Sentences with phrase «modern agricultural practices»

Much of the 180 billion tons of carbon lost from vegetation and soils can be taken up in soil under the most modern agricultural practices.

[The iron was traditionally delivered to the open ocean in wind - borne dust from arid lands which has now been depleted by 30 % or more by modern agricultural practices...]

The need for these botanical libraries has its roots in modern agricultural practices, which have whittled farmers» once - vibrant mix of plants down to a narrow collection.

By introducing modern agricultural practices and monoculture, these could increase productivity, that is, the amount produced by each worker.

Callebaut's Growing Great Chocolate program actively supports farmer cooperatives in adopting innovative and modern agricultural practices offered through training programs in the field.

Pollution from excess nutrients Modern agricultural practices result in some of the nitrates and phosphates applied to the land being washed into waterways and causing problems such as toxic algal blooms and changing ecological balances.

The Burrowing Owl is already a species of conservation concern because modern agricultural practices have removed the prairie dogs and ground squirrels that it depends on to provide nesting burrows.

Modern agricultural practices have stripped our soil of minerals like Mg, so we get less in our food.

Modern agricultural practices, including the use of antibiotics in livestock, reduce the range of probiotics the gut is exposed to even more.

Modern agricultural practices are taking a heavy toll on soil and environmental health, and the way we raise animal foods, results in animal products that are far inferior compared to their ancestral past

Yet, some of its most recent offerings are actually correcting the modern agricultural practices of humans.

Apart from various aspects of GMOs, she will probably write about botany, evolution, domestication, molecular biology, biotechnology, modern agricultural practices and more, all as related to food.