Sentences with phrase «greater benefits to farmers»

Not exact matches

Uptown Market Manager, Stephanie Turner, and Greenwood Mayor Welborn Adams joined us in thanking the farmers and vendors, and recognizing the great benefits their market has brought to the local community.

With the engagement of collaborators from various fields and support from the government and community leaders, I have great hopes that Golden Rice will someday become available and provide health benefits to our consumers and economic benefits to our farmers.

«Fairtrade is about delivering greater benefits of trade to farmers in the developing world — fair payments, a sustainable environment and just working conditions,» said Hans Theyer, Executive Director of Fairtrade America, the U.S. representative of the international Fairtrade system.

Chemically intensive farming methods can produce short - term benefits for farmers, but they result in the degradation of soil over time, increasing the susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases and requiring ever greater applications of fertilizer in the long - run.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

I'd venture to guess that many people who are regularly / religiously buy at farmer's markets (and who also participate in CSAs), do so for a combination of reasons: better product, supports their local farmers / economy, and supports / encourages farming in a more sustainable fashion that, just so happens, has some environmental benefit, even if it is not as great as not buying / eating beef from CAFOs.

Great examples include children, freed from the task of collecting water and firewood, able to attend school and benefit from education; farmers able to support their families with improved yields due to better land management and sustainable farming practices; or the reintroduction of a locally - extinct species due to ecosystem improvement and education of local communities.

It appears that the agreement has held, to the great benefit of farmers in many parts of the world.

The SFSI will allow Starbucks and the Fairtrade organizations to have an even greater impact than before, benefitting both coffee farmers and the coffee industry worldwide.

These practices have obvious benefits for farmers — reduced input costs, greater autonomy from corporations, diversified income streams, risk management for crop failures and varied produce to improve nutrition.