scholarly journals Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Poch ◽  
Lucia H. C. dos Anjos ◽  
Rafla Attia ◽  
Megan Balks ◽  
Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Sustainable Soil Management ◽  
Local Food Production ◽  
Investments In Education

Abstract. Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment, among other functions. COVID-19 is threatening food availability in many places of the world due to the disruption of food chains, lack of workforce, closed borders and national lockdowns. As a consequence, more emphasis is being given to local food production, which may lead to more intensive cultivation of vulnerable areas and to soil degradation. In order to increase the resilience of populations facing this pandemic and future global crises, transitioning to a paradigm that relies more heavily on local food production on soils that are carefully tended and protected through sustainable management, is necessary. To reach this goal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soil (ITPS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (ITPS) recommends five active strategies: improved access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investments in education and extension.

scholarly journals Soil: the great connector of our lives now and beyond COVID-19

SOIL ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 541-547
Author(s):  
Rosa M. Poch ◽  
Lucia H. C. dos Anjos ◽  
Rafla Attia ◽  
Megan Balks ◽  
Adalberto Benavides-Mendoza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Chains ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Sustainable Soil Management ◽  
Wendell Berry ◽  
Local Food Production ◽  
Investments In Education

Abstract. Humanity depends on the existence of healthy soils, both for the production of food and for ensuring a healthy, biodiverse environment, among other functions. COVID-19 is threatening food availability in many places of the world due to the disruption of food chains, lack of workforce, closed borders and national lockdowns. As a consequence, more emphasis is being placed on local food production, which may lead to more intensive cultivation of vulnerable areas and to soil degradation. In order to increase the resilience of populations facing this pandemic and future global crises, transitioning to a paradigm that relies more heavily on local food production on soils that are carefully tended and protected through sustainable management is necessary. To reach this goal, the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recommends five active strategies: improved access to land, sound land use planning, sustainable soil management, enhanced research, and investments in education and extension. The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life. – Wendell Berry (American novelist)

scholarly journals [Legal Issues in Food Securities Analysis from The Perspective of Tasawur Islam] Isu Perundangan Dalam Sekuriti Makanan Analisis Dari Perspektif Tasawur Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
Nurul Suhada Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Access ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality Of Food

The explosion of technology allows more manufacture food and variety in the market. However, the massive quantity of food is not essential measure of economic progress because the quality of food is more important when producing food. In realizing food quality along with food quantities, various legal issues related to food security have been arisen. Thus, this paper will be examine the legal issues related to food security from the Islamic perspective worldview. Using a study of documents released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and content analysis, there are several legislative issues that have been found regarding food security. Such issues include aspects of food production, exploitation of natural resources, trade, and rights to the food. The apparent impact of these issues has undermined food security and food access, thus prompting food security in various parts of the world. Through an analysis of Islamic worldview, this paper presents the preservation of habluminallah and habluminannas relationships as a basis for addressing the issues discussed. Ledakan teknologi membolehkan bahan makanan dihasilkan dengan lebih banyak dan pelbagai di pasaran. Namun demikian, kuantiti makanan yang banyak bukan ukuran kemajuan ekonomi yang hakiki kerana kualiti makanan lebih utama untuk diambil kira dalam menghasilkan makanan. Dalam merealisasikan kualiti seiring dengan kuantiti makanan, pelbagai isu perundangan berkaitan sekuriti makanan telah timbul. Menyedari perkara berkenaan, makalah ini akan meneliti isu perundangan yang berkaitan sekuriti makanan daripada perspektif tasawur Islam. Dengan menggunakan kajian ke atas dokumen yang dikeluarkan oleh Organisasi Makanan dan Pertanian (Food and Agriculture Organization) (FAO) dan analisis kandungan, terdapat beberapa isu perundangan berkaitan sekuriti makanan yang ditemui. Isu tersebut merangkumi aspek pengeluaran makanan, eksploitasi sumber alam, perdagangan, serta hak terhadap makanan. Kesan ketara isu-isu tersebut telah menjejaskan jaminan keselamatan makanan dan akses makanan sekali gus menggugah sekuriti makanan di pelbagai bahagian dunia. Melalui analisis daripada tasawur Islam, makalah ini mengemukakan pemeliharaan hubungan habluminallah dan habluminannas sebagai asas mengatasi isu-isu yang dibincangkan.

Regional Economies of Local Food Production

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 337-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Maye ◽  
Brian Ilbery
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Local Food Production

scholarly journals Global effects of local food-production crises: a virtual water perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tamea ◽  
Francesco Laio ◽  
Luca Ridolfi
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Virtual Displacement ◽  
Local Food Production ◽  
Global Water

Abstract By importing food and agricultural goods, countries cope with the heterogeneous global water distribution and often rely on water resources available abroad. The virtual displacement of the water used to produce such goods (known as virtual water) connects together, in a global water system, all countries participating to the international trade network. Local food-production crises, having social, economic or environmental origin, propagate in this network, modifying the virtual water trade and perturbing local and global food availability, quantified in terms of virtual water. We analyze here the possible effects of local crises by developing a new propagation model, parsimonious but grounded on data-based and statistically-verified assumptions, whose effectiveness is proved on the Argentinean crisis in 2008–09. The model serves as the basis to propose indicators of crisis impact and country vulnerability to external food-production crises, which highlight that countries with largest water resources have the highest impact on the international trade and that not only water-scarce but also wealthy and globalized countries are among the most vulnerable to external crises. The temporal analysis reveals that global average vulnerability has increased over time and that stronger effects of crises are now found in countries with low food (and water) availability.

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