We believe that our commitment to farmers and to building small -
scale local food systems pairs well with the commitment Health Foundations has in providing wellness and educational services for expectant and new moms.
Not exact matches
Food Hubs Key to
Scaling up
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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.»
And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow
food deeply embedded in our
local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more
food in small -
scale agroecological
systems.
We can choose to support a more equitable and sustainable
food system by purchasing
local, organic or small -
scale produced
food as well as adopting a plant - based diet, low in animal products - which have the highest eco-footprint.
These types of opportunities and efficiencies exist throughout the
local food system but are almost completely impossible to realize on the industrially controlled, chemically dependent, national / global
scale of our modern economy.
«It is critical to re-examine the
local and global
systems we have put in place and advocate more sustainable alternatives that encourage smaller -
scale,
local food production and more healthy eating habits.»
To help aid agencies respond effectively to a
food crisis in Somalia, a
system was established in 2004 to precisely define and analyse
local food insecurity, using a
scale consisting of five categories: None / Minimal, Stressed, Crisis, Emergency, and Humanitarian Catastrophe / Famine.
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