The rates of chronic disease just keep going up
the more big agriculture tells us to eat these common crops.
Not exact matches
This implies that risks are not too
big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are
more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from
agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.
Data from the U.S. Department of
Agriculture show
big gains in Americans» spice consumption since the 1970s, including 600 percent
more chile pepper, 300 percent
more cumin, and a whopping 1,600 percent
more ginger.
«He said that not only are our
big export trade deals in Asia, China, Japan, Korea, opening up
more markets for him and so many other Australian agricultural exporters - but also he praised the Department of
Agriculture.
I think if you look back ten years ago,
agriculture wasn't a
big part of the conversation for our economy, and today food processing is one of the
more important and growing elements of our regional economy.»
«These IPM programs are very
big in Africa because they get funding from international funding agencies to develop
more sustainable
agriculture,» explains Chiasson.
But if you want to argue for the moment that
agriculture has a
big cost to the environment and humanity (without qualifying that appropriately), then you have to stay away from meat, dairy and eggs
more than ever — especially if you want to avoid war.
Not because we can't, but because
big agriculture is
more focused on things like corn and soybeans.
This approach forces them to be
more direct,
more open and honest, about the values - based reasons they oppose GM food; that it fuels commercial scale
agriculture, that it produces profits for
big rich companies that are harming «nature,» etc..
Half New Zealand's emissions come from
agriculture and it is time the sector's leaders acknowledged there is a
big potential for savings now instead of constantly claiming
more time is needed for research.
LONDON, 8 February, 2016 − Here is the
big challenge: can 21st - century
agriculture deliver the right levels of nourishment for nine billion people by the end of the century, and at the same time protect nature, save on energy and soak up ever
more carbon from the atmosphere to limit the impact of climate change?
«The
more the temperature rises, the
bigger the benefits will be (for
agriculture).
More generally, with limited large - scale
agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon so far, arguably the
biggest deforestation threat comes from colonization by Andean migrants with little or no knowledge of sustainable tropical horticulture and who can have devastating ecological impacts.
By far,
agriculture is the
biggest user of water in these river basins —
more than 80 percent of all water withdrawals are by
agriculture.
And while we're seeing a resurgence of interest in so - called «real food» or slow food and local food, it's going to take a lot
more than a few urban rooftop farms in
big cities, or the expansion of certified organic shipping container farms, or an explosion in countertop gardening units to go from our current wasteful food and
agriculture system to a model that is ultimately sustainable and future - focused.
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Above all, take this as a reminder that GM crops are far far
more about
big business and
big profits for their developers than they are about increasing crop yields, feeding
more people either in rich or poor nations, or developing climate - resistant
agriculture.
Again,
big conventional
agriculture wins out over
more sustainable growers and environmental interests.
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