Sentences with phrase «by urban farmer»

In Brasilia, the Municipality facilitates the development of small agro - processing and / or packaging units managed by urban farmer groups and assisted them in setting up quality labels and other marketing strategies.

Today, that little book is out in print and called The Prince's Speech: On the Future of Food, with a foreword by poet and farmer Wendell Berry, and an afterword co-written by urban farmer / MacArthur genius Will Allen and longtime food journalist Eric Schlosser.

So he hatched a plan based on a concept brought to a community sustainability meeting by urban farmer John Rife.

Not exact matches

One way these urban farmers are expanding their reach is by connecting with other food entrepreneurs.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

At 3 p.m., community activist Jamaal Bailey, Kings County DA Kenneth Thompson and urban farmer Karen Washington will be honored by Bronx BP Ruben Diaz Jr. during an annual event marking the observance of «Black History Month»; Dreiser Loop Community Center, Co-op City, 177 Dreiser Loop, the Bronx.

A large collaborative initiative that is founded and directed by the New Museum, and involves scores of downtown organizations, including universities, arts institutions, and community groups, the Festival serves as a platform for artists, writers, architects, engineers, designers, urban farmers, planners, and thought leaders to exchange ideas, propose solutions, and invite the public to participate.

He will collect the ideas and opinions of many farmers affected by the project, thus «recovering» data that would otherwise perhaps not exist about the relationships that exist today between the urban and the rural, the need for food and the need for transit.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

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.

The project was implemented by RUAF partners IPES and ETC and studied the roles and functioning of organisations of urban farmers in the Netherlands, Hungary, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and identified effective ways to strengthen such organisations.

Half of the city's freshwater fish are produced by enterprising urban fish farmers.

The use of fresh (untreated) wastewater has the additional advantage for poor urban farmers that it contains a lot of nutrients (although often not in the proportions required by their soils and crops).

The municipality of Governador Valadares has prioritised the marketing of urban agricultural products in different ways: (a) by providing incentives for the formation of cooperatives for the production and commercialization of products, (b) by the creation of sales and distribution centres as well as farmers markets in the city and c) by buying agricultural products from the urban farmer groups to supply to schools, community kitchens, hospitals and other service organizations.

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

The Municipality of Beijing is promoting the development of peri-urban agro-tourism both in the form of larger agro-recreational parks as well as family - based agro-tourism: farmers diversifying their activities by offering services to urban tourists (food, accommodation, sales of fresh and processed products, functioning as tourist guide, horse riding, etc.).

Municipalities may facilitate marketing by poor urban farmers by providing them access to existing city markets or to assist them in the creation of farmers» markets (infrastructure development, licenses, control of product quality), authorize food box schemes and / or support the establishment of «green labels» for ecological grown and safe urban food.

In many cities a substantial part of the urban food demand, and especially that in perishable products, is covered by farmers in the intra - and peri-urban areas.

In many cities a substantial part of the urban food demand, and especially that in perishable products, is covered by farmers in the intra - and

The food forest, as the designer turned urban farmer describes it, was started on a parkway next to his home, and took up the 10 - foot - wide, 150 - foot - long strip once dominated by unruly grass.

Another culprit is the Chinese government: On one side, it asks automakers to make more efficient vehicles, but on the other it «has tried to shield farmers and the urban poor from high oil prices by freezing pump prices for gasoline and diesel, keeping them among the world's lowest.

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.

So among the key goals of the new plan are: to increase local food purchases by the city, expand CSAs, farmer's markets, urban farming and gardens, and food stamp eligibility — and she continues to call on Bloomberg to drop the existing fingerprint requirement for food stamp recipients.

Having already visited the awesome urban farmers of New Orleans, Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine of the Perennial Plate continued the Louisiana leg of their road trip with a boat ride courtesy of Sinh Pham — a Vietnamese shrimp fisherman struggling to get by with low dock prices, high fuel costs, and a dramatic decrease in catch.