Sentences with phrase «with modern agriculture»

With modern agriculture and land use as the second largest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, right behind energy production, farms are on the front line of climate change.

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Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more than just the animal - activist crowd.

We can change the world's production methods with organic agriculture and regain health benefits now lost with modern wheat by going back to ancient wheat.»

The committee will report to Mr Wynne and Agriculture Minister Jaala Pulford, who say «local planning schemes have not kept pace» with modern farming methods.

Over the last century, however, modern intensive agriculture, with its high input of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and monocrop specialization, has been detrimental to the diversity of genetic resources of crop varieties and livestock breeds, to the diversity of wild flora and fauna species and to the diversity of ecosystems.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from growing the agricultural sector and making it more modern, more efficient and therefore, more productive.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

The detailed pattern of modern UK agriculture is heavily influenced by the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, with a combination of price support and set - aside policy.

They don't deal with the ecological problems of modern agriculture, like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.

The Levant (i.e. modern - day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria) has long been recognised as an important region associated with changes in social complexity and shifts in subsistence economy that pre-empted the shift to agriculture and farming.

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

Over time, along with the rise of agriculture — and eventually computers and other modern conveniences — humans became more sedentary.

One implication is that modern agriculture, which often prevents plant stress with pesticides and ample watering, produces fruits and vegetables with weak xenohormetic signals.

while your arguments are well worth the read, you completely miss the point by failing to acknowledge that the article talks about a scientific recommendation partially inspired by historical facts and sustainable agriculture together with modern knowledge about what comprises a healthy diet.

Evolution has not kept pace with advances in agriculture and food processing resulting in a plague of health problems for modern man.

If the abundance of agriculture may be too much for some tastes, the film subtly reveals how farming methods grew increasingly industrialized over the years: Just as the armies of the Great War employed modern weapons like tanks and airplanes for the first time, so the Paridiers begin to use combines and tractors to yield more crops with less labor.

The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to engage urban youth with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture.

Designed for grades 9 through 12, the standards - aligned lesson plans and educator guides provide educators with planning materials to engage students with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture using lessons and activities that bring to life critical issues such as sustainability, the new science behind farming, and entrepreneurship.

Beginning in the 1980s, Gowin's interests expanded into landscape and aerial photography, with a focus on the environmental effects of modern agriculture, industry, and military weapons testing.

With a changing landscape thanks to development and modern agriculture practices, among other things, the all - important milkweed and food flowers that these royal pollinators rely on are dwindling, leaving them no place to lay their eggs and little to eat.

While many have been fed through advances in modern agriculture that increases yields with petroleum - based fertilizer and toxic chemical pesticides, many have been harmed.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

In wealthier countries with modern forms of intensive agriculture, large fractions of nitrogen and phosphorus applied to fields, often more than half, never make it into the crop itself.

Gregory Nowacki from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service worked with Abrams and compared modern woodlands with evidence left from ancient trees.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

Pollination using managed honeybees is a critical element in modern agriculture; more than 130 crops in the US require pollination, with an annual crop value of $ 15 billion.

And it was most likely grown with the fossil fuels, pesticides, and soil erosion that are part and parcel of modern agriculture.

«This is actually slash - and - char agriculture,» Brown notes, contrasting it with the modern day slash - and - burn variety.

Referencing traditional terraced agriculture, this modern house with terraces has an integrated rainwater collection and irrigation system that would allow it to grow greenery.

But, unlike those environmentalists in wealthy countries who denounce the modern world while enjoying its blessings, the ecomodernists recognize that, though with today's technology it is impossible to lift the world's poorest out of poverty without destroying the environment, with the technologies of the future — next - generation nuclear and solar power, carbon capture and storage, high - intensity agriculture and aquaculture, and others — all things are possible.