Sentences with word «agriculturalist»

Given its proximity to John W. Carpenter Freeway, named for the Texas businessman and agriculturalist who died in 1959, the Alamo Drafthouse creative team decided to have a bit of cheeky fun.
The plan was not only to displace Indigenous agriculturalists from Upper Canada, but also the expected Indigenous refugees from south of the Great Lakes, whose lands the American government now claimed.
What set the earliest agriculturalists apart from the even earlier hunter - gatherers?
During an intensive farm study tour to the United Kingdom as part of the scholarship, he was introduced to a number of well - known agriculturalists and organic farmers and he returned «pretty much converted».
«This is one of the first studies to show that that the microbiomes of a traditional agriculturalist group exhibit an intermediate state, between the microbiomes of hunter - gatherers and those of a western industrialized society,» says first author Andres Gomez, a microbial ecologist and staff scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute in California.
Ben Collyer describes evidence that the switch from hunter - gatherer to agriculturalist caused a dramatic worsening of diet and an increase of disease and hard labour (24 March, p 44).
This finding contradicts recent studies presented to the White House by American agriculturalists, which suggest that US agri - culture will be largely immune to damage from global warming.
Luther had no conception of the economic forces that were beginning to transform Germany from a feudal nation of peasant agriculturalists into a society with an emergent capitalist economy.
Southern agriculturalists suffered from these tariffs, since they exchanged their products for European manufactured goods.
Yet such agriculturalist ants are wholly missing in the Old World tropics.
The descendants of the pioneers remained as hunter - gatherers or at most primitive agriculturalists, until reached by Europeans.
Hayes is particularly keen to see how the genomes of the earliest African agriculturalists differ from those of hunter - gatherers.
To replenish herds or obtain food crops, they may raid other agriculturalist communities.
The title of the conference alone caused an uproar among farmers and agriculturalists around the world; it implied that genetically modified (GM) food was a solution to world hunger.
For example, about 2,000 years ago the Roman agriculturalist, Varro, declared «Large walnut trees close by, make the border of the farm sterile.»
More on Grains If we examine the preparatory methods agriculturalists have used historically for grains, it's easy to see that the consumption of refined flours, polished rice and unfermented grain is not ideal.
As described in the first post in this series, Price studied isolated hunter - gatherers, horticulturalists, pastoralists, and agriculturalists for two reasons: so they could provide standards of excellence and scientific controls.
Urban planners, land speculators, neo-pastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists - all have been drawn to Detroit's baroquely decaying, nothing - left - to - lose frontier.
If anything, the recent debates about Monsanto have led me to believe that what is truly needed is a carefully considered, fact - based policy dialogue among agriculturalists, agronomists, government officials and all other stakeholders on the best course for this nation, as a food - deficit country, when it comes to addressing the fundamental issues of food security and improved livelihoods for farmers across the nation....
Protecting watersheds and forests will greatly benefit the people of South Sudan, who are mostly agriculturalists and herders, by preserving precious ecosystem services.
Once hunter - gathers with fire became agriculturalists with fire, the record shows they started using fire to shape their surroundings, through slash - and - burn efforts, to manage wildlife or to permanently take land from the forests for cities and fields.
Unlike conventional farmers, organic agriculturalists don't use bagged nitrogen fertilizers and must come up with natural ways of providing this necessary element.
If urban agriculture is to meet its potential to contribute to a more sustainable, just and equitable food system, more research is needed to demonstrate its benefits and to support the work that urban agriculturalists worldwide are doing.
Environmentalists and agriculturalists often share a belief that they are serving the public good.
They arrived in a land settled by the Fur people, leading to conflicts between local agriculturalists and displaced pastoralists, and creating the backdrop for the political crisis in the Sudan.
As the coworking trend grows worldwide, some of these coworking spaces are starting to cater to specific demographics: some target architects, others are geared toward urban agriculturalists, while others are interested in fermenting «social innovation».
Gomez thinks the gradient may be evidence that the Bantu traditional agriculturalists have been gradually transitioning to westernized subsistence patterns, and this transition may have been the way modern humans evolved their gut microbiomes.
Ben Collyer describes evidence that the switch from hunter - gatherer to agriculturalist caused a dramatic worsening of diet and an increase...
Weed to Wonder shows the continuity of research on corn — from Native American agriculturalists to agricultural breeders, corn geneticists, plant physiologists, and molecular biologists — that culminated in the Maize Genome Sequencing Project.
A new study reveals that these early agriculturalists were fertilizing their crops with manure 8000 years ago, thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
These agriculturalists of the insect world feed exclusively on certain kinds of fungi which they cultivate in subterranean «gardens» on especially collected pieces of leaves and other plant parts.
«Basically what happens is our agriculturalists go out and they measure one of the sugarbeets fields every year, so we can [create] a map,» Geselius describes.
Held as an extension of Fair Food Week 2017, the Food Sovereignty Convergence will attract farmers, consumer advocates, right to food activists, urban agriculturalists, educators, communicators & innovators, and is open to anyone who sees themselves as part of Australia's food sovereignty movement.
«If you look at the big jumps in the different microbiomes, it's not between hunter - gatherers and agriculturalists — it's between both of them and us, the industrialized,» says Warinner.
«I'm an agriculturalist,» he says.
These agriculturalists grow tubers, fruits, and other plants, make use of flour - like products, and raise goats for meat.
If we are to have any chance of handing on a healthy, productive planet upon which more than 8 billion of us can survive and thrive, agriculturalists and conservationists must reconcile their differences.
The new study also provides further support for the «dual origin'theory of modern Japanese populations: that they descend from a combination of hunter - gatherers and agriculturalists that eventually brought wet rice farming from southern China.
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