Sentences with phrase «on modern agriculture»

The most commonly used pesticides and herbicides that are used on modern agriculture are highly toxic to both our bodies and the planet.

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Before modern agriculture came along, grains were left on the stalk in the field until they sprouted, then they were harvested.

It aims to lead, guide and inspire people from every part of the earth to work cooperatively to reverse the destructive path modern agriculture has taken on our planet.

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Another paper will cover the impact of modern agriculture on ecosystems.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

Hear him: «Let me assure you that if I am elected President, the world will have no cause to worry about Nigeria as it has had to recently; that Nigeria will return to its stabilising role in West Africa; and that no inch of Nigerian territory will ever be lost to the enemy because we will pay special attention to the welfare of our soldiers in and out of service; we will give them adequate and modern arms and ammunition to work with; we will improve intelligence gathering and border controls to choke Boko Haram's financial and equipment channels; we will be tough on terrorism and tough on its root causes by initiating a comprehensive economic development plan promoting infrastructural development, job creation, agriculture and industry in the affected areas.

The additional uses, which include commercial solar farms, storage warehouses and other structures that some consider essential to modern agriculture, were approved by the Suffolk County Legislature on properties for which Suffolk has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase «development rights.»

Long before the rise of modern agriculture, humans relied on three things to bring nitrogen to barren soils: lightning strikes, nitrogen - fixing bacteria, and natural fertilizers.

But not all altered landscapes are equal for bees: modern agriculture has taken a severe toll on wild bee numbers.

The reports on herbicide resistance and its challenges, and how modern agriculture is coping, were part of a symposium on the topic at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.

Since the 1970s, genetics has been used to shed light on the spread of agriculture from the Middle East, as well as to look into the ancestry of modern Europeans.

This means the weedy forms can draw on both ancestral genes and crop genes as they respond to the selection pressures of modern agriculture.

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.

This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.

«What these critics of modern agriculture don't realise is that they are working on an outdated model,» says Paarlberg.

«What these critics of modern agriculture don't realise is that they are working on an outdated model.»

On virgin fields far from the chemical sprays of modern agriculture, Gustavo has reintroduced the time - tested organic methods that his father, grandfather and great - grandfather knew.

The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance and Discovery Education have partnered on an exciting new initiative to engage urban youth with a first - hand glimpse into modern agriculture.

Property offers tons of natural and human history dating back from the Maya, to the logging and bootlegging days in Belize's past on to modern day tourism and agriculture.

Beginning in the 1980s, Gowin's interests expanded into landscape and aerial photography, with a focus on the environmental effects of modern agriculture, industry, and military weapons testing.

However, modern agriculture is very dependent on fossil fuels — consuming nearly 1 calorie of fossil fuel in the field per food calorie produced — and over 3 calories per food calorie delivered.

When not interrupted by agriculture, territorial encroachment and modernization, foraging cultures have a much lower impact on the environment than modern cultures, and their populations can also be quite stable (for a popular reference, read some of Jared Diamond's books).

With a changing landscape thanks to development and modern agriculture practices, among other things, the all - important milkweed and food flowers that these royal pollinators rely on are dwindling, leaving them no place to lay their eggs and little to eat.

While warning that modern agricultural methods are placing unprecedented demands on our natural resources, Dr. Foley's work offers hope, promise and a way forward, offering strategic solutions for increasing global food production while reducing agriculture's often devastating environmental footprint.

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.

They could paralyze modern society, which has become so dependent on abundant water supplies for agriculture, energy generation, human consumption and other uses.

On this panel, we consider how global agriculture will need to evolve in order to provide modern diets for everyone without converting what remains of the planets undeveloped areas into farms.

60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can take advantage of higher winds.

For modern humans whose population numbers are dependent on maintaining efficient agriculture, it is the decade - long transition that is so catastrophic (given a slow temperature transition over a 500 year period, we could probably cope).

With modern agriculture and land use as the second largest contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions, right behind energy production, farms are on the front line of climate change.

As the wonderful BBC documentary A Farm for the Future has shown us all too clearly, modern agriculture is woefully dependent on fossil fuels, and oil in particular.

Oil and food production: Essays The Oil We Eat by Richard Manning, and Eating Fossil Fuels by Dale Allen Pfeiffer both look at modern agricultures» dependence on fossil fuels.

An agriculture officer should have a proper hands - on knowledge of the modern developments in the field of agriculture.

I have hands - on experience on a few equipments used in modern day agriculture.