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  • Bridging the gender gap through groundwater monitoring in a Rajasthan village

    June 29, 2020 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: India, Hinta, Rajasthan

    A group of farmers in India have been trained to monitor their village’s groundwater levels to help its residents make more informed decisions about irrigation based on water availability. The farmers-turned-researchers are known as “Bhujal Jaankars” and they monitor rainfall, dam water levels, and water quality to notify residents so they can plant crops that don’t require a lot of water. While there is a lack of gender diversity in the group, they are working on developing training to include more functional literacy skills to encourage participation from others.

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  • Minnesota Food Shelves Go Mobile To Fight Hunger

    June 29, 2020 |

    U.S. News & World Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Sleepy Eye, Minnesota

    Food banks and relief groups in Minnesota are delivering food to rural and suburban communities as food insecurity rises across the state. Suburban poverty presents unique challenges because communities are spread out and lack public transportation as well as social services, underscoring the importance of mobile food deliveries. Food pantries have been overburdened since March as more and more people experience food insecurity for the first time. One group reported a drastic increase in the number of people served, with 68 percent using the pantry service for the very first time.

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  • Feed the people: Helping communities, hospitality workers, and families

    June 29, 2020 |

    DigBoston |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Restaurants and labor unions have formed a partnership through Project Restore Us, or PRU, to benefit union members as well as restaurants during the pandemic. Restaurants utilize their access to discounted, bulk grocery items to create grocery boxes for union members. The profit goes to the restaurant and its employees, simultaneously helping those who are unemployed and dealing with food insecurity as well as the hard-hit restaurant industry.

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  • Los campesinos que hackearon el sistema alimenticio en medio de la pandemia

    June 28, 2020 |

    ¡Pacifista! |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Colombia

    Este reportaje radiofónico distribuido en podcast explora y explica cómo comunidades rurales de Colombia se las ingenian para la elaboración y repartición de alimentos en plena crisis por el COVID-19. Ante la dificultad de distribución y el deterioro en las ventas de sus cultivos, los vecinos de Cajamarca, en Tolima, decidieron que sus huertos sean para su consumo propio y el de sus vecinos.

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  • How a Waco nonprofit built a community grocery store in a food desert

    June 27, 2020 |

    The Victoria Advocate |

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    Response Location: United States, Waco, Texas

    Jubilee provides an oasis in a desert - a food desert that is. The community grocery store provides the only fresh food for miles around at competitive prices and makes an effort to cater to the local clientele, stocking items that have been requested and offering locals a discount. The much-needed grocer is the work of a local nonprofit, Mission Waco, which worked with the community to assess its need before raising funds from corporations and celebrities. The success of Jubilee serves as an example to food deserts across the state who have looked to it for a blueprint to serve their own communities.

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  • Cómo usar la lluvia en un hotel, una escuela y un centro comunal para ahorrar dinero y agua potable

    June 27, 2020 |

    La Nación (Costa Rica) |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Este reportaje explica cómo 4 lugares (un hotel, una escuela, un salón comunal y una casa de guardaparques) usan un sistema de captación de agua de lluvia para ahorrar agua potable en actividades que puede usar agua pluvial. Se explica cómo funcionan los sistemas, cuánto cuestan, cuáles son sus limitaciones, y se analiza el problema del desperdicio de agua potable en Costa Rica en usos como la descarga de inodoros.

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  • COVID-19 Quarantine Facility Links Homeless To Range Of Services

    June 26, 2020 |

    Honolulu Civil Beat |

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    Response Location: United States, Iwilei, Hawaii

    When Covid-19 began spreading throughout the United States, officials in Hawaii set up a quarantine facility for those experiencing homelessness that helped connect residents with other services to reduce their risk of contracting the virus. While it's too early to know if this could be a viable model for health care in the long run, the practice of temporary housing has currently helped curb the spread of the virus among the community's "unsheltered people."

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  • The peak that wasn't

    June 26, 2020 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    Montana has largely been able to avoid the worst of the coronavirus pandemic by implementing very early measures – including a state of emergency, school closures, and social distancing protocols – before the virus had a chance to spread amongst the community. Having learned from how past communicable diseases spread throughout the state, such as whooping cough, health officials also quickly put a contact tracing effort into place. According to Dr. Laurel Desnick, Park County Health Officer, “Montana is still the safest place in the country.”

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  • 'Nip the virus in the bud': How Germany showed Europe the way on coronavirus testing

    June 26, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Germany, Bavaria

    Germany has implemented a variety of methods to contain the coronavirus, but their policy of "open public testing" has been a vital component of successfully slowing the spread of the virus. Although the policy was not in place from the start due to insurance limitations, once enacted, it allowed for asymptomatic people to be tested and has reportedly slowed outbreaks throughout the country.

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  • The World's Best Healthcare Systems: Ezekiel Emanuel

    June 26, 2020 |

    How Do We Fix It? |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    As evidenced in COVID-19 case comparisons, the U.S. health-care system has not performed as well as other countries to offer health-care access, yet is still "spends far more money on healthcare than any other nation." Other countries, such as Switzerland and Taiwan, offer guidance on how to learn from the system's failures, especially as it relates to emergency preparedness and price regulations.

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