Sentences with phrase «scale farmers»

Not only is it healthier for you but it is also a better option for the environment and you will be supporting smaller scale farmers in the process.

Of course, direct trade with small - scale farmers in far away places can be a critical way to support economic development in other parts of the world.

«Most deforestation is caused by small - scale farmers who are acting out of need,» he said.

Medium to large scale farmers must be encouraged utilizing modern agriculture technology.

Some small - scale farmers use the same feed the battery farms use, which is what you're trying to avoid in the first place.

Other produce comes from 15 small scale farmers growing organic vegetables.

Those aren't privileges many small - scale farmers enjoy.

At the other end of the scale, smaller scale farmers selling into niche local markets are successfully exploring a different financing alternative: crowd - funding.

But small - scale farmers also benefit with improved seeds that require less pesticide and water.

Will these entities even give up a quarter of a million for agricultural adaptation in developing countries where small scale farmers are growing food for them and for all of us?

This follows the model of TransfairUSA (now rebranded as FairtradeUSA) in lowering standards so that plantations could get certified in a system meant for the 25 million small scale farmers around the world.

Their organic cacao and sugar are sourced directly from small - scale farmers co-operatives in Latin America.

Food > Smart Farming Utilising technological advancements like drip agriculture and access to real - time weather data is helping both large - and small - scale farmers produce more with less.

While Australian farmers and food workers do not experience the physical intimidation and violence that many small - scale farmers face world - wide, AFSA says they are subject to the same negative impacts of the increasing power of foreign multinational companies.

Eventually he and a handful of fellow farmers sent an open letter to Mackey, complaining that the new rating parameters were «onerous, expensive,» and shifted the cost of marketing to growers, «many of whom are family - scale farmers with narrow profit margins.»

Small - scale farmers often grow a range of non-Cavendish banana varieties for local consumption that can tolerate or resist TR4.

«Yet, our very own small - scale farmers continue to face threats from genetically modified organisms such as the GM corn and Golden Rice.»

«The multinationals that source from [small - scale farmers] often have no data at all from the bottom of the supply chain,» Barthorpe explains.

«O - Robo is a women's capacity building component of O - REAP's QIIP - a short term intervention directed to fill apparent needs - gap of small to medium scale farmers to engineer the process of food sufficiency and increased income of the people of Osun state through high impact timely interventions.

Since 2013, he's worked among the Garisakang, an isolated clan of about 500 foragers and garden - scale farmers living in tropical villages without electricity or running water.

But small - scale farmers say the big companies have the funds and staff to comply with the rules, and that factory farms that specialize in mass - producing one item are better positioned to comply with mandates to establish food safety plans for every product they sell.

And it disadvantaged small - scale farmers because they could least afford those inputs.

This years cookbook will raise funds for Organics 4 Orphans, a Canadian non-profit organization that helps address extreme poverty by providing the resources and knowledge to small scale farmers so they can farm organically and productively to support orphans in their communities.

Government support for commodity crops has effectively made large - scale farmers ignore other, more healthy, crops; in addition, a great deal of the industrial crops grown in the US are used for animal feed in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), a.k.a. factory farms.

The project covers four countries — Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, and Zimbabwe — with the goal of sharing lessons learned so that small - scale farmers everywhere can be better supported as their challenges multiply.

The team of scientists and development practitioners from Australia, Bangladesh, India and Nepal plan to improve the productivity, profitability and sustainability of 7,000 small - scale farmers [continue reading...]

And the cumulative effect of many small - scale farmers taking up biochar - based systems could lead to a significant climate mitigation impact, Solomon says.

On a national scale our farmers» yields are already being hit by the unprecedented extremes of weather events, as in the failures of grain crops to droughts and extreme rains, and in the loss of over half a million ewes and their lambs to the extreme «cold - wave» that hit in the spring of 2013.

This would be backed by a «global, micro-financing fund to boost small - scale farmer productivity in developing countries.»

What further puts the credibility of the CSA approach in question is the fact that it was the World Bank that brought forward the idea of measuring how certain agricultural practices sequester carbon in soil so as to turn the carbon captured by the soils of the small scale farmers into carbon credits.

Alter Eco invites consumers in the United States to celebrate the International Year of Quinoa and discover how eating Alter Eco quinoa will give a substantial nutritional boost to their diet, while directly benefitting the small - scale farmers who produce it.

About 500 million small - scale farmers around the world provide more than 70 percent of the world's food, but up to 90 percent of them are often isolated with no access to the Internet, basic agricultural information or new ideas.

Farmers have a broad range of opinion about whether competition or a large - scale farmer co-operative is best for the industry.

«Small - scale farmers produce 70 percent of the world's food on just 25 percent of the world's farmland.

Our Turkey Red Wheat is grown in the rural areas of western Wisconsin by small - scale farmers using sustainable agricultural principles.

David Bainbridge's low - tech solutions — inspired by traditional techniques, proven by modern research — offer guidance for gardeners and small - scale farmers facing a period of water shortage or looking to operate more efficiently.

Fairtrade - certified vanilla indicates that it was grown by small - scale farmers in developing countries who receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices.

Because small - scale farmers grow up to 70 percent of all the food consumed throughout the world, WeFarm helps provide data to multinational food and beverage companies that source from these farmers.

Saving seeds, and trading seeds with other like - minded people, isn't a new concept, and the new Global Seed Network isn't necessarily a pioneer in helping to preserve seed biodiversity, but it is evidence that gardeners and small scale farmers who have been focusing on heirloom and open pollinated varieties are the visionaries of a resilient food system.

Small - scale farmers and chefs have a common complaint: There just aren't enough hours in the day.

Mostly, it's not small - scale farmers that are getting rich off the almond boom.

But while tractors were now cheaper than ever, they could still be $ 600 or more — too much for many smaller - scale farmers — while most conversion kits were less than half that.

Canadians and Kenyans, JusTea is Kenya's first - ever, small - scale farmer - owned, Artisanal Tea Factory!

How they empower women: A joint venture between Canadians and Kenyans, JusTea is Kenya's first - ever, small - scale farmer - owned, Artisanal Tea Factory!

Some food industry giants promote genetically modified food as the solution while others say introducing small - scale farmers to new markets could do the trick to increase food production.