Category Archives: Local production

Churchill Fellowship Community engagement and participatory breeding and selection in tree and field crops. (Abridged version)

Posted on July 15, 2022 by cornucopiaalchemy

Andrew Ormerod Edited version Copyright © 2022 by Andrew Ormerod.The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed in this report and its content are those of the author and not of the Churchill Fellowship … Continue reading →

Posted in Biodiversity, Bread, Canada, Churchill Travel Fellowship, Cover Crops, Evolutionary plant breeding, Farmer Researchers, Fibre crops, Food and Nutrition, Food Resilience, Fruit, Germany, Global food crops, Improving rural livlihoods, Learning by doing, Local Food, Local Markets, Local production, Long term planning, Mixed cropping, North America, Nurseries, Nutrition, Nuts, Orchards, Organic research, Orphan crops / Under utilised crops, Participatory plant breeding, Participatory research, Paticipatorry varietal selection, Plant Breeding, Potatoes, Seed Production, Seed Sovereignty, soft fruit, Student led research, Sustainable production, Tree Domestication, Tree Nurseries, UK crops, Uncategorized, Value added Product, Vegetables, Wheat, World Agroforestry Centre | Leave a comment

EU Horizon 2020 GOLF exchange program. – Impact of human activities and climate change on the Mekong Delta on current and future food supply chains. Part 1   The role of The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in supporting encouraging product value chains linked to conservation in the Mekong Delta.

Posted on February 24, 2020 by cornucopiaalchemy

When I visited Vietnam I found out about the environmental conservation linked to supporting livelihoods from the The International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN in Ho Chi Minh City.  I visited the Mekong Delta on a couple of times to … Continue reading →

Posted in Aquaculture, Biodiversity, Conservation, Ecotourism, Environment, Environmental conservation, Farmer Researchers, Food and Nutrition, Food Resilience, Global food crops, Ground Water, Improving rural livlihoods, Local Markets, Local production, Long term planning, Mixed cropping, Nuts, Public/Private collaboration, Salinity, Sustainable production, Uncategorized, Value added Product | Leave a comment

Local Food Marketing Arcata, Humbolt County, California

Posted on February 3, 2020 by cornucopiaalchemy

Visit North Coast CO OP Arcata A members co-op This is a members Co-op with 18,000 members in 2018.  It offers benefits to members and there also different different opportunities for members to invest in the Co-op. Local products are … Continue reading →

Posted in Churchill Travel Fellowship, Food Resilience, Local Food, Local Markets, Local production, North America, Nutrition, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Cuban environmental study tour (written 2009) Andrew Ormerod

Posted on February 2, 2020 by cornucopiaalchemy

Background Cuba’s experience of coping with their Peak Oil crisis has been an inspiration for many people in Britain who are now considering how we will cope with our own food security issues here in the light of looming global … Continue reading →

Posted in agriculture history, Artistic interpretation, bioenergy, Cuba, Ecotourism, Energy saving, Environment, Ethnobotany, Food Resilience, Latin America, Local production, Low Carbon, Politics, Renewable materials, Ttraditional Production System, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Dynamics of Diet and Food Security in the Mediterranean ‘in the middle of the land’

Posted on May 21, 2014 by cornucopiaalchemy

In the Middle of disparate land The Mediterranean – means ‘In the Middle of the Land’ – and the sea is a geographical link between countries bordering it that differ markedly in terms of style of governance, affluence, culture and religion. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food and Nutrition, Food Resilience, Globalization of Crops, Livestock production, Local production, Mediterranean, Near East, Politics, Population Growth, Sustainable production, Ttraditional Production System, Urban and peri urban food production | Leave a comment