Sentences with phrase «other conservation practices»

Prairie, together with other conservation practices already on farms, advocates claim, has the potential to reduce the massive runoff of nutrient pollution mostly from Midwestern farms that flows down the Mississippi River and forms a gigantic «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico every summer.

Likewise, reduced tillage, cover crops, intensified cropping systems, and other conservation practices are known to build the soil long - term.

Not exact matches

Lundberg Family Farms has been an early leader in organic farming, energy conservation and renewable energy, providing safe and fair working conditions, and many other practices that are environmentally and socially responsible.

Grow Ahead invites women from Africa, Asia or Latin America over 18 years of age to apply for scholarships of up to US$ 2,500 for workshops or trainings in their regions focused on agroecology or regenerative organic agriculture, including (but not limited to) agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, or other practices that build climate resilience.

Agroforestry practices provide cocoa farmers with resilience to climate change by promoting the planting of income generating hardwoods and other crops among cacao tress well as conservation of forests for both shade and soil health.

Work with private landowners, universities, and state and federal agencies to promote effective conservation practices for grassland sites, coastal barrier beaches, and other high - priority habitats.

Trainings will showcase water and land management best practices, successful examples from other communities, and will provide resources, advice, and support for local conservation, restoration, and sustainable development initiatives.

If other restaurants across the state would start this practice it would make a real difference with water conservation!

From our inception, we have been committed to supporting local communities through sustainable development, respecting the natural environment by minimizing impact, contributing to other local conservation efforts, and continuously improving our operational standards and practices as responsible travel providers.

The Waterfront Beach Resort is proud to follow eco-friendly hotel practices to reduce our carbon footprint, including energy improvements, water conservation measures, recycling and composting, waste reduction and other green initiatives.

Other works in the exhibition are commentaries on modern conservation practices.

Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.

Our goal is to enhance and share that natural beauty with others through thoughtful winemaking, sustainable practices and habitat conservation.

agroforestry, biochar, compost, holistic management, conservation tillage, pasture cropping, silvopasture, permaculture, and other climate resilient practices.

(Sec. 510) Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, if he or she lists forestry practices as eligible offset practice types, to promulgate regulations for the selection and use of species in forestry and other relevant land management - related offset practices to: (1) ensure that native species are given primary consideration in such practices; (2) encourage the conservation of biological diversity; and (3) prohibit the use noxious weeds or invasive plants.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

Forest Trends» mission is to ensure the conservation of forests and other ecosystems, and we recognize that those goals can only be achieved by revolutionizing current agricultural practices.

Best Practices: Library of Water Conservation, Climate Change Adaptation, and other best practices from member cities

It includes practices such as composting and other soil management techniques, and harvesting and retention systems to increase soil fertility and improve water conservation and availability.

Actively cultivated, documented and disseminated best practices in all aspects of sustainable trails advocacy and trails and land conservation, and collaborating with other regional and associate regional directors to support broader trail development and activism.

Other factors mentioned were improved indoor environmental quality, water conserving products / practices, and material conservation and recycling.