CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a 14.8 acre farm on public buffer land right in the middle of a heavy industrial area. The farm uses recycled water, high in nitrogen, which is otherwise discarded into Suisan Bay (part of San Francisco Bay). We grow fresh produce using sustainable agricultural methods and hydroponic greenhouse growing to provide produce to the Food Bank and Schools.
Oxford: Implementing food projects with examples from current partnershipsSoilAssocScot
A presentation by Hannah Jacobs of Good Food Oxford, prepared for the Food for Life Scotland and Sustainable Food Cities event in Edinburgh on 6 November 2015. Copyright Good Food Oxford.
People’s Policy Processes for Food Sovereignty: Reflections from EnglandColin Anderson
We live in a rapidly changing world with growing inequality and environmental destruction. Policy in all domains increasingly reflect the neoliberal agenda – one where profit and growth are viewed as ends in of themselves. People – their wellbeing, their relationship with nature and their humanity – are increasingly disregarded in decision making by elites. The case of food and agriculture is a case in point where policies are controlled largely by multinational corporations and financiers in the private sector along with their counterparts in science, government and mainstream NGOs.
Yet, it is not all doom and gloom. Social movements around the world are mobilising to contest the injustices of the current dominant order(s) and to build alternatives. The global food sovereignty movement reflects a call to put people and planet first and, through democratic reform, for food producers and those most affected by the injustices of the food system, to gain control over food policy and practice.
In different parts of the world, citizens are organizing grassroots processes to create people’s food policy platforms to articulate the vision and policy demands from a food sovereignty perspective (e.g. in Canada, India, Australia). This talk will focus on England’s A People’s Food Policy process, which involved 18 months of dialogues, workshops and debates amongst grassroots organisations, NGOs, trade unions, community projects, small businesses and individuals. This people’s policy process is embedded within a longer, ongoing, movement for food sovereignty in the UK. The resulting document was launched in June 2017, and is a manifesto demanding that governments, NGOs and people working on food policy put the wellbeing of people and environment first, develop integrated food policy, and create participatory decision-making approaches that empower those most affected by these policies. The document is now endorsed by over 100 organisations in the UK, creating an important platform to crystallise the argument for food sovereignty and to bring allies together around a common purpose. This session will highlight some key points from a reflective and participatory evaluation of the PFP process to discuss the role of these grassroots policy-oriented processes in the struggle for Agroecology and food sovereignty.
Visit www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org to download the full report.
Oxford: Implementing food projects with examples from current partnershipsSoilAssocScot
A presentation by Hannah Jacobs of Good Food Oxford, prepared for the Food for Life Scotland and Sustainable Food Cities event in Edinburgh on 6 November 2015. Copyright Good Food Oxford.
People’s Policy Processes for Food Sovereignty: Reflections from EnglandColin Anderson
We live in a rapidly changing world with growing inequality and environmental destruction. Policy in all domains increasingly reflect the neoliberal agenda – one where profit and growth are viewed as ends in of themselves. People – their wellbeing, their relationship with nature and their humanity – are increasingly disregarded in decision making by elites. The case of food and agriculture is a case in point where policies are controlled largely by multinational corporations and financiers in the private sector along with their counterparts in science, government and mainstream NGOs.
Yet, it is not all doom and gloom. Social movements around the world are mobilising to contest the injustices of the current dominant order(s) and to build alternatives. The global food sovereignty movement reflects a call to put people and planet first and, through democratic reform, for food producers and those most affected by the injustices of the food system, to gain control over food policy and practice.
In different parts of the world, citizens are organizing grassroots processes to create people’s food policy platforms to articulate the vision and policy demands from a food sovereignty perspective (e.g. in Canada, India, Australia). This talk will focus on England’s A People’s Food Policy process, which involved 18 months of dialogues, workshops and debates amongst grassroots organisations, NGOs, trade unions, community projects, small businesses and individuals. This people’s policy process is embedded within a longer, ongoing, movement for food sovereignty in the UK. The resulting document was launched in June 2017, and is a manifesto demanding that governments, NGOs and people working on food policy put the wellbeing of people and environment first, develop integrated food policy, and create participatory decision-making approaches that empower those most affected by these policies. The document is now endorsed by over 100 organisations in the UK, creating an important platform to crystallise the argument for food sovereignty and to bring allies together around a common purpose. This session will highlight some key points from a reflective and participatory evaluation of the PFP process to discuss the role of these grassroots policy-oriented processes in the struggle for Agroecology and food sovereignty.
