Sentences with phrase «scale agriculture in»

More generally, with limited large - scale agriculture in the Peruvian Amazon so far, arguably the biggest deforestation threat comes from colonization by Andean migrants with little or no knowledge of sustainable tropical horticulture and who can have devastating ecological impacts.

This work seeks to develop an applied, integrated energy - emissions approach for local - scale agriculture in Yolo County, California.

Agriculture is responsible for about 8 % of U.S. heat - trapping gas emissions, 23 and there is tremendous potential for farming practices to reduce emissions or store more carbon in soil.24 Although large - scale agriculture in the Midwest historically led to decreased carbon in soils, higher crop residue inputs and adoption of different soil management techniques have reversed this trend.

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This organization will target small businesses and social initiatives in key areas such as health, small - scale agriculture and education.

Resistance is also fueled by the massive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics in agriculture; for decades these precious drugs have been used to promote growth and fend off costly infections that can result from the cramped conditions of industrial - scale food animal production.

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.

«Clearly there has been fraud on a massive scale across multiple countries in the E.U.,» Simon Coveney, the agriculture minister for Ireland, which holds the union's rotating presidency, told a news conference after a meeting with colleagues in Brussels on Monday.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

This operates on an especially large scale in agriculture, since most people in traditional societies are farmers.

She has helped AFSA establish its voice and authority on a range of issues and secured frequent meetings with a number of politicians to lobby for significant reform, as well as leading the process for submissions to government inquiries, including the Productivity Commission's inquiry into the impact of regulation on agriculture, and the Victorian Government's Animal Industries Advisory Committee, which released its report in 2016 that includes recommendations for more scale - appropriate application of the planning scheme around extensive and intensive animal husbandry.

Like fellow Bay area start - up Geltor, Perfect Day is one of a new breed of companies in the «cellular agriculture» business — using genetically engineered yeasts that have been «programmed» to produce proteins or other ingredients found in plants or animals - on an industrial scale, without raising animals, and with less impact on the environment.

Iloilo City — As opening salvo to its 8th General Assembly, MASIPAG held a one - day conference to highlight the important and central role of small - scale farmers in the development of genuine organic agriculture.

Management of non-point source pollution is of great importance in the context of coffee agriculture, as this land use often coincides with headwater streams that influence water quality at the basin scale.

He said his fund, along with most others in Australia, did not have a long history of investing in agriculture but this was in part because of a lack of scale and difficult investment options presented by the agriculture industry.

Earlier this year (March 2017) we reported how the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture issued «cease and desist» orders to a few small - scale Amish egg farmers in Wisconsin who have been shipping soy - free cage - free eggs to customers across the U.S. for over 7 years.

Traditional farming methods, organic agriculture, and small - scale farming, are championed while all that is associated with the Green Revolution is reviled: in short, science and technology are bad; natural, organic and small - scale is good.

This new full - scale - electric feed truck is the next step in Straus» quest to show that his Marin county organic dairy farm can be carbon positive, using agriculture as a solution to reversing climate change.

July 26, 2017 (Petaluma, Calif.) Tesla, mooo - ve over: California dairy farmer Albert Straus, a pioneer in organic dairy and sustainable agriculture, announces the launch of the first full - scale electric truck — powered by cow poop.

Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small - scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don't appear to reduce red tape for small - scale commercial farmers, nor homesteaders or hobbyists, and yet they make it easier than ever before to set up a 1000 - cattle feedlot.

Recommendation: that after the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» is revised to no longer include small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, that buffer distances are determined in close collaboration with communities on a case - by - case basis where intensive agriculture is proposed.

The permaculture movement, which began in the late 1970s, has also been influential in the growth of community and backyard gardening, as well as small - scale bio-diverse agriculture.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

Topics up for discussion this year include issues around genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture, the impact of regulation and planning schemes on small - scale farmers, hunger activism and the «right to food», and food sovereignty at a global level.

Recent evidence from certified and non-certified organic systems in developing countries Twenty - nine case study narratives Key lessons learnt on processes for improvement Conclusions on scaling up experiences in organic agriculture

The new Department of Agriculture pyramid is dubbed «MyPyramid» and differs from the 13 - year - old USDA food pyramid in a number of ways: It has vertical slices of color representing the food groups but no words or images, except for that of a stick - figure energetically scaling the pyramid to symbolize the importance of physical activity.

For example, Kibbutzes or hippie communies in California don't need to spend money on R&D in agriculture, or defense, or large scale law enforcement (again, you may have the luxury to exclude 1 - 3 % of psychopaths / sociopaths from a small community, and not worry about said excluded psychopaths attacking you for your communal material possessions from outside since they are dealt with by outside society), or on disaster preparedness, or on medical R&D, or pretty much any other economic overhead of modern civilization.

