Sentences with phrase «of traditional agriculture»

Not exact matches

With the resources sector in the doldrums, another of Australia's traditional strengths — agriculture — is standing tall.

In contrast, low priority was given to spending for cities and rural communities, and for diversifying the provincial economy; that is building an economy that is broader than the traditional industries of energy and agriculture through targeted government investment and tax incentives.

According to the dominant economic development model, since traditional societies were primarily agricultural, agriculture should produce surpluses of internationally wanted products that would bring in foreign currencies needed for industrialization.

The traditional division of labor was disrupted, as men were recruited for wage - paying export agriculture and other industries — employment frequently requiring long absences from their home villages and families, yet without the compensation of substantially greater support for those families.

Secretary Alcala recognized Ka Pecs and his enormous contribution to the collection, improvement and preservation of the country's traditional varieties of rice, and cites him as the inspiration for the Republic Act 10068, or the Organic Agriculture Act which Alcala authored as a congressman in 2010.

Brazil by its geographical extent, with the diversity of the nature of producers from a variety of climate and biomes, established a more inclusive legislation, unlike other countries, in which the main channel of production was just based in the traditional structure of agriculture and the processing.

«Many of you may have known that we have embarked on a national diversification program, where emphasis is being placed on other crops other than traditional rice and sugar,» Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud said in a statement.

Traditional organic farmers see hydroponic production as a new form of «factory farming» that further corporatizes organic agriculture.

Its features include the traditional trade show and marketplace, in which many of the types of operations that benefit from our training programs participate, and a CSA Pavilion that enables community supported agriculture farms from the Chicago foodshed to promote their businesses and attract new customers.

Aliansi Gerakan Reform Agrari (AGRA), a national peasant federation in Indonesia in statement expressed that «Indonesia, as with the whole region, is also threatened by the growing corporate control over agriculture and consequent erosion of traditional seed resources.

Citing examples of deforestation for agriculture, plastic islands, and diminishing air quality, he said traditional design structures were flawed.

Across South - East Europe, interest in agriculture and especially horticulture is said to be growing dramatically, with investors showing more interest recently in the region's potential as a fresh produce supplier amid doubts about the profitability of other traditional industries.

On Sunday, November 24, farmer Dean Carlson and Chef Andrew Wood of Russet will host La Tuade, a traditional French celebration of pig slaughter, at Wyebrook Farm, the 355 - acre oasis of sustainable agriculture just 45 minutes from downtown Philadelphia and two hours from New York City.

The new standards, which go into effect July 1, mark the first time the U.S. Department of Agriculture program will directly dictate nutrition for any food sold in schools during the school day — not just the traditional lunches and breakfasts long subsidized through the federal school lunch program.

Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's agriculture in a future Akufo - Addo government, the three - time flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said: «As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.»

«We want to transform Ghanaian agriculture from a traditional one to a scientific one, an economic one, one that instead of importing foods to Ghana, will export foods... and Ghana will be a main exporter of food,» he said.

Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's agriculture, Akufo - Addo said: «As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village, one dam.»

Speaking at the annual festival of the Lawra traditional area in the Upper West Region, to climax their annual Kobine festival, the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, reiterated his administration's commitment to the development of agriculture in order...

Speaking at the annual festival of the Lawra traditional area in the Upper West Region, to climax their annual Kobine festival, the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, reiterated his administration's commitment to the development of agriculture in order to improve the quality of the lives of Ghanaians.

The Paramount Chief of the Lawra traditional area, Naa Puowele Karbo III, commended the president for his government's interventions in the sector which have resulted in an improvement in agriculture in the area.

By not being aligned with a single farm like traditional community - supported agriculture groups, Deryck said consumers get more variety and shareholders are protected from the risks of dealing with only one farm.

Modern agriculture extends well beyond the traditional production of food for humans and animal feeds.

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.

Equally, instead of encouraging low - tech traditional farming methods it may be preferable to focus on improving high - yield mechanised agriculture on the most fertile farmland to feed the new urban residents, whilst allowing mountainsides and other marginal lands to revert to forest.

Economists are also sounding the alarm, cautioning in a series of articles set to be published in Human Ecology that government policies that have forced these farmers to abandon traditional agriculture practices will leave them vulnerable to future fluctuations in rubber prices.

«It's fascinating to see the extent to which so many plants have become synonymous with traditional diets in countries many thousands of miles from where those plants first appeared,» said lead author Colin Khoury of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and United States Department of Agriculture.

Much of the irrigation water in traditional agriculture runs off the soil or evaporates before it reaches the roots.