Visit www.peoplesfoodpolicy.org to download the full report.
Ms Bitul Gangal, Senior Analyst, Fortune 500, gave presentation on Eco- homes in villages at CII-IGBC's 15th green building congress 2017 event at Jaipur
Presentation at the SHOES conference in Sandwell on March 28th by Eric Kuhne, Owner and Founder of CivicArts International, Architectural consultants, about the plans for the new town Ebbsfleet Valley
Traditional methods of water conservation in India: Part 1IEI GSC
This presentation was made at a workshop on water conservation at Ahmedabad organised by The Institution of Engineers (India), Gujarat State Center in association with water Management Forum.
Presneted by IWMI's Chris Dickens at the launch of the 2017 United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), held in Durban, South Africa, on World Water Day, March 22, 2017.
Ms Bitul Gangal, Senior Analyst, Fortune 500, gave presentation on Eco- homes in villages at CII-IGBC's 15th green building congress 2017 event at Jaipur
Presentation at the SHOES conference in Sandwell on March 28th by Eric Kuhne, Owner and Founder of CivicArts International, Architectural consultants, about the plans for the new town Ebbsfleet Valley
Traditional methods of water conservation in India: Part 1IEI GSC
This presentation was made at a workshop on water conservation at Ahmedabad organised by The Institution of Engineers (India), Gujarat State Center in association with water Management Forum.
Presneted by IWMI's Chris Dickens at the launch of the 2017 United Nations World Water Development Report (WWDR), held in Durban, South Africa, on World Water Day, March 22, 2017.
2022 August Presentation to Google's Regenerative Agriculture Interest Group....Carolyn R. Phinney, Ph.D.
Regenerative Agriculture sequesters carbon in soil. We discussed the history of our farm and the practices we use to drawdown CO2 from the atmosphere and sequester in soil.
The benefits of biologicals for food & health industriesEIT Food
This joint EIT Food and EIT Health event was hosted at the
Koppert headquarters in the Netherlands. The main topic of the event was the benefits of biologicals for food & health industries: from pre-harvest to post-consumption.
Link to the event information: https://www.eitfood.eu/events/event/the-benefits-of-biologicals-for-food-health-industries/
The presentation includes:
Soil biodiversity
How to feed an astronaut - cooking in Space - Menu fatigue - Space farming
About Koppert Biological Systems - Sustainability, food, health - Pest and disease control - natural pollination - biological crop protection -
- Anne-Marie Culhane, Artist and community activist -
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Proposal for sustainable food system to benefit under nourished school childr...Susan Evans
GoodtoChina is a social enterprise that designs solutions for social innovation and sustainability that encourage a paradigm shift from non-sustainable behavior towards sustainable and healthy behavior. We tackle urban challenges by creating opportunities for change through the development of contemporary systems and environments and by providing tools and education to influence a change in people behavior: as a consequence of these interventions we help to propel new opportunities for social and environmental reform and economic revenue through changes in demand and supply to traditional systems.
Each strategy and design solution addresses the 3 pillars of sustainability, namely, social, environmental and economic.
Our umbrella goal is to create environments whereby people, business and environment are healthier and happier.
The impact from the systems we propose can be measured across both tangible and non-tangible elements that include: happiness, pollution, energy usage, renewable energy, food sources, renewable materials & construction.
We do this through a variety of products and services:
Sky Farms is one of our products and services
Sky farms: An innovative platform of experiential urban farming which encourages sustainable and healthy living, supports a paradigm shift from the conventional food model, which is rural, disconnected and monoculture to an alternative contemporary approach which is urban, connected and distributed.
Sky farms are designed to support social innovation and sustainability: they connect and engage communities, educate and enable sharing in collaborative socially desirable environments
Impact: positively impact the psychology and quality of life of urban residents by repurposing unused spaces and so encourage a re-distribution of the food chain, increase knowledge of how to grow local organic food, increase green space in the city that will help to reduce hot island city effect and reduce energy usage for cooling and heating,
It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad & 35 cents to feed a child pizza. What do you think schools feed our children?
The CoCo San Sustainable Farm in Martinez, CA is a project of the Earth Island institute, a non-profit environmental incubator in Berkeley.
