Sentences with phrase «about agriculture today»

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Today, the city has about 800 residents and an economy that relies heavily on agriculture.

It brought about a global revolution in agriculture — today, crops grown using ammonia - based fertilisers feed no less than 48 per cent of the planet.

This journey also led me to question three pillars of conventional wisdom about today's industrialized agrochemical agriculture: that it feeds the world, is a more efficient way to produce food and will be necessary to feed the future.

Today agriculture accounts for about 70 percent of all water use in the world and up to 95 percent in several developing countries.

Today agriculture and other land - use changes account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Indeed, the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees, a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.

Our last feature today is by Renee from Joyful Mom — she writes about «Finding a CSA -LCB- Community Sourced Agriculture -RCB-».

IALF's overall goal is to serve as a centralized resource to help increase the knowledge and awareness of today's agriculture and its importance for students Frequency about 1 post per week.

Wadena, SK Canada About Blog This blog contains highlights of some of the issues facing farm families and the agriculture industry in today's world.

For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.

I did some reading about Suffolk Long Island today with the Dept of Agriculture.

While this pair of bulls had a public moment today, the day will also see about 82,000 head of cattle killed in the United States (the rate is roughly 30 million a year of late, according to the latest Department of Agriculture Livestock Slaughter report).

According to Chaisson, our prehistorical ancestors used about 0.05 kilowatts each, agriculture raised that by a factor of 10 and the average person on earth today uses about 2.5 KW.

We've always been concerned about the effect of high oil prices on food - production costs, and those are very real, given the oil intensity of world agriculture today.

IALF's overall goal is to serve as a centralized resource to help increase the knowledge and awareness of today's agriculture and its importance for students Frequency about 1 post per week.

IALF's overall goal is to serve as a centralized resource to help increase the knowledge and awareness of today's agriculture and its importance for students Frequency about 1 post per week.