging the produce, has been planned with the environment in mind.
Environmental Atlas of Europe, p.2 / EEA
An Environmental Atlas story about Europe's first Cross-border Biosphere, which combines the two large strips of forests, the Pfälzerwald and Les Vosges du Nord, into a beautiful and vibrant bioreserve. In certain zones of the bioreserve small scale farmers are making a business out of producing high quality organic products.
October 12, 2012
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