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...]
Not exact matches
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 plant will significantly contribute to the
local food production output, reducing the region's dependency
on imports.»
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».
«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.
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.
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.
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).
Our garden team works
on the
food production surrounding the houses and our
local craftsman are maintaining the
local wood and bamboos.
Portfish's vision is to create a working model of an aquaponics system based
on best practices that can be replicated to promote and engage communities in
local sustainable
food production.
Our interest in
local sustainable
food production, however, developed over time — and, only in the last few years has it taken
on a more urgent tone.
It also supports
local agriculture to reduce dependency
on imports, to lower greenhouse gas emissions and energy requirements for
food production, transport and storage, and to improve
food security and livelihoods.
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.
Food security and food production systems: On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literat
Food security and
food production systems: On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literat
food production systems:
On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literatur
On a sentence
on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literatur
on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation
on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literatur
on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of
local temperatures was consistent with the literature.
«Green roofs with vegetable gardening spaces and the greenway
on the site were designed to support social equity and
local food production.
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.
However, as TreeHugger's Green Basics: Eat
Local Food points out, the local food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&r
Local Food points out, the local food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&ra
Food points out, the
local food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&r
local food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&ra
food concept isn't just about distance, but is about the entire lifecycle of our
food, «integrating production, processing, distribution and consumption on a small scale, creating sustainable local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&ra
food, «integrating
production, processing, distribution and consumption
on a small scale, creating sustainable
local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.&r
local economies and a strong connection between farm and table.»
There's a debate at Mother Jones that slings some mud and arrows
on our collective idea of
local, organic
food and the problems with scaling up sustainable
production.
Via AlterNet More
on Will Allen & Urban Agriculture Growing Power: Urban Aquaponics, Vermiculture and Sustainable Agriculture Urban Agriculture Leader, Will Allen, Named MacArthur Genius Urban Agriculture Grows in the City Urban - Edge Communities Can Retain Agricultural Benefits The Urban Aquaculture Center: Aquaponics Goes Big Agriculture Needs a Fundamental Rethink in the 21st Century Five Dire Green Myths Causing the Greatest Global Harm 25 % Reduction in Global
Food Production by 2050: Organic Agriculture Part of the Solution, UN Says Organic vs
Local?
FThe
food sovereignty movement argues that the focus solely
on food security, without addressing the
production of
food, has caused poor,
food - insecure countries to import cheap, subsidized
food to the detriment of their
local farmers, economies, and cultures, thus adversely affecting longer - term and sustainable
food security.