Hi Swamishishu,

Thank you for being so wonderful. You have helped make Junglistan a movement that is truly special.

By being one of the million-plus forest heroes of Junglistan, you have helped this movement grow rapidly and spread to every corner of India. In fact, people from over 100 cities across the world came out in support of Mahan forests and its people.

Watch this video showing the fast growing support for the movement against Essar’s proposed coal mine in Mahan.

Watch & share this video to tell the world what is happening in Mahan

The video brilliantly shows how the people of Mahan are standing strong against threats, atrocities and are united in protecting their livelihoods, their homes and their rights. Our country’s natural wealth and the livelihoods of thousands of people are at stake because of Essar’s planned project.

What’s even more amazing is that over one million Indians are united in supporting the people of Mahan in their fight for justice. It is the voice of Indians rising together that can save Mahan! The power of the crowd cannot be ignored.

Watch & share this video to tell the world what is happening in Mahan
Thank you


Brikesh Singh
Greenpeace India

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swamishishuvidehananD_sarswati, 

This week, Food Tank is highlighting a new fact sheet created by the Small Planet Institute that examines a reality that nearly one billion people face every day: hunger.

The Small Planet Institute, created in 2001, works to identify important global issues and creates media featuring solutions for a sustainable future. Founded by mother-daughter team Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, the institute has worked on numerous projects and publications promoting a better, more just global food system. “World Hunger Factsheet: What We Need to Know,” their newest publication, stresses that while hunger still persists, there are innovative solutions helping the millions who are currently hungry.

In 2000, the United Nations issued the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which call for halving the number of chronically hungry people in the developing world between 1990 and 2015. But with the deadline for meeting the MDGs closing in, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that measuring progress has proved to be difficult and potentially misleading.

For example, in Vietnam chronic hunger has been reduced to eight percent, but almost one-third of Vietnamese children show stunted growth, an irreversible indicator of undernutrition. Moreover, the FAO’s definition of “chronically hungry” doesn’t measure the full scale of global hunger. 

According to the FAO, those classified as “chronically hungry” must experience a severe calorie deficiency for at least a year. Consequently, individuals plagued by short-term episodes of hunger are not encompassed in recent food security reports by the U.N., the FAO, and the World Food Programme. Neither are malnourished individuals who receive adequate calories, but lack the nutrients to ensure good health.This means a lot of hungry people go uncounted.

The Small Planet Institute’s latest fact sheet and their other publications like “Framing Hunger” are helping highlight the nuances in defining, categorizing, and measuring the world’s hungry.

The Small Planet Institute also stresses that although there are too many needlessly hungry and malnourished people in the world, the problem isn’t a lack of food.According to Frances Moore Lappé, “the false diagnosis is that the problem is scarcity. It is a fear driven message that there’s not enough.” 

The world produces enough food to provide 2,800 calories for every man, woman, and child each day. However roughly one-third of all food - the equivalent of one kilogram per person per day - ends up rotting in the fields or thrown away in the trash. But this news is both disheartening and uplifting. While it means that food waste needs to be severely curbed, it also means that current global food production is sufficient to feed the planet.

Immense untapped potential exists in other overlooked places, according to the Small Planet Institute, including in livestock production. Three-quarters of the world’s agricultural land is used to for livestock, yet livestock provide only 16 percent of the world’s calories. On average, livestock require six kilograms of plant protein to produce one kilogram of meat for human consumption. About 30 percent of global corn crops and 80 percent of global soybean crops are used for livestock feed. A shift away from livestock production could free up these land and food resources to help feed hungry people.

Fortunately, there are success stories that governments, individuals and organizations worldwide can strive to emulate. In Brazil, the government, civil society organizations, and farmers are working together towards zero hunger. The government’s initiatives are driven by the national constitutional right to food, and include the founding of 100 “People’s Restaurants” that provide US $.50 meals to thousands of city dwellers each day, created with food grown by local farmers. 

The Landless Workers social movement has helped to resettle 370,000 Brazilian families on an estimated eight million hectares of farmland, and offers training and support in ecological agriculture. Combined with employment opportunities and a strengthened currency, these initiatives have decreased Brazil’s economic inequality and reduced the number of hungry Brazilians by 40 percent.

