Sentences with phrase «organic farming practices as»

One point to add: You mention organic farming practices as a way to decrease herbicide and pesticide use, which is true.

OTA calls on the White House to amend its National Strategy to include an emphasis on agricultural production methods as a valuable solution to our pollinator problem, and to recognize organic farming practices as particularly beneficial to pollinators and their healthy habitats.

Not exact matches

There are conflicting studies on this topic, but farmer's growing organic produce are limited to the use of pesticides that are naturally occurring, while conventional farming practices use synthetic pesticides that are linked to various health problems such as ADHD in children.

When it comes to sustainability, factors such as responsible sourcing and ethical farming practices were just as important as environmental factors to consumers, while some also equated organic and non-GMO with health, added Kerry.

It is considered as a holistic and dynamic approach of incorporating organic and permaculture farming practices including crop rotation, conservation tillage, composting, cover crops, pasture cropping, and mobile animal shelters to increases the farmer's income and food production.

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

Straus sees the brand enhancements as the perfect opportunity to generate more awareness of the brand, educate about organic farming practices and remind consumers that their purchasing decisions make a difference.

Plus, the soft baby clothes are made from GOTS - certified organic cotton that is grown using sustainable farming practices, as well as environmentally low - impact dyes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated certification standards for organic production under the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act in 1990, but as organic farming moved toward large corporate operations the use of USDA - recommended practices had declined.

Additionally, organic farming practices reduce the risk of erosion by avoiding practices such as tilling, which ploughs and cultivates the soil by tearing, turning and circulating it.

Rather than create carnivalesque depictions of these individuals, she exposes «the spiritual conviction they have for this way of life,» as a means of acknowledging her own belief in organic, sustainable farming practices.

I have many facts and fascinating stories to share with you about the politics of the local six campasinos who control the core preserves.The Mexican NGO Alternare has worked to educate the 37 campasinos within the preserve to practice sustainable organic farming methods to prevent erosion, pesticide pollution, as well as to teach them to build their houses with adobe bricks rather than wood.

While organic agriculture practices result in higher soil organic matter (SOM) contents and, in turn, higher nutrient - and water - supplying potential to crops, transition to organic farming typically involves a lag time of several years in which yields can suffer and input demands increase as rebuilding soil microbial communities compete with crops for nitrogen and other available nutrients (Simmons and Coleman, 2008).

Or, if you're at your local farmers market, you can talk to farmers about their growing practices, which might be equivalent to organic even if the farm is not certified as such.

This potential can be realized by employing sustainable agricultural practices, such as those commonly found within organic farming systems.

Pimentel noted that although cash crops can not be grown as frequently over time on organic farms because of the dependence on cultural practices to supply nutrients and control pests and because labor costs average about 15 percent higher in organic farming systems, the higher prices that organic foods command in the marketplace still make the net economic return per acre either equal to or higher than that of conventionally produced crops.

More important, although once dismissed as clownish, negligent farming, the organic movement is now seen as an innovative standard setter that is pulling all of conventional agriculture toward higher environmental standards and more sustainable practices.

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The study found that organic practices outperformed traditional methods and chemical - intensive conventional farming and also found strong environmental benefits such as improved soil fertility, better retention of water and resistance to drought.

Organically grown food, while a preferable choice for green shoppers in grocery stores and farmers markets, isn't necessarily the same thing as food grown using smart carbon farming practices, and though the two aren't mutually exclusive, demand for organics is driven more by marketing, while the other is still a bit of a mystery to the average person.

Addressing the climate crisis calls for an «all of the above» approach to reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, and although many of us are inclined to supporting organic farming practices, it's high time we started focusing on carbon farming practices as well.