Sentences with phrase «into organic agriculture»

Initially, the organization established regulations that, according to Patty Martin, director of Safe Food and Fertilizer, would have been like «driving a hazardous waste truck into organic agriculture.»

The program offers assistance with job placement and developing business plans for farms so that graduates can easily move into organic agriculture careers.

After he retired he started looking more into organic agriculture and ways in which he could learn more about the subject.

Not exact matches

«We knew going into this that organic agriculture is less productive in terms of crop yields than conventional agriculture,» Crowder says.

The Ethiopian region Tigray, which IFOAM — Organics International has always showcased as one of the best examples for putting sustainable agriculture practices and policies into practice globally, was awarded with the Gold Future Policy Award 2017.

When I used to have a CSA -LCB- Community Sponsored Agriculture — A box of fresh, local, organic produce delivered -RCB- and when I go to the farmers market I love that I'm challenged to find a new way to eat in order to work something new into my week.

This program targets the needs of those veterans who are interested in organic agriculture, but are not sure if they want to make a career change into agriculture.

This desperation has made the Neus into innovative farmers — they transitioned to organic in 1990 before Canada had a national organic standard, and they started the first community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Saskatchewan in 2005, which has grown to more than 120 members.

Her business tackles waste management issues by rapidly recycling large volumes of food scraps into fertilizer, while at the same time supporting the scalability of organic agriculture.

The ability to define strategies that combine these and other management elements into a single approach is proper to organic agriculture.

Your donation to the Future Organic Farmer Grant Fund helps students from kindergarten through college learn about organic agriculture and grow into organic professionals.

The promotion of organic agriculture through education and training, in countries suffering desertification, could be a key to bringing degraded land back into production.

In fact, many farmers in developing countries perceive organic agriculture as a product meeting the demand of industrialized country consumers, and incorporated into the systems of trade and distribution that prevail in conventional agriculture.

Although those systems do not fall within the «non-certified organic agriculture» category, they offer comparative advantages for «conversion» or «up - grading» into non-certified organic agriculture systems.

With a view to facilitating small farmers entry into internationally agreed organic standards, the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) is operating worldwide to develop a reliable smallholder certification system, i.e. the Internal Control System (see Box 5 in Chapter 1).

The Organic Trade Association is suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over its failure to put into effect new organic livestock standards.

The group also asks its members to support the inclusion into the House bill of The Healthy School Meals Act (which would require more plant - based meal options in accordance with recommendations made by the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association) and to provide comments to the House supporting changes to the Farm Bill (in 2012) to increase federal support for local, organic diversified agriculture.

Genetics, biochemistry, organic chemistry, theoretical biology, medicine, agriculture, cybernetics, physics, and mathematics were the major fields from which people found their way into this new kind of research.

And it's not like so - called organic agriculture is helping with that: Nitrate leaching into waterways can come from manure, as in the Netherlands or overuse of fertilizer, as in Iowa.

But for those of us who do eat meat, and who believe that well - treated animals in an integrated farming system make at least as much sense as vegan organic agriculture, learning more about what goes into animal raising, killing, and butchery is a step toward a more honest and ethical approach to eating meat.

The RUAF Foundation organises electronic conferences in cooperation with leading international organisations, including E-conferences on: «Urban agriculture, nutrition and health» with UN FAO (Rome); «Integration of urban agriculture into urban land use planning» with UN Habitat (Nairobi); «Productive reuse of organic wastes and wastewater» with IWMI (Sri Lanka); «Urban aquaculture» with Stirling University (Scotland); and «The dynamics of urban food systems» with Wageningen University (the Netherlands).

The program offers assistance with job placement and developing business plans for farms so that participants can easily move into rewarding organic agriculture careers.

Industrial and organic farming mate and turn into high - yielding, sustainable agriculture.

This program targets the needs of those veterans who are interested in organic agriculture, but are not sure if they want to make a career change into agriculture.

After completing the Summer Semester at Rodale Institute, she is excited to be delving into the university side of organic agriculture.

Published last week in the journal Science, researchers from New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) found that the majority of methane released into the atmosphere since 2006 was produced by bacteria, pointing to sources like agriculture — rather than sources like fossil fuel production or the burning of organic material — as the culprit behind the increase in methane levels.

Instead, we should channel resources into programs that support organic agriculture, local and regional healthy foods, beginning farmers, conservation, and diversified, pasture - based systems that protect our water, build healthy soil, and provide greater biodiversity and habitat for pollinators and other wildlife.

Can you fit the organic agriculture movement in Cuba into the bigger picture?