Sentences with phrase «promotes urban agriculture»

Bklyner article on Borough President Adams promoting urban agriculture and farming at the future site of a state - of - the - art greenhouse at PS 56 Lewis H. Latimer and Urban Assembly Unison School in Clinton Hill.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

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.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

UK About Blog By promoting urban agriculture events across Australia, Sustain aims to showcase the range, richness and diversity of urban agriculture practices.

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Slow uptake Projects to promote the application of urine in agriculture have spread worldwide over the last decade: from pee collection and transport systems designed for 6,500 users in urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; to research on the application of human urine for carp fish farming in West Bengal, India; and more than 135,000 toilets diverting urine in Sweden.

IDRC also administers the AGROPOLIS award, a new International Research Awards Programme in Urban Agriculture that seeks to promote the advancement of knowledge and inform interventions in critical areas of (peri) urban agriculUrban Agriculture that seeks to promote the advancement of knowledge and inform interventions in critical areas of (peri) urban aAgriculture that seeks to promote the advancement of knowledge and inform interventions in critical areas of (peri) urban agriculurban agricultureagriculture.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

For over 20 years, FUSANMIDJ (Fundación Para la Salud Natural de la Niñez y la mujer Maura, Ita, Dorothy y Jean), located in San Salvador, El Salvador, has worked with children in urban and rural communities, promoting agriculture, nutrition and scholarship.

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.

Curitiba's Urban Agriculture Programme, started in 1986, is an evolving and ongoing project that utilises urban voids (e.g. backyards and empty lots) to promote food production, social inclusion and income generaUrban Agriculture Programme, started in 1986, is an evolving and ongoing project that utilises urban voids (e.g. backyards and empty lots) to promote food production, social inclusion and income generaurban voids (e.g. backyards and empty lots) to promote food production, social inclusion and income generation.

The brief illustrates how the Western Province in Sri Lanka is promoting urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry as a strategy to reduce vulnerability to climate change, while at the same time enhancing urban liveability and livelihoods.

In 1996 Sustain produced Growing Food in Cities, which drew on some of the already considerable experience of urban agriculture in the UK and recommended that more should be done to support and promote it.

Cities across the country, especially in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, should integrate urban agriculture into their planning materials and zoning codes in order to promote this all around beneficial green infrastructure tool.

Our report discusses the importance of urban agriculture to cities and their watersheds as well as gives recommendations to city officials on how to promote the use of urban agriculture in their community.

Recently, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) hosted a White House Forum on Housing to discuss programs and initiatives promoted by the Obama Administration that help responsible homeowners and struggling communities hit hardest by the housing crisis.