Sentences with phrase «scale farmers use»

Some small - scale farmers use the same feed the battery farms use, which is what you're trying to avoid in the first place.

Our Turkey Red Wheat is grown in the rural areas of western Wisconsin by small - scale farmers using sustainable agricultural principles.

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Fairtrade - certified vanilla indicates that it was grown by small - scale farmers in developing countries who receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices.

Fairtrade Certified Pure Vanilla ensures small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, which in return, stabilizes vanilla producing communities and protects the environment.

The use of participatory guarantee system (PGS) in the province ensures that more small - scale producers such as the MASIPAG farmers are able to enjoy full support from the local government, which includes market access, promotion and many others.

We use only certified organic Muscabado whole cane sugar in the fermentation of our vinegar, grown by a cooperative of small scale family farmers in the Philippines.

Fairtrade Certified Vanilla ensures that small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, stabilizing vanilla - producing communities and protecting the environment.

To achieve sustainability even greater impact and assurance is required, therefore we have high expectations that this merger will result in a positive transformation of farmer livelihoods and land use practices on a greater scale, which is urgently needed.»

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

It can benefit the corn, the soil, and the business, so it's really a win - win - win situation we're trying to scale up for farmers to use.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

A combination café and roaster, the beans used in the excellent coffee here are sustainably sourced from small - scale hill tribe farmers north of Luang Prabang.

It suggests three major changes: 1) project and policy preparation need to reflect higher risks, where vulnerability assessments and greater use of climate scenario modelling are combined with a better understanding of interconnections between smallholder farming and wider landscapes; 2) this deeper appreciation of interconnected risks should drive a major scaling up of successful «multiple - benefit» approaches to sustainable agricultural intensification by smallholder farmers; 3) climate change and fiscal austerity are reshaping the architecture of public international development finance.

To make more realistic projections, DeLucia and several UIUC colleagues built a large - scale field apparatus that used a system of gas tanks, pumps, and computerized controls to test how rising levels of heat - trapping carbon dioxide would affect soybeans and corn — two mainstays of Midwestern farmers — grown in the open field..

Among the many mitigation measures currently under development, some could provide new opportunities to hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers, pastoralists and forest dwellers, through their roles as sequesters of carbon, through the changes they can make in their land use and cultivation practices to reduce GHG emissions, and as small scale producers of clean energy.