Sentences with phrase «urban food network»

With vertical farming's maximally efficient resource use and functional segregation from the natural world, cities could achieve food security amidst the environmental transformations and resource shortages that would cripple a conventional urban food network.

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Devita Davidson of Foodlab Detroit, a network of food entrepreneurs in the city, has helped create a partnership with local urban farms called Detroit Grown and Made.

Detroit Grown & Made is a unique collaboration between FoodLab Detroit and KGD that connects specialty food makers, processors, and distributors to a network of urban growers in Detroit.

The Food Network, and the prevailing culture of urban young adulthood, taught me to treat coffee, ethnic foods, and cocktails as well nigh sacramental.

Nick Rose addressing attendees to the «Fair Food Systems and Networks in Australia» workshop on 9th April at the 7th World Urban Forum held in Medellin, Colombia, from 5th — 11th April, 2014, via pre-recorded video.

Since September 2013 the Food Alliance (Deakin University) has begun the process of establishing Australia's first Urban and Regional Food Network, bringing together 20 local governments as well as a wide and expanding cohort of researchers, food businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and othFood Alliance (Deakin University) has begun the process of establishing Australia's first Urban and Regional Food Network, bringing together 20 local governments as well as a wide and expanding cohort of researchers, food businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and othFood Network, bringing together 20 local governments as well as a wide and expanding cohort of researchers, food businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and othfood businesses, health professionals, planners, community gardeners, not - for - profit organisations, Transition groups, permaculturalists and others.

Nick Rose addressing attendees to the «Fair Food Systems and Networks in Australia» workshop on 9th April at the 7th World Urban Forum being held in Medellin, Colombia, from 5th - 11th April, via pre-recorded video.

This Network has collaboratively developed as a key strategic priority the development and implementation of an Urban and Regional Food Charter for Victoria, as a systemic and integrated text to drive forward legislative and policy change and shape practice across the state.

He was a co-founder of the group D.C. Urban Gardeners, sits on the advisory board of the D.C. Farm to School Network and contributes to food policy blogs such as Grist and La Vida Locavore, as well as the gardening blog Garden Rant.

Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care & Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

Health, food security, climate change, sustainable energy, urban systems, digital technologies, and space will be the national priorities; they will be further refined and periodically revised by a newly created strategic research council, chaired by Prime Minister Jean - Marc Ayrault, with input from the French national research agency (CNRS) and five large research - coordinating networks.

She has served in a leadership and consulting capacity with numerous organizations such as: Center for Supportive Schools, GradNation Conference, Leading With Love, Circle of Community Leadership, Building Bridges, School Turnaround Leadership Network, Juggling Life (board member), Mercer County Gang Task Force, GGrant 94 ft. Academic Sports Academy, Roots Heritage Urban Food Hub, Jackie Robinson Park of Fame, and YOU - Turn Productions.

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.

An important framework for doing so is the CITYFOOD network: Linking Cities on Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Systems that has been set up in joint collaboration with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability.

During the Forum — and in response to the demands for information, training, technical and policy advice, and financial assistance by an increasing number of cities, ICLEI and RUAF Foundation, launched the proposal for setting up a CITYFOOD network on resilient city - region food systems and urban agriculture.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

This issue of the UA Magazine includes experiences of two programmes, that studied the functioning and roles of urban producers organisations, including that of IPES and ETC (partners in RUAF - International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security), and of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), both supported by the International Development and Research Centre (Iurban producers organisations, including that of IPES and ETC (partners in RUAF - International Network of Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security), and of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), both supported by the International Development and Research Centre (IUrban Agriculture and Food Security), and of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), both supported by the International Development and Research Centre (IDRC).

Started by the members of one urban community garden in 1992, Nuestras Raíces has grown to a network of community gardens through the city, secured thirty acres of prime farmland along the Connecticut River, organized farmer training and youth leadership programs, assisted in the creation of 25 food and agriculture businesses, community - led environmental and food policy councils and provided opportunities for hope, employment, healthy foods, and cultural celebrations in this Puerto Rican community.

Brooklyn - based sustainable design think tank Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology) goes even further, proposing this digitally fabricated Urban Farm Pod as one way that families can grow food at home, and have a new hang - out space too — combining furniture with farming.

Yet in that time their experiment has cooked up a website and a book, as well as inspiring many locally focused eateries like the Local Burger in Kansas, and a British restaurant that sources 85 % of its food from within the realm of London's underground «Tube» network (in turn seeding it's own TV program, the Urban Chef.)

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

Oklahoma City About Blog CommonWealth's mission is to grow food, equip a network of urban gardeners, create local jobs, turn local waste into compost, and connect OKC neighbors in the process.

Thanks in no small part to its rich ethnic fabric, this energetic urban culinary hotbed plays host to a strong selection of cuisine, from quintessential Italian and French food to a growing network of high caliber Japanese restaurants.