Sentences with phrase «by agriculture»

Food that is harvested but ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year.

In recent years, changes in land use have accounted for some 25 percent of the carbon dioxide being emitted on the planet, and the bulk of those changes are driven by agriculture.

Many of the newly described species are known only from a few specimens collected before 1950 from locations that are now heavily impacted by agriculture or development.

At global level, approximately 70 per cent of freshwater resources are consumed by agriculture and 20 per cent by industry.

But even away from the oil fields, soil is disturbed by agriculture.

I love the outdoors and I'm really fascinated by agriculture.

But since 60 percent of the water used by agriculture and industry in this drought era is groundwater pumped... Read more.

A third of our greenhouse gases are caused by agriculture and land use clearing.

Schakowsky's proposed database is modeled in part on a system used by the Agriculture Department, which purchases about 17 percent of the food served in schools.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on national food waste reduction goals as announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA:

Florida's Republican gubernatorial primary has so far been dominated by Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, 43, who has the support of much of the state's GOP infrastructure.

Ian Harper's competition review even recommended the introduction of an «effects test» to rein in their market power, an idea fulsomely supported by agriculture minister Barnaby Joyce.

Rescued: Cattle belonging to local residents in disaster - prone areas near Mount Agung in Bali are ready to be evacuated to temporary shelters built by the Agriculture Ministry.

He said his fund, along with most others in Australia, did not have a long history of investing in agriculture but this was in part because of a lack of scale and difficult investment options presented by the agriculture industry.

They serve «Phakoiy Brand» organic coffee, grown and produced in Kasi, as part of a development project supported by the Agriculture Development Bank (their sticker is on the restaurant - quality brewing machine in the shop).

MONTREAL — Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of Humane Society International / Canada, issued the following statement in response to the agreement reached by Agriculture Quebec and the owners of Paws R Us.

In recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canada.

The Canadian Kennel Club voted to fully recognize Glens in 2017 after the breed spent years on the Miscellaneous list; under the Animal Pedigree Act, this must be approved by Agriculture Canada, which is expected in 2018.

According to data released by the Agriculture Department this week, 15.8 million U.S. households, or 12.7 percent, experienced «food insecurity» at some point in 2015, meaning their access to food was limited by financial or other constraints.

It also jumpstarts a process, to be administered by the Agriculture Commissioner, to allow for ongoing dialogue between agriculture and animal welfare groups.

(Washington, DC) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on national food waste reduction goals as announced by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA:

The chief threats to water quality posed by agriculture are: high organic fertilization levels in combination with high stocking rates, the excessive application of mineral N - fertilizers; the lack of a protective soil cover; narrow crop rotations and frequent tillage; high levels of available nitrogen after harvest, and contamination of water with synthetic pesticides.

Surrounded by agriculture, chefs and food purveyors find something fresh and local for every season in Temecula Valley.

The struggle to make ends meet will become even more important if school nutrition regulations being considered by the Agriculture Department go into effect.

The bill was heard by the Agriculture Committee on 2/6/09 and the committee recommends that the measure be deferred.

The GoM, chaired by agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, even rejected a modified proposal of the department of land resources (in the ministry of rural development) to launch the mission with reduced area and cost (for biofuel plantation).

Following special consultations and public hearings by Agriculture Quebec, in which HSI / Canada participated in, the final version of the Bill reinforces the Animal Health Protection Act, and aims to improve the welfare of companion animals in Quebec in the following key areas:

Read a statement from Rebecca Aldworth, executive director of HSI / Canada, issued in response to the agreement reached by Agriculture Quebec and the owners of Paws R Us, following the rescue of more than 525 dogs and puppies from Canada's largest commercial breeding facility in Outaouais, Quebec, in September 2011.

Safe: Cattle graze at a temporary shelter built by the Agriculture Ministry, after they were evacuated from the disaster - prone red zones around Bali's Mount Agung.

Funded by the Agriculture Department, these low - rate loans are available to low - income rural residents who own and occupy a home in need of repairs.

They have never explained what would stop the ongoing increasing uptakes of CO2 by agriculture and growing livestock numbers.

«The footprint of industrial fishing in the ocean is over four times larger than the land area occupied by agriculture.»

The Local Food Act is being endorsed by agriculture groups including B.C. Local Food Systems, Farm to Cafeteria Canada, FarmFolk CityFolk.

In every continent now the habitats of wild animals are being encroached upon by agriculture.

The ACCC told a Senate Inquiry yesterday that it disagrees with moves by Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to allow competition law exemptions at grain ports.

Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, released the final federal nutrition standards for school meals, representing the first major overhaul of school food requirements in over 15 years.

But «if they owe money or they don't have money in their lunch account, they're not allowed to get any extra items,» said Keeney, whose meal program was honored last year by the Agriculture Department's Healthier U.S. Schools program.

lRaise the federal reimbursement by 6 cents per lunch for school districts that comply with new meals standards to be issued by the Agriculture Department.

With the colonial economy dominated by agriculture for more than half a century, white settlers fought first to annex the territory and then silence dissent.

The non-oil sector, the report stated, was driven in the quarter under review mainly by Agriculture (Crop), other services and Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply.

The First Lady was joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Washington, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty.

This may be welcomed by agriculture and forestry, while an introduced plant spreading uncontrollably in nature can become a major concern.

Unfortunately, its sole habitat is a desert region in Israel called the Dunes of Samar, an area once covering about 7 square kilometers but reduced to a fraction of that size by agriculture and mining.