And other nations can emulate some of Brazil’s policies. In Frances Moore Lappé’swords, “Hunger is not the result of the scarcity of food but the scarcity of democracy.” Through changing public policies, strengthening social movements, and supporting the Right to Food, the world could see a drastic reduction in hunger. 

By targeting food waste and untapped resources, more food will become available to those who need it, without the need to increase production. Business leaders, policy-makers, eaters, and farmers need to see what is working—and use those models to nourish both people and the planet.

Want to suggest a project we should be highlighting? Send me an email atdanielle@foodtank.com and let us know! Share this article by clicking HERE.

All the best,


Danielle Nierenberg
President, Food Tank
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Swamishishu,

For years Lord Christopher Monckton has been crisscrossing the globe sharing the inconvenient truths about global warming.

CFACT presented Christopher with an award on Wednesday at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change for being a "dauntless purveyor of climate truth."

You can view Lord Monckton's keynote address (at 27:59)  and CFACT's award presentation (at 1:19:12) here.

Lord Monckton has been a journalist, a leader in the UK's Conservative and Independence Parties and served as a policy and scientific advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Many may not know that he has used his considerable mathematical skills to design some of the world's most cunningly difficult puzzles.

At CFACT we have had the chance to truly get to know Christopher over the years, and have teamed up with him on numerous occasions, particularly to report on and bring the facts to United Nations conferences.

Lord Monckton has been a prominent spokesman and figure at UN conferences in Bali, Bonn, Copenhagen, Cancun, Durban, Rio and Qatar.

It is always fascinating to see Lord Monckton in action. He continually impresses with his ability to delve into and truly master the most complicated matters of science and policy. When the UN issues a report with the heft of a phone book, everyone cheats and confines their reading the relatively brief “summary for policymakers.” Not, Lord Monckton. Christopher burns the midnight oil and devours those hefty tomes from cover to cover.

You might not think that a man who bears the lofty title “3^rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley” would be so adept at communicating the complexities of climate science and policy in ways any citizen can grasp. Yet that is his particular gift. Here is a man equally at ease debating Greenpeace activists to a standstill on the streets of Berlin, trouncing the exalted in free debate at the Oxford Union, in the bright lights of a television studio, answering the question and calming the fears of everyday citizens, or planning a brighter future with the people of a Mexican village that has never had electricity.

Christopher has truly lived up to Kipling's exhortation that a man should be able to “walk with kings, nor lose the common touch.”

It's no secret that global warming campaigners are so insecure about the ability of their pronouncements to stand on their merits, that they respond to this problem by attempting to ridicule, silence and exclude anyone who dares to question them. Lord Monckton's is one voice the climate crowd has had no success in stilling. This has caused them endless frustration, while providing considerable amusement to Christopher's many friends.

It's also no secret that CFACT's is another voice that refuses to be stilled. We've often resorted to a bit of creative flair to ensure that's the case. For our (very patient) friend Christopher, this has resulted in the incongruous spectacle of a British Lord tossed out of an airplane (with parachute) at the UN's conference in Durban, expounding on climate science from the back of a camel (in full Bedouin regalia) in Qatar, dancing around a sand sculpture on Rio's Ipanema beach, and handing out "carbon indulgences" with Gaia, Mother Earth herself, in Bonn.

Lord Monckton's compelling voice has done great service in debunking warming propaganda to the benefit of verifiable scientific fact.

May it long continue to do so.

For nature and people too,
 

Craig Rucker Executive Director

 

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Thanks again -- together we're making change happen, 

