The three elements that I voted for on the Ashfordton Food Resilience Plan are redistribution of leftovers, which is a form of recycling of food wastages, and the integration of livestock and crop farming. The third element is the well-water irrigation systems for small scale farmers.
Global estimates of wastages indicate that massive quantities of food are discarded as waste when they could have been recycled for other uses. A more recent study indicates that wastages are underestimated with a factor of two, implying that the quantities are more than previously recorded (Verma et al., 2020). Recycled food can be used to make animal feeds, fertilizer, and generate power, thus boosting agricultural productivity. Integration of livestock provides vast advantages such as reduced cost of production by the use of readily available organic fertilizer, which also increases productivity due to nutrient cycling and increased soil fertility (Martin et al., 2016). Lastly, well-water irrigation provides small scale farmers and home gardeners with irrigation water throughout the year, thus offering a consistent supply of essential food components such as vegetables and fruits.
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References
Martin, G., Moraine, M., Ryschawy, J., Magne, M., Asai, M., Sarthou, J., Duru, M., & Therond, O. (2016). Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: A review. Agronomy for Sustainable Development , 36 (3). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-016-0390-x
Verma, M. V., De Vreede, L., Achterbosch, T., & Rutten, M. M. (2020). Consumers discard a lot more food than widely believed: Estimates of global food waste using an energy gap approach and affluence elasticity of food waste. PLOS ONE , 15 (2), e0228369. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228369
