Sentences with phrase «of local food production»

Many farmers will be unable to meet the fall deadline for planting new seeds in 2010, implying a massive loss of local food production in 2011.

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....

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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.

For example, the rise in immediate cost of transportation, in a context where its indirect effects on speeding the melting of the glaciers are recognized, will almost certainly favor local production of food.

The rest of the company's production is sold through farmers» markets, to walk - in customers, and wholesale to high - end restaurants, country clubs, and a local chain of 18 natural food stores called Earth Fare.

This event, hosted by Monash University Law Faculty and co-sponsored by AFSA and the Victorian Farmers Markets Association (VFMA), was to be a landmark forum addressing the regulatory challenges in enabling the production and provision of safe, transparent, innovative, fair and local food in Victoria.

La Via Campesina's central message is the importance of food sovereignty — the right of communities and nations to decide their own agricultural production regimes, with priority to local production and consumption.

The Code sets maximum residue limits for certain chemicals used in food production, and no Australian juice whether produced from 100 % local fruit or a blend of local and imported produce can exceed these limits.

The executive chairman of paper giant Visy believes Australia's abundance of land, educated workforce and food production skills can help local companies develop new markets across Asia.

In a wide - ranging speech titled Why Australia must be responsible with agriculture, delivered at a business lunch today, David Farley called for the government to renegotiate indigenous land titles and pastoral leases, to establish an emergency food bank, in addition to a number of other initiatives to boost Australian food production and export to meet local and regional demands.

Despite the region's large production of sustainable foods, local markets are small in size, according to Organic Monitor.

The challenges associated with sustainable food production and local consumption will be a central focus of the Sustainable Foods Summit scheduled for March 27 to March 28 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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

Our long history of designing and supporting reliable product inspection solutions for the food industry gives us a unique depth of market and application knowledge, enabling us to develop comprehensive inspection technologies to suit your production needs and facilitate compliance with international and local food safety standards.

One of its cutting - edge studies is the measuring of food loss and waste at all stages — from production and post-production to processing, distribution and consumption — in order to identify the origin and cost of food waste and loss at the local, regional and global level.

Secondly, they want «resilient food production systems», which utilise ecological production methods, and are based on «a multitude of smallholder farmers, gardeners and small - scale fishers who produce local food as the backbone of the food system».

The concept of local food processing precincts, with waste products being combined for regional renewable energy generation and organic fertiliser production is not mentioned.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

... Which means that the environmental benefit of eating food produced locally is outweighed by the environmental cost of said local production (if I am reading the research correctly).

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

In terms of the environmental impact of eating local, it is a mistake to just look at how far food travels from production source to our plate.

The authors were discussing the idea that eating local food reduces your CO2 output and pointed out that the primary CO2 cost of food was the production, not transporting it to the end user.

American dominance during and after the war, particularly of food production and distribution, established American eating habits and tastes worldwide, changing traditional local and regional patterns.

«Though the over-reliance on the mono - economic system is also a contributory factor to this financial impasse but I can assure every citizen that the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari would not rest on his oars at repositioning the nation's economy by ensuring adequate production of foods for local consumption as well as for export.

The government's hope is that this will equip and empower communities to utilize their local resources in manufacturing products in a bid to increase agricultural and manufacturing output, reduce reliance on imports and increase the production of consumer goods and food availability.

Now, with the island facing the prospect of rising seas and rising debt, the government has embarked on a campaign to cut its crippling food bill by encouraging local production.

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.

Regarding water access, the production of agricultural commodities along the food supply chain depends on the local availability of water through precipitation or irrigation.

Basically, there are two kinds of aquaculture: extensive aquaculture based on local photosynthetical production and intensive aquaculture, in which the fishes are fed with external food supply.

This globalization of food may contribute to the spread of the effects of local shocks in food production throughout the world.»

So does the food system, once you get away from growing food [in] oil which is our current preoccupation and one that isn't going to last much longer, the need for local production and control and whatever food has the same, and I was trying to argue at the end I think much the same thing is sort of happening with culture as well, that we have simultaneously this incredibly interesting global thing, the Internet and it's allowing you to live very locally and globally at the same time.

«EbA can accelerate income gains, improve health, and secure food production, all while ensuring the sustainable development of local resources.»

Preliminary analysis, as detailed by Li and co-authors in the December issue of the journal Archaeological Research in Asia, suggests that the irrigation system was built in the 3rd or 4th century A.D. by local herding communities looking to add more crop cultivation to their mix of food and livestock production.

The impacts of land use and land management for food production and forestry have been shown to have considerable influence on local and regional climate, particularly for climate extremes.

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.

From community - supported local farmers, community gardeners, and seed saving activists, to underground distribution networks of contraband foods and food resources rescued from the waste stream, this book shows how ordinary people can resist the dominant system, revive community - based food production, and take direct responsibility for their own health and nutrition.

Given a report like the New England Food Vision, which sets a goal for the region to produce 50 % of the food it consumes by 2050, local demand must align with foods especially suited for local productFood Vision, which sets a goal for the region to produce 50 % of the food it consumes by 2050, local demand must align with foods especially suited for local productfood it consumes by 2050, local demand must align with foods especially suited for local production.

FThe global industrial food system relies on crops that have been bred primarily for higher yield and ease of transport, while farmers involved in local food systems often place a higher value on plant varietals that are more nutritious by virtue of their variety (i.e., not bred for yield alone) or by their method of production.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

Tracing the history of food production in the United States, the film charts how farming has gone from local and sustainable to a corporate Frankenstein monster that offers cheap eggs, meat, and dairy at a steep cost: the exploitation of animals; the risky use of antibiotics and hormones; and the pollution of our air, soil, and water.

One of my key sources of water ran out, my local food and resource production was exposed as being nowhere near good enough for self sufficiency, and my colonists started starving to death.

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.

In this type of program — promoted nationwide by the Farm to School organization, connecting schools with local farmers — kids get their hands dirty by gardening organic crops while learning about seasonal cooking, food production, ecology, and nutrition.

Local farmers welcome children onto their farms to share experiences of food production at a commercial scale, and are often invited to visit the schools, along with local food heroes, to give presentations and share their passion for food and farLocal farmers welcome children onto their farms to share experiences of food production at a commercial scale, and are often invited to visit the schools, along with local food heroes, to give presentations and share their passion for food and farlocal food heroes, to give presentations and share their passion for food and farming.

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

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.

About Blog The mission of the Urban Gardening Coalition is to strengthen local food production, improve access to healthy food, and empower folks to grow their own.

And our commitment doesn't stop there, we are involved with every aspect of food production from the farm to the packaging to the delivery to your favorite local retailer.

Meet the producers of local foods and wines and taste what they have on offer, visit local farms and vineyards, and enjoy many meals with small production wines (and sometimes craft beers).