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.
Not exact matches
For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small -
scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the
growing number of small -
scale pastured pig
farmers.
But it wasn't until the mid-nineteenth century that the
farmers began
growing their pimientos on a large
scale and processing them into pimentón.
«One event can not change the system, but together we can celebrate the chefs and
farmers who continue to tilt the
scales back towards responsibly
grown food.»
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.
Our Turkey Red Wheat is
grown in the rural areas of western Wisconsin by small -
scale farmers using sustainable agricultural principles.
For the past few years, Tropical Traditions offered an open - pollinated organic heirloom corn and corn meal to its customers,
grown by small -
scale family
farmers in Wisconsin.
We use only certified organic Muscabado whole cane sugar in the fermentation of our vinegar,
grown by a cooperative of small
scale family
farmers in the Philippines.
I am currently working with small
scale farmers in the Ecuadorian highlands and we have recently become interested in the idea of
growing shade -
grown coffee as a way of sustaining the local growers and preserving some of the native forests in the region.
Partnering with
farmer organizations, governments, suppliers and NGOs to implement our interventions across key cocoa -
growing origins is critical to create impact at
scale.
Jim Soran, second - generation bean guy and co-owner of Zürsun Beans, works with
farmers to
grow on small -
scale farms in the Snake River Canyon region of Idaho, a.k.a. the Magic Valley.
Irit Tamir of OxFam America outlined seven investments the world needs to make to feed our
growing populations, such as investing in women, supporting small -
scale farmers and securing everyone's right to water.
A group at the Open University, led by Professor Andy Lane, has taken the first systematic look at what large -
scale, commodity
farmers - not those mainly involved in organic
growing - think about genetically - modified crops.
A study by Qaim had shown that small -
scale farmers in India who
grew genetically modified cotton had larger harvests compared with conventional cotton growers.
Black rice isn't currently
grown on a commercial
scale in the U.S., but Xu hopes that his research will spur
farmers in the Southeast to start
growing it.
It is still
grown on a smaller
scale in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina by Andean
farmers (Mujica 1994).
The app reached 600 Guatemalan smallholder coffee
farmers in the pilot stage, and has already
scaled up to 29 countries globally (and
growing!)
Dr. Daniela Jacob, director of the Climate Service Center Germany, focused on the importance of the computations on a regional
scale and on concrete matters: «Can a
farmer grow bananas in the future in a certain region on earth?»
To make more realistic projections, DeLucia and several UIUC colleagues built a large -
scale field apparatus that used a system of gas tanks, pumps, and computerized controls to test how rising levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide would affect soybeans and corn — two mainstays of Midwestern
farmers —
grown in the open field..
During the Great Leap Forward, multitudes of
farmers were forced into cooperatives to
grow designated grain crops while others were diverted to small -
scale steel making, which helped contribute to the crops rotting uncollected in Chinese fields, leading in some part to famine.
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?