Sentences with phrase «local food production»

New study suggests that cities can encourage local food production and consumption through smarter regulations.

Ontario, which has a greenbelt, has legislation that supports increasing local food production from its land base through establishing targets that their minister of agriculture needs to report on annually.

Thanks to a tipping point in food culture, there is a new wave of understanding of how critical it is to support local food production, reduce food miles, find eco-friendly protein and fair - trade supply.

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.

«In today's economic climate it is imperative that we capture the economic value available in local food production, processing, sales, and distribution.»

They have just launched a $ 6 million effort to study the impacts of BECCS on such things as local food production, water use, and biodiversity.

Schools across the country took part in a wide range of activities ranging from cooking demonstrations in lessons, food tastings, talks from local food producers, art / decorating classes to creating bunting and posters providing information on local food production, compiling fact sheets, quizzes and much more.

Promoting local food production and consumption empowers communities by increasing their self - reliance, another key objective of GBM.

«American Catch» is a book I'd recommend to anyone who cares about local food production and environmental stewardship.

Scaling local food production, to meet demand, must occur to be transformative in urban AG.

We should replace the agribusiness monoculture with more diverse local food production making this work by using local economic incentives.

Because the Lagoon is subsiding, the government of Venice plans to limit the use of water from the underground aquifers in field irrigation, a measure that would threaten local food production and the livelihoods of the farmers.

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.

Various cities in developed and in developing countries have designed innovative food and / or urban agriculture policies and are implementing programmes to strengthen the urban food system and stimulate local food production and multi functional land use in the city region.

The main elements of the legislation include implementing a comprehensive strategy on government purchasing locally grown food; reintroducing the successful Buy BC program; mandating a legislative Committee on Food and Agriculture to prepare, in consort with the agriculture minister, a plan to increase local food production, marketing, and processing.

With the increasing interest in local food production, Bryan knows her yard — at 50 by 170 feet, it's larger than the average Chicago lot — is enviable for city dwellers.

The Guardian: The existing food system has failed and needs urgent reform, according to a UN expert who argues there should be a greater emphasis on local food production and an overhaul of trade policies that have led to overproduction in rich countries while obliging poor countries — which are often dependent on agriculture — to [continue reading...]

Alternatively, REED students interested in sustainable agriculture can learn the basics of organic farming with a vision to design urban gardens and systems to promote local food production.

COLE BAY — A lack of local food production, unrestricted and uninspected development, insufficient use of renewable energy, solid waste issues, no terrestrial conservation areas, and ineffective public transport have resulted in St. Maarten running at an ecological deficit,» says environmental agency St....

Tom Philpott, staff writer at Grist and farmer in North Carolina, knows a thing or two about local food production, and has written an article about how to do it all year «round.

However, LED lights may soon enable greenhouse growers to grow affordable, vine - ripened tomatoes and other produce items much closer to the market, enabling more local food production, especially in the northern latitudes.

In an effort to support local food production and defend customers» rights to buy and eat whatever local farm products they want, 16 towns in Maine have created their own local food ordinances.

The majority of Transition Towns, in fact, have expanded or repurposed green space for local food production.

He argues that local food production, for example, is actually less efficient and less secure than the global system we have now.

Local food production should be given priority over imports because the environmental costs of transporting foreign food have to be taken into account.

«The plant will significantly contribute to the local food production output, reducing the region's dependency on imports.»

Like the proliferation of farmer's markets and local food production, cauliflower everything, red quinoa, gourmet vegan food, and kale salads.

Espinosa is also the founder of the Funleo Foundation, whose slogan is «food for development» — a foundation that aims to identify, reclaim and promote the culinary traditions of Colombia while highlighting sustainable practices and local food production.

In addition to probable advantages of freshness, local food production can:

«It is critical to re-examine the local and global systems we have put in place and advocate more sustainable alternatives that encourage smaller - scale, local food production and more healthy eating habits.»

The «sustainable intensification» phrase is particularly interesting in that, intentionally or not, it squarely stands behind the notion that local food production can contribute to this.

Like other urban farming initiatives, rooftop farms promote sustainable living by contributing to the local food production system and to recycling urban organic waste.

The city expected those green jobs to be in the transportation and waste recovery sectors, but when they were counted, the city discovered the green jobs were in local food production, clean buildings and local technology companies, Reimer said.

«Building up our natural infrastructure — from farms to floodplains to green streets — cleans our water, stores carbon, increases local food production, and ultimately makes our communities healthier and happier.»

SNAP has created new partnerships to help revive privately owned public space at older apartment towers, as well as achieving tenant engagement through nature, arts, local food production, and behavioural change.

«Green roofs with vegetable gardening spaces and the greenway on the site were designed to support social equity and local food production.

One thing the tech industry is very good at is automation and building efficient processes for production, both of which are essential to successful indoor growing, and this trend toward indoor farming and local food production has been attracting some attention from that sector.

Once one learns about their storied past, the breathtaking possibilities of their restoration to New York become crisp and clear: a step back in the right direction toward biodiversity, local food production and consumption, as well as perhaps becoming the jewel in the crown of remediation on America's most polluted waterway Newtown Creek.

Some of the credits available within the LEED - ND Rating system deal with issues such as wetland and water body conservation, access to public space, local food production, heat island reduction, district heating and cooling and comprehensive waste management.

Of course, the biggest obvious benefit would come through more local food production and the transition away from growing the (mostly) useless crop of grass in yards and toward a more sustainable model of homegrown food and DIY living.