It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad. Schools can not afford that. The food bank can not get salad vegetables because they are highly perishable and unavailable locally. We will be providing some free and some reduced-price produce to schools and the food bank by growing produce at a very low cost.
We will grow produce on 33 acres of unused Central Contra Costa Sanitary District buffer land, using recycled agricultural-grade water, which is otherwise discharged into the Bay. This recycled water is high in organic nitrogen, providing free fertilizer.
The Food Bank is a mile from the farm and will pick up the produce and use existing systems to distribute it to schools and clients.
Hence, we are deploying under-utilized resources to nearly eliminate 4 of the major costs of food production: LAND, WATER, FERTILIZER, and TRANSPORTATION.
Our business model is to generate revenue by selling 75% of the crops; renting community garden plots with classes; selling advertizing at the farm and on our website; and charging a fee for special services and events. Because we are a non-profit, we will also generate income from donations and grants. We will be sharing net revenues with Central San, financially benefiting rate-payers.
One of the goals of the farm is to educate. Every aspect of science touches a farm such as physics, soil science, hydrology, meteorology, and nutrition. We are working with State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Teacher of the Year, the Community College Board, and an expert who created internships for NASA to integrate the farm into school curricula.
The farm will be an incubator for green jobs. We will partner with other sustainable businesses to showcase their products and teach aspects of jobs related to these industries.
The environment will also benefit. Plants sequester carbon and clean the air. We reduce the major types of carbon pollution associated with food production: FOSSIL FUEL- BASED FERTILIZER and TRANSPORT. We will also rebuild barren soil and increase ground water, benefiting two adjacent creeks.
Sanitary districts all over the world have unused buffer land and throw away recycled water. Sanitary districts in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties discharge about 200 million gallons of water into the Bay on a dry day and 1 billion gallons of water on a rainy day.
Our business model is scalable and once proven, other sanitary districts can emulate to not waste this precious resource.
The farm will produce a Win-Win-Win for public health, education, the environment, the economy, and rate-payers.
An apple a day will not keep the doctor away. But a salad a day might!
Save our environment is the important part of our life. Every day people plan to save our earth and our environment. Niyatee foundation always gives advice to save our environment in a right way.
Landscape approaches to maximize social, economic and environmental outcomes ...CIFOR-ICRAF
CIFOR Director General Peter Holmgren's keynote speech at the Asia-Pacific Rainforest Stakeholder Dialogue in Sydney, Australia, 11 November 2014.
Holmgren presents the importance of landscape approaches for meeting sustainable development goals and maintaining a healthy balance in land use decision making - to emphasize how the world's future can be maximized for food security, biodiversity conservation, economic stability and human health.
Learn more about landscapes at http://www.landscapes.org
From a workshop at "Farms & Food: Teaching the Hudson Valley from the Ground Up," July 2014, Hyde Park, NY, for more information, www.TeachingtheHudsonValley.org
"Recycling and Composting at Your School or Site." Recycling is now mandatory throughout New York State; composting food scraps is on the radar for the not-too-distant future. Get the scoop on how to convince colleagues to set a good example and learn how "walking-the-talk" can help prepare students for a future in which natural resource conservation will be increasingly critical. Terry Laibach, New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation, and Anne Jaffe-Holmes, Greenburgh Nature Center
"The Aloha House Story: Serving the Community Through Agricultural Extension"
Agricultural Extension is a great tool for the development worker who wants to impact their community while minimising risk to the small hold farmer and back yard producer. Aloha House started as an orphanage for children in crises and now also is working with families and single parents. Healthy food production is an integral component and the organic farm grew out of that desire. As interest grew and trainings were undertaken, ECHO Technical notes were key to fast tracking the success and profitability of our farm. Join us on this adventure as Keith highlights some of their successes and failures in this 15 year adventure.
Keith Mikkelson is the Executive Director of Aloha House inc., an NGO founded with his wife to help Philippine families. Aloha House is an orphanage located on an organic farm that produces food for the children, staff and customers in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines. Keith's book A Natural Farming System for Sustainable Agriculture in the Tropics has sold over 5,000 copies.
