Sentences with phrase «scale farmers growing»
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.
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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?