Sentences with phrase «on early agriculture»

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St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

The early - stage venture capital's focus on early - stage agriculture has led Ankur Capital to invest in two other agriculture - focussed startups AgricX and CropIn.

The sixth Women Startup Challenge was held at Google in New York City and showcased 10 of the best early - stage, women - led startups focused on Agriculture Tech, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Health Tech, Energy, IoT, Robotics, Space, Transportation, and / or Virtual Reality.

On March 6, 2018, the Women Startup Challenge: Emerging Tech showcased 10 of the best early - stage, women - led startups focused on Agriculture Tech, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Health Tech, Energy, IoT, Robotics, Space, Transportation, and / or Virtual RealitOn March 6, 2018, the Women Startup Challenge: Emerging Tech showcased 10 of the best early - stage, women - led startups focused on Agriculture Tech, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Health Tech, Energy, IoT, Robotics, Space, Transportation, and / or Virtual Realiton Agriculture Tech, Augmented Reality, Biotech, Health Tech, Energy, IoT, Robotics, Space, Transportation, and / or Virtual Reality.

The Department of Agriculture is currently reviewing public comments on the proposals, which ended earlier this month.

Now Rep. DeLauro has secured language in the Agriculture Appropriations bill's report which would require the USDA to issue minimum national standards on this issue, despite its earlier reluctance to do so.

The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

Nana Akufo - Addo who takes office from John Mahama on January 7 had earlier announced Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto as the minister designate for Agriculture.

Buhari had earlier during the closed door meeting updated Trump on his achievements in area of security, economic, anti graft war, agriculture among others.

Earlier this week Erie County and the Southtowns Coalition hosted a Southtowns Farm Tour to promote local agriculture and provide an update on local happenings in the farming community.

s. create a bilateral joint working committee for permanent trade discussions on agriculture in order to anticipate and eliminate trade irritants through an early warning system in the event of regulatory evolutions and promote regulatory convergence;

The Ministry of Food and Agriculture has introduced drought - resistant and early maturing crop varieties to farmers in the Dormaa Central Municipality of Brong - Ahafo Region to help minimise the effect of climate change on farming activities in the area.

Earlier, President Buhari briefed the Prime Minister on successes recorded by his administration in Security, Economy, Agriculture, education, climate change and other areas.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

With each looted archaeological site, robbed museum, exploded monument or burned archive, we lose data on the world's earliest - known agriculture, settled communities, organized religions, state - level polities, writing systems and great empires.

He did early work on creating transgenic plants that can resist viruses and has long been an advocate for plant biotechnology as a tool to improve agriculture in developing countries.

As a researcher focused on an earlier period, she was more comfortable than some of her peers in accepting that domestication prior to the advent of agriculture — roughly 12,000 years ago — was even possible.

The German government?s reaction to BSE, introducing the so - called «Agrarwende» («turning point in agriculture» — agricultural reform) in early 2001, means putting the priority on food quality in future, rather than quantity.

He also suggests that the conventional dating of the spread of agriculture, based on clearly detectable cereal grains, might be missing earlier samples.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

The paper identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

A new article identifies four major phases when humans shaped the world around them with broad effects on natural ecosystems: global human expansion during the Late Pleistocene; the Neolithic spread of agriculture; the era of humans colonising islands; and the emergence of early urbanised societies and trade.

Spring has been arriving earlier, influencing the timing of bird and fish migration, egg laying, leaves appearing on trees, and spring planting for agriculture and forestry.

«This in turn indicates that the domestication of dogs may be connected to the human development of agriculture and that it was on the scrap heaps of early settlements that the first steps of the development of dogs took place.»

The Paleo diet is a based on only consuming the types of foods eaten by early humans before mass agriculture, such as meats, vegetables, fruits and fish.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

These schools included «early college» high schools with a STEM focus (that offered both college and high school credits to students); tech - savvy schools that relied entirely on project - based learning (an instructional practice emphasizing student production of knowledge via projects and research); and career / technical education high schools that prepared students for careers such as agriculture or medicine through early experiences in those fields.

Volkswagen - owned MAN said earlier on Monday that it has received orders from the Brazilian government totalling 5,210 vehicles, including 1,747 trucks for the Ministry of Agriculture.

As early societies developed agriculture, these cats moved in to prey on the rodents that were attracted to stores of grain.

Despite an early victory in the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, Florida's HB 1121, the «Community Cat Act,» didn't make it out of committee to be voted on this session.

Update June 23, 2008: Â Â There is likely to be a vote as early as tomorrow in the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee on H.B. 2525, more commonly known as the Pennsylvania puppy mill bill.

2) For anyone attending AGU, Bill's giving the Tyndall Lecture on this, «Early Agriculture: Land Clearance and Climate Effects» GC43B Thursday Dec 12, 2:40 - 3:40 in Moscone West 2022.

Karl Schroeder: If there is any life on Earth in 100 years, I foresee either an ecological catastrophe, with the majority of species extinct, the oceans stagnant, the arctic and Antarctic desolate and lifeless, and billions of people living in complete ignorance of how things could be, in massive urban centres; or, a world in which climate change was solved early and completely through innovations in power generation and carbon sequestration, where agriculture has gone to vertical farming and North America has largely been rewilded back to forest and open prairie, and where extinct species are regularly recreated by genetic engineering and reintroduced.

If changing to energy intensive agriculture allows more food to be produced by just 2 % of Indian farmers on half of the previous land, that should be no more frightening than when the other 98 % of US and Canadian farmers migrated to cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Specifically, progress has been made on agreeing an early freeze date for ending the use of HFCs, a baseline from which to start the phasedown and potential national reduction targets,» said Benson Ireri, Senior Advocacy and Policy Officer, Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture, Africa Division, Christian Aid.

While the local nature of ABCs around polluted cities has been known since the early 1900s, the widespread transoceanic and transcontinental nature of ABCs as well as their large - scale effects on climate, hydrological cycle, and agriculture were discovered inadvertently by The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX), an international experiment conducted in the 1990s over the Indian Ocean.

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Join your colleagues in Toronto this June to explore the economics of urban agriculture and resilience — and don't miss out on the last Early Bird Discount on May 1!

I witnessed a good example early at a conference in Edmonton on Prairie Climate predictions and the implications for agriculture.

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, who, as chair of the House Horticulture and Organic Agriculture Subcommittee, organized the first congressional hearing earlier this year to discuss this phenomenon, said: «Colony collapse disorder is a looming disaster on the horizon.

As mentioned earlier, the state of AL suffered through a very lengthy period of economic hardship because the economy primarily relied on agriculture for decades at a time.