Presentation about how regenerative agriculture sinks carbon in soil and helps reverse global warming. Plant photosynthesis uses CO2 in the atmosphere and microbes sequester carbon in soil by eating plant exudates at roots which are sugars. Protecting microbes is critical to drawing down atmospheric CO2 and sinking it in soil. Conventional agriculture kills the microbes in the soil and adds CO2 to the atmosphere. Regenerative agriculture is carbon negative.
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a non-profit urban farm project on sanitary district buffer land, using recycled water and sustainable farming practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration in soil. This project focuses on reducing nutritional poverty. It's four goals are: Food Equity; Environment; Education; and Economic Development.
The United Nations predicts that 1 billion people will be starving by 2050. The carbon footprint of conventional agriculture is huge. We must innovate to use wasted resources to grow food locally, using wasted resources such as public buffer land and recycled water. Greenhouse growing uses a fraction of the water for many times the productivity. Public health requires a fresh supply of produce for everyone.
Urban Farming on public land using recycled water will provide low cost fresh produce for schools and food bank and local ciizens and hands-on science and engineering education for youth.
Food (agriculture) production and distribution is estimated to cause approximately 25% of global warming (UN), which is causing drought in many areas. Agriculture uses 80% of the ground and surface water, increasing the water shortage. AgLantis is creating an urban farm right in the middle of heavy industry and will use hydroponic greenhouse production which yields as much as 40 times the produce using 10% of the water. The farm is on unused public buffer land, uses recycled agricultural grade water and is an innovate, replicable solution that dramatically decreases the carbon and water footprint of food production and distribution. Using recycled water high in nitrogen and phosphorus also eliminates the need for fossil fuel based fertilizers. The UN estimates 40% of agriculture is lost from farm-to-mouth. Growing in urban centers dramatically decreases that loss, much of which is due to long distane transportation.
We are creating an urban farm on sanitary district buffer land using recycled water that would otherwise be discharged and wasted. We are growing salads for schools and the food bank. www.Salads4Schools.org
CoCo San Sustainable Farm, Hydroponic Greenhouse, Final Presentation JFK ELICarolyn R. Phinney, Ph.D.
See www.Salads4School.org
CoCo San Sustainable Farm: Final 10-minute presentation for JFK Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute class I have been taking. Hydroponic greenhouse planned; hands-on science; CSA; organic methods but not certified to keep costs down; permaculture, recycled water, showcase green businesses.
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a project of AgLantis 501c-3). We are an14.8 urban farm using recycled water. We are a "Green Incubator" on Central Contra Costa Sanitary District. We will be growing salads4schools and the food bank in a high-tech greenhouse donated by AgraTech and teaching high-tech greenhouse management, soils science, water science and other hands on science, and integrating the farm into community college and JFKU curriculum. We are using recycled agricultural grade water and believe greenhouse growing of produce in urban farms on buffer land of water reclamation facilities is going to help with the increasing food shortage on the planet.
Roti Bank Hyderabad: A Beacon of Hope and NourishmentRoti Bank
One of the top cities of India, Hyderabad is the capital of Telangana and home to some of the biggest companies. But the other aspect of the city is a huge chunk of population that is even deprived of the food and shelter. There are many people in Hyderabad that are not having access to
Ang Chong Yi Navigating Singaporean Flavors: A Journey from Cultural Heritage...Ang Chong Yi
In the heart of Singapore, where tradition meets modernity, He embarks on a culinary adventure that transcends borders. His mission? Ang Chong Yi Exploring the Cultural Heritage and Identity in Singaporean Cuisine. To explore the rich tapestry of flavours that define Singaporean cuisine while embracing innovative plant-based approaches. Join us as we follow his footsteps through bustling markets, hidden hawker stalls, and vibrant street corners.
At Taste Of Middle East, we believe that food is not just about satisfying hunger, it's about experiencing different cultures and traditions. Our restaurant concept is based on selecting famous dishes from Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, and other Arabic countries to give our customers an authentic taste of the Middle East
6. Where We Are Going?
Project Goals
1. Create Sustainable Urban Farm with free Land, Water, and Fertilizer
2. Provide Fresh Produce to Schools and Food Bank and Community
with a Low Carbon Footprint
3. Teach Sustainable Agriculture and Hydroponic Greenhouse growing.
4. Provide Hands-On Learning in Science and Engineering
6. Provide Green Job Experiences & Demonstrate Green Technology
7. Create a Center for Sustainable Living to Educate Public
8. Create a Replicable Model