Sentences with phrase «on chemical inputs»

Regardless of the safety of GM crops, do we want a world in which our agriculture is ruled (or continued to be ruled as in the US) by large corporations, the cultivation of only a small variety of crops planted everywhere without regard for tradition or local conditions, the continued heavy dependence on chemical inputs?

For a technology that has sucked up billions of research dollars and prolonged agriculture's dependence on chemical inputs, GMOs (genetically modified organisms) have yet to justify their role in a world desperate

Most importantly, it helps people feed themselves with the materials that they already have, without hooking them on an increasingly expensive dependency on chemical inputs and high - cost seeds that are bred to only work with synthetic herbicides and pesticides.

While conventional farmers strip the soil of nutrients and rely on chemical inputs, Doug enhances soil function and fertility.

While conventional farmers strip the soil of nutrients and rely on chemical inputs, Doug enhances soil function and fertility organically.

Sun cultivated coffee relies heavily on chemical inputs of fertilizer and pesticides to produce successfully.

Experts argue that its dependence on chemical inputs, as well as the monoculture production system can lead to significant biodiversity loss.

Not exact matches

Hawkes also points out a major benefit of research on microbiome treatments: They may one day help move growers toward more sustainable, low - input agriculture by using plant - microbe interactions as opposed to chemical additives.

«It offers high production on minimal chemical inputs,» explains Dambroth.

And doing anything on an industrial scale obviously requires a lot of energy and a lot of chemical input.

«The privileged position of industry to craft language in the trade agreement without public input, and the unlimited potential of TTIP to affect the ability of countries to regulate on toxic chemicals, energy and climate change, food and agriculture and other critical issues.»

What we are learning from hard science is decimating our mechanistic perspective on the body as input - output machine to be manipulated and managed by chemicals.

«[The Green Revolution] was based on high chemical input to realise higher yields, and promoted monocultures to feed the growing populations,» Ramprasad says.

Adaptation is further supported by increased agro-ecosystem diversity of organic farms, based on management decisions, reduced nitrogen inputs and the absence of chemical pesticides.

Countering the view that global trade is necessarily harsh on the environment, the researchers contended: «A market shift from irrigated, chemical input - intensive growing areas such as the U.S. and China toward rain - fed and less intensive areas in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Brazil and India would bring significant net environmental gains.»

And yet the shot of two gardens next to each other — one run on permaculture principles, the other using extensive chemical inputs — is in my mind a pretty impressive contrast.

Our clients are often looking for legal support and commercial input at the product design and testing stage, for example, and have questions on chemicals and labelling and packaging, and general product safety and compliance issues.