Sentences with phrase «resilient food system»

«Through YieldWise, our seven - year, $ 130 million initiative, we will build a more resilient food system by demonstrating how the entire supply chain can collaborate to achieve the goals set by Champions 12.3.

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance is lucky to have a team of dedicated and passionate people working to create equitable, sustainable and resilient food systems for all Australians.

Three priority outcomes from the Koronivia process were summarized by Bess Tiesnamurti, Senior Researcher from the Indonesian Centre For Animal Research and Development: farmers» welfare, sustainable agriculture and resilient food systems.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

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Speakers at the rally included Dr. Andre Leu, president of IFOAM, Vanadana Shiva of Navdanaya, Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute, and Laura Lengnick author of the book Resilient Agriculture — Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate which is being made into 4 minute videos featuring farmer stories in their own words, along with Precious Phiri, Will Allen, and Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association.

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».

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.»

As a B Corporation, we work closely with value - similar suppliers, producers, and local communities to help create more informed eaters and more resilient, responsive and sustainable regional food systems.

The inception workshop will allow the researchers to discuss common themes relating to fraud, resilient food chains, consumer behaviour and an ageing population and thus allow the five projects to share knowledge and expertise throughout their projects and for the greater good of our understanding of the food system.»

The evidence supports the need for considerable investment in adaptation and mitigation actions toward a «climate - smart food system» that is more resilient to climate change influences on food security.

Jerry Glover is helping to build more resilient food and agricultural systems.

That means we need to steward them in their natural habitats, and also collect them, conserve them in genebanks, and share widely to help make our food system more resilient.

The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat (WHEAT) is unprecedented global alliance for productive, climate - resilient and profitable wheat agri - food systems in lower and middle - income countries.

2.4 by 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality

Ripe Near Me users can sign up to either post produce or other local foods (such as eggs) that they are willing to sell, swap, or share with others, or to find local homegrown or wild food items for their own consumption (or both), which could serve to make local food systems stronger and more diverse and resilient.

The short film Resilient: Soil, Water and the New Stewards of the American West is intended, at least in part, to spur discussion and awareness about food, water, and farming issues, and while the film is viewable in its entirety below, hosting a screening of it in your town could be a great addition to discussions about resiliency, local food, or food systems in general.

The purpose of CITYFOOD is to raise awareness on resilient city - region food systems and (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture, create an advocacy platform for cities to gain political recognition and support from national governments and international support organizations, to provide information to cities around the world, stimulate exchange of experiences, identify and disseminate important lesson and good practices, and facilitate cooperation between cities worldwide and between local governments and civil society in this area.

The nearly 100 sessions in the VERGE SF program focus on distributed energy systems, next - gen buildings, sustainable mobility, food and water systems, smarter supply chains and resilient cities.

The development of urban agriculture and urban food provisioning systems is increasingly considered an important part of sustainable and resilient urban development by local and national governments around the world.

There is no shortage of support needs for communities to address the impacts of climate change in agricultural systems, including support for adaptation for vulnerable regions and transformation to sustainable and resilient food production systems, built around local food economies.

-RRB- that at several points makes explicit reference to the key role of food systems within overall resilient city - region systems.

Hence, supporting short supply chain initiatives and related SME's seem to be an important mechanism for building resilient urban food systems.

Most impressively, reACT — short for Resilient Adaptive Climate Technology — is self - sufficient and generates clean energy, recycles waste, self - regulates its building systems, and even produces clean water and grows nutrient - rich foods.

During the Forum — and in response to the demands for information, training, technical and policy advice, and financial assistance by an increasing number of cities, ICLEI and RUAF Foundation, launched the proposal for setting up a CITYFOOD network on resilient city - region food systems and urban agriculture.

This policy brief (2018) reports on a recent study, implemented by RUAF Foundation and supported by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program (WLE / IWMI), on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systFood & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program (WLE / IWMI), on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systfood systems.

about City region food systems and food waste management - Linking urban and rural areas for sustainable and resilient development.

The first session highlighted good practices, strategies, and policies in achieving resilient and low - carbon urban food systems in cities and city regions across the globe.

Developing data, models, and analytical tools to identify current energy system vulnerabilities and adaptive pathways toward a resilient food - energy - water future.

Topics for consideration included but were not limited to: a) Modalities for implementation of the outcomes of the five in - session workshops; b) Methods and approaches for assessing adaptation, adaptation co-benefits and resilience; c) Improved soil carbon, soil health and soil fertility under grassland and cropland as well as integrated systems, including water management; d) Improved nutrient use and manure management towards sustainable and resilient agricultural systems; e) Improved livestock management systems; f) Socioeconomic and food security dimensions of climate change in the agricultural sector.

Creating more urban farms and more food production centers closer to where the market is, whether they are traditional outdoor growing areas, rooftop farms, indoor hydroponic and aquaponics systems, vertical farms, or vacant lot gardens, can go a long way toward building a more resilient local food system and reducing the ecological footprint of our diets.

Further, Hansen includes «carbon farming», or rebuilding carbon in our soils i.e. growing soil, but, again, only includes Big Ag acreage when, in fact, sustainable systems will have far more widespread areas of acreage being holistically farmed because the food system must localize and be resilient.