The retirement of those 14 million hectares under the CRP, together with the use of
conservation practices on 37 percent of all cropland, reduced U.S. soil erosion from 3.1 billion tons to 1.9 billion tons between 1982 and 1997.
The retirement of 14 million hectares under the CRP, together with the use of
conservation practices on 37 percent of all cropland, reduced U.S. soil erosion from 3.1 billion tons to 1.9 billion tons during the 15 years between 1982 and 1997.
Not exact matches
«We're ahead of the curve as far as [tracing our products and implementing] sustainable agricultural
practices focusing
on water
conservation, worker safety and wildlife protection,» Sallin maintains.
As farmers implement soil
conservation practices, such as planting
on contours and maintaining ground cover.
Grow Ahead invites women from Africa, Asia or Latin America over 18 years of age to apply for scholarships of up to US$ 2,500 for workshops or trainings in their regions focused
on agroecology or regenerative organic agriculture, including (but not limited to) agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management,
conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, or other
practices that build climate resilience.
Workshops have been offered
on energy - efficient
practices, water
conservation and integrated pest management, for instance.
The online software system used by the Alliance will be enhanced so the wine community can more easily manage information
on resource
conservation practices to participate in greenhouse gas and water quality trading opportunities, energy and water use reduction incentive programs, and alternative compliance with new regulatory programs addressing air and water quality.
Subsequent to Mr. Welder's death
on New Year's Eve of 1953, it was found that his will established a foundation such as America had never had before, an institution designed to have an ultimate impact
on conservation practices not just in Texas but in the nation as a whole.
The researchers also found that
conservation management
practices seem to have the strongest effect
on the birds, Sandercock said.
He doesn't mention, however, the
practices of
Conservation Agriculture, which are already used
on around 155 million hectares worldwide (regrettably few of them in the UK).
If ineffectual
practices can be avoided, environmental leaders will undoubtedly look back
on this marine - mega-park era as one of the most important periods in the history of ocean
conservation.
Good
conservation and restoration
practices of CH assets rely
on original materials knowledge to allow the best compatibility with new ones for restoration /
conservation actions to face ageing and degradation due to natural hazards, climatic changes and anthropic pressure.
Resume: Good
conservation and restoration
practices of CH assets rely
on original materials knowledge to allow the best compatibility with new ones for restoration /
conservation actions to face ageing and degradation due to natural hazards, climatic changes and anthropic pressure.
Our goal for 2018 is to expand our work at the programmatic level, taking
on projects with the capability to advance genetic rescue as a standard tool for modern
conservation practice.
Prairie, together with other
conservation practices already
on farms, advocates claim, has the potential to reduce the massive runoff of nutrient pollution mostly from Midwestern farms that flows down the Mississippi River and forms a gigantic «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico every summer.
My career puts me
on all kinds of farms planning livestock operations and
conservation practices.
«As schools use best
practices on campus and teachers talk about
conservation in the classroom — these are things that are going to come back to the parents and the community to help spread the word.»
On Saturday, December 15th the Green Belt Movement (GBM) trained 17 teams of university fellows and mentors totaling 45 participants from nine African countries in best
practices for participatory
conservation work with a local community and the application of mapping and GPS methods to plan, monitor and report progress of reforestation sites.
She and her husband are also proud to be carrying
on the family farm where they implement
conservation tillage
practices.
Isla Mujeres is committed to
conservation and
practice catch and release
on all billfish.
The design scheme was based
on the integration of NPS» mission of natural and cultural resource
conservation with implementation of sustainable
practices.
Wilderness areas are the most intact, undisturbed, truly wild spaces left
on the planet... They are unaffected by any development and many, if not all of them,
practice the highest level of
conservation — legally protected and untouched by man.
Our
on - site Field Guides at Al Maha are trained to uphold best
conservation practice whilst immersing you in the colours, scents, sounds and wildlife experiences of the desert.
The Alaska National Interest Lands
Conservation Act (ANILCA), which was the enabling legislation for the expanded Katmai National Park and Preserve, stipulates that all rural people may continue their subsistence
practices on preserve lands.
Participants go through
practice surveys
on land and several presentations, detailing both the method and the various fish we are looking for to increase wildlife
conservation.
Chabil Mar is dedicated to sustainable tourism
practices and environmental
conservation and is proud to employ locals
on its staff and encourages guests to spend money at the nearby Placencia Village in order to sustainably develop the region.
