Sentences with phrase «urban food supply»

Effective strategies to strengthen urban food supply and city regional food systems are identified.

This paper assesses the socio - economic impacts of urban agriculture on income generation, poverty alleviation, urban food supply, livelihoods, as well as indirect costs and benefits for society including environmental externalities.

Not exact matches

What we're working on now is developing a national brand of locally grown produce that reinforces regional food systems by creating opportunity for local urban micro-agribusiness to augment year - round supply in any metropolitan area.

Gaidar rightly feared that with the collapse of central planning and the lack of incentives for delivery of food supplies from rural to urban areas, the cities might even be without food unless price controls were quickly lifted.

The term in defined in various ways, but the fundamental idea is self - explanatory: A food desert is an urban area without a steady, ready supply of affordable, fresh, healthy food.

«That's the way to expand the food supply in urban areas and make them less dependent on shipping food from California or Mexico,» he explains.

An increasing urban population, changing food consumption pattern and trade globalization have rendered food supply chains extremely complex and lengthy, which calls for a change of mind - set from the traditional way of addressing the causes of food loss at each stage of the food supply chain to an integrated approach.

Expert presentations covered diverse topics including food waste and the circular economy, urban and rural case studies on harnessing food waste, and a panel discussion on the food supply chain, with presentations from primary production, manufacturing and distribution, retail and food service, and hospitality experts.

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.

The challenge is to broaden the scope of policy debates beyond food supply chains and urban agriculture, to include strategic plans and reforms to tackle food systems.

The six districts formed the Urban School Food Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlFood Alliance in 2012 to combine their purchasing power of $ 520 million to force lower prices on better quality food, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlfood, supplies and more environmentally friendly packaging and cutlery.

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 arfood 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 arFood» 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 arfood available to consumers in urban areas.

Long before the magnitude 7.0 temblor in January, Haiti's land had been subject to intensive logging and urban sprawl, which diminished its agricultural ability to supply food to its fast - growing population

In addition to having a short growing period, there is the opportunity to move production into urban farms enabling reductions in the carbon footprint of food production and supply.

We are exposed to an unprecedented number of toxins today via pollution and urban living, our food supply, water supply, medications, cosmetics, and home cleaning products.

Community groups will include Urban Tilth, an organization that hires and trains West County residents to build community gardens «to develop the capacity to produce 5 percent of our own food supply,» and Bright Futures, a nonprofit growth and development center for school children.

This is because feral cats choose to live near food and shelter, both of which are in plentiful supply in our society, particularly in urban areas.

When winter come, the feral cat colonies are prefer go to urban spot, farmland and forest that five great shelter to avoid from bad cold weather and get some food supply.

The working donkey or horse is vital to carry supplies (water, food and building materials) to the outlying villages; including most of Kabul's surrounding urban areas that are built on the side of the unforgiving mountain terrain.

If you look back through history, a plausible case can be made that empires unravel not for political reasons, but because of disruptions in the food supply chains that feed their urban seats of power.

Hence, supporting short supply chain initiatives and related SME's seem to be an important mechanism for building resilient urban food systems.

Another example is the European research programme SUPURBFOOD: Towards sustainable modes of urban and peri-urban food provisioning, for which the RUAF Foundation prepared an inventory and critical analysis of innovative experiences with short food supply chains in (peri --RRB- urban agriculture in the global South and organized the exchange of experiences and mutual learning between cities in Europa, Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Similar thematic topics that currently emerge in the work of RUAF on short food chains and local economy are the development of logistical infrastructures for aggregating produce at city region level (commonly known as «food hubs») and the need to develop successful and viable business models for the implementation of short food supply chains within urban settings.

Apart from creating economic livelihood opportunities for urban food producers, short food supply chains and related agro-enterprises also are an important mechanism for building local food economies through spin - off to local shops, weekly markets, and food - related services (input supply, transport, animal health services, credit supply).

