Agriculture and Food Systems
Chapter Outline:
- Farmland protections
- Engaging local environmental organizations to encourage farmers to use farming practices and technologies that protect the health of people, animals, soil, air, and water and are sustainable.
- Providing resources, support, incentives, and promotion of farmers to encourage food production methods, such as sustainable and organic practices, to increase their customer base.
- Supporting the creation of a consumer-producer-buyer verification process to support and increase consumer purchasing of healthy and local food.
- Promoting the inclusion of food systems as part of climate resiliency and/or disaster mitigation planning efforts.
- Encouraging sustainable siting of large-scale renewable energy projects so that prime farmlands are not negatively impacted.
- Supporting, promoting, and broadening participation in the Greater Buffalo Urban Growers Pledge.
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