Sentences with phrase «on land for agriculture»

Step change in demand for food and hence pressure on land for agriculture 8.

Not exact matches

For Straus Family Creamery, organic agriculture, as practiced on small to mid-size family farms, starts with sustainable land stewardship.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

Myself and many others were pleased to see that food localisation was widely seen as an obvious and necessary pathway forward, with strategic land use planning — urban and peri-urban agriculture, community gardens, edible streetscapes and so on — identified as an urgent priority for all local and state governments in the coming years.

Organic agriculture brings several environmental benefits but the question arises on the threshold for converting land to organic management.

This aspect indicates that the improvement of landscape infrastructure in combination with organic agriculture may be an important factor for the conservation and enhancement of species - rich communities on agricultural land.

Agriculture - Tasmanian focus; significant regulatory costs for farmers; regulatory impediments to competition (freight - coastal shipping; environmental regulations; government as land owner (not a «good neighbour»)-RRB-; workplace penalties; competitive neutrality; unconscionable conduct and MMP (legislation not adequate); need to educate on competition issues.

He assured that the his administration will continue to build on the policies put in place by the previous administration to enhance rapid development in the sector, adding that so far, the government has energized the Agriculture Land Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmLand Holding Authority (ALHA), to make more land readily available for Agricultural developmland readily available for Agricultural development.

Abuja — As a way of cushioning the effect of poverty and hunger in the land, President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday directed the Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh to release 10,000 tons of grains from the national strategic grains reserves for national distribution.http: / / ghanapoliticsonline.com

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

The project, which is sitting on a massive 167 hectares of land with additional available land for other projects, was copied from Songhai in Republic of Benin under the Agric - Yes initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture.

This administration has broken the jinx of fertilizer shortage and its high cost and has put land clearing for agriculture on a priority.

Governor Aregbesola said in a bid for his administration to integrate on its various empowerment programmes, he set up an inter-ministerial agency, the Osun Rural Empowerment and Agriculture Programme (OREAP), the agency which comprises of the ministries of agriculture, lands, commerce, rural development, finance, health, worksAgriculture Programme (OREAP), the agency which comprises of the ministries of agriculture, lands, commerce, rural development, finance, health, worksagriculture, lands, commerce, rural development, finance, health, works and so on.

While emphasizing that the south west holds the future of food security in Nigeria, Governor Ambode said the available massive arable and fertile land had placed the region on a sound footing to use agriculture not only to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the region but also to ensure food availability for the country.

Ajimobi, who disclosed this at the town hall meeting held for the people of Oyo and Ogbomoso geo - political zones on Tuesday, also stated that the government would revoke the ownership of any unused fertile land for agriculture.

The research is centered on the Agriculture Department's Conservation Reserve Program, a voluntary program that rewards farmers who save a portion of their land for conservation of watersheds and wildlife.

Issued last March to researchers at a little - known cotton seed company called Delta & Pine Land (D&PL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the patent covers a technique for transferring three genes along with their genetic on switches into the seeds of genetically improved plants.

Only when his audience is suitably impressed does he reveal that they are actually in the midst of what many conservationists would dismiss as weeds — a ragtag collection of non-native species growing uncontrolled on land once used for agriculture.

«Ultimately, the extent to which large land deals can generate real development, secure access to natural resources for all, and improve food security will depend on their terms and conditions,» said Jose Graziano da Silva, director of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, at a 2012 Cornell University conference.

Linderman, whose nonpartisan organization focuses on supporting the interests of family farmers in a state where most available land is devoted to farming, said she's been concerned for some time that agriculture has not been part of the presidential discussion.

«On the outskirts of the park, much of the land has been used for agriculture or grazing.

«We need to develop crops that thrive in a hotter world on land we now consider unfarmable, using water we now consider unsuitable for agriculture,» Fedoroff said.

But we also have to think about creative ways to participate in agriculture that don't necessarily always rely on land in Iowa that sells for $ 10,000 per acre.

New research suggests that offering financial incentives for farming industries to mitigate the impact agriculture has on the environment, by reducing fertiliser use and «sparing» land for conservation, for example, actually has a positive effect on critical areas such as greenhouse gas reduction and increased biodiversity.

