Sentences with phrase «industrial agriculture practices»

As with many traditional forms of agriculture around the world, the cacao industry in Belize was almost extinct due to the industrial agriculture practices of deforestation and growing cacao on large plantations.

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There is significant potential for hemp to play a role in reducing market dependency on non-sustainable industrial agriculture and energy practices.

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

We've lobbied against the cruelest practices in industrial agriculture, such as extreme confinement in tiny cages or crates, and we've won.

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

The Fortune 500 company — which runs the dining operations at thousands of schools and other institutions across the country — is tackling three key area where industrial agriculture has been badly failing in its production model: intensive confinement, painful procedures and practices, and unnaturally fast growth.

After decades with run - off from agriculture, human sewage and industrial practices, phosphorus has been stock piled at an alarming rate in our lake bed sediments.

Spotlighting farmers who have pushed backed against industrial agriculture with more humane practices, Eating Animals offers attainable, commonsense solutions to a growing crisis while making the case that ethical farming is not only an animal rights issue but one that affects every aspect of our lives.

Because organic agriculture and other biodiversity - friendly farming practices generally have lower yields than industrial agriculture, REDD will therefore encourage a shift toward from more productive forms of food production.

Instead of creating one more body for business - as - usual, governments, funding agencies, and international organizations should be taking bold action: committing to shift resources away from climate - damaging practices of chemical - intensive industrial agriculture and meat production and towards investment in and commitment to agroecology, food sovereignty, and support to small - scale food producers.

After decades of run - off from agriculture, human sewage and industrial practices, phosphorus has been stock piled at an alarming rate in our lake bed sediments.