Sentences with phrase «farming practices change»

One option is to choose only foods made with organic wheat, but it might be safer to just cut wheat out until farming practices change.

Groups will require a person experienced in group facilitation and extension, monitoring and evaluation of on - farm practice change and communication and reporting, to oversee the demonstration.

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Over the last 50 years, dramatic changes in farm practices and consumer demand have radically transformed the roasts in our supermarkets and the chops...

Over the last 50 years, dramatic changes in farm practices and consumer demand have radically transformed the roasts in our supermarkets and the chops on our plates.

He changed many conventional farming practices along the way, benefiting countless growers throughout the fruit industry.»

«We believe we can help accelerate this change through consistent investment in training and infrastructure to improve farming practices and animal health.»

But fortunately, just as poor land - management practices are contributors to climate change, use of good on - farm...

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

Cocoa farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia are adapting their farming practices to the new reality of a changing climate.

The program's vision is to increase producer skills and capability, practice change and whole farm business improvement through increasing producer understanding of:

No changes in farm management or cultivation practices are anticipated should GR2E Golden Rice be adopted in agriculture in the future.

The Haleses believe it's not easy to change farming practices after you've been farming one way your whole life.

By buying pastured butter and grass fed meats you are supporting sustainable farming and telling big feedlots to change their practices.

Just as we clear a garden to disrupt it in readiness for the next crop, so we can disrupt corrupt farm labour market practices to trigger the process of change that leads to a better model, a model that is new and fair.

Plus, we appreciate meeting our customers face - to - face, educating about sustainable organic farming practices, sharing climate change solutions, hearing suggestions, listening to feedback, and sharing new products and recipes.

Straus Family Creamery's Albert Straus fights climate change and promotes sustainable practices with methane - powered farm truck

Last year Charles completed his PhD project on Farming and Transformational practice in Australia (titled: «Farming futures: how Australia's farmers are adapting to change»).

Charles» unique perspective includes European history in Australia, Indigenous history and practice, and the various pressures on today's farmers that are leading to transformational change in farming practice and in farmers» understanding of themselves and the Australian continent.

There are growing concerns, however, that the company's success is partly based on trading practices that squeeze the margins of suppliers, farmers and workers, and have a negative impact on local shops and the environment because farmers are unable — or unwilling — to make changes to their farming practices.2

The species that are considered sustainable can vary from year to year depending on farming practices and changes in ecosystems.

Just by changing the way we farm, by stopping deep tilling, mono - cropping, and chemical fertilizer use — the Climate Collaborative estimates regenerative carbon farming practices could mitigate as much as 4 billion to 6 billion tons of CO2 equivalents a year or 10 percent to 12 percent of global human - caused emissions.

Your farm to school strategic plan may include menu changes, new purchasing practices, promotion and educational events, engaging the school community in partnership, building school gardens, or other farm to school activities.

Haeffner looked at whether the ranchers migrated or stayed in place but had to change their farming practices or find different work because of the drought.

Among proposed changes: more widespread adoption of so - called no - till farming, a practice that involves leaving unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind in the field undisturbed by plows and other soil - agitating instruments.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

«Our work shows that modest changes to farming practices can benefit the air and soil too.»

One of the world's major producers of food needs to adapt its farming practices for climate change

A more immediate problem for climate change is methane, which is released by landfills and melting permafrost and through farming practices.

Changes in farming practices over the last 50 years have resulted in decreased agro-diversity which, in turn, has resulted in decreased dietary diversity.

Professor Doherty explains: «Systems of food production, trade and consumption are increasingly vulnerable to interconnected political, economic and ecological shocks associated with climate, environmental changes, shifts in farming practices and consumer lifestyle changes.

Aiming to help farmers adapt their rice farming practices to climate change, the CLUES project (Climate change affecting land use in the Mekong Delta: Adaptation of rice cropping systems) could not have come at a better time.

Although vintners are unlikely to change their cultivation practices based on this research, Pelsy says, it is fascinating to finally understand the science behind farming techniques that stretch back thousands of years.

The loss of milkweed plants due to extensive herbicide use and changes in farming practices, such as the widespread adoption of herbicide - resistant crops, has been identified as a major contributing factor of monarch's decline in the eastern U.S. Disease, climate change, widespread insecticide use, and loss or degradation of nectar - rich habitat may also be contributing to declines.

Over the last century, our diet and farming practices have changed significantly, however our bodies and our genetics have not.

We're going to make global climate change worse — we're never going to cut into the terrible practices that go on at factory farms where animals clearly suffer.

Unfortunately, not all fish are created equal as commercial fish farming practices have affected many fish populations and changed the fish supply substantially.

I believe there is a problem with wheat because it has been changed greatly due to modern farming practices:

The 2008 federal Farm Bill allows schools to specify «local» as a bid requirement for foods purchased with Child Nutrition Programs funds, making it easier for schools to change long - standing procurement practices.

She investigates how behavior and physiology of cattle change in response to farming practices that may affect animal welfare, such as painful procedures (e.g., tail docking, disbudding, branding), management decisions (e.g., stocking density), and environmental conditions (e.g., effects of weather and mitigation strategies; comfort of lying and standing surfaces).

Animal advocates helped Mercy For Animals expose cruelty, convict animal abusers, end cruel factory farming practices, and change the way major corporations treat farmed animals.

The scenic qualities of this area have long been recognised and the idea of granting it protection as a national park were put forward as early as the 1920s, the principal reasons being that it was an extensive area of beautiful and relatively wild country but these early plans never came to fruition and urban development and changing agricultural practices continued to impinge on the area's character with much of the traditional grass «downland» being turned over to arable farming.

We have mounted important exhibitions of the works of Ant Farm, Joe Brainard, Joan Brown, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Juan Gris, Eva Hesse, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Barry McGee, Richard Misrach, Bruce Nauman, Peter Paul Rubens, Martin Puryear, Sebastião Salgado, William Wiley, and many others, as well as thematic exhibitions such as Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the «50s & «60s; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970; In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice; Human / Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet; and Masterworks of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds.

Anyway, it appears that the «extent» of emission flux of CH4 per m2 at present seems far below the capacity of increasing SOC using RegAg changes with farming practices and reafforestation and other rational LUC projects.

This economic change will help more than any other factor to reduce the factory - farming practices prevalent today.

The new evidence comes in a paper in the journal Food Security, «Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices?

Through the adoption of smart carbon farming practices, an acre of land could store anywhere from 10 to 100 tons or more of carbon, which can help both mitigate climate change and improve crop yields.

First, let us look at changes to one farming practice, the no - till technique.

Some claim that the Aboriginal practice of «firestick farming» may have in fact contributed to localised climate change).

The same ones who say they don't think climate change has been «scientifically proven» are already busily adapting — self - consciously so — to climate change by adopting practices like no - till farming.

This analytical report analyses some of the key issues linking climate change and development practices in livestock and farming systems.