Sentences with phrase «because big agriculture»

Not because we can't, but because big agriculture is more focused on things like corn and soybeans.

Not exact matches

Among the biggest bureaucratic challenges faced by the UK Space Agency is its management of applications for new satellites, which are viewed as critical because of their ability to provide data on the environment, climate, weather, security agriculture, coastal management and disaster mitigation.

Fences allow lions and other wildlife to survive on fragments of land on which it would otherwise be impossible to conserve large mammals because they keep big animals from coming into conflict with humans, livestock and agriculture.

«These IPM programs are very big in Africa because they get funding from international funding agencies to develop more sustainable agriculture,» explains Chiasson.

McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.

This is a problem because SQ 777 isn't about family farmers; it's about big - time corporate agriculture wanting fewer and fewer restrictions on how they operate.

So the models suggest big changes are needed in agriculture, because otherwise the rich and fat will be doing all right, and the rest of the world will be feeling the damage.

We have to get specific about sectors of the economy, and implications because there are big differences between agriculture, industry and services and very different sorts of solutions.

Because of manure management and, yes, cow belches, agriculture is a bigger emitter of methane than the entire oil and gas industry.

The Romans were busy writing it all down daily because, as you noted, agriculture (and I would add construction) was the biggest deal in their lives.