Sentences with phrase «of agricultural soils»

This brings with it reduced population pressures, enhanced environmental conservation and restoration of agricultural soils.

A global program of agricultural soils restoration is the foundation for balancing the human ecology.

Warming of agricultural soils, due at least in part to global climate change, could also contribute.

A global program of agricultural soils — and ecosystem — restoration is the foundation for economic development and for balancing the human ecology.

The UCS report, The Promise of Biomass: Clean Power and Fuel — If Handled Right, evaluates the four primary non-food sources of biomass — energy crops, agricultural residues, waste materials, and forest biomass — and details the amount of each type of biomass that could be sustainably produced and utilized in the United States without compromising the fertility of agricultural soils, displacing land needed to grow our food, or threatening the health of our farms and forests.

Near the top of that list is the New Zealand flatworm, a relative newcomer to Ireland's shores, which feeds on native earthworms that provide important ecosystem services as well as currying favor with farmers for enhancing the fertility and drainage of agricultural soils.

Every day, 2000 hectares of agricultural soil become unusable because of salt.

It also has one new sub-category: Changes in mineral soil carbon stocks, which allows for the inclusion of three potential sources of CO2 emissions from agricultural soils (net changes in organic carbon stocks of mineral soil associated with changes in land use and management, emissions from cultivated organic soils and emissions from liming of agricultural soils).

The main mitigation potential lies in the capacity of agricultural soils to sequester CO2 through building organic matter.

The contribution of forest ecosystems — such as carbon sequestration, crop pollination, conservation of agricultural soils and control of water discharge to streams and rivers — to other sectors, particularly agriculture, is valued at 6.77 percent of Ethiopia's GDP.

[2] • Agriculture (14 % of 2004 GHG emissions)-- global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture mostly come from the management of agricultural soils, livestock, rice production, and biomass burning.

This UCS analysis focuses on the four primary non-food sources of biomass — energy crops, agricultural residues, waste materials, and forest biomass — and details the amount of each type of biomass that could be sustainably produced and utilized in the United States without compromising the fertility of agricultural soils, displacing land needed to grow our food, or threatening the health of our farms and forests.