Sentences with phrase «agriculture over its failure»

The Organic Trade Association is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its failure to put into effect new organic livestock standards.

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However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

When you base your robust disbelief of the link between recent prodigious crop failures and realized warming on what you call the «relatively minor» global average mean anomaly you are demonstrating either less than full appreciation of what nine tenths of a degree could mean for regional weather over shorter periods, or what such weather could mean for agriculture.