Sentences with phrase «of human agriculture»

One scientist, paleoclimatologist William Ruddiman, even argued that the rise of human agriculture had already produced enough greenhouse gases to counteract the gradual cooling that should have come during the past several thousand years; every previous cycle had begun a steady cooling soon after its peak, rather than leveling off as ours had done.

Global warming of 2 °C would leave the Earth warmer than it has been in millions of years, a disruption of climate conditions that have been stable for longer than the history of human agriculture.

While this issue of diet and physical degeneration remains perennial throughout the history of human agriculture, the problem stabilizes and begins to reverse as early farming societies discovered the importance of using food preparation techniques such as fermentation, to increase digestibility and nutrient absorption.

The mutant grass that resulted - a chance accident of nature - evolved into wheat, the foundation of human agriculture.

This record also seems to show that the rise in methane levels in the last 10,000 years — thought by some to be a result of human agriculture — could simply be the result of natural variability in the decomposition of plants in boreal forests and wetlands.

Not exact matches

The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture recommended on Thursday that Americans consume less than 10 % of their daily calories from added sugars, a far more specific suggestion than the previous one to simply «reduce» sugar consumption.

Sure, NASA has a big advantage when it comes to generating viral hits due to its mission servicing the fundamental human need for exploration, knowledge, and new discovery (Department of Agriculture, eat your heart out), but even the most powerful content can get bungled in its execution and delivery.

He has nominated Representative Tom Price of Georgia to head the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the National Institutes of Health and works to develop dietary guidelines with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Mason was subsequently appointed House Leader of the New Democrat Caucus and Critic responsible for Human Resources, Finance, and Agriculture.

At GFI, Isaac Emery studies the significant environmental and human health impacts of industrial animal agriculture and evaluates the reduced impact of plant - based and clean meat.

For example, to concentrate on increasing the use of petroleum to replace human labor in agriculture, for the sake of increasing the productivity of labor, no longer seems a wise policy.

The process of agriculture is a pointer towards the reversal of human experiences in nature.

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

This makes sense in light of this theory, because the invention of agriculture was a fruit of human intelligence.

The invention of agriculture, civilization, art, and culture, of nations, politics, education, and science — all of these developments exemplify the universe's impatience with monotony and urgent need for subtle shading and more intense enjoyment of beauty, now that it has reached the human phase of its unfolding.

Indeed in agriculture and in human and animal health, diseases are now forestalled wherever possible, by such methods as the application of trace elements to the soil, sterilization, a balanced diet and immunization.

As a consequence the human population grew from about 15 million before the invention of agriculture to 200 - 300 million, some 2000 years ago.

We are learning about women in history, both individual women whose contributions have been ignored or forgotten, and the masses of women in all cultures and periods of history who have had tremendous influence on the evolution of human society, from the invention of agriculture to the «keeping of the faith.»

During the process of domestication, plants undergo changes in certain traits that make them more amenable to humans and agriculture such as larger seeds, larger fruits, a compact growth habit, and so on.

So as the sun rises over Paris, the world stands at the beginning of a new era where agriculture, which was responsible for human civilization to evolve, will be responsible for human civilization to survive.

The Sustainable Organic Agriculture Action Network (SOAAN) is a think tank that positions Organic Agriculture and its related supply chains as a holistic, sustainable approach to the production of food and fiber for all of human society.

The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends 3 cups of legumes per week (based on a daily intake of approximately 2,000 calories).

Every five years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) jointly issue the latest iteration of the federal government's formal guidance on healthy eating, the so - called «Nutrition Guidelines.»

Graduate of any four year course related to development communications, community development, agriculture, human ecology and environment.

Based on ORAC scores provided by the Nutrient Data Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center and Agricultural Research Service of the U.S.D.A. — Department of Agriculture, below are some of the top antioxidant foods scores:

Every year, nearly one - third of the food produced in the world for human consumption is lost or wasted, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

Added Mr. Brown, «I think there's a latent demand and a latent desire within human beings for this to work... Very few of us want things that are going into animal agriculture to continue... We want a better way to do it.

Animal agriculture is the single greatest human - caused source of greenhouse gases, land use, and land degradation.

Design, implement, and collaborate with external researchers to carry out evaluation and impact assessment research for Rainforest Alliance's agriculture sustainability certification programs as well as broader research on the effectiveness of strategies to conserve forests, promote the sustainability of production systems, and improve human wellbeing in the context of agriculture and forestry landscapes and supply chains.

In recent years, hundreds of companies have made commitments to eliminate deforestation and human exploitation from their agriculture and forestry supply chains.

First used as tolerated weeds, they became an indispensable seasoning and vegetable when the advent of agriculture changed the way humans acquired food.

We believe that it is critical that government heeds changing community expectations by supporting the growth and viability of regenerative agriculture while protecting the environment and human and animal health.

COSMOS - standard guarantees: The use of products from organic agriculture and respect for biodiversity, the use of natural resources responsibly, and respect for the environment, and the use of processing and manufacturing that are clean and respectful to human health and the environment.

The publication discusses the weakness of institutional support for nurturing existing knowledge and exchange in organic agriculture, support that could further enhance organic agriculture's positive impact on the natural and human environments.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one - third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted in the supply chain.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The new nutrition standards must be «science - based,» standardized for all foods sold in schools and consistent with the most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans published by the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.

Such was the case when a dozen fourth and fifth graders posed a few hard - hitting questions to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who are all now part of President Barack Obama's new federal task force to combat childhood obesity.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Officials at schools — as well as hospitals, nursing homes and child - care facilities — would be able to access the data from a Web site run by the federal Department of Health and Human Services in consultation with the Agriculture Department.

The 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) recommend at least 60 minutes of activity per day for kids — ideally, done with their parents.

Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies The subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies holds jurisdiction over the U.S. Department of Agriculture (excluding Forest Service) and the Food and Drug Administration - related subsidiaries of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a provisional go - ahead for genetically modified rice containing human genes to be grown in Kansas, despite concerns that the proteins from the pharma rice could find their way into the food chain.

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.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are involved in the regulation of foods produced through biotechnology to ensure their safety, including human health and the health of the environment.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A 1997 study carried out by the University of Illinois Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition and a more recent UC Davis Study Published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture found the nutritive quality of canned produce to be comparable to that of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables.