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Local Food Security: Global and Community Perspective

Explore the importance of community self-reliance in the face of challenges like peak oil, climate change, and geopolitical instability. Learn about local food systems, sustainable agriculture, and the impact of food choices on the environment and economy.

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Local Food Security: Global and Community Perspective

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  1. Local Food Security: Global and Community Perspective Jason Bradford Willits Economic LocaLization February 25, 2008

  2. WELL’s Vision

  3. Turbulent Times • Rising fuel and energy costs—peak oil and gas • Geopolitical instability— wars, failed states and refugees • Unstable weather patterns—climate change • Essential goods trucked in—making us vulnerable All trends point to the need for greater community-self-reliance

  4. Supermarket Dependent Lives Market Customers/Day Delivery Frequency and Daily Turnover # Days Supply in Stock County Products Mariposa Market (natural foods) 200-300 Fruits and vegetables: 3 deliveries/week Meet and dairy: 2 deliveries/week Groceries: 2 deliveries/week Frozen Foods: 2 deliveries/week 2-7 days 7 days 7 days 7 days 1% (10% in summer) Ray’s Sentry Market 1,200 Fruits and vegetables: 6 deliveries/week Meat and dairy: 3 deliveries/week Groceries: 2 deliveries/week Frozen Foods: 2 deliveries/week 1 day 3 days 3 days 3 days 15-20% Safeway 1,900 Daily delivery of all items 1-2 days 2% Vulnerable

  5. Oil Dependent Trucks Vulnerable

  6. Truck-Dependent Markets Vulnerable

  7. 320 “The loss of the Arctic sea-ice unambiguously represents dangerous climate change. As the tipping point for this event was around two decades ago when temperatures were about 0.3°C lower than at present, we propose a long-term precautionary warming cap of 0.5°C and equilibrium atmospheric greenhouse gas level of not more than 320 parts per million (ppm) carbon dioxide.” In all our actions we must now do the math. Does it use fossil fuels… Does it contribute to GHG emissions?

  8. Acting Like Responsible, Caring Adults “We Americans are not afraid of bad news. We want to be told the truth, the whole truth. We can ‘take it,’ as we say.” “Don’t shut your eyes to real dangers. If you know what danger threatens, you can go to work and prepare to meet it. But if you don’t know, you can only feel frightened and uncertain and unprepared. No certainty is so unsettling as suspense.”

  9. Decision Time Information • Learning • Acceptance • Planning • Action

  10. Classes of Food Security Food banks, Food stamps, School lunch subsidies Local farmers markets, Local food storage Grains and dry beans Sustainable agriculture, Community farms and gardens Vegetables and fruits…as first step

  11. Why Veggies First?

  12. Low Area…but High Weight

  13. 150 Yard Diet Choice B: Get food from Brookside Farm and eat a 150 yard diet Choice A: Get food from Safeway and eat a 1500 mile diet

  14. Not on Veggies Alone

  15. Calories = Grains

  16. Community Storage—1 Year Supply

  17. The Long View To feed somebody requires about 0.5 to 1 acre of cropland. California currently has 0.3 acres of cropland per person. Mendocino County currently has 0.4 to 0.6 acres of cropland per person. If losses could be recovered, Mendocino County would have 1 acre of cropland per person. Given this time in history, what is the best use of farmland and who will protect and steward it?

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