So we focused on, and the Foundation has had a lot of investments in agriculture and farming, and we focused on everything from seeds to fertilizer to knowledge; agricultural extensions, places where farmers can learn more about being a successful farmer are traditional.

A feature review, to be published on December 16th in the Cell Press journal Trends in Plant Science, points the way to intensifying agriculture sustainably by fixing weaknesses that have sprung up quite by accident in the process of traditional crop breeding over the course of thousands of years.

All traditional areas of biology, such as physiology, botany, zoology, genetics and microbiology, as well as related fields such as biomedical, pharmacology, agriculture and agri - food are covered by the aims and scope of the journal.

Nor is there such a thing as a miracle variety of wheat, rice, or maize which can serve as an elixir to cure all ills of a stagnant, traditional agriculture.

When I asked Alina Zolotareva, the farm's marketing manager, if she sees this system becoming the future of farming, she said, «Vertical farming won't ever replace traditional agriculture, but it can make a really big dent.»

As with many traditional forms of agriculture around the world, the cacao industry in Belize was almost extinct due to the industrial agriculture practices of deforestation and growing cacao on large plantations.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Agroecology is a vast subject which comprises of many intricate concepts and topics such as Agro-population Ecology, Indigenous Agroecology, Inclusive Agroecology, Agronomy, Organic Farming, Traditional Agriculture, Permaculture, Silviculture and so forth.

On almost the far side the world, Israel agriculture minister Uri Ariel, a member of the Jewish Home party, on October 15, 2015 wrote to environment minister Avi Gabbay that sterilizing cats violates traditional Jewish law, an interpretation almost unique to himself, and that therefore Israel should either «transfer feral cats from one gender (all males or all females) to a foreign country,» or use deodorants to keep tomcats from smelling queens in heat.

Fujian Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine and Animal Health, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China.

The building of Subak Museum is inspirited by the Balinese culture lovers to maintain Subak as an local culture asset that succeed to develop and increase the agriculture products as specially rice and traditional irrigation system.

It is a relatively new harbor village that prides itself on the use of traditional Bahamian architecture, hydroponic agriculture and green living.

Subak Museum is a museum of Balinese traditional agriculture tools and old documentation about Subak Organization which has famous in the world and best places to visit to see agricultural tool of Balinese people

An insight into traditional Vietnamese life, Hoi An's antiquated streets will thoroughly charm you, and the drive to Hue through the lush agriculture and stunning coastal vistas of provincial Vietnam is breathtaking.

The project looks at how traditional methods of agriculture have been adapted to succeed in an urban environment, examining the evolving relationship between a city and its food source.

Agriculture & Medicine Also Suffering The tribe's agriculture has suffered as well, with traditional signals used to signal the start of the rainy season no longer accurate.What's more, traditional sources of medicine have become increasingly hard to find, as the flora in the regiAgriculture & Medicine Also Suffering The tribe's agriculture has suffered as well, with traditional signals used to signal the start of the rainy season no longer accurate.What's more, traditional sources of medicine have become increasingly hard to find, as the flora in the regiagriculture has suffered as well, with traditional signals used to signal the start of the rainy season no longer accurate.What's more, traditional sources of medicine have become increasingly hard to find, as the flora in the region changes.

Sustainable traditional agriculture in the Tai Lake Region of China.

Considering that the scythe, a traditional agricultural tool, is now commonly associated with death and impending doom, like the life - threatening implications of unrelenting warming and considering today's levels of warming have not been seen on Earth since the advent of agriculture, it is a fitting description.

And this same period saw the expansion of fossil fuel burning from the traditional family needs like heating / cooking, then on to quickly power - up both modern modern agriculture and also the industrial - mass production revolution in manufacturing industries, and finally the large - scale generation of ubiquitous electrical power, eventually distributed into nearly every home and business in the industrialized societies, with close to 24x7x365 availability.

70 % of the rural population are reliant on traditional rain - fed agriculture — for both food and livelihood.

CFS has four stated goals, which promote organic agriculture by restricting traditional farming methods: «Ensuring the testing, labeling and regulation of genetically engineered (GE) foods; Preserving strict national organic food standards; Preventing potential animal and human health crises caused by food borne illness — including «mad cow» disease; Educating the public on the hazards of industrial agriculture.»

From a conventional, and even traditional organic, standpoint, the idea of vegan or veganic agriculture is certainly a stretch.

This is what the report finds: The work was done by researchers from the National University of Singapore and looked at policies favoring rubber plantation over traditional slash - and - burn (swidden) agriculture.