For years, farmers watched local test fields or pioneering neighbors use the strange methods before adopting SRI themselves.
The project calls upon the private sector to take part in the social transformation by providing construction or renovation of the local soccer fields, which will stay in the community long after the cup is over.
In Todmorden it has its own name -- the 'Incredible Edible' campaign -- and the local authorities are beginning to take notice, giving permission to plant 500 fruit trees around the local sports fields and promising to look for ways to expand the number of allotments available.
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The restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California, is known for featuring local ingredients - produce from the lush fields of Northern California farms, artisan cheese from local farms, and world famous wines from the Napa Valley and beyond.
It takes a significant number of vessels to service the offshore wind fields, and local boat builders are already looking to get into the game.
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Philip Lawson, a Suffolk farmer now in his late eighties, returned to the place where, as a young flight lieutenant on a secret mission, he had spied out a potential airstrip and encouraged the local people to scythe the fields and remove the rocks.
An EA spokesman said the work has the support of two local landowners who are allowing their fields to revert to salt marsh.
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The different programmes are specifically created for the local communities in which they are located, in thematic fields such as "forest", "culture and environment", "local community and environment", "tourism and environment", "biodiversity", "soil" etc.
There, after shuras with elders, the local policemen had guided them to certain fields while leaving others intact.
Mr. Pedersen says he learned to navigate the country's government and establish local business ties in order to develop oil fields.
The body was spotted in the pond in fields outside the hospital by a local man walking his dog on Tuesday evening.
Lennox Little League got caught in a financial bind because the local school district doubled rental fees for its fields, and because the district no longer would allow the league to sell grilled food at games.
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There should be hard drive plants everywhere, as there are fields of food everywhere, so that local weather travails just mean having to ship in from somewhere else.
Local officials proposed building a pair of lighted Astroturf athletic fields there, which horrifies Thoreau devotees, who heard about the plan from its loudest opponent, high school neighbor Patty Hecht(ph).
Back in the Kolar Gold Fields, the employees pray for their future at the local church dedicated to the Mother of Mines.
She also appeared frequently with Senator John Breaux, an immensely popular Louisiana Democrat, made friends with Mr Fields and other black leaders, and touted endorsements from local politicians, some of them Republicans.
One solution might be to allow local state schools to use facilities such as theatres, swimming pools and playing fields, and even to send some of their students for lessons.
For Labour, shadow communities secretary Hilary Benn welcomed a "U-turn on playing fields and open spaces" but said there should be a national, not local, "brownfield-first" policy.
Two hundred kilometres to the east of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, Peter Ndivo, a local farmer delivers his sacks of baby corn to the local "collecting point", a steel-roofed hut nestled amongst banana groves and fields of maize.
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Local artist Miranda Cresswell has put on an exhibition at the Cornerstone Arts Centre to remember the fields disappearing under the new houses.
To kick-start an oil-services industry, Norway calibrated its national-content rules realistically in scope and duration, required foreign suppliers to work closely with local firms and forced Statoil, its national oil company, to bid against rivals to develop fields.
Local people are concerned about losing their playing field but the council is proposing to offer alternative playing fields at Pant Brickworks in the nearby village of Penycae.
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Mines belonging to AngloGold Ashanti have ceased production for almost a month, while workers at another Gold Fields mine - KDC East - have not yet returned to work but this relates to a local union dispute not wages.
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