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Increasingly across the globe,
communities have begun to dialogue about the importance of
balancing food security and food availability at affordable
prices. At the core of the conversation and
proposed action items is a firm belief that real
agricultural policy reform is needed to promote environmental
and socially responsible forms of farming, strengthen local food
production to feed people in their own regions, instead of
export oriented and import dependent model, and support
sustainable family farms instead of large industrialized units.
This reform requires regulatory tools such as supply management
intervention and public storage to meet local demand in case of
emergency and balanced border regulation to avoid low cost food
imports that impinge on local farmer's profitability.
Simultaneous to these efforts at reform is a disturbing trend of
large agribusinesses to grab large tracts of land in
underdeveloped countries further undermining the sovereignty of
citizens
Food security also is essentially all
about food safety. As concerns about tainted food increase
due to a wide range of metropolitan and rural areas being
infected simultaneously by a single source of food supply,
citizens are demanding greater control and information about
where their food comes from. There is also the issue of
food safety meaning guaranteed access to fresh, nutritious and
affordable food for all citizens regardless of income. A
growing number of low income earners and senior citizens find
healthy foods either unavailable or inaccessible as a result of
high prices and/or unreachable locations.
The first project of
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
designed to be a template for growing a local food production
industry focusing on year round production of fresh vegetables
and fish. Finding and building solutions addressing food
safety is core to our mission. If you have concerns about
food safety and want to participate in finding solutions to
improving food security, then supporting
Grow Your Own Meal™ (GYOM™)
is a worthwhile cause.
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