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Food forests, a solution for exterme drought
It is disturbing to see that we need severe global climate crises to bring common sense to our food system. Today a Dutch paper headed: Food forest is the solution for the extreme drought. Amazing that for decades we have cut half the world´s tree population for single crop food, biofuel, animal food production. All for the sake of a political financial dominance, creating world dependence or deadly poverty where there was regional food resilience before. It is causing massive climate disturbance, water shortages alternating with servere and devastating floods, hunger in the world, destruction of natural habitats and food supplies for local people. And now suddenly “food forests are THE solution“! Shame on global greed.
One of the most active countries in restoring their tree population is China. Their approach has been as industrial as their economy. On the other hand it shows commitment and a huge amount of lessons to learn.
In our online OSFD discussion this month, about re-storing our food resilience, we dealt with our natural right to be self sufficient as communities. This is only possible if our habitats are not destroyed by the industrial capitalist monsters of single crop productivity. It will not be long before such practices will be fought in court and it is only a matter of time until they are criminalized. Again, it is absurde that we need to go to court to defend our right to live in harmony with our planet.
Our FRE2SH cooperative approach is to bring all stakeholders (citizens, farmers, government, science) to the table together. The mission is to restore our regional resilience by working together with the laws of nature for our food, water, health and safety. We leverage food to the level of shared responsibility instead of a commercial and speculative commodity.
Online debate: Our natural right to be (regionally) self sufficient?
Join our zoom Safari of July 28th at 16.00 CET about food resilience. “Poverty is not about money, it is about the lack of possibilities to be self sufficient” (Nashif Ahmed, Uganda).
Our FRE2SH interactive learning program consists of 10 modules. They discuss regional self sufficiency for food resilience world wide. The online Safari is an open dialogue about one of themes. In this case the right to be self sufficient. We use inspiration from Uganda with Nashif Ahmed who runs a small farm to provide a group of orphans with food and education.
We also invite three other speakers: Dr. Anna Berti Suman (Italy). She is a lawyer defending the right for self determination. Fabrizio Biganzoli (Italy), an environmental scientist and risk analyst.
And Danielle Carneiro (Brasil), a mother who transformed her life from lawyer in the financial markets into fighting food waste and developing food awareness.
Please register here for the free zoom encounter
What can you expect from the 10 months FRE2SH OSFD online course on re-building resilient food systems?
The course is available worldwide online through OSFD (Online School of Food Design) for those who are working in the field of sustainability, resilient human and natural systems, redefinition of regional functions and societal interaction, in this case particularly focused on food. Other courses are being developed around other combination of core natural human values.
The course consists of 10 modules of local food self sufficiency community building. Each module is built around a particular theme with the overall scope of re-building food resilience and balance with ourselves and our natural environment. Each module contains:
The following topics are planned to be covered per module (subject to possible modification). You can subscribe through this link. We advice you to take the Aventurer option if you are really thinking of developing your local food system, or if you are already are active and need inspiration, international contacts or wish to share your thoughts. If you are just curious then the Seeker option is a your best value for money:
The course is a result of 12 years of experimentation by the STIR Foundation on sustainable human progress, including all kinds of food systems and citizen engagement routines. The overall objective is to create a global community around food awareness and engagement development, our core human values and sustainable development of our species by taking responsibility locally and together (people and institutions). We want to eliminate hunger through participatory sharing. We wish to share our evolutionary experiences, best practice and insights in order to provide sustainable wellness to all human beings in the world in collaboration with our natural environment. We intend to provide the insights and experiences as accessible as possible to the entire world.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 