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Mr446: Profiles Of Sixteen Eastern Maine Fishing Communities, Teresa R. Johnson, Kevin Athearn, Sara Randall, Marina Garland, Katelyn Ross, Ken Cline, Chris Petersen, Robin Alden, Carla Guenther

Miscellaneous Reports

In the United States, a number of legal mandates require social impact assessments of proposed federal fisheries management and other actions. However, too often there are insufficient data with which to conduct social impact assessments for fisheries management, in part because these data are expensive and time consuming to collect and social science for SIAs is typically underfunded. To address this lack of data, these authors profiled 16 fish­ing communities in eastern Maine (Vinalhaven, Stonington, Bar Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Bass Harbor, Swan’s Island, Steuben, Winter Harbor, Gouldsboro, Milbridge, Jonesport, Beals, Bucks Harbor, Lubec, and Eastport), focusing on the …

2015 Food And Function: An Assessment Of The Capacity Of Food Pantry Programs In San Diego County, Mary Jo Schumann, Crystal Trull, Carolyn Noack

Food Security

Food pantry programs play a critical role in meeting a basic need for thousands of individuals and families each year. They are the front-line support mechanism for providing short-term or emergency assistance to those struggling with food insecurity. San Diego County has a wide variety of food pantry programs that are helping to meet the need of thousands of hungry residents across the region.

In 2012, several of the major emergency food provider agencies in San Diego County gathered to discuss how collaboration could support cost-saving efficiencies in the food distribution network, and subcommittees were formed to collaborate on achieving …

Barriers And Opportunities To Promote Rights To Sustainable Production Of Smallholders In The Context Of Climate Stresses In Central America, Raffaele Vignola

Food Systems Summit 2015

Under a systemic approach, right to food implies also considering two aspects such as the implementation of and correspondent support to sustainable agricultural production by smallholders. Given the observed and projected trends, this requires also considering how such practices can help these vulnerable producers cope with and recover from the increasing climate stresses affecting them. We here focus on these two complementary aspects for the case of coffee and basic grains smallholders: the identification of adaptive benefits of sustainable practices and the barriers and strengths of cross-scale governance to support their implementation in Central America (a highly climate-vulnerable region).

Gender, Nutrition, And The Human Right To Adequate Food: Toward An Inclusive Framework, Anne C. Bellows

Food Systems Summit 2015

The food crisis of 2008 was not an isolated incident or unique event from which the world economy and food security has re-stabilized. Rather, as Valente and Suárez Franco (2010, 455) state, "[the 2008 food crisis] is not new for more than 840 million people who have constantly been subjected to hunger over the last thirty years, millions of whom died of malnutrition and associated diseases, or had their quality of life severely affected by the consequences of malnutrition." Although estimates of food insecurity differ, the geography and socio-demographic profile of the food insecure remains unaltered (FAO, WFP, IFAD 2012; …

Basic Grain Storage And Distribution Center As A Food Security And Food Sovereignty Strategy For Coffee-Growing Communities In Nicaragua, Marcela Pino

Food Systems Summit 2015

No abstract provided.

Does The Human Right To Food Include An Implicit Right To A Healthy Environment?, Anastasia Telesetsky

Food Systems Summit 2015

The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights defines the human right to food as "the right to have regular, permanent and unrestricted access, either directly or by means of financial purchases, to quantitatively and qualitatively adequate and sufficient food corresponding to the cultural traditions of the people to which the consumer belongs, and which ensure a physical and mental, individual and collective, fulfilling and dignified life free of fear." Notably, this definition provides no explicit mention of the environment. The General Comment on the Right to Food by the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and …

Realizing The Right To Food: Progress, Limitations And Emerging Alternative Policy And Legal Models, Nadia Lambek

Food Systems Summit 2015

No abstract provided.

New England's Food Vision: 50% By 2060 -- Biophysical Opportunities & Constraints, Ellen Kahler

Food Systems Summit 2015

Vermont's Farm to Plate Initiative is recognized as a national leader in food systems development activity. The initiative was originally created by act of the Vermont Legislature in 2009, which directed the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, in collaboration with a wide array of stakeholders, to develop a 10 year strategic plan to increase jobs and economic activity in the farm and food sector and to increase access to healthy, local food for all Vermonters.

Cultivating The Right To Food? The Contribution Of Urban Community Food Gardens To Food Sovereignty In Johannesburg, South Africa, Brittany Kesselman

Food Systems Summit 2015

This proposal presents on-going research towards a PhD in Development Studies. The objective of this research is to understand if and how urban community gardens contribute to food sovereignty in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the aim of determining what actions can be taken to enhance their contribution.

The research examines the way in which urban community gardens contribute to six key elements of food sovereignty, namely: Access to adequate, nutritious, culturally appropriate foods; Sustainable income/ livelihoods; Localisation as well as democratisation of the food system; Environmental sustainability of the food system; Empowerment of marginalised groups; and Empowerment of women/ promotion …

The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps Health Care Share: An Immunization For The Future, Paul Feenan

Food Systems Summit 2015

In 2012, The Farm at VYCC partnered with Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) to pilot the Health Care Share (HCS), a food security initiative that provides farm fresh produce and poultry to families in need. In 2013, the University of Vermont Medical Center (then Fletcher Allen Health Care), joined the program. Medical providers identify patient and employee families who are unable to afford or access fresh, nutritious food. Families enrolled in the HCS receive a weekly allotment of fresh produce, information on food storage and preparation, and increased access to nutritional counseling.

The HCS relies on a constellation of local …

Food Safety Education And Disparities In North Carolina Emergency Food, Ashley Chaifetz, Benjamin Chapman

Food Systems Summit 2015

Each year, an estimated 48 million Americans (1 in 6) contract foodborne illness (Scallan, 2011) stemming from grocery stores, hospitals, day care centers, church banquets, county fairs, restaurants, private homes, schools, and even food banks (CDC FOOD, 2011). However, little research has explored the potential connection between food-insecure populations and risk of foodborne illness, especially for emergency foods (c.f. Henley et al., 2012; Koro et al., 2010; Quinlan, 2013). For the majority of people who seek food assistance, food pantries are a fixed part of food sources; that is, the pantries are for subsistence and no longer just “emergency food” …

Gearing Up Sustainable Agriculture With Organic Farming For The Global Market, Agnes C. Rola, Jaine C. Reyes, Agnes R. Chupungco, Blanquita R. Pantoja, Miriam R. Nguyen

CPAf Policy Brief

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implemented by the University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation Incorporated (UPBLFI). The views expressed are by authors and not necessarily those of DA -BAR, which can accept no responsibility or liability for such views, completeness or accuracy of the information or for any reliance placed on them.