Sentences with phrase «land for urban agriculture»

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His beautiful structures would soar into the air, releasing most of the land now covered by urban sprawl for agriculture, recreation, or wilderness.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

«With the recent interest and surge in urban agriculture, we have been looking for more access to land,» she said.

I am starting an infantile NGO that focuses on fighting famine through urban agriculture and land resuscitation.I am focusing my work in the Horn of Africa trying to prepare for impending famine.

From urban agriculture to utopian aspirations, and environmentally initiated displacement to artistic approaches for protecting resources, LAND TRUST was an exploration of the multifarious connections between people and the living landscape.

I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

Flood zones have been earmarked for urban agriculture in the urban land - use plan, thereby reducing the impacts of floods and enhancing local food security

It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storland use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storLand Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

Naturally, land is a critical asset for urban agriculture, and its availability, accessibility and suitability are of particular concern to urban farmers.

Various cities, like Cienfuegos (Cuba), Piura (Peru) and Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) have made an inventory of the available vacant open land within the city (using methods like community mapping and / or GIS) and analysed its suitability for use in agriculture, which creates a good starting point for enhancing access, especially of the urban poor, to land for urban farming.

Urban agriculture to a large extent complements rural agriculture and increases the efficiency of the national food system in that it (IDRC 1998) provides products that rural agriculture can not supply easily (e.g. perishable products, products that require rapid delivery upon harvest), that can substitute for food imports and can release rural lands for export production of commodities.

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

Legalising urban agriculture and formal recognition of agriculture as a formal urban landuse and identification of which tracts of land are available for urban agriculture and what types of agriculture are suitable for such a location are important steps in the creation of a facilitating and regulating policy framework on urban agriculture replacing the existing neglecting or restricting policies.

The conference discussed how to improve access to land and land use security for urban producers, the integration of urban agriculture in urban land use planning, the development of adequate land use norms and regulations, multiple land use, etcetera.

They would deny any role from solar activity, urban heat island effects, land use changes i.e. wooded areas cleared for agriculture, aerosols, or natural variability.

The RUAF Foundation regularly organises study visits, including the one - week study visit on social organisation to the Netherlands, for leaders of urban producer organisations from Uruguay, Brazil, Peru and Argentina; the one - week study visit to the Netherlands and the UK on multifunctional urban agriculture and urban land - use planning, for city officials and senior researchers from China; and the study visit to Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa) on the role of urban agriculture in mitigating the effects of the HIV - AIDS epidemics for NGO staff and health officers from Sub Saharan countries, organised in cooperation with CTA (the Netherlands).

The sharing and discussions at the conference were organised around the following six thematic discussion papers prepared by international experts: 1: Methodologies for Situation Analysis in Urban Agriculture; 2: Appropriate Methodologies for Developing a Facilitating Policy and Planning Framework in Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban AgricuUrban Agriculture; 2: Appropriate Methodologies for Developing a Facilitating Policy and Planning Framework in Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agriculture; 2: Appropriate Methodologies for Developing a Facilitating Policy and Planning Framework in Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban AgricuUrban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agriculture; 3: Technical Tools for Urban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban AgricuUrban Land Use Planning; 4: Appropriate methods for technology development in urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricuurban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban agriculture; 5: Methods for Monitoring and Evaluation and its adaptation to urban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricuurban and peri-urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban Agricuurban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban agriculture; 6: Methods for Micro-enterprise Development in Urban AgricuUrban AgricultureAgriculture

Tim concluded by saying that we need a better understanding of the skills required and the capacity (land and economic) for urban agriculture.

As agricultural counties transition to more urban land uses, it becomes increasingly important to plan for agriculture.

Just the first, SITE, sets some of the toughest standards: The land must be on land previously developed, it must support urban agriculture, and «For each hectare of development, an equal amount of land away from the project site must be set aside in perpetuity as part of a habitat exchange.»

Review and adaptation of existing municipal bylaws, norms and regulations is a necessary element of that process in order to remove unnecessary restrictions on urban agriculture and to develop specific incentives, regulations and norms facilitating access to land, water, training and services for urban agriculture, while managing and regulating associated potential health risks.

Activists are clamoring for more city - owned land and farmer's markets, free municipal composting, mandatory procurement of local food for schools and an «urban agriculture ombudsman.»