Sentences with phrase «urban food buyers»

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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In urban and rural areas, wage - labor - dependent poor households that are net buyers of food are expected to be particularly affected due to food price increases, including in regions with high food insecurity and high inequality (particularly in Africa), although the agricultural self - employed could benefit.