New Way of Growing Rice Could Help Solve World Food Crisis
Professor Norman T. Uphoff of Cornell University is advocating a new way of growing rice in hopes of helping to solve the world food crisis.
Taja Sevelle's Urban Farming program transformed hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city into 190 gardens blooming across the country and abroad, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it.
Taja Sevelle saw the hundreds of acres of vacant land in the city of Detroit and came up with the idea of creating an organic self-help movement that would turn wasteland into free vegetable gardens and feed the poor people who live nearby. A side benefit as more people pick up a spade is that community spirit is revitalized.
In 2005 Ms. Sevelle's Urban Farming program began with 3 gardens in Detroit. In 2007 190 gardens bloomed across the country and abroad, in places like Haiti, providing fresh produce to an estimated 50,000 people, some of whom desperately need it. (Read more at BBC News)
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