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National Farm-to-School Month: Highlighting 30 Innovative programs from Across the Globe
October is national Farm-to-School Month in the United States. Thousands of schools, education sites, and organizations across the world, are embracing food education through school gardens, educational farms, and school meals filled with nutritious, local, and seasonal ingredients. It’s time to celebrate farm-to-school organizations from around the globe.
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Farm-to-school programs can help bring locally sourced and nutritious food to school cafeterias, improve child nutrition, provide agriculture, health, and nutrition education opportunities to young people, and support local farmers. 20 years ago there were less than 10 farm-to-school programs in the United States, and now, more than 40 percent of schools host programs, reaching over 23 million children.
The National Farm to School Network estimates that for every dollar invested in farm-to-school activities, it can generate more than two dollars in local economic activity, increase children’s fruit and vegetable consumption by more than 40 percent, engage parents in healthier eating at home, reduce food waste at the school, and improve student test scores. Farm-to-school programs can help inspire healthier eating habits in children and these habits can lead to higher educational outcomes. Further, when children learn about the connection between their food and the environment, they often become better stewards of the land. Across the globe, farm-to-school programs are helping foster connections between students, teachers, parents, farmers, and policymakers through activities that support health, nutrition, agriculture, and local economies.
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Food Tank is celebrating farm-to-school month by featuring 29 inspiring and innovative farm-to-school programs from around the world. These programs are working to build connections between schools and farmers, making significant impacts on child health, school attendance rates, food security, and farmer livelihoods in many communities.
Africa
Ghana School Feeding programme, Ghana
The Ghana School Feeding programme (GFSp), launched by the former Ghanaian government in 2005, started in just 10 schools and has now grown to feed more than 1.4 million children across 4,500 schools in Ghana. The program has helped increase school attendance, domestic food production, farmer and household incomes, and food security in many communities across the country. Active across 170 districts, the GSFp is helping reduce child hunger in some of Ghana’s most isolated communities.
purchase from Africans for Africa program, multiple countries
The purchase from Africans for Africa program (pAA) links smallholder farmers with local schools in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, and Senegal. In its pilot phase, more than 1,000 metric tons of locally procured food was served to nearly 130,000 students across 420 schools. Family farmers’ productivity rates have increased by more than 100 percent because of this guaranteed market for the food they produce. pAA is a partnership between the Government of Brazil, the Government of the United Kingdom, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the World Food program’s purchase for progress initiative.
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Farm to School Africa, multiple countries
One school farm at a time, Farm to School Africa seeks to expand into every community in Africa. Currently, in 5 schools reaching over 2,000 students and teachers, they are setting up school farms and training teachers to become farm instructors. Students are learning how to grow and eat healthy food, nurture plants, and contribute to healthy food production in their communities. Farm to School Africa focuses on building enduring connections between children and their food.
Chengelo School, Zambia
The Chengelo Farm partners with the Chengelo School to harness the creativity and passion of young people in an effort to preserve sustainable agriculture across the nation. The farm-to-school collaboration begins with students starting as early as pre-school and extends through secondary school, providing opportunities to work on the farm and learn a variety of agricultural skills. They also offer formal trainings for farmers, opportunities for agribusinesses to conduct research, and support to local communities through Foundations Zambia.
Developing Innovations in School Cultivation (project DISC ), Uganda
Founded by Edward Mukiibi and Roger Sserunjogi in 2006, Developing Innovations in School Cultivation (project DISC) partners with Slow Food International to bring together students, teachers, parents, and school administrators with the goal of reshaping the way young people look at farming. Many schools in Uganda use farming as a form of discipline, creating a stigma around agriculture as a vocational choice. project DISC works with schools to grow indigenous crops, teach students how to save seeds, and integrate fresh produce into school meals. The program strives to help students consider farming as a desirable career option.
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相關文章:The persistent concerns by miners and other players along the mining industry value chain regarding the high costs of implementing mineral traceability could find a solution in blockchain technology.
This follows entrance in the local mining industry of Circulor, a British start-up specialised in blockchain technology, which is set to roll out a traceability system built around blockchain technology.
Currently, Rwanda relies on the ITSCi Traceability and Due Diligence System, an international requirement designed to prevent illegal trade in minerals.
On average, miners currently incur about $3.5 per kilogramme to implement the system.
However, the costs could go down significantly once the new system is up and running.
According to Circulor Chief Executive Officer, Douglas Johnson-poensgen, the new system will change the current model of incurring traceability costs shifting it from miners to the end users.
How it works
Firms will use Circulor’s platform to tag and trace tantalum mined in Rwanda as it goes through the supply chain as opposed to manual tracing systems that rely on paperwork.
Unique tags will be electronically generated from various mining cities which will act as an online record tracing the minerals from the dirt to refinery.
The system, which also relies on technology such as facial recognition, geographical longitudes and latitudes, among other aspects, is foolproof as it generates an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions along the value chain.
