Sentences with phrase «as crop diversity»

From Civil Eats: [Straight economic figures] are more difficult to project, partly because the benefits are often measured in terms of what is not happening — like adverse environmental and health impacts — or practices with indirect benefits, such as crop diversity.

As crop diversity becomes increasingly threatened, seed banks again become essential.

Not exact matches

Organic farmers also use numerous integrative pest management techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

The discovery also demonstrates the importance of conserving the genetic diversity of traditional crop varieties such as Kasalath.

Clearly, farmers» agricultural knowledge and skills was an inspiration to develop a new, collaborative approach towards a more efficient use of inputs such as energy, more profitable crop production and maintenance of greater genetic diversity in situ.

Concerns have been raised about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the genetic diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and diversification, as this diversity is considered essential for global food security.

The system includes a diversity of cash and subsistence crops (e.g. bananas, coffee, yams, and beans) as well as livestock.

As a result of this Monoculture model, the human diet has been reduced from the diversity of nearly 8500 species providing a diversity of nutrients that the human body needs, to just 8 crops, largely producing carbohydrates.

Our honey is from hives on our very own farm in Aurora, OR as well as other local farms, and has a well rounded flavor that reflects the diversity of crops grown in the harvest area.

The principal differences between organic farming and conventional farming are the former's extensive restriction of the use of artificial pesticides, fertilisers and other agro-chemicals; its hostility to the agricultural application of biotechnology; its rejection of the routine use of pharmaceuticals on livestock; its attention to animal welfare; and its focus on crop rotation, soil quality and maintaining biological diversity as alternatives to chemicals.

«Beyond this we found little evidence for a role of any other management techniques: neither the diversity of chemicals used — for example whether farmers used a variety of herbicides or just one — or diversity of cropping mattered, despite both being advocated as methods to reduce the evolution of resistance.»

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

Although North America isn't known as a hotspot for crop plant diversity, the inventory uncovered nearly 4,600 CWR in the United States, including close relatives of globally important food crops such as sunflower, bean, sweet potato, and strawberry.

The Pavlovsk Experiment Station, which is Europe's largest collection of fruits and berries, was established in 1926 by Nikolai Vavilov, the Russian botanist and geneticist who pioneered the concept of seed banks as repositories of crop diversity in case of threats to food production.

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

Such diversity research has already led to the development of disease - resistant strains and the identification of crops that could thrive under higher carbon dioxide conditions, as well as new ways to deploy diversity.

Among its recommendations: encourage local farmers to maintain local types of livestock; share breeds across borders (particularly when breeds are likely to be suited to specific regions due to certain adaptive traits, such as a need for less water); and establish a gene bank — similar to the regional seed banks that preserve crop diversity — to maintain this genetic heritage.

Regenerative Agriculture An approach that aims to protect natural resources such as soil through techniques including crop diversity and rotation.

As part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changeAs part of varied approaches at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to unleash the power of wheat biodiversity, researchers from India and Mexico have been mobilizing native diversity from ancestral versions of wheat and related grasses to heighten the crop's resilience to dryness and heat — conditions that have held back wheat yields for several decades and will worsen as earth's climate changeas earth's climate changes.

Multi-species cover crops add to the biological diversity of soils — and as diversity increases, the incidences of plant diseases and pests are reduced.

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Looking at this year's crop of likely Best Actor contenders, it would be smart for Sony to make sure it does as there is a shocking lack of diversity in these choices.

«There is a great urgency to safeguard crop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene bacrop diversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gediversity,» says Marie Haga, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene baCrop Diversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant geDiversity Trust, who notes that diversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gediversity is lost every day, both in the field as well as in many of the world's plant gene banks.

Last week, the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the German - based organization created in 2004 to ensure the long - term conservation of crop diversity, announced it had amassed pledges totaling $ 300 million from 14 nations, as well as from the private sector, non-profit organizations, and financial institutiCrop Diversity Trust, the German - based organization created in 2004 to ensure the long - term conservation of crop diversity, announced it had amassed pledges totaling $ 300 million from 14 nations, as well as from the private sector, non-profit organizations, and financial instDiversity Trust, the German - based organization created in 2004 to ensure the long - term conservation of crop diversity, announced it had amassed pledges totaling $ 300 million from 14 nations, as well as from the private sector, non-profit organizations, and financial instituticrop diversity, announced it had amassed pledges totaling $ 300 million from 14 nations, as well as from the private sector, non-profit organizations, and financial instdiversity, announced it had amassed pledges totaling $ 300 million from 14 nations, as well as from the private sector, non-profit organizations, and financial institutions.

Cropping and orchards provides staples and nutrients — as well as culinary diversity.

Plant genetic diversity also has the potential to provide traits that can help meet future challenges, such as the need to adapt crops to changing climatic conditions or outbreaks of disease.»

They stress the importance of maintaining a diversity within each crop, because: «Plant genetic diversity also has the potential to provide traits that can help meet future challenges, such as the need to adapt crops to changing climatic conditions or outbreaks of disease.»

The loss of diversity in food crops is actually quite shocking, as the following graphic titled «Loss of Seed Varieties in the U.S. Between 1903 and 1983» illustrates:

Weeds as ecological and climate change opportunists The resilience of weeds is due to their genetic diversity, something that is deliberately bred out of our industrialized crop plants in the interest of increased yields with large - scale genetic uniformity.

As an agricultural practice, agroecology mimics natural processes to deliver self - sustaining farming that grows a greater diversity of crops, drastically reduces artificial inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics) and recycles nutrients (plant and animal waste as manureAs an agricultural practice, agroecology mimics natural processes to deliver self - sustaining farming that grows a greater diversity of crops, drastically reduces artificial inputs (pesticides, fertilizers, antibiotics) and recycles nutrients (plant and animal waste as manureas manure).

«As the threats to agriculture escalate, the importance of crop diversity grows.»