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Basically, the food system in this country for honeybees is broken, and it needs fixing.
This new food system will need contractors, architects, construction workers, and not least, new farmers.
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Fixing our food system would be similar to weaning ourselves of our addiction to oil, Roberts says.
This group is just a sampling of the millions around the globe working to improve our food system.
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Supermarkets and the mass food system are here to stay and they provide affordable food for the masses.
Unfortunately, many of the same high calorie foods have been provided to hungry families by the emergency food system.
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There is an environmental problem in terms of the food system we have.
We can go further too: in the food system before it gets to the supermarkets or even the processors.
What's the plan for reducing vulnerability of our food system to climatic extremes?
The global food system drivers interact with local environmental factors to create a wide variation in obesity prevalence between populations.
In 1999 a group of angry parents drafted up a policy document in an attempt to make the food system better.
The strain on the world's food system is making policy makers nervous.
These donations provide for those who may otherwise be unable to access fresh foods and help to build a healthy community food system.
Below is a list of five of the most promising technological ideas to help the food system become more healthy, just and sustainable.
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Working with tribal elders and youth, we have struggled to revitalize a local food system that contributes to community health, economic development and cultural revitalization.
Others collect other places in the food system and our bodies.
Since 2004, the USDA has removed the brain and the spinal column, the parts suspected of causing mad cow disease in humans, from the food system.
As U.S. citizens begin to opt out of the food system en masse, garden supply companies like Peaceful Valley are also in position to benefit.
Raj Patel, author of "Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, " says the right to food should be seen as a human right.
There is still much to be done, but what has happened today marks a significant step forward, toward a food system that puts the health of our children first.
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One is the increasing interconnectedness of the food system.
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And while I think success for start-ups like hers is absolutely necessary for changing the food system, the ethos of the meeting put more value on helping others than on making money.
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Our community-based food system in Milwaukee is not dependent in the same way as the industrial system on oil prices, and we are able to feed healthy food to rich and poor alike.
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Although unique in some important ways, our struggle to create a food system that keeps our bodies, minds, culture and economies strong is shared by communities throughout the United States and across the globe.
From apps to check the ingredients in a box of cereal to on-farm GPS units in tractors, it appears that someone has already thought of every way to use technology to improve the food system, and created a startup to do it.
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And eventually, we're going to have to do it because people will be left without a lifeline if we don't, you know, shore up the unemployment system and the food stamp system.
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"The dominant food production system is based on fossil fuel at every level, " says Dr Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy at London's City University.
One is population growth, which will continue to put greater demands on the food production system.
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