Sentences with phrase «intensification of agricultural production»

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The intensification and upscaling of agriculture during the 1960s was supported by Government and EEC grants, and the widespread use of chemicals and pharmaceuticals was encouraged by the Common Agricultural Policy's sole focus on production.

SciDevNet — The initiative known as Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is focusing on eight priority areas — self - sufficiency in rice, intensification of cassava, food security in the Sahel, transforming savannas as a breadbasket, restoring tree plantations, expanding horticulture, increasing wheat production and expanded fish farming.

Human activity has caused a significant long - term cooling trend -LRB--0.35 °C between the 1940s and 2009) and higher rainfall totals via the mechanism of «agricultural intensification» — a photosynthesis - associated increase in the air's water vapor or humidity levels due to an explosive (400 %) increase in crop production and yield since the 1940s.