Sentences with phrase «ecosystems as agriculture»

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Biodynamic agriculture sees the farm as a self - sustaining ecosystem that must produce its own fertility either from compost or from animal - based manure.

Aarhus has set out to become the «Silicon Valley» of food development and innovation, and Agro Food Park is designed as an «innovation ecosystem» for the international agriculture and food industry.

As a contributor to such factors, the dominant industrial practices of agriculture are increasingly recognised as inhibiting Earth's capacity to continue providing ecosystem serviceAs a contributor to such factors, the dominant industrial practices of agriculture are increasingly recognised as inhibiting Earth's capacity to continue providing ecosystem serviceas inhibiting Earth's capacity to continue providing ecosystem services.

Doherty et al. (2000) described sustainable agriculture as «ecological engineering solutions aiming to minimally manipulate and manage ecosystems for the benefit of both nature and humanity».

With intensive agriculture linked to deforestation and desertification, as well a general loss of genetic biodiversity, how can declines in ecosystem be reversed and biodiversity encouraged?

The overpopulation of the Axis Deer are a threat to both the the environment and agriculture in the islands, as the deer spread invasive plants, cause erosion, and damage ecosystems.

Carbon dioxide levels in lakes are often high and vary widely from lake to lake based on factors such as the type of nearby ecosystem, land use such as agriculture, sizes of the lake and watershed, amount of precipitation, and because some types of soils and rocks absorb more CO2 than others.

When ecosystems are lost, as they have been through felling of forests and conversion of landscape to agriculture on a vast scale, havoc ensues, triggering human and natural catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.

Their impact ranges from upsetting native ecosystems, to damaging the physical environment and even threatening human and animal health; hence the cost to agriculture, fisheries and forestry, as well as the expense of control and eradication programmes.

As fracking and refracturing become more common to make wells produce more oil and gas, it adds to an already fraught competition among agriculture, aquatic ecosystems, and municipalities for water supplies, the study says.

As the American West, parched by prolonged drought, braces for a season of potentially record - breaking wildfires, new research suggests these events not only pose an immediate threat to people's safety and their homes, but also could take a toll on human health, agriculture and ecosystems.

October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the human gut and the ocean, to improve human health, agriculture, bioenergy, and the environment.

Setting Priorities: The transition to «climate smart» land management practices, including for example low - emissions agriculture, agroforestry and the restoration of high carbon - value ecosystems, such as forests and peatlands, will require sectoral coordination and investments in integrated land use planning.

Short - sighted economic gains such as land grabbing, unplanned urban sprawl, unsustainable agriculture and over-consumption lead to unsustainable land use, which eventually causes degradation and loss of critical ecosystem services.

It would also mean less support to agriculture, as intact natural ecosystems have important effects on hydrology and on the viability of natural (and possibly semi-domesticated) pollinators, as well as tending to stabilize populations of pest species.

Many poor people live in places particularly affected by phenomena related to warming, and their livelihoods depend heavily on natural reserves and on so - called ecosystem services, such as agriculture, fisheries and forest resources.

The top buyer sectors energy, agriculture / forestry and transportation depend on forests» ecosystem services (e.g. clean water) for their business, and some view investments forest carbon investments as a kind of insurance against direct exposure to climate risks.

• Promote reform of industrial agriculture to agro-ecological systems such as permaculture, within the context of protecting and restoring adequate terrestrial systems necessary to maintain biodiversity, ecosystems and achieve global ecological sustainability.

As eight millennia of experience and the unfolding disaster of agrofuel clearly demonstrate, expansion of land - conversion by industrial agriculture strongly threatens biodiversity and ecosystems that play an essential role in stabilising and regulating the climate, and are necessary to ensure food and water security.

In particular, it points out that, in order to effectively couple climate financing with strong and measurable sustainable development criteria, there is a need to move beyond carbon as a standalone tradeable commodity, by increasingly valuing the significant range of additional ecosystem and socio - economic services provided by sustainable agriculture practices and programmes that simultaneously address climate concerns and sustainable rural development priorities.

Among the many risks of rising temperatures, agriculture, forestry, ecosystems and human health are all expected to suffer as a result of trends in climate change.

The Climate Analysis and Monitoring theme updates the database with non real - time data on a semi-monthly or as - available basis to bring in observations from BC Hydro, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development's Forest Ecosystem Research network and Environment and Climate Change Canada's data that are not available from the near real - time feed.

The World Health Organisation reports that climate change related variations to weather patterns such as more intense and frequent extreme events, changes in water, air, food quality and quantity, and to ecosystems, agriculture, livelihoods and infrastructure, will all have an impact on health.

However, numerous studies show that failure to address the true drivers of deforestation — high demand for wood products, expansion of industrial agriculture, illegal and unplanned forest conversion, conflicts over land and resources, and extractive activities — will generally undermine any effort to «protect» forests through «payment for ecosystem services» schemes such as REDD.

The top buyer sectors energy, agriculture / forestry, and transportation depend on forests» ecosystem services (e.g., clean water) for their business, and some view forest carbon investments as a kind of insurance against direct exposure to climate risks.

So minor they be, the Climate Changes can so, result in harmful consequences on water resources, on ecosystems depending of water, and on the different economic activities that need large quantities of water such as agriculture and tourism.

The contribution of forest ecosystems — such as carbon sequestration, crop pollination, conservation of agricultural soils and control of water discharge to streams and rivers — to other sectors, particularly agriculture, is valued at 6.77 percent of Ethiopia's GDP.

The most affected sectors, meanwhile, will be water (especially in the dry tropics), agriculture (particularly in low latitudes), human health in countries with low adaptive capacity, and ecosystems such as coral reefs, sea - ice biomes, mangrove swamps, salt - marshes, tundra, boreal and mountain systems.

In addition, more ultraviolet radiation reaching the surface will have an effect on ecosystems and species as well as agriculture around the world.

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Minimum tillage with biological nutrient recycling, as opposed to plowing and chemical fertilizers, could sequester 0.4 — 1.2 GtC / year [176] while conserving water in soils, building agricultural resilience to climate change, and increasing productivity especially in smallholder rain - fed agriculture, thereby reducing expansion of agriculture into forested ecosystems [177]--[178].

But this will prove impossible without rapid action and societal change, as the global population continues to grow and more ecosystems are lost every year to agriculture, urbanization, mining, and logging.

These ecosystems are being converted for agriculture, aquaculture (such as shrimp farming), development, and tourism.

• Some renewables decrease pollution other than greenhouse gases, pollutants that damage human health (as well as ecosystems and agriculture).

«We are still not completely aware of how the Amazonia ecosystem supports water, energy, food and health security,» he said as he promoted the Amazonia Security Agenda, a report authored last year by the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), with support from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network and Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano.

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• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

Others noted that, as investment flows back into city centers, nature, water and ecosystems must be brought back as well, as should sustainable agriculture.