Sentences with phrase «of ecological agriculture»

«If you buy organic fruits and vegetables, you can be sure you have, on average, a higher amount of antioxidants at the same calorie level,» according to lead researcher Carlo Leifert, a professor of ecological agriculture at Newcastle University in England.

Two years ago, Carlo Leifert, the leader of the review and a professor of ecological agriculture at Newcastle University in England, led a similar review, finding that organic fruits and vegetables had higher levels of some antioxidants than their conventionally grown counterparts.

[The role of ecological agriculture in development of Croatian rural areas.]

The goal of an arcology, like that of ecological agriculture, would be to meet all its needs with passive solar energy.

Not exact matches

2011 — Laure Waridel, social and environmental activist and co-founder of Equiterre, a not - for - profit that advocates for fair trade, sustainable transportation, ecological agriculture and energy efficiency.

Of course, all our discussion of ecological philosophy, ecological urbanization, ecological agriculture, and so forth, has economic assumptions and implicationOf course, all our discussion of ecological philosophy, ecological urbanization, ecological agriculture, and so forth, has economic assumptions and implicationof ecological philosophy, ecological urbanization, ecological agriculture, and so forth, has economic assumptions and implications.

Looking at the process of agriculture as an ecological activity of divine providence stems from our understanding that farming was an integral part of the ancient life.

This ecological point of view underlies such international organizations as The Food and Agriculture Organization, the UN Conference on Trade and Development (and consequent establishment of a Trade Board), UNESCO, the UN Special Fund and Technical Assistance program, and others.

If agriculture is to remain productive, it must preserve the land, and the fertility and ecological health of the land; the land, that is, must be used well.

The solar energy might be collected in vast greenhouses that would also be part of the labor - intensive agriculture of the ecological civilization.

Proceedings of the Conference «Why shall Estonian agriculture be ecological?»

In order to facilitate knowledge and experience sharing within and beyond the African (Ecological) Organic Movement, as well as accelerate the uptake of Organic Agriculture, the Africa Office of IFOAM — Organics International works with local training and coaching institutions in project implementation.

Continued research and innovation is needed to improve production techniques and yields, the ecological sustainability of organic agriculture, and the social responsibility and fairness in its value chains.

Organic Agriculture should attain ecological balance through the design of farming systems, establishment of habitats and maintenance of genetic and agricultural diversity.

The future of food — Scenarios and the effect on natural resource use in agriculture in 2050 Ecological Economics.

This is despite growing high - level recognition of the benefits of ecological based agriculture and organic in particular as a solution to the MDG 1: Extreme Poverty & Hunger:

Instead, farmers right to land, seed freedom and practices of sustainable and ecological agriculture must be supported to ensure safe, nutritious food and a thriving healthy ecology for all.

Organic agriculture is dependent upon stabilizing agro-ecosystems, maintaining ecological balances, developing biological processes to their optimum, and linking agricultural activities with the conservation of biodiversity.

A Political Ecological Analysis of Organic Agriculture in the» Model for Development».

Organic agriculture is prioritized by the Lithuanian Government (through Law No 1 - 734, 1994) and is identified for funding under the specific Programme of «Ecological Agriculture and Order of Financing» (Ministry of Agriculture and Foreagriculture is prioritized by the Lithuanian Government (through Law No 1 - 734, 1994) and is identified for funding under the specific Programme of «Ecological Agriculture and Order of Financing» (Ministry of Agriculture and ForeAgriculture and Order of Financing» (Ministry of Agriculture and ForeAgriculture and Forestry, 1997.

This will happen by adopting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement that works to implement best practices across a full spectrum of sustainability dimensions — social, ecological, economic, cultural and accountability — for the benefit of all of agriculture and the peoples of the world that depend on it.

Current approaches to ecological agriculture such as integrated pest management, integrated plant nutrition systems and conservation tillage, consider only one aspect of the farming system components: pest ecology, plant ecology and soil ecology, respectively.

Doherty et al. (2000) described sustainable agriculture as «ecological engineering solutions aiming to minimally manipulate and manage ecosystems for the benefit of both nature and humanity».

A major deficiency of genetically engineered Golden rice to reduce vit A deficiency is the eclipsing of alternatives offered by biodiverse ecological agriculture agriculture.

Cassman, K. G. Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture.

The Australian definition of organic agriculture states that «organic (bio-dynamic, biological, ecological, or by any other word of similar indication) means produced by specific management practices which take care of the environment and soil.

The establishment of semi-natural habitats within organic systems and the avoidance of pesticide use contribute to maintaining the biological connectivity and the larger ecological web, which benefit both agriculture and nature conservation.

In 2005 the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which monitors the state of the world's forests every few years, reported that 13 million hectares of global forests are lost annually, including 6 million hectares of what are described as primary forests - some of the most biologically diverse ecological systems in the world.

March 2011 The authors of a paper published in a supplement to the Food and Nutrition Bulletinin March 2011 make a case for approaching agriculture as an ecological system serving human nutrition.

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

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

A landmark review of over 1000 papers documenting ecological change in the United States has found that a shifting climate is affecting agriculture, biodiversity, and land and water resources from the mountains of Alaska to the sands of Death Valley.

When man breaks good ground for agriculture, he effects a deflection in the natural process of ecological succession.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

But land, water and fertilisers are already in short supply in many areas, and expansion of agricultural land will put further pressure on biodiversity, increase greenhouse gas emissions, and perhaps bring us closer to ecological tipping points that could strain the global life - support systems upon which agriculture itself depends.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

These unfolding discoveries suggest that complex biology is at work, leading the EPA's advisors to say that the «potential scale» of RNA used in agriculture «warrants exploration of the potential for unintended ecological effects.»

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.

He has published over 100 scientific journal articles and book chapters, chaired and been a member of numerous agricultural and ecological research grant review panels and been a member of two National Academy of Science National Research Council Committees on Agriculture.

According to Daycha Siripatra of the Alternative Agriculture Network in Thailand and the director of Technology for Rural and Ecological Enrichment, vitamin A deficiency will not be solved by golden rice technology since it does not address the key to the problem of poverty, which is landlessness.

After a lifetime of ecological research, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory discovered (the hard way) that the quickest and most efficient way for humanity to re-build topsoil and restore the ecological damage caused by modern agriculture is to put grazing animals onto broken land.

Among other activities, the programme teaches agriculture to help members of the community improve the yield of their kitchen gardens, facilitates ecological sustainability and broadens educational options for marginalized community members helping the Roma settle and become part of local communities.

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.

It might have been used as a kind of agricultural laboratory, as each one of the terraces presents climatic conditions of different ecological zones, showing that the Incas had an astonishing knowledge in geography, meteorology and agriculture.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

Main sustainable development activities include organic agriculture and green tourism on the Desna river as well educational activities developed in the context of the «Desnianski Zori» ecological camp for schoolchildren.

«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 brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

Despite Blomqvist et al.'s reservations, Footprint results show that: (1) most countries are in ecological deficit, increasingly dependent on potentially unreliable trade in biocapacity; (2) humanity is at or beyond global carrying capacity for key categories of consumption, particularly agriculture (factoring in soil loss and ecosystem degradation would reveal additional deficits); (3) global carbon waste sinks are overflowing; and (4) the aggregate metabolism of the human economy exceeds the regenerative capacity of the ecosphere (and the ratio is increasing).