Sentences with phrase «scale farmers into»

What further puts the credibility of the CSA approach in question is the fact that it was the World Bank that brought forward the idea of measuring how certain agricultural practices sequester carbon in soil so as to turn the carbon captured by the soils of the small scale farmers into carbon credits.

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Any setback should take into account stocking rates and rotational grazing practices undertaken by most small - scale regenerative farmers.

Our large - scale composting program converts tomato - processing waste into nutrient - rich soil for independent organic farmers.

But it wasn't until the mid-nineteenth century that the farmers began growing their pimientos on a large scale and processing them into pimentón.

Two years ago, in an attempt to gain scale, Aussie Farmers took on Coles and Woolworths by adding packaged groceries to its fresh - food range and expanded into meal solutions, competing with meal kit start - ups such as Marley Spoon and Hello Fresh.

At the other end of the scale, smaller scale farmers selling into niche local markets are successfully exploring a different financing alternative: crowd - funding.

Finally, it is argued that policies to improve access to farmers» markets and reduce the cost of participation would assist small scale Australian agricultural producers to evolve smoothly into a multifunctional era.

These aquifers already provide water for farmers and private individuals, but the municipality has not drilled into them on a grand scale — until now.

But small - scale farmers can take affairs into their own hands.

But since our food production system has become so commercialized, it's no longer possible for farmers to put back nutrients into the soil on such a large scale.

These results suggest that turning organic materials into compost and applying it to rangelands on a larger scale could store a lot of carbon, repurpose organic waste, improve the health of rangelands, increase climate resilience, and help farmers» bottom lines.

Just five companies (Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, and Syngenta) own more than 60 % of the global commercial seed supply, and with many of the modern seed varieties being hybrids that won't breed true for home gardeners and small - scale farmers, or that have regulations outlawing the collection and replanting of seeds, today's growers are being locked into a cycle of reduced genetic diversity, which may lead to a potentially dangerous food security situation in the near future.

During the Great Leap Forward, multitudes of farmers were forced into cooperatives to grow designated grain crops while others were diverted to small - scale steel making, which helped contribute to the crops rotting uncollected in Chinese fields, leading in some part to famine.