Webscape - Sound clouds and time lords. Think global, eat local | Washington Business Journal. Missy Frederick Reporter Email In this week's paper, we took a look at the National Restaurant Association's 2011 predicted trends for restaurants, how D.C. stacks up and what local chefs see coming up next year. A huge focus of the trend list was local and organic food, and this is a movement D.C. has been pursuing for years.
Here's what some local experts had to say about D.C.'s movement in this arena: "D.C. is definitely ahead of the curve on the local and sustainable trend," said Amanda McClements, author of the popular food blog Metrocurean. Some chefs have converted more to the local movement in recent years. "It just became really advantageous, both on the quality level and in terms of better pricing," said Gold. Customers have responded, selling out events such as Dino’s themed duck dinner, which featured ducks from Joe Jurgielewicz’s Pennsylvania Farm. January Food Festivals. Snow lessons for supermarkets | Tim Lang. Britain is having a prolonged and unusual period of bad weather.
Suddenly even the oiled machines of the supermarket chains seem threatened, with reports that shoppers may soon face empty shelves. How has this happened? Why does a little snow – compared with what Norway or Canada routinely get – have this potential to disrupt modern lives and our insatiable desire to eat all the time? Though empty shelves are not a reality yet, it's obvious that if motorways are halted, the one in four vehicles on British roads that carry food are bound to be affected.
Half of them, by the way, are empty – on return journeys, a source of embarrassment to the retailers who like to present themselves as green. But they're working on that, doing previously unimaginable things such as sharing loads and information about backloads. The supermarket revolution was one of the much-hyped success stories of 20th-century consumer capitalism. Modern supermarkets work by precision timing. UDID Sender for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes App Store. Spoff - Our new T-Shirt design. - lovefre.sh #boat <testing pearltrees.com.
Vertical farming: Does it really stack up? WHEN you run out of land in a crowded city, the solution is obvious: build upwards. This simple trick makes it possible to pack huge numbers of homes and offices into a limited space such as Hong Kong, Manhattan or the City of London. Mankind now faces a similar problem on a global scale. The world's population is expected to increase to 9.1 billion by 2050, according to the UN.
Feeding all those people will mean increasing food production by 70%, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, through a combination of higher crop yields and an expansion of the area under cultivation. But the additional land available for cultivation is unevenly distributed, and much of it is suitable for growing only a few crops. So why not create more agricultural land by building upwards? Such is the thinking behind vertical farming. A wide variety of designs for vertical farms have been created by architectural firms. The necessary technology already exists. Let there be light.
World Food Day: There is enough food grown in the world for everyone (Op-ed) “The problem of hunger and poverty in a climate-changing world will not be solved simply by throwing more money at fertilizer, higher-yielding seeds and big irrigation schemes.” Jeremy Hobbs Oxfam International Executive Director Published: 16 October 2009 There is enough food grown in the world for everyone. And yet we remain stuck in a food crisis. Half the world’s food is lost as waste and a billion people – one in every six of the world’s poorest – cannot access enough of the other half and so go hungry every day. Our leaders have another chance to put that right. Next month at the UN World Food Summit in Rome they will talk about ending world hunger. To do so, leaders must concentrate on helping poor farmers who have been left to fend for themselves on the front-line of hunger, poverty and climate change.
This year’s G8 summit pledged $20 billion over three years to poor farmers and consumers. The World Food Summit must hold all governments to their promises. Signed by: