Sentences with phrase «costs of our agricultural system»

In his latest book, The Third Plate, chef Dan Barber of New York's Blue Hill restaurant argues that diners must look at a new, more ethical way of eating that reflects the actual costs of our agricultural system.

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This suggests that storing carbon in forests, agricultural areas, and other ecosystems is an important and cost - effective part of a bigger carbon dioxide emissions control strategy that includes dramatic changes to the global energy system.

The simple truth is that the animal - oriented agricultural system as it has evolved over two centuries in America makes a more efficient use of available land to provide essential, high - quality protein, with fewer surplus calories, and at a lower cost, than any other system that has presently been devised.

The second part presents data and results of agricultural recovery from the tsunami — for example, monitoring systems, reconstruction models, and convenient, low - cost methods developed for the restoration of tsunami - damaged paddy fields.

The campaign features a foul - mouthed organic seed who delivers a bleeped - out rant about GMO (genetically modified) seeds which have led to the nutrient decline of 43 crops, over $ 15 billion in health costs in 2005 alone from agricultural pesticide exposure, and is responsible for an unsustainable food system.

This technical document provides a brief review of the benefits from various agriculture - based practices and technologies that have the potential to increase food production and the adaptive capacity of the food production system, as well as reduce emissions or enhance carbon storage in agricultural soils and biomass, focusing in detail on empirical evidence concerning costs and barriers to adoption, both from household and project - level data.

Reducing black carbon and tropospheric ozone, conserving and restoring ecosystems and agricultural soils, limiting population by ensuring that everyone has access to safe water, sanitation, health and education and increasing R&D into energy systems — are simply some of the ways of making cost effective changes.

The social cost of carbon includes, for example, changes in net agricultural productivity and human health, property damage from increased flood risk, energy system costs, and the value of ecosystem services lost because of climate change.

That's unfortunate, according to scientists at the Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University in India, because using the sun's power to heat water is a far more efficient process and offers a much quicker return on investment: According to their analysis, published in the International Journal of Global Energy, as the payback time for a solar water heating system is about two years (with a lifespan of 20), this is a far more cost - effective use of solar energy in the developing world than using it to generate electricity.

So it's easy to see the appeal of a system which, its proponents insist, can surpass the productivity of existing agricultural spaces by up to 20 times, while using less water, cutting mileage and energy costs, and delivering food security.