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

This is already happening by default in Latin America and elsewhere: in Vietnam, forest area has been increasing since the 1990s after small - scale, unproductive agriculture was made uncompetitive by more intensive, larger - scale farming in the more open market economy.

Large - scale agriculture is changing the makeup of microbes in the soil, rendering it less biologically diverse.

12.9 %: reduction in forest cover in South - East Asia due largely to an increase in timber extraction, large - scale bio-fuel plantations and the expansion of intensive agriculture and shrimp farms (1990 to 2015)

The survey, which asks both commercial and small - scale beekeepers to track the health and survival rates of their honey bee colonies, is conducted each year by the Bee Informed Partnership in collaboration with the Apiary Inspectors of America, with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

The researchers suggest that the sheer scale of East Asia and dramatic variations in its climate may have prevented the sweeping influence of Neolithic agriculture and the accompanying migrations that replaced hunter - gatherers across much of Europe.

These unfolding discoveries suggest that complex biology is at work, leading the EPA's advisors to say that the «potential scale» of RNA used in agriculture «warrants exploration of the potential for unintended ecological effects.»

It's genetic engineering on a genomic scale, with the expectation for major advances in agriculture, materials, chemicals, and medicine.

Finally, the team quantified impacts at scales useful for decision - making in eight sectors of the state's economy: hydrology and water resources, energy, agriculture, salmon, forests, coasts, infrastructure, and human health.

Bad agriculture, not population growth, he contends, is the continent's main predicament — and in this essay, he describes how more people, employed on ecologically friendly, small - scale farms will be key to African sustainable development.

Traditional farming methods, organic agriculture, and small - scale farming, are championed while all that is associated with the Green Revolution is reviled: in short, science and technology are bad; natural, organic and small - scale is good.

The availability of technologies that allow «industrial - scale» agriculture can spur rapid forest clearing, while inefficient technology in the logging industry increases collateral damage in surrounding forests, making subsequent deforestation more likely.

In the last 100 years, over farming, monocropping and the use of chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizers in commercial, large scale agriculture has depleted the soil of minerals to dangerously low levelIn the last 100 years, over farming, monocropping and the use of chemical pesticides and artificial fertilizers in commercial, large scale agriculture has depleted the soil of minerals to dangerously low levelin commercial, large scale agriculture has depleted the soil of minerals to dangerously low levels.

The U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) has come up with a scale called ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) that measures the antioxidant level in foods.

These types of plants, vegetables, and fruits may have been grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large - scale agriculture.

There is growing awareness that the profound environmental changes (eg, in diet and other lifestyle conditions) that began with the introduction of agriculture and animal husbandry ≈ 10000 y ago occurred too recently on an evolutionary time scale for the human genome to adapt (2 — 5).

The ranching culture that once nurtured my family and our neighbours is largely gone, swept away by economic policies and global forces that are relentlessly hostile to small - scale agriculture and, in fact, to sustainable communities of any kind.

Located in the urban - rural periphery of Nairobi, the campus is easily accessible from the city center while being surrounded by small scale agriculture, away from the noise, pollution, and turbulence of the city (Upper Kabete Campus on Google Maps).

Mr Porritt exemplified his findings that «small really is beautiful as far as growing crops in genuinely sustainable, small - scale ways across Africa» through a recent report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the work of the Green Belt Movement.

The Humane Society of the United States, on behalf of its more than 800,000 supporters in New York, applauds state Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Darrel Aubertine, D - Watertown, and Committee members for passing legislation to strengthen animal fighting laws and stop the proliferation of large - scale puppy mills in New York.

The HSUS and the Humane Society Legislative Fund applaud U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for issuing a proposed rule designed to close the loophole in the Animal Welfare Act regulations that has allowed thousands of large - scale commercial puppy mills to operate without federal inspections or oversight, particularly operations that sell over the Internet.

Bay Area artist Chris Sollars has created a large - scale video installation highlighting the symbiotic relationship of learning between animals and students on the campus of UC Davis, a university rooted in agriculture and home to the world's foremost school of veterinary medicine.

In much of the 3rd world, Andy's example of girls gathering firewood and water is typically a situation where a culture that used to live somewhat comfortably and with stability, through a combination of foraging, pastoralism, and small - scale agriculture or horticulture, is now seriously out of balance because unplanned modernization prompted huge population increases at the same time that resources were taken away by competing cultures.

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