Sentences with phrase «increasing farm lands»

In cultivating our ability to «farm carbon,» we would simultaneously be reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and chemical fertilizers, increasing our farm lands» ability to retain nutrients and hold water, we'd be mitigating flooding and protecting against drought, and we'd be enhancing biodiversity too.

OMG Even our foods are day by day became more artificial to face increasing market demand rather than increasing farm lands and production globally to assist avoiding the famine and that way they created jobs, hopes and fed with out being effected by global changes as a hungry man is an angry man!

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Simons noted that one of the biggest reasons that the average age of farmers is increasing is because young British Columbians who want to farm can't afford land.

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

«Agriculture will have no choice but to be more productive,» Diouf added, noting that increases would need to come mostly from yield growth and improved cropping intensity rather than from farming more land despite the fact that there are still ample land resources with potential for cultivation, particularly in sub-Sahara Africa and Latin America.

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

In contrast, the conversion to organic farming should consumption patterns remain unchanged would lead to increased land use change to agriculture.

It should be noted that IRRI's high - yielding varieties and farming technologies have enabled increases in production per land area for farmers and made rice generally more affordable for consumers.

Given the remaining land capacity on earth and the maximum efficiency of existing farms and the environmental impacts of farming, we can not rely on increased farming to feed the growing population.

Chiszar said voters who supported the tax increase referendum question that allowed the Park District to buy the area's last working farm wanted the land developed as a whole «unique piece of property.»

-- Mass Audubon is increasing by half the size of its 240 - acre Lime Kiln Farm Wildlife Sanctuary, one of the most beautiful and biologically diverse tracts of protected land in the southern Berkshires.

The Erie county legislature hereby finds, declares, and determines that farming is important to Erie county because it is a major occupation within the county, providing a livelihood and employment for thousands of residents; farming remains the single - largest industry in New York state; farming provides locally produced, fresh commodities; agricultural diversity promotes economic stability; agriculture promotes open space and promotes environmental quality; agricultural land does not increase the demand for services provided by county or local governments.

The new Erie County Agricultural and Farmland Protection Plan creates innovative strategies to guide the County to identify and protect agricultural land with development pressure, support new farms and attract new farmers to Erie County, identify strategies to increase the financial viability of agriculture in the County, connect rural and urban farmers with consumers and new markets, and increase accessibility of healthy, local food for consumers.

In addition, by paving over previously open space — or farming previously reserved lands — communities in these watersheds contribute to record high waters through increased runoff.

Another aspect that Beach is studying is whether Mayan practices of clearing upland wetland land for farming and using central reservoirs and canals «could be part of this broader increase of methane that has occurred over the later Holocene.»

And the World Bank reported recently that when land in the northeastern Piaui district was redistributed to small farmers, yields increased by up to 40 per cent on naturally irrigated farms and up to 70 per cent on those that were artificially irrigated.

* A study published in Nature Climate Change earlier this month suggests that if the UK increased farm yields in line with what experts believe is possible, and turned spared land into forest and wetland, the resulting carbon «sink» could balance out the nation's agricultural emissions by 2050 — in line with government targets.

New research suggests that offering financial incentives for farming industries to mitigate the impact agriculture has on the environment, by reducing fertiliser use and «sparing» land for conservation, for example, actually has a positive effect on critical areas such as greenhouse gas reduction and increased biodiversity.

Over the past 50 years, while the world population doubled, food production increased by 300 % but extra land taken for farming increased by only 12 %.

So he started out by replanting the land according to a system of natural succession — eventually reforesting the entire area and turning it into an incredibly biodiverse yet productive working farm which, it's claimed, has actually altered the microclimate around it in the form of increased rainfall and lower temperatures.

Synthetic biology may hold the key to increasing yields on currently farmed land — and hence helping address food security — by enhancing photosynthesis and reducing pre-harvest losses, as well as reducing post-harvest and post-consumer waste.

Another developing approach to increasing crop yields is vertical farming, which is the ability to grow crops indoors in stacked vertical structures, thereby taking up less land.

That increases the odds that small blazes people use for clearing land for farming can turn into much larger conflagrations that can release some of the Amazon's massive store of carbon.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

I would stuff the excess into investments or assets with potential for increase in value: McLaren MP12 - C, 1941 Cadillac Convertible, Cabin in the woods, farm land, etc.; or maybe just give it away or spend it on living well.

