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A new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, "Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture", explores the complex and intricate food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork, and includes a sample meal inspired by Wangari Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement, as part of the exhibit's "Eat" section. The home-cooked Kenyan meal features fresh, local, nutritious ingredients and reflects GBM's work to better environmental management, community empowerment and livelihood improvement. Promoting local food production and consumption empowers communities by increasing their self-reliance. As the exhibit notes, the Green Belt Movement also offers advice to rural Kenyans on planting kitchen gardens and growing their own nutrient-rich food. In addition, better environmental management translates to better food security. Deforestation and intensive industrial farming lead to land that can no longer be cultivated, which threatens food production.

The exhibit runs from November 17, 2012-August 11, 2013. You can see more about the exhibit here, and more on Wangari Maathai's meal here.