Category Archives: city gardening

‘OMG’ for ‘oh my god’ : Space-friendly techniques allow communities and families to produce a lot of fresh food (IRIN News)

Posted on March 23, 2012 by

Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95140/PHILIPPINES-OMG-Eat-your-vegetables-campaign PHILIPPINES: OMG! Eat-your-vegetables campaign Celebrities are working with the Philippines government in a recently launched nationwide media campaign to lift the consumption of fresh produce and fight malnutrition among young people. The name of the project, … Continue reading →

Posted in city gardening, container/bottle gardening, family gardens, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, hunger / famine, malnutrition, urban agriculture/farming

We are all small farmers (IRIN News / UN News / Willem Van Cotthem) )

Posted on March 16, 2012 by

Read at : http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95080/GLOBAL-Joined-up-thinking-on-water-energy-and-food Joined-up thinking on water, energy and food and http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=41553&Cr=food+security&Cr1= Unleash potential of small farmers to improve food security, says Ban ——— Please read the two articles above and then combine the basic ideas of both : … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, allotment gardens, city gardening, community gardens, container/bottle gardening, family farming, family gardens, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, gardening kids, kitchen garden, school gardens, small-scale farming

Food for everyone in the city of Berlin (You Tiube / in German)

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Food production in an alternative city garden : http://youtu.be/oUUlwm9tmNA See production of vegetables in all kinds of containers : sacks, crates, pots, bottles, cans , … Only possible (authorized?) on a brownfield in Berlin (Brownfield sites are abandoned or underused … Continue reading →

Posted in city gardening, urban agriculture/farming

Solution for the hunger problem : food production at home (Jojo ROM / Muneer HINAY / Willem VAN COTTHEM)

Posted on January 7, 2012 by

Messages of Jojo ROM and Muneer HINAY to the HFC-HOME FARMERS CLUB : http://www.facebook.com/groups/homefarmersclub.ucg/ Jojo ROM : “I’m so shocked with the news today that in every 6 minutes 1 child dies in Africa because of hunger.  I’m figuring out … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, city gardening, container/bottle gardening, family farming, family gardens, food / food security, food crisis, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, small-scale farming, small-space gardening, urban gardening, vertical gardening

What comes first: Strategies for combating climate change or for creating gardens to produce food for children? (Willem VAN COTTHEM / MediaGlobal / UNICEF)

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

Let me recommend to read very attentively the former posting on this blog : UNICEF: Children most vulnerable to climate change http://www.mediaglobal.org/2011/12/02/unicef-children-most-vulnerable-to-climate-change/ UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund, is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, allotment gardens, balconies / window sills, city gardening, Climate / climate change, community gardens, container/bottle gardening, Desertification, drought, family gardens, food / food security, gardening kids, guerilla gardening, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, nutrition, sack gardening, school gardens, sustainable gardening, UNICEF, urban gardening, vertical gardening, Victory Gardens

By the year 2020, some 40 million Africans will be depending exclusively on food grown in cities (Google / MNN)

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

Read at : Google Alert – vertical gardening http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/stories/the-constant-gardeners The constant gardeners Confronting climate change and poverty, a new crop of city farmers comes of age in Africa. By OnEarth magazine GREEN SLUM: Mohamed Abdullahi inspects corn at an organic … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, city gardening, container/bottle gardening, Desertification, food / food security, Gardening / Horticulture, sack gardening, urban agriculture/farming

How to ensure food security for all the hungry of this world ? (Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

Let us read again attentively the former posting on this blog : “WITH HIGH FOOD PRICES SET TO CONTINUE, UN AGENCIES ISSUE CALL TO ACTION” (New York, Oct 10 2011 10:05AM) Let us first underscore the main issues : A … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, allotment gardens, city gardening, container/bottle gardening, family farming, family gardens, food / food security, food crisis, gardening kids, guerilla gardening, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, MDG, nutrition, rooftop gardening, sack gardening, school gardens, small-scale farming, urban agriculture/farming, urban gardening, vegetables, vertical farming, vertical gardening, Victory Gardens

Bottom-up view on effective, long-term solutions to combat desertification, drought, hunger, malnutrition and famine (Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on August 4, 2011 by

Reading every day a number of publications on drought, desertification, hunger, malnutrition, famine, poverty and conflicts, I noticed that more and more voices are raised about the urgent need for a drastic change in strategies : from short-term to long-term … Continue reading →

Posted in agroforestry, allotment gardens, city gardening, Climate / climate change, community gardens, container/bottle gardening, Desertification, drought, Ecology - environment, ecosystems, family gardens, food / food security, hunger / famine, land management, malnutrition, nutrition, vertical gardening

The irrefutable evidence of the FAO : decisive victory for city gardening in the war on hunger and poverty (Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on June 11, 2011 by

—————————– For many years already we have been promoting family (kitchen) gardens and allotment gardens (the “VICTORY GARDENS” of World War I and WW. II) as the most efficient tool to combat hunger, malnutrition and poverty (see a short list … Continue reading →

Posted in allotment gardens, city gardening, community gardens, family gardens, FAO, food / food security, guerilla gardening, hunger / famine, kitchen garden, malnutrition, urban agriculture/farming, urban gardening, vegetables, Victory Gardens

An invitation to 5 billion non-hungry people on earth (Willem Van Cotthem)

Posted on November 2, 2010 by

INTRODUCTION Many people are looking for success stories of organic family gardening or farming in rural and in urban areas. Don’t search anymore: here is a splendid testimony of the results booked in Argentina, in a number of other South … Continue reading →

Posted in city gardening, community gardens, family farming, family gardens, food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition, school gardens, urban agriculture/farming