Sentences with phrase «for human agriculture»

More likely though, we are creating the ideal conditions by expanding our range into dense tropical rain forests where we are clear felling them (approximately 1000 square meters per second) for human agriculture use.

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

Not exact matches

Sure, NASA has a big advantage when it comes to generating viral hits due to its mission servicing the fundamental human need for exploration, knowledge, and new discovery (Department of Agriculture, eat your heart out), but even the most powerful content can get bungled in its execution and delivery.

An amendment added to a farm bill that was approved by the House Agriculture Committee would bar people from «knowingly slaughtering a dog or cat for human consumption,» as well as transporting or participating in other commercial activity related to eating pet meat.

Mason was subsequently appointed House Leader of the New Democrat Caucus and Critic responsible for Human Resources, Finance, and Agriculture.

For example, to concentrate on increasing the use of petroleum to replace human labor in agriculture, for the sake of increasing the productivity of labor, no longer seems a wise poliFor example, to concentrate on increasing the use of petroleum to replace human labor in agriculture, for the sake of increasing the productivity of labor, no longer seems a wise polifor the sake of increasing the productivity of labor, no longer seems a wise policy.

The invention of agriculture, civilization, art, and culture, of nations, politics, education, and science — all of these developments exemplify the universe's impatience with monotony and urgent need for subtle shading and more intense enjoyment of beauty, now that it has reached the human phase of its unfolding.

So as the sun rises over Paris, the world stands at the beginning of a new era where agriculture, which was responsible for human civilization to evolve, will be responsible for human civilization to survive.

The Sustainable Organic Agriculture Action Network (SOAAN) is a think tank that positions Organic Agriculture and its related supply chains as a holistic, sustainable approach to the production of food and fiber for all of human society.

Job Description: Research interns work directly with Rodale Institute's Research Department to address current and future agricultural needs by conducting high - quality research using regenerative, organic methods for agricultural production and identifying tools and practices to help grow organic agriculture by addressing pest and fertility issues; mitigate and adapt to climate change, and improve human health by addressing nutrient density in crops.

The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends 3 cups of legumes per week (based on a daily intake of approximately 2,000 calories).

Animal agriculture is unsustainable, environmentally harmful, bad for human health, and bad for animals.

Every year, nearly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

Added Mr. Brown, «I think there's a latent demand and a latent desire within human beings for this to work... Very few of us want things that are going into animal agriculture to continue... We want a better way to do it.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

COSMOS - standard guarantees: The use of products from organic agriculture and respect for biodiversity, the use of natural resources responsibly, and respect for the environment, and the use of processing and manufacturing that are clean and respectful to human health and the environment.

The publication discusses the weakness of institutional support for nurturing existing knowledge and exchange in organic agriculture, support that could further enhance organic agriculture's positive impact on the natural and human environments.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one - third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the supply chain.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

The new nutrition standards must be «science - based,» standardized for all foods sold in schools and consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

The 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommend at least 60 minutes of activity per day for kids — ideally, done with their parents.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a provisional go - ahead for genetically modified rice containing human genes to be grown in Kansas, despite concerns that the proteins from the pharma rice could find their way into the food chain.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

«Looking forward, machine learning, big data and self - driving vehicles will further increase the potential for automation in both agriculture and manufacturing, reducing the need for human labour.»

Contrary to speculations that poultry on the market are not safe for consumption due to the outbreak of Bird Flu, a Deputy Minister of Agriculture Dr. Hannah Bissiw has allayed fears saying the birds on the market are safe for human consumption.

With the exception of Tug Hill, these other areas include a greater proportion of agriculture or have higher human densities, making them less suitable for bears due to the higher likelihood of human - bear conflicts.»

Modern agriculture extends well beyond the traditional production of food for humans and animal feeds.

«If you have an overwash event, all of a sudden, you're salinating that fresh water; you basically kill the agriculture due to salt loading, and if you get [salt concentrations] over a few parts per thousand, it's no longer fit for human consumption,» said Curt Storlazzi, a research oceanographer at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center and lead author of the study.

The work can potentially be applied to miniaturizing MAVs useful for remote observation and dispersion in a range of applications, from agriculture to space exploration, especially in conditions hazardous to humans.

As a result of this, the countryside developed into predominantly dense forest that was first cleared when humans began to use the land for agriculture,» explains Professor Jens - Christian Svenning.

The other, more popular explanation proposes that the advent of agriculture and the attendant development of human settlements in the Middle East around 10,000 years ago created scavenging opportunities for animals bold enough to exploit them and that wolves themselves thus initiated domestication.

NRC called for an «end - to - end» approach going «from understanding causes and processes to supporting actions needed to cope» with likely impacts on natural disasters, freshwater availability, agriculture and food security, ecosystems management, human health, and economics.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization is mounting an effort to address insects as human food and is planning a world conference for 2013.

Around 10,000 years ago humans invented agriculture, shedding the hunter - gatherer lifestyle for one in which they created their own food.

The U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, and Agriculture, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) should continue investments at the national level and increase investments at the international level to improve capabilities to confront the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.

Slow uptake Projects to promote the application of urine in agriculture have spread worldwide over the last decade: from pee collection and transport systems designed for 6,500 users in urban Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; to research on the application of human urine for carp fish farming in West Bengal, India; and more than 135,000 toilets diverting urine in Sweden.

Such evidence accumulates from later periods as humans around the world abandoned a nomadic existence for a more settled one, leading eventually to the creation of agriculture and states.

The transition from a hunter - gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and sedentism was considered such a radical change in human ecology that the term Neolithic revolution was coined for it.

The authors showed that after the initial waves of human arrival, mammal extinctions followed, presumably first caused by hunting and later by forest clearing for agriculture, which reduces the habitat for native mammals.

Unfortunately, the mealybug is equally capable of traveling via a human vector — and it is now devastating the cassava (aka manioc or yucca) crop on some 200,000 hectares in Thailand, where some 60 percent of global exports (worth $ 1.5 billion) are grown, according to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable aAgriculture (CIAT), a Colombia - based research nonprofit focused on reducing hunger and poverty via sustainable agricultureagriculture.

Currently, agriculture accounts for 10 - 12 percent of the total human - caused greenhouse gas emissions globally.

Allowing human water use, largely for agriculture, to expand from 2,600 cubic kilometers today to 4,000 cubic kilometers in the future will allow further degradation at such environmental disaster sites as the drying Aral Sea in Asia and seven major rivers, including the Colorado in the U.S., that no longer reach the sea, notes David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka.

At the beginning of human experiments with agriculture, the effects of changing the patterns of nomadic traditions and thus altering the landscape to suit the farmer's specific purpose were negligible for small communities.

Because of this, the dietary guidelines for Americans, issued by the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, have discreetly dropped any dental floss — related recommendations, The New York Times reports.

«Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human and animal health with bacteria now resistant to the last - resort antibiotics, including carbapenems and polymyxins,» said corresponding author Ed Topp, PhD, Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri - Food, Canada, London, Ontario, describing the motivation for the research.

They have given birth to companies that have licensed the technology for multiple — and in many cases overlapping — applications in human therapeutics, agriculture, and industry.

Thisapparent extinction, far from creating a domino effect of furtherlosses, may have created an opportunity for other grasshopper species.The red - legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), which wasresponsible for newsworthy outbreaks in Idaho two years ago, thrives onground broken by agriculture and other human endeavors.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture had recommended flossing in its 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, a report issued every five years that must be based on scientific evidence.