Sentences with phrase «modern modern agriculture»

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

Not exact matches

Part of an emerging crew of startups operating in cellular agriculture — the pairing of food science with genetic engineering — Modern Meadow plans to appeal to more than just the animal - activist crowd.

The drugs, which could be administered in both feed and water, helped shield the livestock from disease, which also allowed farmers to pack more animals into barns and transformed old - fashioned agriculture into its modern industrialized form.

How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.

For another, the more we conserve scarce and nonrenewable resources, such as the oil used so extensively in modern agriculture and elsewhere, the less pressure there will be to engage in an interventionist and imperialist foreign policy and the wars that follow from such a policy.

And that's why modern agriculture uses the «Biblical genetics» described in Genesis 30:37 - 39 to produce desired livestock traits.

See especially Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World - System: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World - Economy in the Sixteenth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1974).

Maybe God can feed and clothe us, but look how much better modern agriculture and industry do the job.

We can change the world's production methods with organic agriculture and regain health benefits now lost with modern wheat by going back to ancient wheat.»

Lammerts van Bueren, E.T. (2010) Future breeding for organic and low - input agriculture: integrating values and modern breeding tools for improving robustness.

April Dobb from IAFN says that if we wish to celebrate agriculture as a profession that is modern, profitable, and cool, then farmers and agripreneurs can not be perceived as isolated people hidden in rural locales.

The committee will report to Mr Wynne and Agriculture Minister Jaala Pulford, who say «local planning schemes have not kept pace» with modern farming methods.

More importantly, to do so without all the harmful farming practices utilized in the modern corporate agriculture industry.

Australian agricultural industry groups are bracing for attacks from animal activists globally following the recent release of an explosive documentary which claims to «expose the dark underbelly of modern animal agriculture».

Before modern agriculture came along, grains were left on the stalk in the field until they sprouted, then they were harvested.

Fruits of Exploited Labor In his book, «Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit,» Barry Estabrook offers a poignant exposé of the tomato industry, tracing the fruit's voyage through a mass production process that incorporates a medley of pesticides and herbicides to combat Florida's difficult growing conditions.

It aims to lead, guide and inspire people from every part of the earth to work cooperatively to reverse the destructive path modern agriculture has taken on our planet.

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (7 June 2017)-- A multi-country seed policy agreement that drastically speeds up the distribution of modern rice varieties across countries in South and Southeast Asia is being sought in a meeting of agriculture ministers and representatives of nine countries this weekend (9 - 10 June 2017) at Siem Reap.

Using modern agriculture...

On September 28, the European Commission organises a stakeholders discussion on new genetic engineering techniques and their legal status at the High Level Conference Modern Biotechnologies in Agriculture.

Over the last century, however, modern intensive agriculture, with its high input of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and monocrop specialization, has been detrimental to the diversity of genetic resources of crop varieties and livestock breeds, to the diversity of wild flora and fauna species and to the diversity of ecosystems.

Agriculture, especially in its most extreme modern form of industrialized monoculture, modifies landscapes and damages the ecosystem's goods and services, including biodiversity at all levels.

Why then, has modern agriculture seemingly abandoned millets?

Another paper will cover the impact of modern agriculture on ecosystems.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

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.

«From Nigeria, I have watched closely your achievements, ranging from your ingenious approach to creating jobs for the teeming youths through various initiatives, including the repositioning of agriculture for modern farming, «Farming for Jobs and Food», Senior High School (SHS) free education, One - District - One - Factory, and One - Village - One - Dam as well as the improvement being recorded in the Republic's macroeconomic indicators.

Medium to large scale farmers must be encouraged utilizing modern agriculture technology.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

He said the institution has the capacity to train, retrain and conduct various researches that would not only increase farmers» yields but also expose them to modern agriculture practices.

The additional uses, which include commercial solar farms, storage warehouses and other structures that some consider essential to modern agriculture, were approved by the Suffolk County Legislature on properties for which Suffolk has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase «development rights.»

The detailed pattern of modern UK agriculture is heavily influenced by the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union, with a combination of price support and set - aside policy.

Long before the rise of modern agriculture, humans relied on three things to bring nitrogen to barren soils: lightning strikes, nitrogen - fixing bacteria, and natural fertilizers.

Modern agriculture extends well beyond the traditional production of food for humans and animal feeds.

«Despite their potential value in meeting the challenges of modern agriculture, few systematic, range - wide collections of wild relatives exist for any crop species,» the team of scientists write, «and even the available wild genetic resources are widely under - utilized for crop improvement.»

They don't deal with the ecological problems of modern agriculture, like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.

Modern agriculture seems locked in a vicious circle of pollinator destruction.

But not all altered landscapes are equal for bees: modern agriculture has taken a severe toll on wild bee numbers.

The Levant (i.e. modern - day Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria) has long been recognised as an important region associated with changes in social complexity and shifts in subsistence economy that pre-empted the shift to agriculture and farming.

One of the biggest modern myths about agriculture is that organic farming is inherently sustainable.

Phosphorus and nitrogen fertilizers drive modern agriculture, but they are also poisoning the planet.

The reports on herbicide resistance and its challenges, and how modern agriculture is coping, were part of a symposium on the topic at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

Since the 1970s, genetics has been used to shed light on the spread of agriculture from the Middle East, as well as to look into the ancestry of modern Europeans.

«When we understand them well and can control them, we should be able to regulate root activity,» just like modern agriculture has successfully altered activity aboveground, he says.

The main trigger of this bee mortality does not seem to be the use of pesticides in modern agriculture.

Yes, says Horsch, in a recent speech: «We can not afford to squander our time debating that last fraction of risk from fantastic «what if» scenarios of biotechnology that ignore 10 millennia of broad experience in agriculture and tremendous modern insights into the science of genetics.»

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.

To explore the transition to agriculture, scientists have looked to the Natufians, an ancient hunter - gatherer society that flourished from about 12,500 to 9500 B.C.E. in a part of the Middle East called the Levant, which includes pieces of modern - day Cyprus, Syria, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine.

If that's true, then the spread of agriculture around 10,000 years ago may have been what led modern hunter - gatherers to develop extensive social networks.

But Sikora's study «shows that modern humans already lived in socially fluid societies well before the origins of agriculture,» says anthropologist Andrea Migliano of University College London.