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Food and Water Security
Here is a list of recommended resources for teaching and learning about food and water security, including topics such as foodsheds, hunger, obesity, and garden education. Below each resource you will find links to related Facing the Future lessons. View the criteria used to select these resources.
High School Resources
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Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé
This 400-page book includes the stories of subsistence farmers from five continents, along with an analysis of hunger, calls for action, learning resources, and recipes.
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Book | ISBN 9781585422371 | $
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Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity
Sandra Postel
In this 239-page book, Sandra Postel explains that decades of profligacy and mismanagement of the world's water resources have produced signs of shortages and environmental destruction.
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Book | ISBN 0393317447 | $
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FLOW: For Love of Water
Irena Salina
This 84-minute video examines the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply, with a focus on politics, pollution, and human rights. The video includes interviews with scientists and activists.
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Video | UPC 896602002029 | $
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Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock
In this 96-minute video, Morgan Spurlock documents his experiment to eat nothing but three McDonald's meals a day for 30 consecutive days, providing an entertaining and disturbing narrative about the cultural trend toward obesity.
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Video | UPC 043396085435 | $
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The Community Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a North American organization dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local, and regional food systems that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food to all people at all times.
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Seafood Watch
Monterey Bay Aquarium
For recommendations about which seafood products to avoid or buy, check out Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch guide.
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WaterPartners International
Working in partnership with donors and those in need of safe water, WaterPartners has helped thousands of people in developing countries obtain accessible, sustainable, community-level water supplies.
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Middle School Resources
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World Water Monitoring Day
Water Environment Federation and the International Water Association
Collect and share data on your local rivers, lakes, and estuaries by contacting a local water quality monitoring agency or becoming part of this global initiative.
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Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource
Marq de Villiers
A 368-page account of how global population growth, unchecked development, and cross-border struggles are stressing and depleting the world's fresh water supply.
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Book | ISBN 9780618127443 | Free
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The Food and Agricultural Organization
United Nations
The UN's Food and Agricultural Organization leads international efforts to end hunger, serving both developed and developing countries.
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Local Harvest
This site is a nationwide directory of farmers markets, community supported agriculture, and other local and sustainable food sources.
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Office of Water
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The EPA's Office of Water provides information about adopting a watershed, testing your water knowledge, and wastewater management.
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Water 1st International
Water 1st helps families in the world's poorest communities to implement community-managed projects that integrate water supply, sanitation, and health education.
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World Food Program
United Nations
The World Food Program helps aid hungry people by responding to emergencies with food supplies and also works to prevent hunger by building stronger communities in areas without stable food supplies.
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Elementary School Resources
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End Childhood Hunger
Share Our Strength
Share Our Strength offers programs through which students can Investigate the food needs in their community and address those needs by planning a food drive, restocking a local food pantry, or participating in the Great American Bake Sale to end childhood hunger in the United States.
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Getting Started, A Guide for Creating School Gardens as Outdoor Classrooms
Center for Ecoliteracy
This guide shows how teachers and students can become advocates for community gardens or plan and develop their own gardens at school. The produce that is harvested can make healthy snacks for the class or be donated to a local food pantry.
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Anno's Magic Seeds
Mitsumasa Anno
In this 40-page book, Jack finds his harvest dessimated after a storm, but since he had been keeping reserve seeds from his harvest every year he was still able feed his family.
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Book | ISBN 9780698116184 | $
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One Well: The Story of Water on Earth
Rochelle Strauss
This story shows how raindrops, lakes, underground rivers, and glaciers are part of a single global well, and how water has the power to sprout a seed, quench a thirst, provide a habitat, generate energy and sustain life. How we treat the water in the well will affect every species on the planet.
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Book | ISBN 9781553379546 | $
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Agriculture for Children DVD and Video Series
This video series shows field trips to the farms, factories, and markets that provide us with the food we eat, clothing we wear, and places we live. Viewers follow the journey food makes from farms to our tables; learn how crops are grown and harvested, prepared, packaged, and transported to stores; and discover how technology has influenced all phases of food production. Sites range from orchards to rice fields, and the series explores how climate and weather affect the types of crops people grow and the kinds of animals they raise.
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Vrrrooommm! Farming for K-I-D-S
Rainbow Communications
Exploring a modern farm and its seasonal preparation, planting, growing, and harvesting procedures, this 30-minute video shows how technology is linked to agriculture, the use of natural resources, and transportation.
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Video | UPC 799399199494 | $
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Agriculture for Kids
KidsOLR
This website contains over 8,000 links to educational resources for kids in science, math, geography, history, and language arts. Check out the "Agriculture for Kids" link for food security issues.
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