Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
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The Future of Food Security
Last week in Rome, world leaders came together to discuss the current food crisis and an agenda for action at the World Summit for Food Security. This summit represented an opportunity to highlight what is happening in the global dialogue on food security and concerns about how to feed growing, and increasingly wealthy, global populations without eroding nature’s ability to provide ecosystems services that are vital to agriculture and human well-being. Just prior to the summit, a study came out entitled, “Eating the Planet: Feeding and fueling the world sustainably, fairly and humanely-scoping study”1. The study argues that, “while modern ... -
Food and Security on World Food Day
World Food Day 2009 falls on October 16th, and as the new coordinator of CI's Food Security program, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on some of the ways CI will be approaching the connection between nature and the food that everyone depends on. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO 2002) defines food security as a "situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life." To address this, CI's new ... -
Cheetah Sighting
Reason #17 why I love my job: not many people get to spend their lunch hour four feet away from a live cheetah. Then again, I suppose some people might see close proximity to a large, agile carnivore as less than desirable, but I trusted in the cheetah's more than capable handlers to control him. This 11-month old "cheetah ambassador" came as a visitor from the Columbus Zoo, along with an Anatolian shepherd dog that has been raised alongside the cheetah. The zoo staff has found that raising the dogs together with the cheetahs makes the cheetahs more relaxed and even-tempered ...
