Sentences with phrase «concerns about both agriculture»

While the longer growing season does have some benefits, it also raises concerns about both agriculture and health.

Not exact matches

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said every GOP senator is concerned about the direction President Donald Trump is taking on trade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Consumer interest in local, organic agriculture boomed, and concerns about factory farming galvanized writers like Michael Pollan, Wayne Roberts and Raj Patel.

They expressed concerns about Trump's proposed tariffs leading to retaliatory measures from China that could hurt the agriculture industry.

«Outlooks remained positive, but contacts in various sectors including manufacturing, agriculture and transportation expressed concern about the newly imposed and / or proposed tariffs,» the Fed said in its Beige Book report.

Honourable Don McRae Minister of Agriculture Room 301, Parliament Buildings Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 Dear Minister McRae: The discovery of wild salmon infected with the European strain of the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus has raised serious concerns about the...

GFI has raised concerns in widely - read publications about the impacts of industrialized animal agriculture, including its contributions to climate change and its unsustainability.

But many of the other concerns distributism addressed were quite prophetic (take, for example, the central place accorded to families, and concerns about absentee fathers), or indeed perhaps too ahead of their time (the importance of sustainable agriculture and local connections to the land, now so in vogue).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Market News reported widespread concern in 2014 about tightening organic dairy supplies, with supermarkets in many parts of the United States posting signs about organic milk shortages by the end of the year.

With growing concern about the ability of the planet to feed itself, she outlined how improved production & storage efficiency and urban agriculture can raise food production levels.

During the past decade, organically grown products have become the fastest growing sector in agriculture as consumers have become more concerned about how their food is grown and processed.

Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's agriculture in a future Akufo - Addo government, the three - time flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said: «As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.»

The one area where the UK government is most concerned about checks on the border is with sanitary and phytosanitary measures for agri - food, which includes agriculture, horticulture and food and drink processing technology.

And finally, the chancellor highlighted the government's new agriculture policy, drawn up with environment minister Margaret Beckett, which would marry the principles of global free trade with concerns about high - quality food and its effect on the environment.

Wouldn't that solve much of the concern about the Saratoga season and the upstate breeding and agriculture industries?

Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's agriculture, Akufo - Addo said: «As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village, one dam.»

Councilman Jim Dinizio said he's concerned about creating a more definitive code on agriculture.

David Heath, the Lib Dem agriculture minister, has said that he has concerns about the HS2 high - speed rail project damaging ancient woodland.

To date, concerns about climate change's impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.

Concerns were also raised about agriculture and food security, where «[t] he skilled population... is ageing and there is a lack of succession planning.»

Concerned about their impact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently awarded Hale and her fellow biologists a three - year, $ 397,500 grant to study the ecology of the earthworm invasions in cold - temperate hardwood forests.

Credit growing concerns about climate and computer advances that make it easier to fashion custom - shaped panels, says Sam Zelinka, head of building and fire sciences research at the Forest Products Laboratory, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in Madison.

«Remnants of antibiotics persist in treated farm waste: Study raises new concerns about how agriculture may be contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance worldwide.»

Speaking about the policy options emerging from the four regional assessments, Watson said: «Although there are no «silver bullets» or «one - size - fits all» answers, the best options in all four regional assessments are found in better governance, integrating biodiversity concerns into sectoral policies and practices (e.g. agriculture and energy), the application of scientific knowledge and technology, increased awareness and behavioural changes.»

«We are concerned about reports that federal agencies — including the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — have issued directives to staff that may silence the voices of scientific researchers and others working for the federal government,» said Holt in a statement.

Indeed, the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees, a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.

We've also heard the quote by Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as «the worst mistake in the history of the human race» and this, making sense to us, is our motivation for completely cutting out all bread, pasta, rice and couscous altogether as we're concerned about constant the spikes in insulin.

In response to longstanding concerns about the nutritional quality of school meals, five school districts this fall began using new menus and recipes in an unusual effort funded by the U.S. Agriculture Department to lower the amount of fat and sodium in school breakfasts and lunches.

the whole developed world agriculture system re: subsidies and government intervention is both immoral and hugely market distorting as far as I'm concerned, so I'd be pretty nervous about that house of cards collapsing too

MAPAQ (Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) is looking for input from Quebec citizens concerning new provincial regulations about the welfare of our companion animals.

I mostly agree with your concerns about impacts of climate change on agriculture and the biosphere.

The impacts I am most concerned about are those that strike at the very infrastructure of civilization — particularly our agriculture — in a world with over 9 billion people in it.

Scidevnet: The lack of rains in large, monsoon - dependent, agricultural areas of South Asia has compounded concerns expressed in a recent report about an impending global water crisis and its detrimental impact on agriculture.

My Plate, My Planet also supported a legal review of U.S Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack's claim that concerns about sustainability and environmental impacts are beyond the scope of the law.

According to an interview in the New York Post, Moore dismissed concerns about the impacts of logging, mining and clearning for agriculture on the Amazonian rainforests.

The problem is both the high cost per BTU and importing it from countries that hate us, neither of which is a great concern for electricity unless you're worried about CO2 production and I'm not concerned about CO2 production which I consider a huge net benefit to agriculture and, in the future, a handy source of carbon for the fabrication of durable goods.

The Scientific Alliance is either (using Stott's own «words of magic») «an organisation that promotes concern about the environment through rational science; while accepting climate change as a reality, the Alliance is critical of current methods proposed to manage climate change and energy production» or (using the New Statesmans «words of magic»), «an anti-environmentalist campaign group that denies climate change; opposes organic agriculture and promotes genetically modified foods and nuclear power»

Other stakeholders have concerns about food, water and energy resources, agriculture, ecology, droughts and floods, etc..

«Glyphosate's days are numbered,» said Paul Achitoff, a lawyer for Earthjustice, an environmental law firm that is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture in part over concerns about heavy glyphosate use.

We've always been concerned about the effect of high oil prices on food - production costs, and those are very real, given the oil intensity of world agriculture today.