Sentences with phrase «land needed for food»

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@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

When the state of Rwanda decided that land on which elephants lived was too valuable for elephants and was needed for the cultivation of food for humans, they did not kill the elephants as pests.

Food and the need for more land.

Producing more food with land already in use means reduced need for fresh farmland, cleared from forests.

We have forged strong links with the Scottish Government and are therefore ideally placed to inform our country's decision - makers on what is best for our industry and what businesses need as we take the next step on our journey to promote Scotland as a Land of Food and Drink.

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

Moreover, as appetites for food and biofuels — made with palm, corn, and other plants — rise, more land is needed to accommodate agriculture.

Environmental groups protested that this calculation did not include the indirect effects of needing land to grow crops for fuel as well as food.

However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of land — meaning less area is needed for agriculture and more land can be «spared» for natural habitats.

That, in turn, could obviate the need for making biofuels from corn, sugar, and other food crops and thereby reduce the need for using prime agricultural land to grow biofuels.

Accounting for food's nutritional value and the land and water resources needed to produce exports offers a more holistic view of how trade affects global food security and the environment.

That has raised widespread concerns over food security because corn and sugarcane grown for ethanol compete with valuable agricultural land needed to feed the planet's 7 billion people.

And we would also need something that could grow on land that isn't being used intensively for food.

Choosing sustainable palm oil for food and personal care applications means that less land needs to be used, and if the palm is grown using sustainable practices (100 percent organic, regenerative agriculture, third - party certifications, and social programs), it is extremely beneficial for local communities and the environment.

The percent of land needed is quite substantial for food to feed the livestock.

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.

Michael Soussan (Theo James, holding his own here) lands that job, working for a man (Ben Kingsley) who says he even knew his dad, having him do what they need to do to keep the U.N.'s «Food For Oil» program alive and going in Irfor a man (Ben Kingsley) who says he even knew his dad, having him do what they need to do to keep the U.N.'s «Food For Oil» program alive and going in IrFor Oil» program alive and going in Iraq.

«Deere & Company (NYSE: DE) is a world leader in providing advanced products and services and is committed to the success of customers whose work is linked to the land — those who cultivate, harvest, transform, enrich and build upon the land to meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, fuel, shelter and infrastructure.

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.

Hidden in the depths of these woodlands, even on the steepest slopes, I found the remains of agricultural terraces, built and used in earlier times of scarcity when this marginal land was needed for food production.

Since 2000, an area of fertile ground roughly twice the size of the UK has been seized by land grabbers and consolidated into large farms, generally growing crops for export rather than the food needed by the poor.»

An outlook published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (/ / go.nature.com/DdNYvk) says that current cropland could be more than doubled by adding 1.6 billion hectares — mostly from Latin America and Africa — without impinging on land needed for forests, protected areas or urbanization.

We need to keep this land available for the upcoming generation of farmers who are willing and eager to produce delicious, healthy local food.»

In addition, biofuel crop production is increasingly competing for the land needed to grow food.

Roughly three - quarters of the world's vegetated land is already being used to meet people's need for food and forest products, and that demand is expected to rise by 70 percent or more by 2050.

The cause is due to excessive demand for power (and other resources) created by massive over-population and the rate of population growth continues to expand exponentially as we sit and pat ourselves on the back for building wind and solar farms all over our best agricultural land, thus removing the vital source of the food we so urgently need to feed the bourgeoning population.

These plans help ensure that the public lands are managed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations under the principles of multiple use and sustained yield, recognizing the Nation's need for domestic sources of minerals, food, timber, and fiber while protecting the quality of scientific, scenic, historical, ecological, environmental, air and atmospheric, water, and archaeological values.

First, the need to understand the basic dimensions of sustainability for biofuels (economic, environmental and social), their linkages and how they relate to the central challenges they address, namely land - use change, food security and climate change.

The land needed for energy crops could encroach on what little land is available for food in countries threatened by famine.

«We're depleting everything,» Seth said, «the land we depend on to grow food, the air we need to breath, the oceans we need for fish.»

Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

In the United States, farmers are paid to «set aside» unplanted land to reduce food surpluses on the condition they keep their land tended for recultivation when needed.

We required this agreement to say: «For emission reductions we need to have a just energy transition with a focus on community - based renewable energy, we need to have a sustainable food system where land rights are respected and food sovereignty are at the forefront, and we need to not sign onto any of these international trade deals that put people and the planet behind profit.»

Agricultural fields could easily convert many acres to grow starchy plants for biofuels and would not need to reduce «native lands» if Americans simply reduced their consumption — of both food and fuel.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.

No Religious Path Advocates Environmental Destruction In other words, while there are differences in motivation for environmental protection between a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Jew, and a Christian — the first two generally seeing humanity as a integral part of nature, the latter two likely seeing the man's relationship to the natural world through the eyes of a caretaker — none of that matters when it comes to the need to preserve our water, our air, our land in an unpolluted state, in growing healthy food in a way that doesn't harm the land, et cetera.

The findings are expected to bolster efforts to ensure that large - scale protection, restoration, and improved land management practices needed to stabilize climate change are achieved while meeting the demand for food and fiber from global lands.

Because organic food continues to bring premium prices in the market, the incremental income makes it possible for local farms to hold onto their land instead of selling out to developers, helping further dampen the need for sprawl to mall driving.

Even when grown on infertile soils, they can provide a substantial portion of global energy needs, and leave fertile land for food production,» said Tilman.

However the smaller parcel of land needed to grow X amount of food using conventional agriculture, as well as the surrounding landscape, will be much more heavily impacted than the larger parcel of land needed if we opt for organic agriculture instead.

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.

It provides the community with a source of food and nutrition, is important for ceremonial occasions, and is needed for barter and exchange.9 It provides Indigenous communities with an invaluable component of their cultural lifestyle and allows them to fulfil their traditional responsibilities related to kinship and land management.10 Through control of fisheries, Indigenous people can manage who can fish, where to fish, which fish, and how many fish can be taken at different times of the year.11

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.