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SustainAbility Farm
Video by: Adam Kaufman From the filmaker: A short documentary about a working farm on Long Island, NY for adults with autism and other developmental disabilities. This piece was produced for AOL Huffington Post Media Group in 2011. For more info visti SutainAbility Farm website: sustainabilityservicesinc.org If people are interested in volunteering they can contact [...] Read more »
Finding the Farmers: Villa de Leyva
Discovering Food and Farming Stories by Trekking the Globe We are very excited to share this first video installment of an ongoing series from Ryan & Lisette Cheresson. They will be traveling to many countries in the coming year to uncover stories about food and agriculture and will share many of them here at About [...] Read more »
Dr. Patrick Webb: Addressing World Hunger
Last week, while attending the Economist Conference titled: Feeding the World in Geneva Switzerland, Dr Patrick Webb, Academic Dean at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University kindly took time to speak with us for a podcast interview. Listen here: Read more »
A Short Journey ‘Five’
Video by: The Film Artist Sit back in a nice comfortable armchair by a log fire with a glass of red wine and enjoy, captured solely with my iPhone 4S. Music, from the film ‘the Piano’ itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-piano-original-music-from/id106482210 Special Appearance: Starrng ‘The Building’ vimeo.com/31398105 Starring ‘Our Orchard’ vimeo.com/12013220 twitter.com/thefilmartist vimeo.com/channels/tfa thefilmartist.blogspot.com Read more »
Borlaug Institute: “We’ve got an enormous job to do…”
In this podcast we talk with Borlaug Institute Director, Dr. Edwin Price about the recently formed partnership between the Howard G Buffet Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. Borlaug Institute: Helping Small Farmers Secure Access to Land The purpose of the partnership is to promote African agricultural research, extension and education and [...] Read more »
“Don’t Forget about Africa”
Collaboration to Advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger Last week The Howard G. Buffett Foundation and the Norman Borlaug Institute at Texas A&M announced a new collaboration based in South Africa at the Ukulima Farm Research Center to advance African Agriculture and Fight Hunger. “It is my hope this collaboration will improve agricultural [...] Read more »
Gas & Water
Video by: Tim Wimborne Chief Photographer, Australia and New Zealand Reuters News Read more »
Casual Country Charm
Video by: Megan Oriana Erskine From the filmmaker: Casual Country Charm is a “survey” piece meant to provide a short story on the agri-tourism development in a rural town in Michigan. With the decline of industry like tool and die, Baroda is turning to its agricultural heritage and America’s food reawakening to revive its downtown [...] Read more »
Small Farmers in Upper Egypt Cultivate Progress
We recently learned about a special horticulture program in Upper Egypt that helps small farmers and agricultural workers to work more efficiently and improve their business partnerships through the benefit of a program known as the MDG Achievement Fund. Visit www.mdgfund.org to learn more about the program. Here is an excerpt from that website describing [...] Read more »