While prices can drop for parcels of land greater than five acres, these price increases are setting off alarm bells, especially when paired with statistics from agricultural lender Farm Credit Canada that show that any land priced above $ 80,000 per acre makes farming unsustainable.

Given the significant increases in land and quota values over the last number of years it is becoming increasingly difficult to transfer the family farm at fair market value and meet the cash requirements of paying farm debt, repaying of the parents» investment, paying income tax on the farm operations, investing in additional farm operations and upgrades, and provide a living for the children.

Global About Blog The Urban Farming ™ mission is to create an abundance of food for people in need by planting, supporting and encouraging the establishment of gardens on unused land and space while increasing diversity, raising awareness for health and wellness, inspiring and educating youth, adults and seniors to create an economically sustainable system to uplift communities around the globe.

Strategies to increase the soil carbon pool include: soil restoration, and woodland regeneration, no - till farming, cover crops, nutrient management, manuring and sludge application, i mproved grazing, water conservation, and harvesting, efficient irrigation, agroforestry practices, and growing energy crops on spare lands.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

But the effect of our infrastructure, land clearing, farming and grazing would be an enormous increase in stormwater runoff.

Some farming practices and other land uses increase the levels of methane and nitrous oxide.

Streamflows will fall if cotton farming, rice growing, and urban and industrial demands for land - water increase.

Whilst this is partly true, that the increase of wind farms can overtake and disturbs the view our amazing landscapes, it is important to remember that in the majority of cases, wind farms are strictly prohibited to one side of a road, land area or region; therefore still allowing our landscapes to be mainly untouched, and display its natural beauty.

Floods and droughts become more frequent and severe, which is likely to seriously affect farm productivity and the livelihoods of rural communities, and increase the risk of conflicts over land and water.

The natural variation that has led us out of the Little Ice Age has a bit of frosting on the cake by land use; and, part of that land use has resulted in a change in vegetation and soil CO2 loss so that we see a rise in CO2 and the CO2 continues to rise without a temperature accompaniment (piano player went to take a leak), as the land use has all but gobbled up most of the arable land North of 30N and we are starting to see low till farming and some soil conservation just beginning when the soil will again take up the CO2, and the GMO's will increase yields, then CO2 will start coming down on its own and we can go to bed listening to Ave Maria to address another global crisis to get the populous all scared begging governments to tell us much ado about... nothing.

, wind farms covering 6 percent of the entire land surface of the 48 contiguous states, an outrageous and unrealistic increase in ecologically harmful hydroelectric power, and a build out of electricity generation capacity that hurtles along at 14 times the average rate of capacity expansion in the past half - century.

By Rob Ellison Some of the increase in atmospheric CO2 can be ascribed to a decline in soil carbon following land conversion to intensive farming methods (grazing or cropping).

Barbara Fraser writes in The Daily Climate that «experts predict that climate change will exacerbate water scarcity, increasing conflicts between competing users, pitting city dwellers against rural residents, people in dry lands against those in areas with abundant rainfall and Andean mining companies against neighboring farm communities.»

«We estimate that by actively increasing farm yields, the UK can reduce the amount of land that is a source of greenhouse gases, increase the «sink», and sequester enough carbon to hit national emission reduction targets for the agriculture industry by 2050.»

Additionally, farmers who lease their land to wind developers earn royalty payments that greatly increase the profitability of their farms.

The first thing that happens when you add an extra agricultural subsidy is that the price of land immediately rises to reflect the increased potential profitability of farming.

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

Strategies to increase the soil carbon pool include soil restoration and woodland regeneration, no - till farming, cover crops, nutrient management, manuring and sludge application, improved grazing, water conservation and harvesting, efficient irrigation, agroforestry practices, and growing energy crops on spare lands.

This vision, as outlined in An Ecomodernist Manifesto, is one of urbanization; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; and «rewilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species.

«It increases along with grass and as tree pollen decreases, indicating the clearing of land for homes and farms and the demand for wood for heating and building.»

In addition, the law allows extended shutdowns for turbine inspections and could lead to a fourfold increase in taxes for all land - based wind farm operations.

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It is to be expected that they would increase because of the increased earning potential of the land, increased employment, increased affluence of the turbine - hosting farmers, and the generous community development grants that are being provided by the wind farm operator.