Sentences with phrase «grown food commodities»

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Asia, a major driver of global economic growth, is both a source of competitive imports but increasingly an important destination for exports for the Canadian economy, a growing market for resource - based commodities but also agri - food products, specialized manufactures, financial and other services and, potentially, energy.

Agri - food MSMEs are crucial in both wealthy and low and middle - income countries (LMICs) in addressing food security, meeting growing demand for agricultural commodities and value - added foodstuffs, and in reducing poverty by generating income through strategies of inclusive growth.

While claiming to promote food security and benefit small farmers, Grow's focus on a few high - value commodities — like potatoes, maize, coffee, tea and palm oil — exposes the programme's real objective: to expand the production of a handful of commodities to profit a handful of corporations.

Turkey — apparently aspiring to be for agricultural commodities what the Cayman Islands have become for global finance — has enjoyed a meteoric rise as an organic food exporter despite growing political instability that would seem to hinder such a rise.

Based in New York City, with offices located in major markets and key countries producing tropical commodities, and a global network of partners, the Rainforest Alliance works with over a million producers whose livelihoods depend on the land, helping them transform the way they grow food, harvest timber and host travelers.

As Tropical Traditions grew, we began adding other traditional products which were hard to find in commodity food markets such as local chain grocery stores.

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming sysFood Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming sysfood and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

While this doesn't apply to Australia where approximately 60 % of food produced is exported, it highlights farmers face a profitability dilemma under the current policy regime solution of simply growing more raw commodities.

The growing middle income sectors in Asian countries are going to demand more of the food commodities and processed foods Australian businesses produce.

Through the 20th century, farming in the region shifted dramatically away from growing fruits and vegetables and towards producing commodity crops, which are primarily used in processed foods and for animal feed.

This middle class would be less well - off than what we presently see in America and Western Europe, at least not initially, but would manifest itself in a lot of demand for food, energy, and a variety of commodities and machinery as the middle class grew.

People should begin to think about the need to grow their own food and rely on locally produced commodities of all kinds.

This technical document stresses that price volatility is likely to continue due to climate change and weather shocks, growing demand for biofuel, and the «financialization» of food and agricultural commodities.