Sentences with phrase «in agricultural practices»

This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world.

The increase in yields for both crops over the past 13 years, the report found, was largely attributable to traditional breeding or improvements in agricultural practices.

Matt Liebman, who studies cropping systems at Iowa State University, is hopeful that a shift in agricultural practices in the Midwest could make a big difference for the Gulf of Mexico.

«This intensification in agricultural practices in response to climate change, however, will also create new environmental pressures.

First, accurately estimating the amount of carbon being sequestered and / or avoided in an agricultural practice is often more difficult and time consuming than in activities that reduce fossil fuel emissions.

«Dramatic changes needed in farming practices to keep pace with climate change: Major changes in agricultural practices will be required to offset increases in nutrient losses due to climate change, according to research.»

The 20th Century saw massive changes in agricultural practice, particularly in agricultural chemistry.

Major changes in agricultural practices will be required to offset increases in nutrient losses due to climate change, according to research published by a Lancaster University - led team.

«We are trying to get the message out there to use scientific findings such as these to promote a change in agricultural practices.»

The former dust bowl's lone water source could run dry without a change in agricultural practices

A number of «agri - environment» schemes have been introduced to try to halt and reverse the decline of bumblebees, whose numbers have been falling because of changes in agricultural practices that have largely removed flowers from the landscape, leaving the bees with little to feed upon.

10:00 a.m.: Carol Browner mentions elements of legislation that would allow farmers to get income by selling credits for carbon banked in their fields through changes in agricultural practices.

«We're discovering that we as humans, in our agricultural practices, are actually eroding the land at a rate similar to the biggest glaciers and rivers in the world,» said the study's lead author, Michelle N. Koppes of the University of British Columbia.

Time and significant changes in agricultural practices are needed to realize the full potential of energy crops, but expanding the role of perennial grasses in agriculture offers important climate and water quality benefits.