Sentences with phrase «traditional farming practices»

In particular, many criticisms converge around grain - based biofuel, traditional farming practices, and claims of a causal link between U.S. land use and land - use changes elsewhere, including tropical deforestation.

Currently in traditional farming practices, an entire herd can be injected with antibiotics if the farmer suspects an illness developing in as few as one cow in the herd.

New farming technologies and market - based agriculture provide one answer while traditional farming practices and natural resource management provide another.

With traditional farming practices, the use of synthetic chemical fertilisers and pesticides can often lead to serious groundwater pollution.

Traditional farming practices use a range of hormones and antibiotics to boost the growth and resistance to disease of their animals.

Traditional farming practices on the Yucatán Peninsula originated with the region's native inhabitants, the Maya.

In many cases, they pursue less intensive and more traditional farming practices which are better for animal welfare and in other cases, their production processes are already informally regulated by minimum requirements set down by retailers in countries like the UK.

Luckily, awareness is growing about this fact and farmers are making the effort to continue to uphold traditional farming practices.

The wine list is comprised primarily of selections produced from certified organic or biodynamic vineyards or those using sustainable, traditional farming practices, and is guided by The Ravens» wine director, who is an expert in Mendocino County wines.

Not exact matches

«IFOAM shall position Organic Agriculture better in its own and the public perception as a holistic, sustainable farming system that is committed to further develop its practices to meet traditional and new challenges.

We carefully hand select our superfoods from family farms in traditional communities, where small - scale, sustainable practices yield products of superior quality.

Those in favor of this practice argue there are many benefits unique to hydroponics not seen in traditional farming.

The result: «The pollination of chilli plants is considerably better on the plots of land that are farmed in the traditional way, even when slash - and - burn practices are used,» says biologist Robert Paxton.

According to Lima, best practices are not standard in the construction of the traditional corrals used on Brazilian farms.

Because duck farming in China is still practiced in a traditional way, it was difficult to determine an exact number of affected ducks.

The Weston A. Price Foundation urges a return to nutrient - dense traditional foods and sustainable, pasture - based farming practices.

Besides traditional diets, there were many talks on wellness (overcoming illnesses, weight loss, dentistry) holistic practices, farming practices, cooking, food preservation, green homemaking, and environmental contaminants (including electromagnetic fields).

After breakfast, visit a family - owned farm that practices sustainable agriculture and traditional sugar processing.

The rural communities of Toledo are mostly located some distance from Punta Gorda Town as these villages are inhabited by Mayas who practice the traditional Milpa farming system.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

In addition to practicing natural farming methods, they also combine traditional and modern wine making techniques.

The study found that organic practices outperformed traditional methods and chemical - intensive conventional farming and also found strong environmental benefits such as improved soil fertility, better retention of water and resistance to drought.

Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for adaptation to climate change, including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the local land races and their wild relatives) and associated local traditional knowledge.»

Firms producing traditional Chinese medicines are pressuring the government to permit the expansion of bear bile farming, a practice which has come under increasing scrutiny as inhumane and cruel.

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