Sentences with phrase «of global agricultural land»

Organic farming, which currently accounts for only 1 % of global agricultural land, is lower yielding on average.

About 70 % of global agricultural land is small holdings.

Organic farms cover only 1 % of global agricultural land, but their produce is big business in Europe and America.

In total, exports of meat and other animal products use at least 8 percent of the global agricultural land base.

According to the Post, currently «only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops.»

Currently, only about one percent of global agricultural land is dedicated to organic crops, so there's room for expansion, according to the authors.

Not exact matches

In fifteen countries 10 percent or more of all agricultural land is organic, another new record in the global organic statistics.

Almost haft of the global organic agricultural land is in Oceania (27.3 million hectares), followed by Europe (23 percent; 13.5 million hectares), and Latin America (12 percent; 7.1 million hectares).

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

Blessed with abundant land and water resources, exploring the agricultural sector will go a long way in boosting Nigeria's economy in the face of global oil crisis.

«Adequate management of agricultural and forestry land uses are amongst the lowest - cost actions that can reduce global warming, and most actions are either neutral cost or of positive net profit to society, requiring no substantial capital investment,» the report says.

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.

Land - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouLand - use changes in the United States, such as the conversion of undeveloped land to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thouland to housing or agricultural use, appear to be contributing to global warming trends to a much greater degree than scientists previously thought.

«Issues such as climate change, increasing global population, scarcity of agricultural land and rapidly changing consumer preferences, particularly in developing countries where there is increasing demand for high quality animal protein,» Associate Professor Wilkinson says.

President Macron also announced actions in agricultural and solar technologies that would enhance the UNCCD's global efforts to ensure that by 2030 and going forward, the amount of degraded land is equivalent to or less that the land we had degraded by 2015 when the Sustainable Development Goals were adopted.

In particular, IIASA researchers will focus on how potential phosphorus market crises might put pressure on the global food system and create environmental ripple effects ranging from expansion of agricultural land to phosphorus price - induced changes in land management, which could exacerbate the already existing imbalance between carbon, phosphorus and nitrogen.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

First, the recent paper describing the threat of the «aridification» of a quarter of the planet's land area under continued global heating implies a critical loss of agricultural capacity.

It impacts millions of acres of scenic, wildlife and agricultural land — and uses vast amounts of raw materials, whose extraction and processing further impairs global land, air and water quality.

If the whole of Eastern Antarctica melts, a 19m global sea - level rise is possible, but the effect of this lesser rise would still be catastrophic to both cities and agricultural land, apart from immediate loss of human lives.

According to a report by the Cornell Global Labor Institute, agricultural and rangeland comprise 79 percent of the land that would be affected by the pipeline.

Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

GlobCover is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative which began in 2005 in partnership with the Joint Research Center, European Environmental Agency, UN Food and Agricultural Organization, UN Environment Programme, Global Observation of Forest Cover and Land Cover Dynamics, and International Geosphere - Biosphere Programme.

Increasingly, this work is highlighting illegal land use / conversion, the role of conversion timber in the global sourcing of wood fiber, and agricultural supply chains from legal or zero - deforestation zones.

From a political perspective, these tax credits have three very powerful constituencies: 1) All taxpayers 2) Major companies looking to reduce their tax burden while doing something good for the environment 3) Landowners, farmers, ranchers, and the forest products industry (these groups will be eligible for tax credits for reforestation or agricultural changes on their own land; organizations such as the National Farmers Union, the American Forest and Paper Association, the National Alliance of Forest Owners, United Steelworkers, and many others have already been advocates for protection of tropical forests and cracking down on illegal logging as a way to level the playing field by ensuring products on the global market don't come from deforestation.)

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

This analytical document captures early observations in engaging the private sector, particularly multinational companies involved in global agricultural commodity supply chains, in the context of emission reductions programs to address land use change.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.

Cotton occupies only 2.4 percent of agricultural land but accounts for 24 percent of global sales of insecticides and 11 percent of pesticides.

Scientist Uses Seed Diversity, Sustainable Farming Practices to Save Cuban Agriculture 6 Ways Agriculture Impacts Global Warming Stopping Deforestation, Greening Agriculture Better Than Carbon Capture & Storage, UNEP Report Says A Tale of Two Will Allens: «Industrial Agriculture One of Most Polluting & Dangerous Industries» Sustainable Agriculture Leaders Recognized By Natural Resources Defense Council's Growing Green Awards Peak Oil and Agriculture: A Farm for the Future Revisited 25 % Reduction in Global Food Production by 2050: Organic Agriculture Part of the Solution Agricultural Land Degradation Increasing, Affecting New Areas: FAO Report