Sentences with phrase «made modern agriculture»

Tucked away in Oregon's Willamette Valley, three massive metal cones could help address the world's dwindling supply of phosphorus, the crucial ingredient of fertilizers that has made modern agriculture possible.

They are essential to modern fertilizers that ensure plentiful supply of affordable and safe food, and also provide the feedstocks that make modern agriculture possible.

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With modernisation and diversification of agriculture being a key component of the NPP's 4 - Point Agenda for the development of Ghana, I wish to assure our farmers and fisherfolk that the blessing of oil will not distract an Akufo - Addo - led NPP government from growing the agricultural sector and making it more modern, more efficient and therefore, more productive.

Historians tend to be suspicious of anything that would be called a grand narrative, yet even some of them have recently made an effort in a field called world history, starting with the beginning of writing or agriculture or even anatomically modern humans.

Although the assumption is often made that agriculture was in every respect an improvement upon the human condition, anthropological research shows that if our Paleolithic ancestors were able to survive accidents, infection and childbirth, their longevity was similar to that of the modern human, but without many of the chronic degenerative diseases that affect us now.

As modern industrial agriculture has been described as a process to turn fossil fuel into food it really does not make much sense to then turn this food back into fossil fuel substitute.

In wealthier countries with modern forms of intensive agriculture, large fractions of nitrogen and phosphorus applied to fields, often more than half, never make it into the crop itself.