A game design lineage is a historical tracing of an element within games that shows both the
conservation of player
practices (which give us the patterns that become labelled as genres) and the hallmarks of creator vision, which subverts those player
practices to create variations
on the established patterns, often conditioned by the material constraints applying to games at the time of their creation.
She has a long history in museum
practice, mainly focusing
on analogue and digital imaging, working closely with
conservation departments.
Other works in the exhibition are commentaries
on modern
conservation practices.
The result of research conducted
on two fronts —
conservation and curatorial — the catalogue offers a reconsideration of the cut - outs by exploring a host of technical and conceptual issues: the artist's methods and materials and the role and function of the works in his
practice; their economy of means and exploitation of decorative strategies; their environmental aspects; and their double lives, first as contingent and mutable in the studio and ultimately made permanent, a transformation accomplished via mounting and framing.
The journal publishes research related to the Stedelijk collection and
on institutional history, museum studies (think of education and
conservation practice) and current topics in the field of visual arts and design.
«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research
on fishing
practices around coral reefs
on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a
conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»
Here's a related thought experiment: Recently, in tracking discussions of including forest
conservation and climate - friendly farming
practices in carbon - credit markets, I mused
on whether family planning programs should be able to get into the carbon business.
They
practice a range of agricultural activities increasingly focusing
on practices compatible with
conservation function.
Conservation groups have sent letters to the Fish and Wildlife Service to this effect, while the Amphibian Survival Alliance and a broad group of stakeholders have held several meetings with the agency to provide information
on best
practices.
Strategies to increase the soil carbon pool include: soil restoration, and woodland regeneration, no - till farming, cover crops, nutrient management, manuring and sludge application, i mproved grazing, water
conservation, and harvesting, efficient irrigation, agroforestry
practices, and growing energy crops
on spare lands.
He has given testimony
on climate impacts in the United States Senate and his work
on biodiversity impacts has been published in journals, including Climate Research, Climatic Change, and
Conservation Biology in
Practice.
The bill represents a giant step forward for shark
conservation as it strengthens the U.S. ban
on shark finning, the
practice by which living sharks» fins are sliced off and their mutilated bodies thrown back into the ocean, where the sharks endure long, painful deaths.
Other efforts will focus
on adopting sustainable agricultural
practices and restoring degraded lands abutting
conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.
Ricardo and the Social Environmental Institute are currently focused
on youth education programs that promote sustainable development in Brazil's Ribeira Valley, where Western
conservation models are squeezing out traditional agricultural
practices that have sustained the land for generations of families.
Policymakers in Africa need to prioritize investment
on research for the development of improved agronomic
practices, agricultural enterprises and enterprise mixes that can thrive under moisture stress, and better water and soil
conservation techniques.
For example, improved
conservation practices can greatly reduce erosion rates (Souchere et al., 2005), while clear - cutting a forest during a «slash - and - burn» operation has a huge negative impact
on susceptibility to runoff and erosion.
We found little data showing the climate impacts of
practicing multiple solutions
on the same land (e.g.,
conservation agriculture with tree intercropping).
About 91 % of farmers are
practicing the technology at different levels depending
on the component adopted out of the six, namely minimum land tillage; laying out fixed planting basins; no burning of crop residues; planting and input application in basins; and rotation with nitrogen - fixing crops for soil fertility restitution, outlined by the
Conservation Farming Unit (CFU).
Draft policy recommendations and provide accurate information to the President and College community in order to promote and ensure
conservation of resources, energy efficiency, waste reduction and recycling, emissions reduction, reliance
on renewable energy sources and resources, healthy and safe environmental
practices, and the sustainable operation of the College.
Jan directs Forest Trends» work
on investments in watershed services; she has also worked with Forest Trends» Business and Biodiversity Offset Programme to support and promote the use of best
practices in biodiversity offsets and biodiversity
conservation around the world.
I head the Alliance of Religions and
Conservation (ARC), which is a secular foundation working with all the major religions of the world, helping them develop environmental programmes
on their lands, in their forests,
on their farms, through their investments, schools, media and as a result of their teachings, beliefs and
practices.
Strategies to increase the soil carbon pool include soil restoration and woodland regeneration, no - till farming, cover crops, nutrient management, manuring and sludge application, improved grazing, water
conservation and harvesting, efficient irrigation, agroforestry
practices, and growing energy crops
on spare lands.
On Saturday, December 15th the Green Belt Movement (GBM) trained 17 teams of university fellows and mentors totaling 45 participants from nine African countries in best
practices for participatory
conservation work with a local community and the application of mapping and GPS methods to plan, monitor and report progress of reforestation sites.
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