Users will only require a smartphone application to tag and trace the minerals.
poensgen told The New Times that this will be opposed to previous practice where costs of traceability were incurred lower in the value chain by miners who do not get much in terms of returns.
He explained that surveys and studies they have conducted show that there is more demand for traceability higher in the value chain among users of the minerals and end consumers and are willing to pay for it.
The new system distributes the cost such that less of it is incurred by miners.
“It will also dramatically reduce costs for miners who currently shoulder a disproportionate share of the cost of compliance. We came up with a concept of the value stack whereby we realised that end users would be willing to pay slightly more for end products to be sure that the inputs are conflict-free. That is where the value is,” poensgen said in an exclusive interview.
Companies can trace metal even as it is processed into intermediate products and mixed with other raw materials.
“Circulor’s technology will bring greater transparency to the tantalum supply chain. Our blockchain platform will empower consumers to understand where the materials in the products they buy come from and also make it harder for materials that are not ethically sourced to pass through the supply chain,” he added.
The firm is pilot testing the solution with a local company pRG Resources, who produce tantalum, are along the supply chain of Apple, the multi-billion American firm that specialises in manufacturing of high end consumer electronics.
The development follows concerns by the association of miners in Rwanda who said that traceability was hurting productivity and undermining efforts to professionalise the sector.
Speaking at the General Assembly of the Tantalum-Niobium held in Kigali last week, Jean Malic Kalima, the Chairman of Rwanda Mining Association, said that incurring traceability fees locally and at the international level bordered on double taxation and unfairness.
Mining companies spend a combined $5 million (about Rwf4.4 billion) every year on treatability and certification of minerals from Rwanda.
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However, even with the high costs, the Tantalum Niobium International Study Centre (TIC) admits that the current system in use is not perfect or as efficient as it should be.
Francis Gatare, the Chief Executive of the Rwandan Mining, petroleum and Gas Board, told The New Times that they had reviewed how the technology works and what it is capable of doing.
He said that despite the buzz about blockchain technology in recent years, there were few solutions to prove its intervention in the sector.
He said that the new intervention had all indicators of a viable solution but was yet to be tested in the local market.
He said that after piloting across the value chain with pRG plc and reviewing performance and reception, the sector stakeholders will consider approaches of its adoption or integration.
However, he said that there are provisions on the use of multiple traceability mechanisms.
But he said that the current system, ITSCi Traceability, which has been in place for the last eight years, ought not to be undermined as it has served the purpose over time.
He said that there are multiple lessons learnt from the current system which is currently under review to identify avenues to improve it.
Among aspects being considered for review include; cost, costs distribution, as well as the incorporation of modern technology to increase efficiency.
Traceability came into force at the beginning 2012 when the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved a law mandated by Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer protection Act requiring companies to publicly disclose source of minerals that originated in DR Congo or an adjoining country.
It requires companies to disclose whether the sourcing of minerals in their products benefited armed groups.
Section 1502 particularly requires mining companies to disclose whether they source “conflict minerals” – tin, tungsten, tantalum and gold – from DR Congo and nine neighbouring countries, including Rwanda.
It affects DR Congo and all its neighbours including Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.
The EU endeavors to advocate Farm to Table movement on European Beef and Lamb.Food safety is ensured by EU legal system of animal and identification, allowing transparency along the supply chain.
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デキないで、けなすのは、イソップ物語の「酸っぱい葡萄」。
負けず嫌いで、でもデキなくて、でも負けを認めたくなくて、悔しい想い、マイナス感情の持って行き先に困って、もやもやしている人が、「デキない事柄」をけなしたり、否定したりして、自分のマイナス感情を消去する。
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やはり、「けなす」という行為そのものがよくないようだ。
では、けなさず、なんでもかんでも肯定、賛同する?
そういう、無条件にすべて賛同してくれる人に賛同されると、はたして認められた気になるかどうか?
「けなす」は、ケチをつけること。
「否定」が根底にあるのだろう。
ハナシは、ごろりと変わる。
わたしの年齢、見かけで、「初対面の人とお会いする」と仮定する。
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しかも、わたしは、典型的日本人。
自分をアピールしない。
(日本じゃないんだから、当然ながら、もの言わなけBand1中學れば誰も自分をわかってくれないのに)
この年齢、容姿、語学力、発言力で、なんのアピールもしないと、誰の目になど映らないであろう。
ふと、わたしと接していたにもかかわらず、わたしのことなど、目に映っていなかったと思われる人々、シーンが、目に浮かんだ。
それはそれで、当たり前、べつにショックでもなんでもない。
わたしは、自分というものをとても客観的に見ている。
なにも特徴のない、人になんの働きかけもしないで、まして、自分がなぜ、そこにいるのか、なぜ、その人と対面しているのか、
そういう説明もなく(仮にあったとしても、興味を抱かれな白鳳丸功效いと思うが)
そんな自分をアピールすることは、よほどのシチュエーションや熱意、意図がないと無理だろうと感じる。