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The results of the research project «Strengthening Organizations of Urban Producers», studying the roles and functioning of organisations of urban farmers in the Netherlands, Hungary, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and identifying effective ways to strengthen such organisations, were published as the main body of the Urban Agriculture Magazine # 17 and integrated in the FAO publication «Urban Producers Resourcebook».

The project was implemented by RUAF partners IPES and ETC and studied the roles and functioning of organisations of urban farmers in the Netherlands, Hungary, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay and identified effective ways to strengthen such organisations.

Her husband came up with Urban Farmers in The Hague.

Will Allen of Milwaukee, a strapping, 6 - foot -7-inch former professional basketball player, must be the best known urban farmer in the country.

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In urban areas, lack of vacant plots of land is driving more and more urban farmers to produce food upwards on the side of buildings rather than outwards.

Environmentalist groups and farmers are becoming allies in their concern for tainted and dwindling water supplies, chemical poisoning, urban encroachment and other issues.

But I'm cautiously optimistic that real change is happening in Egypt, that the solidarity between Muslims and Christians, between urban elites and rural farmers, and between computer - savvy youth and illiterate workers - is sustainable.

Mary flees from the crucifixion before it's over; she wields a kitchen knife against the disciples when they try to force her to agree to their version of Christ's death and resurrection; she has no faith whatsoever in Christianity or Judaism but finds consolation in worshiping the many - breasted Greek goddess Artemis; her vision of the afterlife is more accurately a vision of a twenty - first - century urban farmers» market: «a city... filled with plenty, a marketplace laden with fish and fowl and the fruits of the earth.»

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

«When you become an urban farmer, you have to consider where you are going to be and the environment you are going to grow in,» Altius Farms CEO Sally Herbert says.

Fields White works to bring farmers to the city and people to the table at three weekly farmers» markets in urban San Diego while raising funds for local community improvement districts.

So Saturday morning, Eric and I braved the pouring rain and headed to the Urban Harvest farmers market in Houston to get some of our groceries!

organic gardener, writer, professional photographer, homesteader & urban farmer living in New England

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City, and apprenticed under the worker - ownership of Three Stone Hearth in Berkeley, California, the first community supported kitchen (CSK) of its kind and has experience managing farmer's markets, working with a variety of artisan food producers, in restaurants, business management and organizations promoting urban food sustainability, local food economies and seasonality.

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

He said the completion of the dam would engage more than one thousand farmers in the area which would prevent the rural - urban drift of people in search of non-existent jobs in the urban areas.

According to him, farmers in rural communities experience difficulties in transporting farm produce to urban areas due to the absence of access roads.

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

WHEREAS, An emerging interest in local farms and local foods has boosted agriculture's visibility as an economic driver creating new opportunities for farmers in both rural and urban areas of Erie County;

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

As farmers in the American West decide what, when and where to plant, and urban water managers plan for water needs in the next year, they want to know how much water their community will get from melting snow in the mountains.

The biggest challenge in urban settings is collecting and transporting all those sloshing liters of urine to the farmer's fields.

In addition to large - scale agricultural producers, gardeners and urban farmers may be interested in such a device, the researchers proposIn addition to large - scale agricultural producers, gardeners and urban farmers may be interested in such a device, the researchers proposin such a device, the researchers propose.

In the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s, Mao Zedong sent urban youth to the countryside to learn from farmers.

In many urban neighborhoods the most convenient places to shop are corner stores, such as the bodega down the street from the Bronx farmers market.

Massive pumps in the southern end of the delta suck nearly 10 billion cubic meters of water per year from the delta and send it to farmers in the Central Valley and urban residents in Southern California.

I've talked to vertical farmers in urban centers who want to grow indoors with LED lighting.

Since the urban market is year - round, farmers are incentivized to grow crops in multiple seasons and to grow higher - value products.

While I live in an urban area that has access to farmers» markets and grocery stores, that are so many folks who live in food deserts, without transportation or access to fresh food.

43 urban farmers eating plant - based diets I am not in a position to assess Gnostic or anagrammatic interpretations of the Bible, but I found Hatfield's analysis of biblical diets to be thought - provoking: Hatfield, 2009, pp. 23 — 29.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada About Blog A strategic alliance of Urban / SPIN farmers and entrepreneurial food growers in Calgary sharing knowledge & building an infrastructure so all can thrive.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada About Blog A strategic alliance of Urban / SPIN farmers and entrepreneurial food growers in Calgary sharing knowledge & building an infrastructure so all can thrive.

Farmers often have a less materialistic view of the world than their urban counterparts, Miller said, adding that there is «definitely a divide» between people «in the corporate rat race» and those in rural areas.

Critics say the program serves the foodie elite and urban locavores at the expense of conventional farmers in rural America.

Because the classic market for the Defender — farmers, the army, authorities — is limited, Land Rover needs to broaden the hardcore off - roader's appeal to urban guerrillas and the fashion - conscious in - crowd who couldn't care less about departure angles and fording depth.

Her enthusiastic approach extends to her research — she has traveled all over the world to meet scientists, environmentalists, urban designers, inventors, and those on the cutting edge of technological development, accompanying an aqua farmer to check on his lateral kelp beds in the ocean, and others into their labs, design studios and think tanks.

The program is called Healthy Food San Jose, which hopes to increase urban agriculture in the area, support certified farmer's markets and mobile produce vendors, and provide increased outreach on the importance of healthy food choices.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada About Blog A strategic alliance of Urban / SPIN farmers and entrepreneurial food growers in Calgary sharing knowledge & building an infrastructure so all can thrive.

In continuous operation since 1927, this Santa Monica hotel exudes history with its Mediterranean architecture, yet is steps from the best of urban Santa Monica, such as the Third Street Promenade and Santa Monica Farmers Market.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada About Blog A strategic alliance of Urban / SPIN farmers and entrepreneurial food growers in Calgary sharing knowledge & building an infrastructure so all can thrive.

Updated, 6:17 p.m. As Cleveland tries to find a path to normalcy after hosting the Republican National Convention, as the city's urban farmers prepare to benefit from a convention - boosted bonanza of composted coffee grounds * (there's an up side to everything), it's worth taking a closer look at a few details in how the party handled global warming in its platform and rhetoric.

Any reading of the history of development of towns and cities in history will find out such could only emerge when agricultural cultivation has produced the excess food, over and above what the farmers themselves had to eat in order to survive, which could then be used for trade, development of technologies, urban construction and armies...

Other sites and apps out there helping you shop locally include Find Fruit, which helps you uncover fruit for urban foraging, Locavore, which points out all the farmers» markets near you and which foods are in season, Organic Highways, which is a directory of restaurants serving organic local food, and of course your local CSA program, which you can find listed on Local Harvest.

I signed myself up, then went to hear James Birch an organic farmer who used to help urban homeowners in LA convert their gardens and landscapes into organic food gardens — from Flora Bella Farms in Three Rivers, Calif..

After reading and talking about the truly impressive, activist work of people like Will Allen of Growing Power, urban farmer and educator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and other inspiring changemakers, we were asked to think about what we could do in support of a healthier food system.

It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using neglected canal and river trade routes.

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It is the smallholder farmers in Africa and South Asia and the urban poor who spend too much of their wages on food — these are the people who will have less to eat in the near future unless we adapt at a much faster pace,» Robert Zougmoré, CCAFS programme leader for West Africa, said in a statement.

A Market Manager's Comparison of Different Models of Farmers» Markets in Food Insecure, Urban Neighborhoods.