Sentences with phrase «poor urban farmers»

Municipalities may facilitate marketing by poor urban farmers by providing them access to existing city markets or to assist them in the creation of farmers» markets (infrastructure development, licenses, control of product quality), authorize food box schemes and / or support the establishment of «green labels» for ecological grown and safe urban food.

The use of fresh (untreated) wastewater has the additional advantage for poor urban farmers that it contains a lot of nutrients (although often not in the proportions required by their soils and crops).

Not exact matches

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

It is the smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and the urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the people who will have less to eat in the near future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

Poor farmers can only afford land in regions that are prone to drought, while poor settlements in rural and urban areas are close to rivers and creeks exposing their shelters and farmland to floPoor farmers can only afford land in regions that are prone to drought, while poor settlements in rural and urban areas are close to rivers and creeks exposing their shelters and farmland to flopoor settlements in rural and urban areas are close to rivers and creeks exposing their shelters and farmland to floods.

And, of course, it is these same countries — and the farmers, fisherfolk, urban poor, children and others who make up the vast majority of their populations — that have the least capacity to pay this exorbitant bill.

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.