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Wild leafy vegetables: A potential source for a traditional Mediterranean food from Lebanon
1. Introduction Micronutrient deficiencies are among the major public health challenges that have serious socioeconomic…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanFood #Ethnobotany #leafyvegetables #lebanon #Mediterranean #mediterraneanfood #traditionalknowledge #Wildplant
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Wild leafy vegetables: A potential source for a traditional Mediterranean food from Lebanon https://www.diningandcooking.com/2789404/wild-leafy-vegetables-a-potential-source-for-a-traditional-mediterranean-food-from-lebanon/ #Ethnobotany #LeafyVegetables #lebanon #Mediterranean #MediterraneanFood #TraditionalKnowledge #WildPlant
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#Agroecology as the path to #ClimateResilient and just food systems
By Dr Susan Chomba, Director Food, Land and Water at World Resources Institute Africa
Monday, July 28, 2025 — updated on August 02, 2025
"The 2nd National Agroecology Symposium, held in Nairobi from July 10–11, 2025, marked a pivotal moment in #Kenya’s food systems transformation.
"The event brought together farmers, researchers, civil society, private sector actors, media, and policymakers with one clear message: Agroecology must move from the margins to the centre of national agricultural strategy. It is not just an alternative; it is the most viable path forward to achieve our intertwined goals for #people, #nature, and #climate—without compromising one for the other.
Agroecology offers a coherent framework for #RegeneratingSoils, producing safe and nutritious food, and building #ClimateResilient and #equitable #FoodSystems."As #ClimateChange intensifies, this approach provides Kenya and other #AfricanNations a powerful opportunity to lead a just transition—rooted in #LocalKnowledge, backed by #science, and responsive to the realities of #smallholder #farmers.
A crossroads for Kenya’s food systems
"Kenya’s food systems are at a crossroads. The dominant model—based on chemical-intensive agriculture and ultra-processed foods—is driving soil degradation, poor nutrition, increased prevalence of non-communicable diseases, and the pollution of our rivers and lakes. This model also contributes significantly to #biodiversity loss and #GreenhouseGasEmissions.
"Alternatively, a more resilient and #sustainable path is within reach—one that aligns human health with ecological integrity. But this transition cannot be left to smallholder farmers alone. It requires coordinated leadership from governments—particularly ministries of agriculture, health, environment, and finance—as well as development partners, scientists, and the private sector.
"Farmers should not be expected to feed a growing population and withstand escalating #ClimateShocks while being under-supported or misdirected by ineffective policies and subsidies. Without the right investments and incentives, we risk deepening the crisis.
What agroecology is—and isn’t
"Agroecology is too often misunderstood as a nostalgic return to low-productivity farming. In reality, it is a sophisticated, evidence-informed, and farmer-driven approach to transforming food systems in ways that are locally appropriate and ecologically sound. It is not a one-size-fits-all solution, but a dynamic practice that integrates scientific research with #TraditionalKnowledge.
"The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) outlines 10 elements of agroecology, while the High-Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) has identified 13 principles. These include #RecyclingNutrients, enhancing biodiversity, strengthening synergies, and co-creating knowledge."
Source [paywall]:
https://nation.africa/kenya/blogs-opinion/blogs/agroecology-as-the-path-to-climate-resilient-and-just-food-systems-5140556Archived version:
https://archive.ph/QxY8u#SolarPunkSunday #AgroEcology #FoodSecurity #Africa #ClimageChangeResiliency #SharingKnowledge
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@pascaline This kind of breakthrough gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can achieve the #StabilizedWorld scenario -- but using #AncientTechnology combined with what we know now!
#LtG #SolarPunkSunday #RomanConcrete #TraditionalKnowledge #AncientKnowledge #OldWays
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@pascaline This kind of breakthrough gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can achieve the #StabilizedWorld scenario -- but using #AncientTechnology combined with what we know now!
#LtG #SolarPunkSunday #RomanConcrete #TraditionalKnowledge #AncientKnowledge #OldWays
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@pascaline This kind of breakthrough gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can achieve the #StabilizedWorld scenario -- but using #AncientTechnology combined with what we know now!
#LtG #SolarPunkSunday #RomanConcrete #TraditionalKnowledge #AncientKnowledge #OldWays
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@pascaline This kind of breakthrough gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can achieve the #StabilizedWorld scenario -- but using #AncientTechnology combined with what we know now!
#LtG #SolarPunkSunday #RomanConcrete #TraditionalKnowledge #AncientKnowledge #OldWays
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@pascaline This kind of breakthrough gives me hope that maybe, just maybe, we can achieve the #StabilizedWorld scenario -- but using #AncientTechnology combined with what we know now!
#LtG #SolarPunkSunday #RomanConcrete #TraditionalKnowledge #AncientKnowledge #OldWays
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Lessons from the #Incas: How llamas, terraces and trees could help the #Andes survive #ClimateChange
by Alex Chepstow-Lusty, August 26, 2025
Excerpt: "The evidence shows that from around the year 1100, during a period of global warming known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, Andean communities moved higher up into the mountains. They built terraces, irrigated slopes, and planted trees such as alder to make the soil more fertile and provide wood.
