In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and
more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.
Not exact matches
Mary flees from the crucifixion before it's over; she wields a kitchen knife against the disciples when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ's death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife is
more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century
urban farmers» market: «a city... filled with plenty, a marketplace laden with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»
Researchers,
farmers, chefs, policy makers, government officials, and students will come together panels on topics including; food waste,
urban agriculture, family
farmers, farm workers, and
more.
He said the completion of the dam would engage
more than one thousand
farmers in the area which would prevent the rural -
urban drift of people in search of non-existent jobs in the
urban areas.
For
farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from
urban areas, the
more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.
The fact is
more and
more city dwellers and
urban living singles are also attracted to these types of country or
farmer dating sites.
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In Cagayan de Oro,
urban farmers generally eat
more vegetables than non-
urban farmers of the same wealth class, and also
more than consumers from a higher wealth class (who consume
more meat)(Potutan et al. 1999).
More efforts are needed to identify existing
farmer organisations and informal networks of (various types of)
urban farmers, and to analyse their problems and needs and effective ways to further develop these organisations.
However, growing
urban poverty and food insecurity, high costs of green open space and solid waste management, the need for recreational opportunities in the
urban and peri-
urban area, tend to modify thinking of planners and authorities and a
more «agricultural» approach (
farmers as povery reduction strategy;
farmers as waste reusers;
farmers as landscape managers and providers of recreational services, etcetera).
Many
farmers were forced to migrate for work in
urban areas leading to increased unemployment and
more poverty.
Taking place in Brooklyn Grange's indoor workshop space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Anastasia will cover a range of topics, including: different business entities a budding
urban farmer might consider; the various goals, benefits and challenges of
urban agriculture; the range of physical models — from aeroponics to aquaponics to soil - based farming — and business structures, and how each one addresses respective goals and challenges; various enterprises for the diversified
urban farm, from flowers to bees to mushrooms to events, and
more!
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Another culprit is the Chinese government: On one side, it asks automakers to make
more efficient vehicles, but on the other it «has tried to shield
farmers and the
urban poor from high oil prices by freezing pump prices for gasoline and diesel, keeping them among the world's lowest.
If you live in a super city /
urban area... just find a local
farmer for your eggs, or go in on a chicken share with other people at a place
more suitable for farming?
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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.»