Sentences with phrase «models of agricultural production»

-- creation of new models of agricultural production which are non-destructive to the earth and phreatic layers

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Around the fringes of the agricultural establishment more and more individuals are repulsed by the threat to the sustainability of food production built into the industrial model.

We identified three interrelated points of tension being intensified by supermarket chains: whether progress is encapsulated by being an agricultural production or a modern consumption centre; whether progress should be based on a model of corporate capital or the local small business; and to what extent modern citizens can and should support community shopping instead of convenience shopping.

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

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.

They are solved by the most modern theories and models of human behaviour in the broader context of development, population, technology, agricultural production and environmental conservation and restoration.

The report calls for improved efficiency of water use, better knowledge development and training, the integration of climate - smart production models, increased investment in agricultural development and harmonization of national policies and actions.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

Precipitation projections, for example, are important for many impacts studies — of freshwater availability, agricultural production, and development of water - hungry industries — but global climate models differ wildly on precipitation in African locales.

# 146 — From Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production «Temperature effects on the rates of biochemical reactions may be modelled as the product of two functions, an exponentially increasing rate of the forward reaction and an exponential decay resulting from enzyme denaturation as temperatures increase (Figure 6.