"Llamas and their cousins, alpacas, were vital as they were hardy, light-footed, and supplied wool, fuel and fertilizer. Their communal dung heaps even show up in the lake sediments, revealed by spikes in fossils of certain dung-eating mites that thrived when llama caravans were pastured nearby.
"Together, these practices stabilized soils, reduced erosion, and allowed large populations to thrive in the Andes."
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"When the Spanish arrived in the 1530s, this balance was upended. New livestock—cattle, sheep and goats—trampled vegetation and eroded soils. Their free-ranging herds left waste across the landscape, unlike llamas and their easily-collectible dung.
"At the same time, the Spaniards cut down forests for timber and charcoal, in contrast to the Inca who had imposed harsh penalties to protect their woodland resources. The 17th century Spanish pastor and chronicler, Bernabé Cobo, remarked that a Spanish household used as much fuel in one day as a native household would in an entire month.
"The lake sediments record the ecological damage of the era: excess nutrients from dung, more erosion, and a collapse of the Inca's sustainable land management."
Read more:
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-lessons-incas-llamas-terraces-trees.html#SolarPunkSunday #TerraceGardening #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #ClimateAdaptive #LessonsFromThePast #SustainableLandManagement #MedievalClimaticAnomaly #MoreTrees #Colonialism #IndigenousHistory
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2024 #NationalDayOfMourning rally to focus on #Palestine and #Environmental issues
"At the National Day of Mourning, Indigenous peoples from around the world come to speak and talk about the fights they're facing in their homes, Pierite said. They pray, they march and they rally.
"'There's absolutely...many different emotions,' he said. 'It is a heavy time, but the thing of it is, is that we keep...the energy, we open in prayer, we close in prayer and we continue to lift each other up.'
"This year's event will include a Palestinian speaker, Pierite said, and organizers encourage donations to groups that support Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Pierite said some folks impacted by pipelines and other energy extraction projects are expected to speak as well.
"''The message from Indigenous peoples internationally has been consistent: that we need to center the development of traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and move away from fossil fuel extractive economies,' Pierite said. 'At this time the world needs Indigenous peoples.'"
Link to livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/pdpBNKI31TAOriginal article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-not-a-warm-fuzzy-thanksgiving-for-all-why-some-honor-a-national-day-of-mourning/ar-AA1uUDLe#FreeGaza #FreePalestine #Genocide #MotherEarth #DefendTheSacred #TraditionalKnowledge #EcologicalKnowledge #IndigenousKnowledge #BigOilAndGas #Ecocide #LeaveItInTheGround #DayOfMourning #NoDAPL #Pipelines #WaterIsLife
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#GreenColonialism, Rights of Women and Languages: Priorities of #Indigenous in Reports for #UnitedNations
by #BrendaNorrell, #CensoredNews
April 27, 2024NEW YORK -- " #FakeGreen projects, the removal of children from their homes, loss of languages, rise of hate speech, and war were among the top concerns cited in the reports by the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues as it closed its ten-day session on April 26, 2024.
"The rights of women, the need to protect endangered languages and redress for victims of boarding and residential schools were also priorities in the Permanent Forum's reports prepared for the U.N. Economic and Social Council.
"Some of their concerns:
- #Inuit: Children Removed, Women Victims of Doctors
- Green Colonialism: Immediate Moratorium
- Loss of languages
- Rights of Women
The following are topics, "prepared by Censored News, from the draft documents prepared by the Permanent Forum for the U.N. Economic and Social Council." For full text of the draft documents, visit the link below.
- Increasing Violence and #HateSpeech Toward #IndigenousPeoples
- Free, Prior and Informed Consent
- War and Displacement
- #CrimeanTartar in Ukraine
- Central and #SouthAmerica and #Caribbean: Hate Speech
- #Australia: Harsh Incarceration and Suicides of Youths
- #NewZealand: Harsh Measures Against #Maori
- Rights of #RapaNui People and #Kanuk
- #Honduras and #Indonesia
- #Bolivia
- #Pacific: Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls
- #Sami
- #Africa
- #BoardingSchools and #ResidentialSchools
- The Protection of Indigenous #Women and #Girls
- Indigenous young people
- Right to Remain in #Isolation
- Protection of #Languages
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/04/green-colonialism-rights-of-women-and.html
#NoLithiumMiningWithoutConsent #LithiumMining #CobaltMining #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRights #WaterIsLife #HumanRightsDefenders #IndigenousActivists #NoPipelines #NoDAPL #CorporateColonialism #RioTinto #SaveOakFlat #Genocide #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #ExtractiveMining #TraditionalLanguage #IndigenousLanguages #TraditionalKnowledge #IndigenousPeoplesDay