For example, the project on Strengthening Organisations of Urban Producers analysed the need urban producers groups and organisations for capacity development of farmer leaders and small entrepreneurs in market analysis and business administration as a key factor for the development of short food supply chUrban Producers analysed the need urban producers groups and organisations for capacity development of farmer leaders and small entrepreneurs in market analysis and business administration as a key factor for the development of short food supply churban producers groups and organisations for capacity development of farmer leaders and small entrepreneurs in market analysis and business administration as a key factor for the development of short food supply chains.

The report argues for a strong GEF role in such emerging sectors with high mitigation potential as urban systems combining transport, buildings, water supply, waste treatment, food supply and land use zoning, AFOLU (Agriculture, Forest and Other Land Use), agri - food supply systems — including emerging and often controversial mitigation opportunities such as short - lived climate forcers and carbon capture and storage.

My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.

By Ralitsa Hiteva 2018-04-19T09:37:17 +00:00 April 19th 2018 Categories: ENERGY & WASTE, GREEN & SMART DEVELOPMENT, URBAN AGRICULTURE, URBAN NEXUS Tags: basic services, Bulgaria, energy supply, food supply, urban nexus, urban poverty, water sURBAN AGRICULTURE, URBAN NEXUS Tags: basic services, Bulgaria, energy supply, food supply, urban nexus, urban poverty, water sURBAN NEXUS Tags: basic services, Bulgaria, energy supply, food supply, urban nexus, urban poverty, water surban nexus, urban poverty, water surban poverty, water supply

Aside from supplying more fresh produce, it will help millions discover the social benefits and the psychological well - being that urban gardening and locally produced food can bring.

In June 2005, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that urban and peri-urban farms — those within or immediately adjacent to a city — supply food to some 700 million urban residents worldwFood and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported that urban and peri-urban farms — those within or immediately adjacent to a city — supply food to some 700 million urban residents worldwfood to some 700 million urban residents worldwide.

Urban agriculture to a large extent complements rural agriculture and increases the efficiency of the national food system in that it (IDRC 1998) provides products that rural agriculture can not supply easily (e.g. perishable products, products that require rapid delivery upon harvest), that can substitute for food imports and can release rural lands for export production of commodities.

Urban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaUrban agriculture plays an important role in enhancing urban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaurban food security since the costs of supplying and distributing food to urban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the populaurban areas based on rural production and imports continue to increase, and do not satisfy the demand, especially of the poorer sectors of the population.

The report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

Aspects include market analysis, enterprise development, development of short food chains and export - oriented chains, strengthening of input supply and service delivery, participatory innovation in urban farming, and multi-stakeholder planning and policy - making.

The heavy snow has also disrupted food transportation logistics, creating a squeeze in vegetable supply in urban centers and upward pressure on food prices.

This includes methods for analysis of consumers demands (food and non-food products), marketing channels and flows and their characteristics, assessment of the linkages between micro-enterprises involved in urban agriculture, methods to their access to credit, technical advice, labour, marketing information and other services; Analysis of strengths and weaknesses of existing micro and small enterprises related to urban agriculture and methods to improve actual management practices and efficiency in small scale enterprises involved in input supply, food processing and marketing in order to meet market demands.

The farms are supplying fresh food to city residents, and presenting a successful credible model of high quality innovative agriculture within the urban context.»

With only slight irony, Mr. Steffen, 40, said he and his girlfriend could serve as «poster children for the well - adjusted, urban liberal survivalist,» given that they keep a six - week cache of food and supplies in his basement in Seattle (although they polished off their bottle of doomsday whiskey at a party).

About half of the island's 400 acres will be set aside for open spaces, including an urban farm to supply organic local food to the residents, constructed wetlands to purify storm water runoff, and a restored natural forest ecosystem.

We love urban chickens because they promote biodiversity, self - sufficiency, a deeper connection to the food supply, and a reduced foodprint.