Sentences with phrase «intensified agricultural practices»

This is due to a combination of human activities (population growth, intensified agricultural practices, increased land use and deforestation, industrialisation and associated energy use from fossil fuel sources) as well as a strong El Niño event.

The residents of these communities could not support themselves using rainfall agriculture alone, so they had to intensify their agricultural practices.

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Wes Jackson, president of the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, insists that we must reform agriculture instead of intensifying current agricultural practices.

Martin Warren, chief executive of Butterfly Conservation (UK), points out that environmentally sustainable farming practices don't get government assistance, whereas intensified farming does — it's an example of when agricultural economics ignore the long - term life of an area.