Sentences with phrase «resilient local food system»

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.

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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.

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 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.

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 foodResilient 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 foodresilient 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 foodresilient urban food systems.