In the article, «The Natural and Social History of the Indigenous Lands and Protected Areas Corridor of the Xingu River Basin,» the authors cite original interviews with indigenous leaders who note significant changes in the forest's rainfall patterns, river levels, fires and agriculture cycles their groups have relied on for thousands of years.

There were exhibitions on Agri - Map which was the decision - making support database for agriculture land management, Royal Project on deteriorated soil rehabilitation, and the works in forest and water resource management.

Moreover, the researchers determined that changes in water availability for agriculture of plus or minus 20 percent had little impact on global food prices, bioenergy production, land - use change and the global economy.

In realistic terms, any major effort to supply additional plant protein for human consumption in the U.S. would require dismantling the nation's agricultural system, since most of American agriculture is directly or indirectly involved in producing livestock either through direct grazing on grasslands or by growing feed on cultivated land.

I never knew that although cotton is only planted on 2.4 % of agriculture land, it accounts for nearly 11 % of pesticide sales in the world.

I am starting an infantile NGO that focuses on fighting famine through urban agriculture and land resuscitation.I am focusing my work in the Horn of Africa trying to prepare for impending famine.

For example, the 1862 Morrill Act used proceeds from the sale of public lands to establish «land - grant» colleges focused on agriculture and engineering.

«I believe that agriculture land — productive agricultural land with water on site — will be very valuable in the future,» Burry, 39, said in a Bloomberg Television interview scheduled for broadcast this morning in New York.

Scott Faber, Senior VP of Government Affairs for the Environmental Working Group and Executive Director of Just Label It, said that no one is surprised that the House Agriculture committee has landed on the anti-labeling side of the debate.

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.

For many centuries we took it for granted, that the Dutch were highly successful at maintaining one of the worlds most advanced agricultures on their farm lands several feet below sea levFor many centuries we took it for granted, that the Dutch were highly successful at maintaining one of the worlds most advanced agricultures on their farm lands several feet below sea levfor granted, that the Dutch were highly successful at maintaining one of the worlds most advanced agricultures on their farm lands several feet below sea level.

I would however suggest that there is a need for a model for people to live within a close social structure without becoming detached from nature in which the land on which we live is involved with supporting us through what might be called urban agriculture, vertical farming and the affiliated processing of clean water, natural dynamic energy generation like wind, solar and water, and cheap / easy / affordable transit all tied - up with great education and health care.

But I don't see any really large - scale efforts to develop new feed crops that can be grown on land that can't be used for the current ones using salty water not currently considered suitable for agriculture.

An outlook published in 2009 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (/ / go.nature.com/DdNYvk) says that current cropland could be more than doubled by adding 1.6 billion hectares — mostly from Latin America and Africa — without impinging on land needed for forests, protected areas or urbanization.

For a great overview of both sides of the argument (framed around the biofuels industry), I recommend you look at two Green Inc. posts framing the debate, one today on the industry point of view that intensified agriculture can cut land use, and one from last week on the opposing view.

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

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Think about feeding a population of 9 billion as formerly productive regions become too hot and dry for large scale agriculture, populations have to relocate, sea level causes very large coastal populations to move inland quicker than new high rise housing can be built (but the land is needed for crops) and so on.

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Jatropha curcas, for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal lands and can also be used to restore degraded lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural forests or high - value agriculture lands used for food production.

«China falls short by not presenting a detailed framework on how to account for forest emissions and sequestration, though it is transparent and specific on actions relating to agriculture, forestry, and other land use.»

Contrary to the common belief, even in highly urbanised areas surprisingly high amounts of vacant land can be found that could be used for agriculture on a temporary or permanent basis.

But the team also found that companies in Cameroon, Gabon, Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) hold licenses for industrial agriculture on another 8,400 square kilometers (3,243 square miles) of land.

«If farming were to switch to organic agriculture on the current amount of land that is being used for farming and livestock production, then that system could produce enough calories to feed the world without requiring people to change their dietary habits,» said study team member Catherine Badgley, a research scientist at the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan.