Sentences with phrase «more conventional agriculture»

Not exact matches

«One of the criticisms [of organic agriculture] is because it is more expensive, maybe it's not as accessible to some people as conventional products, and certainly that is something that needs to be considered as well,» Crowder says.

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

Some specific benefits of using KAMUT ® khorasan are receiving more nutrients, protein, and taste than conventional whole wheat — plus supporting organic agriculture and helping to preserve an ancient grain.

Compared to conventional agriculture, N inputs are more expensive and more difficult to apply in organic agriculture, and this makes over-addition less likely, but there are still seasons (e.g. after spring inputs or after harvest) in which N losses can be problematic for the following reasons.

The authors concluded that the organic agriculture system was more effective than the conventional agriculture system in reducing soil erosion and in maintaining soil productivity.

In contrast to conventional agriculture, organic farmers depend more on a high and sustained supply of organic substances including crop rotations with clover / grass ley, underseeds, catch crops, green and animal manure.

Supporters of organic farming acknowledge that production methods are currently more expensive, but point to the subsidies paid to conventional agriculture and funding provided for research in contrast to organic farming as making the comparison unfair.

This journey also led me to question three pillars of conventional wisdom about today's industrialized agrochemical agriculture: that it feeds the world, is a more efficient way to produce food and will be necessary to feed the future.

Because organic agriculture produces on average only half the yield of crops per unit of land as conventional farming, any mass conversion to organic would end up using much more land.

The herbicides are also building up in rainwater, because the air has become more polluted with pesticides from conventional agriculture and intensive chemical GMO agriculture.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

«But as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could go on.

Organic Agriculture, Food Security, and the Environment Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventionAgriculture, Food Security, and the Environment Organic agriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventionagriculture is often perceived as more sustainable than conventional farming.

More important, although once dismissed as clownish, negligent farming, the organic movement is now seen as an innovative standard setter that is pulling all of conventional agriculture toward higher environmental standards and more sustainable practiMore important, although once dismissed as clownish, negligent farming, the organic movement is now seen as an innovative standard setter that is pulling all of conventional agriculture toward higher environmental standards and more sustainable practimore sustainable practices.

Conventional cotton farming — representing 12 % of world agriculture — uses more pesticides than all other agricultural production.

This approach also has other huge benefits — it helps to restore the overall health of ecosystems in other ways, and organic agriculture has been shown to be more productive than «conventional» agriculture under the conditions of drought which AGW is already making more common.

According to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), organic agriculture earns farmers more — often significantly more — than conventional farming.

Again, big conventional agriculture wins out over more sustainable growers and environmental interests.

If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.

However the smaller parcel of land needed to grow X amount of food using conventional agriculture, as well as the surrounding landscape, will be much more heavily impacted than the larger parcel of land needed if we opt for organic agriculture instead.

But conventional loans — which are not insured by a government agency like the FHA, the Department of Veterans Affairs or the U.S. Department of Agriculture — have gotten more competitive lately.