Sentences with phrase «with urban agriculture»

The farms serve as an example for others with urban agriculture ambitions:

These practices improve access to healthy and affordable food when combined with urban agriculture strategies and to green space for recreation.

It is essential to address the health risks associated with urban agriculture to protect consumers from contaminated foods and farm workers from occupational hazards whilst reaping the benefits of urban agriculture for urban food security, nutrition and other benefits of urban agriculture for sustainable urban development

These places of bench, shade, protection, bike rack, and entry, along with the urban agriculture that surrounds them, are for the entire community to enjoy and use at any time, and to our satisfaction, they get used in this manner regularly.

Rather than restricting urban agriculture out of fear - often unspecified — of health and environmental risks associated with urban agriculture, cities — instead - better design a series of accompanying measures to reduce these risks.

The first measure to be taken is to create mechanisms of cooperation between agriculture, health and environment / waste management departments to assess actual health and environmental risks associated with urban agriculture and to design effective preventive and mitigating strategies for which the participation of all these sectors is required.

RUAF gives specific attention to the South - North exchange of experiences with urban agriculture and food policies.

Not exact matches

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

«[Agriculture] needs to become part of our culture again, we need to educate urban Australians on the challenges we have and we need to have government develop the right policy, preferably non-partisan and with length of tenure, to meet the roles required.»

And here, in the spirit of openness, I have to stop to announce a tie - in with the parklands — I was on the masterplanning team, as the urban agriculture adviser, that looked into potential future uses of the area.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

With growing concern about the ability of the planet to feed itself, she outlined how improved production & storage efficiency and urban agriculture can raise food production levels.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

Companies with robots that can harvest apples and urban / automated / vertical greens growers that supply local retailers made the Thrive Top 50, an annual list of the world's best agriculture technology.

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.

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.

«With the recent interest and surge in urban agriculture, we have been looking for more access to land,» she said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists grew weeds in three sites: an organic farm in western Maryland, a park in a suburb of Baltimore, and in downtown Baltimore, which is choked with smog and about 3 to 4 degrees warmer than the surrounding countryside because of the urban heat island effect.

The blueprint also encourages urban agriculture, rethinks sewer and wastewater management and reduces greenhouse gas emissions per capita to the lowest in the world by promoting even higher - density living with smaller multifamily homes, especially along transit corridors in Vancouver's downtown peninsula.

If you assume that deforestation and industrial agriculture are afflictions of rural life that have nothing to do with urban resource demands then cities can look pretty green.

The analysis revealed noticeably higher methane emissions from streams and rivers in watersheds marked with heavy agriculture, urban development or the presence of dams.

Urban areas are now competing with irrigated agriculture by demanding an increasing -LSB-...]

For over 20 years, FUSANMIDJ (Fundación Para la Salud Natural de la Niñez y la mujer Maura, Ita, Dorothy y Jean), located in San Salvador, El Salvador, has worked with children in urban and rural communities, promoting agriculture, nutrition and scholarship.

For instance, urban place - based lessons could include oral history projects where students collect the stories of community members, or historical parks or buildings, or learning about urban agriculture and community gardening in large cities with food deserts.

The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to engage urban youth with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture.

Vincent High School, with the only urban agriculture program in the city, held its spring showcase to highlight student work in this growing industry.

Called «ingenious» by The New York Times, Anna's second book Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen (Tarcher / Penguin 2006), with chef Bryant Terry and a foreword by Eric Schlosser, combines an exposé on industrial agriculture with hands - on tools and menus to create healthier lives for ourselves.

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Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.

William Cronon in his book Changes in the Land describes the regeneration of forest cover in the US northeast as agriculture moved west and the northeast became increasingly urban and suburban with yards, parks, street trees, conservation areas and places that simply reverted to nature.

San Francisco Department of Environment partnered with a team of MBA students at Presidio Graduate School's Sustainable Management program to develop studies on the viability of Commercial Urban Agriculture in the San Francisco bay area.

Enhanced training capacity on urban agriculture in 20 countries; at least 20 universities and training institutes integrated UPA in their curriculum; a distance learning course on urban and periurban agriculture was developed in cooperation with Ryerson University (Canada) and was well received

Over the past years, the RUAF Foundation and its partners have collected and analysed relevant policy and strategic documents dealing with urban and city region food systems and - more specifically - urban agriculture production, processing and marketing.

He has helped install and maintain the six 4 × 8 ′ garden beds donated by our urban agriculture program, with help from the little hands of the curious students.

An important framework for doing so is the CITYFOOD network: Linking Cities on Urban Agriculture and Urban Food Systems that has been set up in joint collaboration with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability.

RUAF collaborates with local authorities, research organisations, urban producers and other stakeholders in the assessment of the urban food system and the design of adequate urban agriculture and food policies and - programmes, applying a multi-stakeholder approach.

The RUAF Foundation developed, in cooperation with other organisations, several distance learning courses on urban agriculture and urban food security that are accessible free of charge.

Firstly, the RUAF Foundation cooperates with urban producers, local NGOs, public administrations and other relevant stakeholder groups in setting up of concrete short chain marketing initiatives, for example within the framework of the Market - oriented urban agriculture project in Gaza (implemented in cooperation with Oxfam) agricultural value chains in various specific product groups are supported in a market - for the poor - perspective; The From Seed to Table programme supported 30 urban farmer groups in 17 cities to innovate their local production systems, engage in value - adding activities and establish innovative short marketing channels; The projects in Freetown and Makeni in Sierra Leone implemented in cooperation with COOPI helped to establish various youth - led agro-enterprises (in pig raising and slaughtering; milk and fruit processing and waste management).

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.

COOPI (Italy, project coordination) and RUAF Foundation (the Netherlands), in cooperation with institutions and organisations involved in the Freetown Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (including the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; Freetown City Council; Ministry of Land, Housing and Environment; Ministry of Health and Sanitation; National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL); Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organisation (SLYEO); Njala University; and other stakeholders).

The companies working with the European Centre for Medium - range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)- which operates the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) and the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) on behalf of the European Commission - are developing products with applications across the energy, water, agriculture, financial and urban planning sectors; turning perspective into insight and data in to information.

Urban agriculture is synonymous with urban renewal, to Jason O'Brien's Urban agriculture is synonymous with urban renewal, to Jason O'Brien's urban renewal, to Jason O'Brien's mind.

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.

We are now honored to partner with the members of Callahan Oaks in its efforts to enrich their RSP by introducing urban agriculture to their landscape.

Participants worked in conjunction with nearly one dozen community organizations on a wide array of volunteer activities, ranging from urban agriculture to mural painting.

OXFAM Italia and the RUAF Foundation are jointly implementing the Gaza Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture Project (G - UPA) with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

However, it is often forgotten that Urban Agriculture is not a new field, but one with a long established history and tradition.

Since 2009, RUAF collaborated with Welthungerhilfe (WHH) in the Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (UPA) projects, funded by EU Liberia: until 2013 in partnership with CARE - Liberia, and from 2013 - 2015 with Action Contre la Faim (ACF) in the UPANI project, in cooperation with local authorities, NGOs and universities.

RUAF contributes by enhancing the capacities of local authorities and other stakeholders and facilitating the integration of (intra - and peri --RRB- urban agriculture and city - region food measures in the policies and action programmes of local, regional and national governments, civic society organisations and private enterprises, with active involvement of the urban producers and other relevant stakeholders.