Sentences with phrase «as agriculture became»

As agriculture became established and started creating a reliable food supply, Hawks says, more men and women would have begun living into their forties and beyond — jump - starting the selection pressure for increased life span.

As agriculture became widespread, calculus bacterial colonies shifted away from those of hunter - gatherers, and periodontal disease increased.

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The U.S. has become rich with new incubators and accelerators aimed at startups in such categories as agriculture, art and design, biotech, food and clean energy.

Ezra Benson served as Secretary of Agriculture under Dwight Eisenhower and later became president of the church.

Externally, it has put itself at the mercy of international capitalism, becoming a dependent region with an industry, a labor force and an agriculture developed as a function of the North American and (to a lesser extent) the western European metropolis.

When agriculture became unsustainable for us as a family and we had just commenced a very fledgling bakery, the question of «what should we do?

In 1912 he became editor on agriculture and horticulture for The Mid-Continent Magazine, which was based in Denver, Colorado.11 In the 1920s he was listed as a staff specialist for a newspaper called the Rio Grande Farmer.12 In addition to his editorial duties, García also contributed articles to both publications.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Working at restaurants throughout Hawaii, Chicago, Beverly Hills — and as executive chef of Sensi in Bellagio — he has become a staunch advocate of local agriculture and sustainably produced proteins.

Aarhus has set out to become the «Silicon Valley» of food development and innovation, and Agro Food Park is designed as an «innovation ecosystem» for the international agriculture and food industry.

The Indonesian government is ramping up efforts to become food - secure through rice self - sufficiency and plans to greatly increase investments in agriculture, as well as strengthen collaborations with international research partners.

Organic agriculture is an important source of income for island residents, especially as fisheries become depleted, and organic crops help reduce the need to import so much fresh food and minimize the introduction of invasive species that arrive in these shipments.

First used as tolerated weeds, they became an indispensable seasoning and vegetable when the advent of agriculture changed the way humans acquired food.

The British may have looted India to a great extent, but they also did some good, especially with agriculture in the country, as India became the largest producer of spices in the world.

With more than 60,000 supporters, including members of Parliament as well as Denmark's former Prime Minister, Stop Wasting Food initiated the fight against food waste in Denmark from farm to fork, resulting in a major rise of consumer awareness — 83 percent of Danes have become more willing to fight food waste according to the most recent figures from the Danish Agriculture & Food Council.

During the past decade, organically grown products have become the fastest growing sector in agriculture as consumers have become more concerned about how their food is grown and processed.

Lidington became a member of the Shadow Cabinet in May 2002, replacing Ann Winterton as Shadow Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (later Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) after she resigned.

He went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street as well as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor as party leader, William Hague.

«However, in promoting agriculture, we must take into consideration the menace of the herdsmen which has become major impediment as it is important for us to encourage our people to embrace farming.

He explained that as part of efforts to boost agriculture, his administration bought tractors for farmers across the country but realized the equipment became dormant because the farmers couldn't maintain them.

He served in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture as Assistant Director before he became MP.

It is hoped that with this, Osun farmers will begin to count gains as agriculture would be commercialised while our state would become training centre for her peers in agriculture sector.

In 1984, Roberts became the first woman in the United States to serve as an Assistant Commissioner of Agriculture.

Saraki said that this had become imperative as government was bent on reviving the economy through the non-oil sector, particularly through agriculture.

Ritchie said she agreed to become deputy vice chairwoman of the Health Committee but did not ask for extra money or know she would receive a higher stipend than she would from serving as agriculture committee chairwoman.

Before becoming an MP in 2001, he was a special adviser in the agriculture department when the Tories were in government and later served as political secretary to William Hague.

Nitrate and perchlorate have considerable use in technology, synthetic materials, and agriculture; as a result, they have become pervasive water pollutants.

Clovis «was one of the first people through the door at USDA in January and has become a trusted advisor and steady hand as we continue to work for the people of agriculture,» Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in aagriculture,» Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in aAgriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement.

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

As fracking and refracturing become more common to make wells produce more oil and gas, it adds to an already fraught competition among agriculture, aquatic ecosystems, and municipalities for water supplies, the study says.

In the meantime, it became conventional wisdom to blame the decline on factors such as conversion of lion habitat for agriculture, disease, and killings by locals upset over lion attacks on people or livestock.

The Indonesian government is ramping up efforts to become food - secure through rice self - sufficiency and plans to greatly increase investments in agriculture, as well as strengthen collaborations with international research partners.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

As the war died down and population moved away from agriculture and into more urban settings, gardening in the backyard became more impractical and began to decline.

The «toy» versions of the tech are becoming increasingly popular but the 2016 theme centres on the real - world application of autonomous technology in areas such as agriculture, mining and space exploration.

If the former is chosen, then agriculture must be maintained on a small - farm individualistic basis and to achieve this it becomes necessary that farm life be made as attractive and as easy as possible.

What started as a frontier outpost then became a hub of agriculture.

Central Point, just a few miles north of Medford, began as a crossroads for two major pioneer roads and has become an active center for tourism, agriculture and the timber industry.

Through successive plantings of different flora, the forest garden becomes a living repository of perennial vegetables, where visitors can explore various concepts of sustainability, as well as human relationships with nature, ecology, agriculture, and food.

When provide a little information about the value of rainforest plants as medicine (Seventy percent of the plants identified as having anti-cancer characteristics by the US National Cancer Institute are found only in the tropical rainforest) the rainforests intrinsic value becomes evident and the problems associate with logging and slash and burn agriculture change from a mere statistic read in an article into a visible, experienced, real problem that requires immediate action.

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The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., he has become recognized as one of our preeminent thinkers on agriculture and food policy and is a leading authority in the expanding field of urban agriculture.

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.

Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

LONGVIEW, WA — April 1, 2014 — As the trend towards urban agriculture has emerged over the last several years; the need for an optimized soil media for rooftop farming becomes a critical component for these systems.

As a result of increased temperatures and rainfall which has become erratic and inconsistent, much of Sudan has become increasingly unsuitable for agriculture — due to either floods, or severe droughts.

As if the world's land, 25 % of which is already becoming seriously degraded, does not have enough pressures from deforestation, industrial agriculture and sprawling human settlements.

In order to enable such a combination of functions, urban and peri-urban agriculture will have to adopt agro-ecological production methods, link up with eco-sanitation and decentralised sustainable waste management systems, as well as becoming part of the planning and management of parks, nature reserves and recreational services.

Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Over the last three years Nikki has led Gills Onions to become one of 243 founding members of The Climate Registry; set a goal of achieving zero waste for the company and helped to establish Gills as a leader in sustainability for the food processing and agriculture industries.