Sentences with phrase «by modern agriculture»

Nick Stokes vigorously opposed the surmise that the Igaliku series had been contaminated by modern agriculture and / or that such contamination should have been taken into account by Kaufman -LSB-...]

A SLR of six feet is enough to take out much of the fuel, fertilizer and pesticide production facilities used by modern agriculture.

After a lifetime of ecological research, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory discovered (the hard way) that the quickest and most efficient way for humanity to re-build topsoil and restore the ecological damage caused by modern agriculture is to put grazing animals onto broken land.

Not exact matches

We can change the world's production methods with organic agriculture and regain health benefits now lost with modern wheat by going back to ancient wheat.»

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

The additional uses, which include commercial solar farms, storage warehouses and other structures that some consider essential to modern agriculture, were approved by the Suffolk County Legislature on properties for which Suffolk has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase «development rights.»

The detailed pattern of modern UK agriculture is heavily influenced by the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, with a combination of price support and set - aside policy.

Yet modern agriculture is also the only reason we can produce enough food to nourish our population of 6.8 billion — a number slated to reach more than nine billion by midcentury.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Besides enabling quantification of recovery rates of compacted soil and better understanding of the recovery mechanisms, the authors expect that data provided by the soil structure observatory will help improve our general understanding of soil structure dynamics and help define strategies and guidelines for accelerating soil structure recovery, and more generally, improving soil structure in modern agriculture.

while your arguments are well worth the read, you completely miss the point by failing to acknowledge that the article talks about a scientific recommendation partially inspired by historical facts and sustainable agriculture together with modern knowledge about what comprises a healthy diet.

These nutrients are deficient in modern diets due to removal of minerals from drinking water by treatment, depletion of minerals from soil by agriculture, or modern lifestyles that deprive us of vitamin D by indoor living.

When not interrupted by agriculture, territorial encroachment and modernization, foraging cultures have a much lower impact on the environment than modern cultures, and their populations can also be quite stable (for a popular reference, read some of Jared Diamond's books).

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

Oil and food production: Essays The Oil We Eat by Richard Manning, and Eating Fossil Fuels by Dale Allen Pfeiffer both look at modern agricultures» dependence on fossil fuels.