Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Chapters: Permaculture, Allotment, Food security, Green wall, Vertical farming, South Central Farm, List of permaculture projects, Community gardening in the United States, Guerrilla gardening, The Gardeners of America/Men's Garden Clubs of America, Urban chickens, Ecological sanitation, Community-supported agriculture, Jesse Collings, DeWitt Clinton Park, Bay View Garden And Yard Society, Urban Homesteading, Garden city movement, Victory garden, Garden sharing, South End Lower Roxbury Open Space Land Trust, Village Roots Garden, Interbay P-Patch, The Trust for Public Land, Southeast Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute, Intercropping, Hobby farm, City farm, Ferme ornée, New England Grassroots Environment Fund, Recreating Eden, Metropolitan agriculture, Heeley City Farm, Growing Power, Intercultural Garden, Manor Garden Allotments, Urban horticulture, Container garden, Rooftop farming, Boston Natural Areas Network, Rushall Garden, Kumpula Allotment Garden, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer, Underground farming, Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes, Sub-Irrigated Planter, Meanwood Valley Urban Farm, American Community Gardening Association, Danny Woo International District Community Garden, Hanging garden, DC State Fair. Excerpt: Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades. In 2006, MSNBC reported that globally, the number of people who are overweight has surpassed the number who are undernourished - the world had more than one billion people who were overweight, and an estimated 800 million who were undernourished. According to a 2004 article from the BBC, China, the world's most populous country, is suffering from an obesity epidemic. In India, the second-most populous country in the world, 30 million people have been added to the ranks of the hungry since the mid-1990s and 46% of children are underweight. Worldwide around 852 million people are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty, while up to 2 billion people lack food security intermittently due to varying degrees of poverty (source: FAO, 2003). Six million children die of hunger every year - 17,000 every day. As of late 2007, export restrictions and panic buying, US Dollar Depreciation, increased farming for use in biofuels, world oil prices at more than $100 a barrel, global population growth, climate change, loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development, and growing consumer demand in China and India are claimed to have pushed up the price of grain. However, the role of some of these factors is under debate. Some argue the role of biofuel has been overplayed as grain prices have come down to the levels of 2006. Nonetheless, food riots have recently taken place in many countries across the world. It is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain food security in a world beset by a confluence of "peak" phenomena, namely peak oil, peak water, peak phosphorus, peak grain and peak fish. Approximately 3.3 billion people, more than half of the pla

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