Sentences with phrase «model farms which»

La Esperanza has created a truly unique environment among their 3 model farms which serves as a leading worldwide example of microlot coffees.

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The Woodleys have developed a uniquely holistic model of service among Native Americans called «Ministry in a Good Way» out of which grew in 2004, a 50 acre sustainable farm and Christian community called Eloheh Village for Indigenous Leadership and Ministry Development.

This «mass balance» model of production allows companies to buy more cocoa from Rainforest Alliance Certified farms, which means that farmers, the environment, and cocoa - growing communities benefit from companies» increasing purchases.

This extensive system of agriculture results in a more natural, welfare - friendly model of farming which has benefits both in terms of carbon emissions and sequestration.

One of our flagship training methods is creating business model farms, which provide local learning hubs where surrounding communities can exchange best practices so that they all learn and benefit — whether they work directly with us or not.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

I was a little panicked because Julian loves to chew on those darn farm animals, but I checked our model number and it was not affected by the recall (which was for loose screws on the stall doors anyway, not lead paint).

Based on what I'd read in Satter's books and elsewhere, all the elements likely to lead to eventual acceptance of vegetables were in place: we weren't forcing the issue, my son saw enthusiastic vegetable consumption modeled by the rest of us every night, and year after year in the school garden he carefully tended the cucumber or carrot plant (something which farm - to - table groups assure us will create a desire to eat the harvest).

While briefing the Governor on the project, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agric, Dr Shakirudeen Olayiwola said the farm started in 2012 and it was copied from the Songhai model of farming which mainly are organic agriculture, zero waste agriculture and training.

But, it's the novel way the team uses well - validated crop models to address the specific research question for which Guan sees the most value in assessing the potential impacts of the five farm management strategies.

The partners develop mathematical models that produce improved forecasts accurate for each quarter - hour, which show how much electricity Germany's installed photovoltaic and wind - farm facilities will generate over the next few hours and days.

And, as much as vegans wouldn't want to admit it, if the human species returned to a more literal Paleo picture — actually hunting for actual wild animals when necessary (and eating them fresh), making animal foods just a part of the overall diet, and eating no refined plants (like white flour or white rice, which don't exist in nature), a couple things would happen: (1) we could put an end to the horrific treatment of animals in the factory farming industry, and (2) the environmental devastation that results from our current food production model would be substantially minimized.

Every so often, farming processes included adding harmful toxins in herbicides and pesticides, not mentioning the feeding of animals in confined conditions which has drastically changed food production from the small local and sustainable farm model that the informed general population would want.

Developed by Mocon Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota in partnership with Luxel Biosciences of Cork, Ireland, the small, compact GreenLightâ «cents Model 910 is a breakthrough system which offers rapid, same day, preventative screening technology for aerobic bacteria right on the farm by measuring respiration to determine the total live bacteria colony count.

«THE IFAW LIFETIME DEDICATION AWARD GOES TO CELIA HAMMOND - One of the top models in the 60's appearing on countless Vogue covers, Celia used her modelling career as a platform from which to campaign against the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, and other animal abuses.

This resulted in a lot of publicity and Celia realised that her modelling career gave her an ideal platform from which to campaign against the fur trade, factory farming, vivisection, and other animal abuses including, much later, the live export of sheep, calves and pigs across Europe from the UK.

I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.

Well aside from the branding and success stories which might make it an easier sell to homeowners, the resource - heavy kit includes the business model, legal forms and waivers, administrative details, growing methods, processing logistics, sales tactics, a one - hour consultation with a Fleet Farming Program Coordinator and more.

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

When we talk about «proof» we're not talking about smoke and mirrors «modelling» based on long - term average wind farm output — which ignores the extra gas and coal being burnt (and wasted) in order to balance the grid to account for wild fluctuations in wind power output (see our post here); and to maintain additional «spinning reserve» (see our post here) to account for complete collapses in wind power output — as seen in this post.

Zedeck writes,» [B] y eliminating the need for traditional fertilizers (which damage soil and water tables), and distributing a cost effective drip irrigation system and training on green water management (rainwater collection) techniques, we think the Backpack farm model could actually shift the entire mindset of how to develop rural economies and make a positive impact Africa's food security by empowering rural farmers with access to markets.

The model they show can power 40 houses, but the next one should be able to power 160, with wave farms planned for Spain, Scotland and Oregon.Then NBC has a look at Verdant Power's tidal turbines which we've covered here.

Law firms thinking about their business and operating models need to consider which practices and matters rise to the level of «bet the farm.»

For Google, the goal of such deals is to show that cross-licensing is a better model than «patent privateering,» in which companies farm out patents to shell companies that then threaten to sue a broad range of targets.