Sentences with phrase «sustainability of agricultural systems»

More ominously, the scientists warn that, «If we do nothing, endocrine disruptors may not only impact on human health but all the ecosystems including those on which we depend — if we compromise soil productivity and sustainability of our agricultural systems or cause imbalance in marine and freshwater ecosystems through damage to populations of top predators, ultimately, we threaten our own survival.»

Agroecology is the science of sustainable agriculture; the methods of agroecology have as their goal achieving sustainability of agricultural systems balanced in all spheres.

Many of these discussions have continued after the conference and I hope will facilitate further collaboration to improve the sustainability of agricultural systems.

Not exact matches

Our members represent a diversity of stakeholders in the local food system including: farmers, food processors, distributors, farmers» markets, retailers, restaurateurs, institutional food buyers, consumers, anti-hunger advocates, children's health advocates, faith communities, agricultural scientists, and sustainability educators.

However, there are still a number of sustainability challenges concerning organic agricultural and horticultural systems of today and organic farming is criticized for its, in many cases, lower yield performances.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

Monitoring them yields useful information on the sustainability of different agricultural farming systems.

The International Rice Research Institute is a nonprofit, autonomous, nonpolitical, international organization established in 1960 under international treaty, with a mission to reduce poverty and hunger through rice science, improve the health of rice farmers and consumers and ensure environmental sustainability through collaborative research, partnerships and strengthening of national agricultural research and extension systems.

The selected candidate will work closely with the PI on developing an indicator system and a database to measure several aspects of sustainability and resilience of agricultural production.

I am a big proponent of sustainability, parmaculture, and integrated agricultural systems.

This book is focused on the challenges to implement sustainability in diverse contexts such as agribusiness, natural resource systems and new technologies.The experiences made by the researchers of the School of Agricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery ofAgricultural, Forestry, Food and Environmental Science (SAFE) of the University of Basilicata offer a wide and multidisciplinary approach to the identification and testing of different solutions tailored to the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the region and the surrounding areas.Basilicata's productive system is mainly based on activities related to the agricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery ofagricultural sector and exploitation of natural resources but it has seen, in recent years, an industrial development driven by the discovery of oil fields.

• Tools to predict change in water demand, which requires demographic models that incorporate climate change impacts and models that consider the effects of climate change on natural and agricultural landscape water use • Research on water governance, including adaptive management models, adaptive capacity building, and water systems sustainability • Research on the economics of water supply, demand, and conservation