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swamishishuvidehananD_sarswati -- Imagine that all of us—eaters, farmers, scientists, businesses, and policymakers—had a crystal ball, allowing us to look ahead 20, 50, or 100 years to see the future of the food system. Will cities of the future all have skyscrapers growing produce using solar energy? Will forests be main providers of food and urban foraging become a coveted career? Or will we be eating insects as our main source of protein? Earlier this year, National Geographic began a series envisioning the future of food. This eight month series covers topics ranging from fish farming and meat production to hunger in America and land grabs in sub-Saharan Africa. Their goal is to explore how to feed a growing population, without overwhelming the planet. In May, National Geographic hosted a dialogue between leading food, agriculture, and policy experts to examine which issues must be addressed to successfully feed the planet. “Globally, farming is large in scale, but it is also personal,” said Dennis R. Dimick, executive editor of National Geographic. Agriculture isn’t just about growing food. Agriculture impacts every aspects of our lives. “We want to meet the people who devote their lives to growing food that we depend on every day,” said Dimick. Food Tank was fortunate to participate in a panel on “Food Security in an Insecure World.” Other topics covered during the dialogue included; the meaning of sustainability and sustainable sustenance, addressing climate change, and solutions for a hungry planet. Jerry Glover, agroecologist and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, claims the future starts with the past. He stressed the need for soil maintenance, stating, “we must maintain soil resources; soil is nonrenewable for the most part, and rarely do we bring it back richer than how we found it. In many parts of the world we are mining nutrients at faster rates than they can be replaced.” Chef Jose Andrés—representing chefs of the world during the forum—talked about the reality of preparing food for the world’s poorest. “Thirty thousand years ago we were cooking with rocks and wood, and today over one billion people still cook this way.”Simple, clean, sustainable stoves, argued chef Andrés, remove the dangers of smoke inhalation for the family. “The time a young girl spends cutting down trees could be spent giving her an education,” according to Andrés. And Jonathan Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, emphasized the need to “deliver more nutrition on less land by solving the 'yield gaps' by keeping smallholders on the farm and empowering them to do better.” The first two issues of “The Future of Food” covered feeding a population of nine billion. Foley detailed solutions for meeting the nutritional demands for the world’s people in the cover article, “A Five-Step Plan to Feed the World.” Foley argues the world needs to reduce deforestation, deliver more nutrition on less land, empower smallholder farmers, reduce water usage, rethink diets and biofuels, and eliminate food waste. “Thirty to fifty percent of food is never consumed--globally and even in low-income countries.” In the July issue, “The Next Breadbasket,” photographer and journalist Robin Hammond presented photos from his trip to Somaliland where he learned that 1.3 million sheep and goats are exported overseas each year—this is the largest movement of live animal trade “on the hoof” anywhere in the world. Over 50 percent of Somaliland’s GDP is made up of livestock exports. National Geographic will continue to showcase photos, videos, infographics, and stories through the “Future of Food” series. “We cannot just turn the lens on the rest of the world, but must turn the lens on ourselves, too. We need to understand why there are problems occurring in rural, urban, and suburban America,” said Dimick. The magazine has published valuable resources on ways to successfully feed the planet, combat climate change, reduce water use, and much more. Here are some of National Geographic’s resources and a sneak peek of what’s to come: How to farm a better fish including a polyculture operation that incorporates fish, a pond, and rice that has tripled output with little environmental downside. Daily discussions on food from experts in food and agriculture, helping readers understand how food has made us who we are today and how it shapes our future. Photos of the California drought and how modern farming and natural forces have altered landscapes. Photos of bakers in Kashmir, ice cream vendors in Turkey, and other food producers around the world. Videos of rooftop farming projects in Brooklyn and other U.S. cities which are spreading around the world. Videos in National Geographic’s Food by the Numbers series feature animated infographics to show readers how everything we eat adds up and impacts natural resources. Opportunities to join the conversation on Twitter by following along or using #FutureofFood. A recap of Food: A Forum in 1376 tweets and 20 instagram posts. A question of the week feature where experts provide detailed answers to pressing questions about the world’s food issues Daily food facts that highlight fun and surprising trivia about different foods. An article showing what eaters can buy with US$10.00, a look at how far US$10.00 go if a consumer is buying fast food versus fresh produce (Coming Soon) A look at what soldiers eat (Coming Soon) How much water does it take to produce a hamburger? (Coming Soon) What resources or solutions do you have for feeding a growing population, without overwhelming the planet? Let me know at Danielle@foodtank.com. All the best, Danielle Nierenberg President, Food Tank foodtank.com Join Food Tank Please connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Agriculture Gets A Facelift: How To Bring Youth Back Into The Field Youth networks across the world are working tirelessly to excite young people about a career in agriculture. Read more... Ugly Fruit and Vegetables Hit the Catwalk Intermarché has put ugly fruit and vegetables into the spotlight to educate consumers on food waste. Read more... 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