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Wed, 2011-08-10 00:18 — mdmcdonald

Food security issues specific to San Diego and nearby areas

Discussion of food security in San Diego areas, and nearby regions, including Baja California

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Groundwater Depletion in Texas, California Threatens US Food Security

Wed, 2012-06-13 18:16 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Samuel Bendett

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Groundwater depletion has been most severe in the purple areas indicated on these maps of (A) the High Plains and (B) California's Central Valley. These heavily affected areas are concentrated in parts of the Texas Panhandle, western Kansas, and the Tulare Basin in California's Central Valley. Changes in groundwater levels in (A) are adapted from a 2009 report by the U.S. Geological Survey and in (B) from a 1989 report by the USGS.

Homeland Security News Wire - May 29, 2012

The U.S. food supply may be vulnerable to rapid groundwater depletion from irrigated agriculture; for example, from 2006 to 2009, farmers in the south of California’s Central Valley depleted enough groundwater to fill the U.S. largest man-made reservoir, Lake Mead near Las Vegas — a level of groundwater depletion that is unsustainable at current recharge rates

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San Diego Urban Farm Grows Food and Self Esteem for Refugees

Tue, 2012-02-07 11:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Good, and good for you. New Roots Community Farm hosts U.S. first lady Michelle Obama in April 2010. (Reuters/Mike Blake)

submitted by Janine Rees

by Jill Richardson - latitudenews.com - January 30, 2012

Imagine escaping from your farm in a war-riven part of Africa or Asia. You arrive in the U.S. What a relief! But you’ve replaced farming with asphalt and concrete of a U.S. city. Bewilderment, shock, all over again.

To help refugee farmers adjust, the International Rescue Committee started an urban farm in San Diego. It hired Amy Lint, then 31, to get New Roots Community Farm up and running.

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