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Healthy Food for a Healthy World- Working towards nutrients security

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04/06/2015

canwefeedtheworld's avatarOne Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?

By Stephanie Brittain

More than 800 million people suffer from chronic hunger and two billion suffer from nutrient deficiency. One in four children is stunted and one in two is malnourished. At the same time, 1.9 billion people are overweight, of which 600 million are obese. This is the current state of global nutrition; unbalanced and unequal.

healthly food for a healthy worldIn recognition of this, the Chicago Council held the London launch of their latest report “Healthy Food for a healthy World: Leveraging Agriculture and Food Security to Improve Global Nutrition” on the 2nd of June 2015.  A distinguished panel discussed the key issues that are raised in the report, including Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Chair, High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition, Montpellier Panel member Lindiwe Sibanda, CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), Catherine Bertini, Distinguished Fellow, Global Agriculture and Food…

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Tap Tip

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03/06/2015

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Installing an outdoor tap is one of the most effective changes that you can make on moving to a new house with a garden. This saves time clearing up the mess walked into the house when filling watering cans or threading hosepipes through windows, as well as reducing the number of hours spent on watering. Special kits are available form DIY stores or get a plumber to install a tap for you. 

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Try to conserve water by having your outside tap fitted to a water butt or other container connected to catch rainwater from downpipes. Though this won’t give you the pressure of a mains or pumped supply, it will be useful for filling watering cans and the like.

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Long Row

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31/05/2015
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Bath gardening with mini worm farms installed

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11/05/2015

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DSC_0351 3 baths, one plastic and the other 2 cast iron were relocated from the old garden. We have decided to grow vegetables in them, as a preventative measure against the porcupines devouring all the vegetables. Here we have Happy installing a mini worm farm.

DSC_0350 Holes were punched out the bottom of the bucket as well as the lid

DSC_0349 Installation complete, ready for planting.

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PLANTPORTRAIT : INDIAN MOCK STRAWBERRY

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09/05/2015

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Indian mock strawberry, latin name : potentilla indica/duchesna indica, originates from India (hence the name indica).

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HERE IT IS, IT’S THE ONE WITH THE STRAWBERRY-LIKE LEAFS AND THE YELLOW BUTTERCUP-LIKE FLOWERS. GOOD GROUNDCOVER FOR LARGE AREA’S WITH BUSHES AND TREE’S BUT BEWARE IT IS A CULPRIT, A POWERFUL GROWER AND I THINK IT’S A PRETTY PLANT, IT BLOOMS FROM APRIL TILL OKTOBER AND AFTER THE FLOWERS IT GETS BRIGHT RED STRAWBERRY-LIKE FRUITS WHO DON’ TASTE WELL. THE PLANT DISAPPEARS UNDER GROUND IN WINTER AND STARTS GROWING RAPIDLY IN SPRING.

WHEN YOU USE IT AS GROUNDCOVER WITH BUSHES WHO ARE AT LEAST 50 CM HIGH IT IS GOOD. IT SUFFOCATES ALL THE WEEDS BUT WHEN USED AS GROUNDCOVER AMONG PLANTS AND SMALL BUSHES IT WILL OVERGROW THEM ALL. 

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HERE IS THE CULPRIT AGAIN, DO YOU SEE THE TINY WHITE FLOWERS ? WELL THAT IS MY WHITE HEATHER !!!      I…

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Greening the urban environment

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08/05/2015

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As the urban environment grows, with new developments taking up brownfield sites and encroaching on greenbelt areas, there is an increasing challenge in ensuring towns and cities incorporate enough greenery and vegetation.

The benefits of plants within the urban environment are well understood. As well as absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen, plants are important in helping to absorb airborne particulates and significantly reduce pollution. And of course they encourage insects and birds vital to the success of gardens.

However, in the increasingly busy urban space, the challenge is to incorporate greenery in a way that does not take up too much room.

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Fortunately, there are products available that not only deliver robust plant solutions, but which are also extremely space efficient, while delivering a range of other added-value benefits.

Mobilane’s Green Screen is a pre-cultivated screen which features a galvanised high carbon steel weldmesh that supports 65 ivy plants, each…

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PicPost: Lawn mower

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07/05/2015

My view across Great Langdale, this morning…off for a walk…

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PicPost: Roof Garden

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05/05/2015

A picture of our friends’ narrow boat yesterday. Modest, but an effective way of supplying salad! They have ambitions to extend their roof top garden, maybe some artificial grass and a putting course too?!

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PicPost: Golden Eve

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28/04/2015

St.Andrew’s Church, Whitchurch, Devon yesterday evening. Just before a pint of ale at the Whitchurch Inn….yummy.

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PicPost: Moor Pimple!

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27/04/2015

The Pimple, Tavistock, today..

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