Sentences with phrase «agricultural land base»

In total, exports of meat and other animal products use at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.

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When it left the Central Valley, agricultural colonization became Cattle - based and extensive, occupying great areas of land in order to sustain a dispersed population.

By comparison with Britain, America was late in industrializing, and its agricultural economy was based on widely distributed ownership of land.

All of these plant - based proteins require agricultural support and use water, land and energy resources.

With growing scarcity of agricultural land, there were calls to use more marine - based plants.

STARS (Southeast Top Agricultural Recruits Scholarship) is the Southeast Produce Council's scholarship program available to outstanding students who are agriculture majors in Southeast - based land grant universities.

This release is based on the findings from «Community land ownership and community resilience», carried out by Sarah Skerratt at the Scottish Agricultural College, funded by the Scottish Government.

Your taxes are based on the current land use and are determined by your assessor independent of the agricultural district.

«Ironically the crossing of the «red line» on wetlands probably results from trying to achieve the «red line» on agricultural land,» says Spike Millington, chief executive of the South Korea — based East Asian - Australasian Flyway Partnership (EAAFP), «since any agricultural land taken over for development has to be compensated by an equivalent area of newly created «agricultural» land elsewhere.»

China now has agricultural experts in 35 African countries, Brazil has supplied knowledge from its own agricultural modernisation, and India is supplying technology to provide communications and land - based satellite information.

The team analysed evidence such as land use, land suitability and agricultural biomass data to create a robust model that compares different scenarios for 2050, including scenarios based on maintaining current trends.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

All biofuels based upon industrial agricultural practices have indirect impacts upon land use elsewhere.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

E.g. the 80 ppmv 1942 «peak» is mainly based on data from 2 series over land, used for agricultural purposes.

The letter explains why large - scale industrial production of transport fuels and other energy from plants such as corn, sugar cane, oilseeds, trees, grasses, or so - called agricultural and woodland waste threatens forests, biodiversity, food sovereignty, community - based land rights and will worsen climate change.

... Many people argue that making corn - based ethanol is more of an agricultural subsidy for farmers than it is a sound environmental policy.Things get even dodgier for biofuels when you look at the land area that would be needed to grow fuel crops.

The common sense recommendations of the report include support for new farmers, zoning to preserve an agricultural land - base, and local encouragement of sustainable farm enterprises.

The comprehensive carbon - sequestration section features a call to plant 250 million trees in 2007, the development of wood - based biofuels in forest communities and restoration of agricultural lands.

Even if mitigation were likely to be effective, it would do more harm than good: already millions face starvation as the dash for biofuels takes agricultural land out of essential food production: a warning that taking precautions, «just in case», can do untold harm unless there is a sound, scientific basis for them.

Based on the last government tally, only 1 percent of agricultural land in the United States is currently certified organic, so there is a lot of potential for transition to happen and more money to be had by farmers.

Agricultural work is both commercial and property based — businesses operating from and on land — but also, given the fact that most farms are still family run, intensely personal and therefore involving family dynamics, cases can at times be tense.