Sentences with phrase «people about agriculture»

This, in turn, improves student health and teaches young people about agriculture.

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Agriculture is just about the last thing that comes to mind when people think of technology, but in fact, it has always been an engine of innovation.

By investing in pioneering individuals, non-profits and mission driven companies who dare to re-imagine the possible, PSF has helped to bring about important breakthroughs — from cancer research and small scale agriculture to criminal justice reform and educational opportunities for young people in communities around the world.

According to a study of the Food and Agriculture Organization about 700 million people in the rural areas of the poor countries live in absolute poverty and their lot is not improving.

Illinois» agritourism industry brings fun to the farm, while teaching people about the importance of agriculture.

For seventy years, the Institute has been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.

Heinrich Graf von Bassewitz of German farmer's association DBV said people should expect to pay more for meat with the label, pointing out that «consumers who complain about so - called factory farming have pushed forward this form of agriculture through their purchase of cheap foods and their extreme price - consciousness.»

Every person should eat what they're comfortable with but I wanted to comment to share a bit of the knowledge I have about the agriculture industry:)

For more than sixty years, we've been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing our findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.

Rodale Institute is committed to groundbreaking research in organic agriculture, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating people about how organic is the safest, healthiest option for people and the planet.

Being a Crawford Fund Scholar provided a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear from a diverse group of people passionate about agriculture and food security, reminded me of the importance of collaborative research projects and reinforced my desire to make a meaningful contribution to agriculture's future.

Coming from Melbourne University, which has a large majority of my cohort desiring to enter Small Animal Practice, it was refreshing to talk to people who were passionate, interested and knowledgeable about agriculture.

Australian agriculture is in the grip of a severe skills shortage; about 4,000 jobs were advertised last year looking for people with tertiary agriculture qualifications, and universities turned out just 130 graduates.

We keep Louise Hatheway's vision alive by helping people learn about the thread that ties people, nature, and agriculture together.

«Our message is about bringing jobs to the people of Ghana, reviving our economy, improving our agriculture, diversifying our agriculture, that is the business we are coming to do,» said the NPP's 2016 presidential candidate last Friday, July 1.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations says about eight million people will go hungry in northern Nigeria by the year 2020.

«If we think about their role in agriculture production and as people who are maintaining clean water for the city and the aquifer that serves the city, then we can think about how we support them and their livelihood in a completely different way,» she said.

Charles Godfray, a professor at the Department of Zoology at Oxford University who recently co-authored a paper in the journal Science about the challenges of feeding 9 billion people, said that the impact of climate change on agriculture will be negative.

And, lately, much of the anxiety people feel about life, and especially about agriculture, is compounded of cow too.

About one in eight Americans now rely on the assistance, according to data just released from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), up from one in 50 people in the 1970s.

Until recently, archaeologists believed that agriculture arose among people living along the banks of the rivers Tigris and Euphrates when, about 10 000 years ago, they suddenly learnt to sow and harvest cereal crops such as wheat and barley.

The Gabayan watershed incorporates a heavily degraded, multi-use landscape covering over 5000 hectares hosting about 60,000 people whose livelihoods depend on subsistence agriculture

This contrasts with many archaeological sites in Russia, Europe, and the Americas where ancient humans are rarely directly related to living people nearby, thanks to wholesale migration and mixing since the invention of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

Although guidelines remain unclear and vary between states, Li said that does not mean it is easy to obtain state permits for using fly ash in agriculture, especially with fears about possible threats to people and the environment.

Kristie Drucza, CIMMYT gender and development specialist, has been studying, publishing on, and presenting widely about people - centered, evidence - based approaches for gender equality that are being taken up by agriculture - for - development professionals.

Researchers examined data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, a nationally representative multi-stage sample of 16,103 people containing information about dietary intake, socioeconomic, demographic and health parameters surveyed from 1994 to 1996.

The goal of this activity is to get as many people as possible around the world fascinated by plants and enthused about the importance of plant science for agriculture, in sustainably producing food, as well as for horticulture, forestry, and all of the non-food products such as paper, timber, chemicals, energy, and pharmaceuticals.

Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state speaking about ocean acidification.

This is how most people in the world ate between the time of the birth of agriculture (as long as 10,000 yrs ago) and the birth of industrial food processing (about 150 yrs ago).

About Nutiva: «Nutiva is dedicated to a healthy and sustainable world, demonstrating its mission to nourish people and planet by using delicious organic ingredients, enriching the soil, and donating 1 percent of sales to sustainable - agriculture groups.

About Blog Get Dirty USA is an Agricultural Blog to inspire and inform people on the benefits of Agriculture and Agribusiness.

Americans eat about 31 pounds of cheese per person each year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

This is a very common question and something that many people wonder about since it is the Department of Agriculture that backs these loans.

Subak Museum is a museum of Balinese traditional agriculture tools and old documentation about Subak Organization which has famous in the world and best places to visit to see agricultural tool of Balinese people

This is a great opportunity to learn about Peruvian agriculture because people still farm by hand with traditional, Inca farming tools.

For a really great image of how environmental changes are already affecting people, in fact destroying an entire culture — and no, not in some low - slung Pacific Island — The New York Times has a poignant piece about how the Kamayurá people in Brazil are struggling today with deforestation and climate change making their way of life less and less tenable: Forest Homelands Now Surrounded by Ranches The Kamayurá people live in the middle of the Xingu National Park — which was once deep in the Amazon but is now surrounded by ranches — and live by hunting, fishing and some agriculture.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, people waste about 30 percent of their household food budgets buying groceries that eventually expire and have to be thrown out.

The impacts I am most concerned about are those that strike at the very infrastructure of civilization — particularly our agriculture — in a world with over 9 billion people in it.

Most «western conservation groups» have action plans that include teaching indigenous people about sustainable agriculture and other ecologically friendly commercial trades.

Interestingly our water system was designed for about 18 million people and now we have legally about 38 million people (plus a couple million extra), the 8th mightiest economy and the most intensive agriculture system on the globe AND million s of tourists each year.

Rodale Institute is committed to groundbreaking research in organic agriculture, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating people about how organic is the safest, healthiest option for people and the planet.

The theme is «Connecting People to Nature,» and is meant to encourage people around the world to think about their connection to nature — including food and agricuPeople to Nature,» and is meant to encourage people around the world to think about their connection to nature — including food and agricupeople around the world to think about their connection to nature — including food and agriculture.

«They have gotten the ear of much of the media, [and there] has been a consistently articulated inaccurate message about organic agriculture from people who want to protect a status quo.»

According to another bio, Lehr is an, «Economist and Futurist [who] makes people feel good about the environment and American Agriculture.

Despite reports about the devastating impacts of oil palm expansion on forests and indigenous peoples, the Peruvian government continues to promote oil palm development, supposedly as a viable economic alternative in the fight against drug trafficking, migratory agriculture, and poverty.

«I Just Want To Feed My Family» Speaking about urban gardening in the region, Neveen Metwally, a researcher at the Central Laboratory for Agriculture Climate in Cairo, emphasized the importance of focusing on the needs of regular people:» «I can say to someone, «A rooftop garden will help the environment,» and they'll say, «No, thank you — I just want to feed my family.»

Through the program Hazon says the Jewish community has put over $ 1 million dollars towards sustainable agriculture, while supporting Jewish institutions in educating people about the intersection of Jewish tradition and modern environmental issues.

And if you are not sure about the benefits of mitigation — I recently went to a talk by an Indian scientist who spoke about the melting Himalayan glaciers and his fear that, if we don't stabilise the atmosphere, they will go and stop feeding those major rivers that provide water and make agriculture possible for 1 - 2 billion people.

For example, Monsanto is working on a drought - tolerant corn that would help provide yield stability in Africa, where it's a huge part of the local diet; corn and wheat account for about 40 percent of the world's food and 25 percent of calories consumed in developing countries, and millions of people get more than half of their daily calories from corn and wheat alone, according to the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization.

Above all, take this as a reminder that GM crops are far far more about big business and big profits for their developers than they are about increasing crop yields, feeding more people either in rich or poor nations, or developing climate - resistant agriculture.