Sentences with phrase «urban food systems»

The first session highlighted good practices, strategies, and policies in achieving resilient and low - carbon urban food systems in cities and city regions across the globe.

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

In this new paradigm, by building urban food systems and cultivating closed - loop flows of carbon nutrients, carbon can be recognized as an asset rather than a toxin, and the life - giving carbon cycle can become a model for human designs.

As well as the horde of other issues for urban food systems, Australia has one of the most concentrated food retail sectors in the world dominated by the supermarket duopoly, significant health disparities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and a serious and growing issue of food waste.

PARTICIPATE in panel discussions with Kathy MacPherson of Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, Lauren Baker of City of Toronto and Debbie Field of FoodShare about urban food systems and regional agricultural policies.

The ICLEI Resilient Cities Congress 1 June 2013 featured for the first time a special one - day food systems forum for urban stakeholders to come together to discuss and put into action the implementation of resilient food systems within cities around the world and to generate heightened awareness and strengthened political commitment in local governments in order to create resilient urban food systems.

In this new paradigm, by building urban food systems and cultivating closed - loop flows of carbon nutrients, carbon is recognized as an asset rather than a liability, and the universal carbon cycle can become a model for human designs.

His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.

The 2011 Queensland floods disrupted fresh produce supplies in a reminder of the vulnerability of urban food systems.

412 Food Rescue's unique approach takes the problem through the lens of an urban food system, impacting waste at each stage of the food supply value chain.

Since more than a decade RUAF Foundation is publishing the Urban Agriculture Magazine in English to enable exchange of policy views, practical experiences, research results and other information in the field of urban agriculture and urban food systems.

Such linkages include the use of urban residents as labourers, use of typical urban resources (like organic waste as compost and urban wastewater for irrigation), direct links with urban consumers, direct impacts on urban ecology (positive and negative), being part of the urban food system, competing for land with other urban functions, being influenced by urban policies and plans, etc..

For a brief introduction to the wider topic of urban food systems please go to Introduction to Urban Food Systems.

Various cities in developed and in developing countries have designed innovative food and / or urban agriculture policies and are implementing programmes to strengthen the urban food system and stimulate local food production and multi functional land use in the city region.