TURKISH AGRI.NEWS

Dear İsmail, Greetings from Baltimore! Tomorrow, August 9, is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. The day is dedicated to celebrating the world’s indigenous cultures and promoting the ongoing need to protect their rights to their ways of life. This year, Food Tank is spotlighting organizations around the world that are supporting indigenous communities’ efforts to live freely, nutritiously, and sustainably. The world’s indigenous populations are incredibly diverse and represent some of the world’s oldest societies, but many now live as politically marginalized minorities in their own countries. More than 4,000 of the world’s estimated 6,700 languages are spoken by indigenous peoples, according to the United Nations, and many native communities around the world are home to unique knowledge systems and cultural practices that emphasize a connection with the land and its natural resources. However, both historical and ongoing colonial practices and resourc...

Dear İsmail, Greetings from Mexico City! This week, Food Tank is celebrating initiatives redefining food and agriculture around the world. While new challenges from population density, urbanization, conflict, and climate change transform food systems, we’re scanning the globe for stories of hope and perseverance. In the Middle East, the region once rich in agriculture now depends on international food systems. Home to the Fertile Crescent, the Middle East introduced domesticated agriculture nearly 12,000 years ago and fed not only itself, but nearby areas. But today, discrepancies between the demand for and the availability of locally produced food impact conflict-ridden countries like Yemen and Iraq, where over 27 percent of the population is undernourished, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. And with refugees from conflict-ridden countries fleeing to other countries and putting new strains on their resources, the Middle East has transformed into the world’s ...