Sentences with phrase «produce on smaller areas»

According to an industry source, about 80 percent of organic production currently comes from family farms, and organic growers (especially in the case of vegetables) produce on smaller areas than conventional farmers.

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From his own personal standpoint, Moloney is committed to demonstrating that the high - quality graduates Canada produces can help make the biotech industry in Canada as competitive as the more traditional centers, such as the Bay Area and Massachusetts, even if on a smaller scale.

Next year, SuperKEKB will accelerate the two beams simultaneously, compress them into a smaller area than any other accelerator on Earth, then smash them together to produce copious quantities of B mesons and tau leptons — heavy particles whose decays can reveal new physics.

The highest resolution projector in the model J goes down to 50 microns and while it has a smaller working area than the others, it is capable of producing the finest detail on such items as filigree type jewellery.

It's to this area that Andrea Zittel moved from Brooklyn in 2000 to make an attempt at total living, which involves designing and building domestic and work spaces, producing clothes, growing food, and having greater agency over one's social and cultural experiences — all of it done on a relatively small and sustainable level.

So unless the perimeter of the Greenland ice sheet is the exact same thickness as the entire ice sheet (say 3 km on average), an area loss there, of 15 %, will produce a much smaller % volume loss, than say if this area loss were smack dab in the middle of the Greenland ice sheet.

Meanwhile in South Korea, just one example, on a relatively small land area a nation is powering ahead as manufacturers and producing steel from Australian ore and coal.

UNEP News Center: The high - level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), among other crucial areas of action.

Due to the low status of urban agriculture and the usual exclusive focus on food imported from rural areas and the exterior, the creation of infrastructure for direct local marketing of fresh urban produced food and local small processing of locally produced food has received little attention in most cities.

you've made two points in particular that i think are spot - on: the fact that small, organic farmers are more likely to use bio-diesel and / or alternative fuels in bringing their produce to market, especially in the bay area where the Salon piece focused, and also that the storage time post-harvest for the wholesalers is not insignificant from a carbon footprint angle by any means.

The combination of high prices of natural gas, which is used to make nitrogen fertilizer, and of phosphate, as reserves are depleted, suggests a much greater future emphasis on nutrient recycling — an area where small farmers producing for local markets have a distinct advantage over massive feeding operations.

A small change in one area can often have tremendous impact on other areas, which means that significant gains can often be produced quickly and dramatically.