Promoting Sustainability
Promoting Sustainability from the Campus and Beyond:
The UC Global Food Initiative promoted by Janet Napolitano and the 10 UC Chancellors, is a program dedicated to addressing the growing uncertainty associated with our food systems. "The initiative will align the university’s research, outreach and operations in a sustained effort to develop, demonstrate and export solutions — throughout California, the U.S. and the world — for food security, health and sustainability."
FOOD FACTS from the UC Global Food Initiative Website
* A billion people suffer from chronic hunger or serious nutritional deficiencies
* More than half a billion people worldwide are obese
* Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined
* Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are food insecure
* In California, 16% of households are food insecure
Perspectives from a Cal Professor on promoting Sustainability:
Claire Kreman, a professopr in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of Californica, Berkeley, is an ecologist that works to better understand the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystems. She is currently focusing her research on examining the environmental, social and economical benefits, costs and barriers to adoption of diversified farming systems, and on restoring pollination and pest control services in intensively farmed landscapes She is also the University representative of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Agriculture Climate Change Consortium. A recently published report climate Change Consortium for Specialty Crops -- Impacts and Strategies for Resilience can be found here: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=13-032
Claire also notes that in a yet unpublished study that recently examined the potential capacity of open spaces in America to feed the population. The study concluded that 80% of the United States could be nutritionally self-sustained, excluding largely populated cities with limited open spaces.
Throughout the world there are leaders in promoting food security and sustainability. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva and Will Allen are advocates for how we can create greener, edible spaces that can help feed the world and create environmental responsibility through stewardship of the land.
The UC Global Food Initiative promoted by Janet Napolitano and the 10 UC Chancellors, is a program dedicated to addressing the growing uncertainty associated with our food systems. "The initiative will align the university’s research, outreach and operations in a sustained effort to develop, demonstrate and export solutions — throughout California, the U.S. and the world — for food security, health and sustainability."
FOOD FACTS from the UC Global Food Initiative Website
* A billion people suffer from chronic hunger or serious nutritional deficiencies
* More than half a billion people worldwide are obese
* Hunger kills more people each year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined
* Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. are food insecure
* In California, 16% of households are food insecure
Perspectives from a Cal Professor on promoting Sustainability:
Claire Kreman, a professopr in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of Californica, Berkeley, is an ecologist that works to better understand the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystems. She is currently focusing her research on examining the environmental, social and economical benefits, costs and barriers to adoption of diversified farming systems, and on restoring pollination and pest control services in intensively farmed landscapes She is also the University representative of the California Department of Food and Agriculture and Agriculture Climate Change Consortium. A recently published report climate Change Consortium for Specialty Crops -- Impacts and Strategies for Resilience can be found here: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=13-032
Claire also notes that in a yet unpublished study that recently examined the potential capacity of open spaces in America to feed the population. The study concluded that 80% of the United States could be nutritionally self-sustained, excluding largely populated cities with limited open spaces.
Throughout the world there are leaders in promoting food security and sustainability. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva and Will Allen are advocates for how we can create greener, edible spaces that can help feed the world and create environmental responsibility through stewardship of the land.
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