Sentences with phrase «moves by agriculture»
The ACCC told a Senate Inquiry yesterday that it disagrees with moves by Agriculture Minister, Barnaby Joyce, to allow competition law exemptions at grain ports.
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The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.
The conference, presented by The Organic Center in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Economic Research Service, focused on making certain that the research happening in the organic sector tackles the issues most critical for moving organic forward, and on communicating research findings in the most effective way.
As the debate on foreign investment in Australia's agriculture rages, QIC's potential investment could well be seen as the first major move by an Australian institution in the cattle sector for more than a decade since AMP sold out of pastoral company Stanbroke.
The new findings, published in JAMA Pediatrics on Monday, bode well for the standards introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in January 2012 that - among other moves - set maximums for calories offered during lunch and mandate that only skim or reduced - fat milk are offered to students.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Wednesday celebrated and defended the Trump administration's recent controversial move to relax some of the school - nutrition standards championed by former first lady Michelle Obama.
The state board of education in Florida also has been considering such a move, but recently was asked by the state's newly appointed agriculture secretary to put that decision on hold pending further study.
All 10 recipes won a contest held by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Let's Move, the national effort to help kids get healthier.
AAAS CEO Rush Holt responded Tuesday to moves by the Trump administration to bar employees at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture from communicating with the media or engaging on social media.
Hawkes also points out a major benefit of research on microbiome treatments: They may one day help move growers toward more sustainable, low - input agriculture by using plant - microbe interactions as opposed to chemical additives.
The unusually deadly bacteria moved undetected through the food supply from livestock to agriculture to the dinner table, and the response to the outbreak was branded slow and inefficient by physicians and scientists (see «Microbe outbreak panics Europe»).
Whatever we do, species will continue to be moved for agriculture, horticulture, forestry, the pet trade, medicine — and by accident.
According to an assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, «the contribution of the livestock sector to global greenhouse gas emissions exceeds that of transportation,» and a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences estimated the impact of a global move to a plant - based diet could reduce global mortality by 6 to 10 percent and reduce food - related greenhouse gas emissions by 29 to 70 percent.
«I welcome the opportunity to serve as director of agriculture and forestry as we move forward to make both programs stronger by being combined into one unit.»
I have found other places that say things like: «The rain moves a lot of miles for a small temperature change and agriculture fails soon;» and «6 degrees more and we go extinct when H2S is made in large amounts by ocean bacteria.»
Agriculture would have remained very local or been dependent on its out put being moved largely by electrified train.
Brussels, Belgium — Reforming energy and agriculture should be top priorities in moving toward sustainable patterns of consumption, according to a new report from the United Nations Environmental Programme's (UNEP) International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management, which is co-chaired by former Bren School dean Ernst von Weizsäcker.
In particular, it points out that, in order to effectively couple climate financing with strong and measurable sustainable development criteria, there is a need to move beyond carbon as a standalone tradeable commodity, by increasingly valuing the significant range of additional ecosystem and socio - economic services provided by sustainable agriculture practices and programmes that simultaneously address climate concerns and sustainable rural development priorities.
So the emphasis shifted to poleward shift of climate zones with particular emphasis on rain and desert belts moving such that agriculture is disrupted by great changes in precipitation patterns.
There'd have to be an agreement by all nations to do it, because if only some nations do this, it would move rainfall around, and everything that happened to agriculture would get blamed on it.
In discussions on agriculture and adaptation, for example, vulnerable countries» efforts to move towards implementation, were stalled by developed countries» apparent allergy to anything that has cost implications.»
At the same time agriculture has also moved increasingly toward systems dominated by a few annual crops — typically corn and soybeans — often with fields left bare between growing seasons.
This is followed up by highly speculative and unsubstantiated claims that «the sweet spots for agriculture will move northwards».
The Kansas Department of Agriculture has recently announced that it would move most of its offices to the city of Manhattan, and in 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also announced it would complete construction of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) by 2020.