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UN Agencies Conduct Virtual Consultations to Strategize Hunger Alleviation and Food System Transformation

UN Agencies Conduct Virtual Consultations to Strategize Hunger Alleviation and Food System Transformation

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) announced a virtual public consultation to collect insights on how the UN agencies can collaborate in key areas of food systems transformation and hunger alleviation in the next years.

The consultation is focused on five main themes:

  • impact of COVID-19 on global development goals;
  • climate and the environment;
  • gender equality;
  • strengthening data and innovation;
  • inclusion and equity.
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Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

Video: Dry Farming, Deer Fencing, and Cover Crops in the Paths with Eric Nordell

We cover: today I am so excited to share this conversation with my buddy Eric Nordell of Beech Grove Farm in Pennsylvania to chat about, well, a lot of things. Eric and his wife Anne have run beech grove farm since 1983 and they do things a little differently (like farming with horses) but they dry farm which we discuss, they use some cover crops in the paths in interesting ways (also discussed) and in fact, we get into a whole digression about their deer fencing that you’re gonna wanna hear.