{"title": "DeFood: Decentralized Food Security Network (DFSN)", "logoImg": "bafkreia4xplca3mhptcvy5j5hk2tg463efidrjxzoyedkmrogrpydrmjyy", "website": "https://defood.ca", "bannerImg": "bafkreiaifjsn7wrf4judejqyvyrfptfgzdulzplyu3haqhthatba2j64ga", "createdAt": 1681921007926, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..JXmaoFqQK5M5Grwij80xgdpq-VQNqmitHW5Cxe4UbCPmcdRV5tBoqGELDjgVwOQkfWuLQEr_0gmUL4s-UCrKAw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-10-29T00:48:32.733Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-10-29T00:48:32.732Z", "expirationDate": "2024-01-27T00:48:32.732Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x4Be737B450754BC75f1ef0271D3C5dA525173F6b", "hash": "v0.0.0:tuLqiDInvwzr80EbFdToPBgCDdWI19RGYFGWEHmiKsg=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ync2020"}}}, "description": "DeFood is short for the Decentralized Food Security Network (DFSN), which explores ways to decentralize food security both in the physical realm, by expanding localized food production, processing and distribution, and also in the virtual realm, using Blockchain technology as the basis for revenue streams to monetize carbon sequestering assets and support localized trade and digital currencies.\n\n[![De-Food-23-26-roadmap.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/xd5x8M5Z/De-Food-23-26-roadmap.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/Jyycdy93)\n\nThe Stage 1 goal is to use Salt Spring Island, BC (in Canada), as a model for DeFood. Our approach is based on complex systems, which are only changed by relationships -- this means that food security must be a by-product of community building, specifically by busting silos and bringing a wide variety of people together. \nThat was the principle behind the Food Summit we put on in Nov 2023, which brought together 80 representatives from very different sectors: 6 from two different First Nations (including our keynote speaker), plus local and regional representatives not only in food production, processing and distribution, but also in food-related areas like housing, water, energy, transportation and governance. \n\nThe result has been a distributed network of new relationships which will be critical to solving the problem of boosting food production, which will then lead to greater carbon sequestration through the use of regenerative agriculture. 9 project groups came out of the Food Summit, as well as an ad hoc regional group that's taking on a number of different food-related topics.  \n\n[![50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/x8rD9Ltz/50-Farms-logo-crop.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/TLcH958d)\n\nOne of the groups, 50 Farms, applied through the Salt Spring Island Farmland Trust for a $159,000 CAD grant from the Investment Agriculture Foundation (IAF), which it received in February of this year. 50 Farms is a project that will physically decentralize local agriculture, with a  geographically distributed network of 50 farms doing CSA programs for healthy food supply and community engagement. But by taking a systemic approach it solves multiple problems at once, including improving long-term emergency preparedness, and providing both new farmer support and mentoring as well as monetary support of mid-size farms that are struggling. And as food production grows, we'll introduce measurement of carbon sequestration.\n\nOn the virtual side, we'll be building capacity over the next 2 years for additional revenue streams to food producers through securitizing natural assets on the model of -- and in collaboration with -- organizations like Centree and Kolektivo. While this model has often been applied just to forests, we seek to expand it to regenerative agriculture, wild-harvesting and marine-based food production (including kelp farming), all of which can sequester more carbon than steady-state forests. In the long run we want to use this to support a localized digital currency that will keep value circulating in the community, and free up food producers from the debt cycle that is driving many of them out of business.\n\nPhase 2, of course, is taking it out to the world. No man is an island, but no island is an island either, and climate change is global. That's why we aim to document the Salt Spring Island model so it can be used by small communities everywhere to both increase their food security in unstable times -- their local motivation -- and draw down a lot more carbon in the process, benefiting all living things on Earth!\n", "logoImgData": {}, "bannerImgData": {}, "projectTwitter": "ync2020"}