Sentences with phrase «methods of agricultural production»

For more than 30 years, MASIPAG has pushed for an alternative method of agricultural productions that emphasized the conservation and improvement of agrobiodiversity, and maximizing the available natural resources to improve and develop farm production.

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But it only minimally addresses the impact of agricultural production methods on pollinators

When we first decided to produce and export a truly unrefined virgin coconut oil from the Philippines to the U.S. market, we visited the top agricultural university in the Philippines and discussed the various methods of producing an unrefined coconut oil with their top scientists familiar with coconut oil production.

For quite some time now, various European agricultural products have been enjoying trademark protection due to their unique origin and production methods (see also The Question of Origin - Controlled Chiles.

These groups were less concerned about market fluctuations and more concerned with issues of social equity, environmental health and having fun, which meant they unwittingly epitomised the goals of political ecology, by challenging the dominant agricultural methods of production and marketing.

Lots of UK farms benefit financially from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which has long been used to channel a large chunk of the EU «s budget into increasingly unsustainable food production methods.

Changing the production methods of small farmers requires financial incentives along with political will; otherwise there is a risk that rich and productive agricultural land will have disappeared altogether in 20 years,» says Yann Clough.

Steward conducted the study with Kansas State University's Michael Apley, professor of clinical sciences and an expert in cattle production; Stephen Welch, professor of agronomy, who helped with a statistics method called bootstrapping; Scott Staggenborg, adjunct professor in agronomy who studies agricultural production methods; Paul Bruss, a 2011 master's degree graduate in civil engineering; and Xiaoying Yang, a former postdoctoral research assistant who is now at Fudan University in China.

All the mentioned characteristics of this material, its easy method of production and its low price compared to the traditional fertilizers make this new material a sustainable alternative with an easy market deployment in the area of agricultural fertilization.

A global team of scientists, led by those at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, used two different simulation methods and one statistical method to predict the impact of rising temperatures on global wheat production, and all came to similar estimates.

In defiance of more gloomy projections, he has also concluded that improving agricultural technologies and production methods will lead to a «great reversal» of the degradation of land and oceans.

2) Change Agricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science aAgricultural methods to high yielding regenerative models of production made possible by recent biological & agricultural science aagricultural science advancements.

Rather, Lehmann says, biochar should be sourced from the massive amount of waste materials that normal agricultural and forestry production methods leave behind: corn stalks, rice husks, tree trimmings, and the like.