Reflections on Foodsheds in Three Continents
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Quelles pistes pour l'analyse des bassins alimentaires ?
L’analyse des bassins alimentaires a émergé dans les années 1970 avec pour objectif de documenter les liens entre la production alimentaire dans les espaces ruraux et la consommation des villes.
https://urbanfoodfutures.com/2021/04/29/analyse-bassin-alimentaire/
#foodshed

Quelles pistes pour l’analyse des bassins alimentaires ? - Urban Food Futures
L’analyse des bassins alimentaires (foodshed en anglais) a émergé dans les années 1970, avec pour objectif de documenter les liens entre la production alimentaire dans les espaces ruraux et la consommation des villes. Un article récemment publié dans Environmental Research Letters passe en revue la recherche existante à ce sujet, et formule des recommandations pour améliorer les méthodologies et mieux intégrer ces études dans les politiques alimentaires urbaines.
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In season and available now in the
#sfbay is the amazing Cherimoya aka the Custard Apple. A delightful creamy fruit grown in our
#foodshed it is a brilliant brrakfast or dessert on its own but can also be made into sorbet or added to salads and smoothies to show off its tropical flavor.
#localvore #locavore #cherimoya #custardapple #seasonaleating #seasonality #shoplocal #eatlocal #eatfreshandlocal #farmersmarketAs one of the first projects of an International Collective People's Movement (https://rebrand.ly/peoples-join), which anybody can get started on:
Maps of ecoregions, comprised of local watersheds.
This builds on:
* @cazort's @bPlantOrg ecoregional map (https://bplant.org/regions.php)
* @matt_heberger's watershed map/tool (https://mghydro.com/watersheds/)
* The Dept of Bioregions (https://deptofbioregion.org/bioregions/ecoregions-watersheds/)
* The #Cascadia Bioregion (https://cascadiabioregion.org/)
* Europe's map of ecological regions (https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/figures/dmeer-digital-map-of-european-ecological-regions)
Interested in contributing? Want to get your classroom / students involved, or support with your skills and experience, or just connect and collaborate with others on a project like this?
Feel free to drop a reply below, or join the temporary group discussion forum where we're organizing for projects like these: https://rebrand.ly/peoples-join
This work is in the spirit of the 2010 People's Agreement and Max Ajl's "A People's Green New Deal."
#ecoregion #map #watershed #plants #flora #fauna #bioregions #foodshed #international #collective #greennewdeal #peoplesagreement #coops #solidarity #hydrological #science #maps #cartography

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1. A collective, international front — of laborers, farmers, nurses, parents and caretakers builders and architects, workers and technicians, couriers and municipal workers — leading localization efforts (centered around agroecology and local food sovereignty, and local worker/community-owned industries and services), pushing for demilitarization and a transition to peacetime economies, pushing for climate debt payments from rich/imperialist/colonial countries to the countries they have oppressed and kept poor, pushing for land back and agrarian reform. 2. Growing agroecological food in local foodsheds, mapped over local watersheds. 3. Demanding demilitarization, transition to peacetime economies, and the conversion of existing military industrial bases into factories that export technologies for transitioning worlds. 4. Demanding land back, property reform, the honoring of treaty rights, land to those that work it, and universal housing — paid for by the state, as cities like Vienna and Singapore have done. 5. All of the things we need, we get automatically from living in a community — doing so in a way that does not damage the non-human environment, that uses locally sourced and stewarded materials, that provides fair wages and ownership to workers and community, including to those who provide domestic work and all others whose work and contributions are ignored in the capitalist budgets. This can begin with worker and community-led cooperative efforts, to produce and provision the things we need and the services we wish for — starting with food, wherever we are — and aligned with internationalist and ecological values. It can likewise start with the localization of materials, services, landscape management (which provides local material inputs), and the transition of existing services into worker and community-owned services. Transition what we have already to worker and community ownership, and build what we need with worker and community ownership — all with local production and inputs, and international and ecological values. Transition our economic activity to these local circuits. Fight and build. Struggle and choice. Want to join the front, and start making this real — locally and internationally? You can join this groups.io instance ( https://groups.io/g/peoples/join ( https://groups.io/g/peoples/join ) ) so we can start communicating and collaborating. Know other groups/people who would want to join? You can invite/add them to the group once you join. (This is an initial step to help communicate and collaborate — we can build and design other ways to communicate and collaborate as well.) 📌 Join: https://groups.io/g/peoples/join This is in the spirit of the People's Agreement of Cochabamba (2010) ( https://pwccc.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/peoples-agreement/ ) , and building on that, Max Ajl's "A People's Green New Deal" ( https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48775 ). More details on those works at: https://rebrand.ly/peoples-mvmt
Independent Film Society of Colorado and Pikes Peak Foodshed Forum showed the film Food for Change last night.
Great portrayal of the history of cooperatives in the US (could use more on the rich history of cooperatives and BIPOC).
Got a handful of people to sign-up for discussion of forming a local Cooperative Study-Action Circle.
#cooperatives #education #Foodshed #FoodHubs #FoodSovereignty
Friends on Social.Coop -- I want to introduce Sean Svette, an educator and activist on local food system issues here in Colorado Springs. Sean is involved in multiple projects and is a joy to work with.
#FoodSovereignty #FoodJustice #FoodHubs #Watershed #Foodshed #Colorado