Sentences with phrase «more ecological agriculture»
Environmentalists everywhere will welcome the news that the United Nations is backing more ecological agriculture; not just for its green benefits but in order to produce an estimated doubling of yields in areas affected by food shortages.
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These certifications signify a more holistic, ecological, and spiritual approach to agriculture, food production, and nutrition.
Comparing to neighbouring Rwanda, whose food production is in a much better state, Burundi has more conducive ecological conditions for agriculture, such as vast plains.
Long before the advent of agriculture, hunter - gatherers began putting down roots in the Middle East, building more permanent homes and altering the ecological balance in ways that allowed the common house mouse to flourish, new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates.
Once an expansive 46 - acre network of wetlands, dunes, and a 13 - acre open freshwater lagoon, the area has suffered more than a century of ecological degradation from agriculture, recreation, and road construction.
«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.
The combination of all these forces — consumption, deforestation, agriculture and food, emissions — underscores more than ever the value of a comprehensive measure like the Ecological Footprint that takes into account all competing demands on the biosphere, including CO2 emissions and the capacity of our forests and oceans to absorb carbon.
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.
Small - scale agriculture and traditional ecological knowledge of farmers and indigenous people are as — if not more — important to a future food system than genetic engineering and capital - intensive forms of agriculture.