Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Local Journalism Initiative
FILE PHOTO - Migrant workers pick and sort sweet potatoes at Kirby Farms in Mechanicsville, Va., Sept. 20, 2013.
Image Credit: FLICKR/U.S. Department of Agriculture/Lance Cheung January 30, 2021 - 5:30 AM Eating more plants is the key to eating local and sustainably, according to a recent study modelling how more than 350 major U.S. cities could feed themselves. Interest has been booming in local food in both the U.S. and Canada. Widely seen as more resilient and environmentally sustainable than the globalized, industrial food systems, local food has been at the forefront of efforts by consumers, activists, and policymakers to develop more resilient and sustainable food systems.
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Ambassador Nicola Bellomo, Head of the EU Delegation to Rwanda.
The European Commission has provided EUR 1 million to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to support the Ministry of Agriculture in Rwanda to enhance skills in analysis of public investment priorities and policy options for the Covid-19 recovery period.
This grant will support the Government of Rwanda to implement the agriculture sector strategy and in particular its contribution to the national development targets by enhancing food and nutrition security, sustainable and efficient use of land and water resources, development of agricultural high value chains and strengthening of public financial management (PFM) capacities in the agriculture sector.
The plea has sought direction to the concerned authority to lodge FIR under relevant penal provisions against the individuals or organisations responsible for the violence.
Read more about Plea in SC seeks inquiry commission to look into farmer violence on R-Day on Business Standard. Delhi Police has registered 22 FIRs so far in connection with the violence in which over 300 policemen were injured, officials said on Wednesday
Two pleas were filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the tractor rally violence on the Republic Day with one seeking setting up of a commission, headed by a retired apex court judge, to inquire into the incident while the other urged it to direct the media not to declare farmers as terrorist without any evidence. The tractor parade on Tuesday that was to highlight the demands of farmer unions to repeal three new agri laws dissolved into anarchy on the streets of the national capital as thousands of protesters broke through barriers, fought with the police, overturned vehicles and hoisted a religious flag from the ramparts of the iconic Red Fort.