Sentences with phrase «replacing conventional agriculture»

Wagoner and the Rodale Institute passed the baton in 2002 to the Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas, a nonprofit agricultural - research centre dedicated to replacing conventional agriculture with processes akin to those that occur in natural ecosystems.

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The Firm invests in talented, focused entrepreneurs whose products or services replace foods derived from conventional animal agriculture.

Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture than current substitutes.

Such a process guarantees consumers that managed practices incorporating biodiversity, plant health management and natural fertilizers in organic farming replace the use of toxic, synthetic pesticides used in conventional agriculture.

«We need a whole new agriculture,» Wilson says, one that replaces conventional crops like wheat.