Sentences with phrase «us organic lands»

There are 1 million ha of certified organic land in Africa and 580,000 certified producers, and this represents only a fraction of the overall organic production taking place on the continent.

Michael says, «During times of extreme climatic conditions livestock may be agisted on alternative pasture; however under the requirements of the Australian Certified Organic Standard livestock must be bought back onto organic land for at least six months before regaining organic status.

Keith and Monica Neu farm 1,200 acres of organic land in Saskatchewan's northeast grain belt near the town of Hudson Bay.

We shared blog posts on organic gardening and farming, and facts on organic growing in Australia — did you know Australia has the most certified organic land in the world?

Gene and Kathy Davis farm 3,500 acres of organic land in southeast Saskatchewan by North Portal.

You will require certified organic land with sufficient acreage for crop isolation, irrigation, and knowledge of seed processing techniques.

Worldwide there are 2.3 million organic farmers, 43.7 million ha of certified organic land and US$ 80 billion in consumer purchases of organic.

Source: Organic Centre Wales (estimates exclude uncertified organic land use in Germany and Sweden)

Other certified organic lands in developing countries include: Brazil (270 000 ha), Mexico (86 000 ha), India (41 000 ha), China (40 000 ha), Peru (27 000 ha), Colombia (23 000 ha), Turkey (21 000 ha), Paraguay (19 000 ha), Tunisia (18 000 ha), Morocco (12 000 ha), Costa Rica (10 000 ha), Russia (10 000 ha) and Zambia (6 700 ha) 24.

A West Australian farmer being sued for allowing his genetically modified canola to allegedly contaminate his neighbour's organic land was «reckless» in how he planted and harvested his crop, a court has been told.

There are, however, some very large scale organic farms e.g. Pavich Family Farms in California with over 1 600 ha of organic land and 200 ha in conversion to organic.

Less than half of the global 18 million hectares of certified organic land is dedicated to arable agriculture.

Those few country examples alone suggest a global certified organic land area in excess of half a million hectares than publicly available figures.

SOL reports a total US organic lands of 900 000 ha in 2002.

Some unpublished data obtained by FAO in 2002 suggests that the figures above are under - estimates of certified organic lands.

Can manure from confined animals feeding operations where 5.5.1 and 5.5.2 have been met be applied on organic land even if it contains prohibited substances?

UK organic land area decreased by 2.8 % and represents 4.2 % of farmland.

Our popular chaga comes from birch trees on organic land in Siberia.

Organic Coconut Oil: Has been extracted from coconut palms raised only on organic lands / manures.

With the grant award Traviesa intends to expand further into the realm of community oriented projects with Native & Contemporary, an organic land - based installation comprised of flora native to the area, landscaped to spell out «NATIVE & CONTEMPORARY.»

Easton MA About Blog Native plant horticulturist, designer and gardener revitalizes your gardens, lawns and landscape, specializing in organic land care in the Easton MA area.

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The listing for the position on Google Careers — whose responsibilities include improving organic searches about Google across the web — was first spotted by Search Engine Land.

It doesn't take a lot of land to grow organic produce.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT is a restorative farmland finance company providing land access to organic family farmers, with a focus on the next generation.

Google Keyword Planner groups keywords into suggested Ad Groups because it thinks you'll be able to use the same landing page to advertise to all the keywords in a group, and thus have a higher Quality Score... which is closely related to relevance signals in organic search.

The websites that they land on will know that they came from organic search, but won't be given information about each individual query, including the keywords that brought a visitor to the site.

Walmart Canada's 12 waste programs — including cardboard, organics, metal and others — has resulted in the diversion of 72 % of Walmart Canada's waste from municipal land - fill sites.

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

This destruction of elements vital to the ecology and renewal of the land — elimination of entire communities, their flora and fauna, their roots and seeds, their organic soils....

The dalits were impure because they had to deal with land, and with organic nature and its wastes.

What will be the cost of producing energy from organic materials as the demand for such energy escalates and requires more and more agricultural land?

The land is deprived of nutrients and organic matter which is essential for maintaining productive soil - structure.

Actually these marginalised people lived by nature's bounties - the dalits through agricultural labour on land, the tribals by the resources of the forests, the fisherfolk of the sea and other water sources and the women by the organic functions of family life.

I would have to say turning our land organic.

Alix Heilman, a sales associate at Mercaris, notes that this growth trend is likely to continue, particularly given the organic acreage growth programs that have been launched by companies such as General Mills, which has vowed to add 3,000 acres of organic farming land to its source pool over the next three years.

So when I was at the grocery store yesterday and they were out of organic parsley, my eyes landed on a gorgeous bunch of organic rainbow carrots with their pristine, frilly greens still attached.

But the whole farm is certified organic and we have some area farmers who do hay and grasses on a portion of the land.

Land «o» Lakes is alright, but if you can splurge on some organic or Irish butter, then you will not regret it.

Unless he could get access to more land, he would be excluded from accessing the organic marketplace.

«Our land benefits from the animals, the cows benefit from the organic pasture, and James and Ida benefit from Organic Valley's strong cooperative.

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The next farm bill should facilitate transitioning to organic with improved access to land and capital, investment in distribution systems and infrastructure, and targeted technical assistance.

Currently, only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops, so there's room for expansion, according to the authors.

Luise has done this quinoa crumble for us a few times since the first organic rhubarbs popped up this year and it was the first thing she baked after we had landed.

Several states specifically saw a jump in land devoted to organic cereal crops, including soybeans in Iowa, corn in Minnesota, and wheat in Colorado and Texas, reports High Plains Public Radio.

The property had been undergoing organic certification but organics was the furthest thing from the minds of the couple when they looked for land.

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

Any land used to produce raw organic commodities must not have had prohibited substances applied to it for the past three years.

According to the Post, currently «only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops.»