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  • Despite COVID and conflict, Kashmiris keep food coming

    September 12, 2021 |

    Missoulian |

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    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    Community networks acted to keep people in Kashmir fed throughout COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns. The Bonamsar mosque provides donation-funded monthly meal kits and small cash payments to people in need, including cooked food for those in immediate need. Tiffin Aaw provided meals to residents during political turmoil and shifted to serving warm meals to COVID-19 patients and their medical and family caregivers that couldn’t afford food. Both services included the culturally traditional food that has led the region to have the country’s highest nutritional health.

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  • This Experiential Learning Farm Helps Youth Build a Better World

    September 09, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Maryland

    Low-income communities of color have less access to nature, they experience "nature deprivation" at a rate three times higher than white people. Regular access to the outdoors improves respiratory health, physical fitness, cognitive functioning, and psychological well-being. The Freetown Farm was conceived as a place where all people can experience nature. Its exposing young people of all backgrounds to nature. Through its year-long internship program learned how to plant food, among other things.

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  • The Nation's First Regenerative Dairy Works with Nature to Heal the Soil—at Scale

    September 07, 2021 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Crescent City, California

    The Alexandre Family Farm in California made the switch to regenerative agriculture as a way to improve their soil health and improve the quality of their dairy operations. They are part of a growing number of individual dairies across the country that are embracing organic farming and are becoming “certified regenerative” as a way to build relationships with consumers and retailers on their own.

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  • How community saves vulnerable children from hunger, malnutrition

    August 29, 2021 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Gwagwalada

    The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated hunger and malnutrition of vulnerable children by crippling livelihoods and orphaning children. Two communities have responded by donating land solely devoted to growing crops to tackle hunger and malnutrition in orphans and vulnerable children. Aside from giving crops directly to families to feed children, the volunteers who work the land also sell part of each harvest to raise money for other nutritious food for the children. Part of the crops are also used to make a nutrition powder that helps ensure children are receiving the nutrients they need.

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  • A tall order

    August 28, 2021 |

    Nepali Times |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    The Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Program and Nutrition Rehabilitation Home in Kathmandu provide resources to children experiencing, or at risk for, malnutrition, which has long been a life-threatening issue in Nepal.

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  • Solutions and Struggle: Native American tribes receive federal COVID-19 relief |

    August 15, 2021 |

    News21 |

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    Response Location: Blackfeet Nation, United States, Montana

    During the pandemic, indigenous communities received massive federal funding through the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, and the Relief and Economic Security Act for a number of needs, like infrastructure and tribal housing improvements. Many indigenous entities received smaller funds too. But COVID exacerbated several long-pending and neglected issues, local officials and tribal members say, and the funding does not sufficiently address them in the longterm.

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  • Hunger on Campus: Western's systems fail to meet student need

    August 15, 2021 |

    The Front |

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    Response Location: United States, Bellingham, Washington

    A third of surveyed college students experience food insecurity, the rate is even higher at Western Washington University. To address the issue that university has unfolded a number of responses; food pantries, meal donations, community gardens, and state assitance, among others.

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  • How saving uneaten food can change lives and help the climate

    August 11, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Fresh Hub was created by twin high school sisters to address food insecurity and the environmental impact of food waste. Volunteers collect unsold food from grocery stores and bakeries and give it to residents living in “food deserts.” They use a smartphone app and automated messages to alert residents when food is available, which is distributed at community centers. Partnering with Second Servings, a nonprofit already doing similar work, allowed them access to vans, equipment, and important insight. Since 2017, they have led 23 events, kept 15,200 pounds of food out of landfills, and served 1,900 people.

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  • There Is Enough Food, Just Not Enough Food Access

    August 10, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Albany, New York

    Free Food Fridge Albany is part of a national movement to ensure that those facing food insecurity have access to fresh food. In Albany, it started with a single vibrantly painted fridge and has expanded to a network of six fridges across the metro region. The fridges are stocked daily with donations of fresh food – from milk to veggies to prepared foods – and anyone is welcome to take as much as they need, anonymously and with no questions asked. Local grocery stores, farms, restaurants, and individual volunteers keep the fridges stocked and over 500 people donate funds each month via Patreon.

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  • How Bijapur fought acute malnutrition through millets and decentralisation

    August 04, 2021 |

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    Response Location: British Indian Ocean Territory, Raipur, Chhattisgarh

    In the district of Bijapur, a town in India, there was a malnutrition rate of 40 per cent in 2019. In order to tackle the problem officials identified the areas with high malnutrition and directed their efforts to those places. They introduced nutrient rich millets in child care centers. They also created kitchen gardens to provide the community with access to fresh vegetables. Finally, they brought Nutrient Rehabilitation Centers in the community since parents were hesitant to take their children to them. Two years later, malnutrition rates dropped by 12 percent.

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