Sentences with phrase «as agriculture expanded»

As agriculture expanded, so too did intentional fermentation techniques.

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Commercial drone use is beginning to expand as well, with surveillance, energy production, and agriculture shaping up as major growth markets.
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.
Together, we have completed an ambitious farmland protection plan that is being put into action, and we will be embarking on our Agriculture - Friendly Oneida County Initiative that will serve as a guide to assist municipalities and businesses in navigating zoning, regulations, planning and laws that will allow ag - business to expand.
U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will be in town and will use the Boys and Girls club as a backdrop to announce bipartisan legislation, which would expand the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Summer Food Service Program.
The International Energy Agency first said two years ago that global energy - sector emissions had declined while the world expanded economically, though critics point out that the measurement excludes emissions from other sources, such as agriculture (ClimateWire, March 17).
Allowing human water use, largely for agriculture, to expand from 2,600 cubic kilometers today to 4,000 cubic kilometers in the future will allow further degradation at such environmental disaster sites as the drying Aral Sea in Asia and seven major rivers, including the Colorado in the U.S., that no longer reach the sea, notes David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.
Vahmani and Jones plan to follow up this study by expanding into agriculture as well as investigating strategies for mitigating hot weather and growing water demand.
«As agriculture continues to expand, that could affect the rainfall regime that supports both natural vegetation and agricultural production.»
We are excited to be working with the Caribou management team as they seek to expand the commercial applications of their genome editing platform across therapeutics, agriculture, and other industries.»
As requested by the passionate Farming Simulator community, the ability to play a female farmer reflects the diverse and ever - expanding industry of agriculture, making Farming Simulator 17 more realistic and rewarding than ever before.
The programs would be expanded to include industries such as agriculture and engineering.
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.
This action plan lays out concrete actions to help countries deliver on their Nationally determined contributions and sets targets for 2020 in high - impact areas, including clean energy, green transport, climate - smart agriculture, and urban resilience, as well as in mobilizing the private sector to expand climate investments in developing countries.
Nonetheless, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) projects that as plantation area expands and yields rise, the harvest could more than double during the next three decades.
Worse yet, they distract attention and resources from more promising, less risky and proven solutions to climate and energy concerns, such as efficiency, solar and wind energy, relocalization, expanded public transportation, dietary shifts and regenerative agriculture.
Producing enough grain to make it to the next harvest has tested farmers ever since agriculture began, but the challenge is deepening as new trends — falling water tables, plateauing grain yields, and rising temperatures — make it difficult to expand production fast enough.
Unsurprisingly, the Trump administration will likely be filled with people who will benefit financially from more fracking, more industrial agriculture and factory farms, and expanded deregulation masquerading as trade policy.
As civilizations expand, they urbanize; when they fail, cities empty out and people return to subsistence agriculture or foraging.
• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.
Pachauri highlighted greater energy security with consumers being protected from wild price spikes for energy, expanding green jobs, more productive agriculture, lowered air pollution, and lower health care costs as all being benefits of tackling climate change now, which have genuine, quantifiable economic benefits.
As more people move to cities, and agriculture is intensified, eventually areas of forest may be able to expand as welAs more people move to cities, and agriculture is intensified, eventually areas of forest may be able to expand as welas well.
Over the past few decades, the state has moved away from its roots in agriculture and has worked to expand its economy to include a variety of industries, such as biotechnology, manufacturing, finance and insurance.
Understanding this focus on backyard agriculture as an emerging real estate niche may expand your reach with buyers and sellers.
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