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🔎 'Corporate concentration in the US #food system makes food more expensive and less accessible for many Americans' 💵🌽🇺🇸
🗞️ Excellent new piece in the @ConversationUS by @hendricksonm & IPES-Food's own Phil Howard 👇🏾
Quick thread! 🧵/1
theconversation.com/corporate-conc…
🗞️ Excellent new piece in the @ConversationUS by @hendricksonm & IPES-Food's own Phil Howard 👇🏾
Quick thread! 🧵/1
theconversation.com/corporate-conc…
"We’ve closely followed #corporate consolidation of food production, processing and distribution in the U.S. over the past 40 years. In our view, this process is making #food less available or affordable for many Americans," say Hendrickson & Howard. /2
"Consolidation has placed key decisions about our nation’s #foodsystem in the hands of a few large companies, giving them outsized influence to #lobby policymakers, direct food and industry #research and influence #media coverage." /3
KNOW YOUR TOMATOES
Tomatoes are the 3rd highest consumed crop in Nigeria. Most people do not know there are thousands of tomatoes varieties. However these thousands of tomatoes can be grouped into 7
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #May2020
Tomatoes are the 3rd highest consumed crop in Nigeria. Most people do not know there are thousands of tomatoes varieties. However these thousands of tomatoes can be grouped into 7
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #May2020
1. Cherry tomatoes
Cherry tomatoes are round, bite-sized, and so juicy that they may pop when you bite into them.
Average weight is 17g,
3 calories
Trace amounts of vitamins
Use: Salad, snack, skewers and kebabs.
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #May2020
Cherry tomatoes are round, bite-sized, and so juicy that they may pop when you bite into them.
Average weight is 17g,
3 calories
Trace amounts of vitamins
Use: Salad, snack, skewers and kebabs.
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #May2020
2. Grape tomatoes
They contain little water and have an oblong shape. One grape tomato
Average weight is 8g
1 calorie
Use: Salads or snack.
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #FarmerSamson #FarmLab2020
They contain little water and have an oblong shape. One grape tomato
Average weight is 8g
1 calorie
Use: Salads or snack.
#ZeroHunger #foodsecurity #FarmerSamson #FarmLab2020
