Sentences with phrase «including local food production»

The weekly half - hour programme features host Janaia Donaldson's conversations with guests about a broad range of topics including local food production, renewable energy, transportation alternatives, sustainability, economic localization, and personal responses to the changes ahead.

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For example, ingredients that let food manufacturers reformulate recipes to include local raw materials, or use production processes that reduce CO2 consumption.

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«Buying local supports a more sustainable food system because true sustainability goes beyond the methods used in food production to include every step that brings food from farm to plate.»

Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general population would want.

The participating companies — local, national and multi-national — came from a wide range of STEM - related fields including agricultural / horticultural science, building, media production, food production and medical science.

AAFCO is the American Association of Feed Control Officials and it is a group of local, state, and federal agencies which monitor and regulate the production and sale of animal feeds and animal drugs — this includes pet foods.

Their varied practices include growing food, cooking food, raising animals for food, and engaging communities around local food production as well as instigating new artist - based economies.

There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems, including support for adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around local food economies.

It comes amid high food prices and complaints from environmentalists and other groups that crop - based biofuels production in contributing to deforestation abroad and exacerbating local environmental problems, including pollution.

Several cities already promote urban agriculture in floodplains, develop rooftop gardens in dense urban settlements, include urban forestry in new housing schemes and preserve peri-urban greenbelts for local food production.

Improving remote area housing to include infrastructure for storage and preparation of food is also vital; in one study, this was serviceable in less than 6 % of houses.22 Local food production, including that of traditional foods, may hold promise in some areas.