Sentences with phrase «use local crop»

In this recipe, for example, he recalled that his mother used to prepare almond cakes using the local crop, so he added them to a batter to create this elegant dish.

And the Park will be using local crop waste and the sun to generate clean, renewable power close to the point of use.

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Just want to share some valuable info (http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/california-targets-wrong-water-wasters/Content?oid=4222724) since I'm writing from Los Angeles — almond crops are currently responsible for making the current extreme draught conditions even worse because they are such a water - intensive crop in an area that does not naturally have sufficient water supply, so please consider using other nuts and seeds instead, as CA is currently the only major source of almonds in the world (if you're able to find a small, local / non-CA supplier, wonderful!).

Rather than investing in the promotion and implementation of golden rice, this money could be used to promote crop diversity and strengthen local and regional nutrition and food sovereignty.

Working with local fruit farmers and using her own crops of Seyval Blanc and a French hybrid red grape called Marechol Foch, LaBelle has created an enticing line of eighteen wines that are distinctly New England, featuring ingredients like blueberries, red raspberries, apricots, heirloom apples, and cranberries.

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

«The truck traffic isn't nearly as bad as it used to be,» Soltau said, «while, at the same time, a huge amount of local opposition, as you tend to see on new road projects, cropped up.»

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.

Then, when necessary, we should use remaining aid money to buy either hybrid or genetically modified crops grown in African soil for local distribution.

Now, as part of that effort, we invest with lots of research partners, always local, in developing new seeds and new crop varieties that can protect families from the consequences of drought or that have more vitamin A, and some of those projects are testing the use of different transgenic technologies.

In those cases, other causes of water shortages came into play due to local factors, such as increased water demand, population growth or methods used for irrigating the crops.

They remained a local crop in this area until their use spread across Europe during World War I. Brussels sprouts are now cultivated throughout Europe and the United States.

Caolan Woods from Natural World Products said «We employ 40 people locally to help recycle Belfast's food and green waste into a high quality organic soil conditioner, used across a range of applications — from local farmers looking to improve crop yields to local Councils seeking to help our parks and greenways flourish.»

In context, Ingeo ™ uses less than 1 / 20th of 1 percent (0.05 percent) of the annual global corn crop today, and as such contributes little to no impact on international or local food chains.

«PV is orders of magnitude more efficient than biofuels pathways in terms of land use — 30, 50, even 200 times more efficient — depending on the specific crop and local conditions,» says Geyer.

Our results indicate that expanding sugar cane into existing crop and pasture land has a direct local cooling effect that reinforces the indirect climate benefits of this land - use option.»

These projects provide examples of a collaborative system for the rehabilitation and use of the forest land property based on defined and acceptable criteria for land cultivation by the local people and for renewal of the forest crop.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

«This is a victory for the economy and for local tax rates — since crops don't go to school or use other community services — as well as for all who enjoy the local produce.»

Food security and food production systems: On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literature.

There is a major industry that involves taking GCM output and using that to evaluate local impacts on crops, endangered species, and ecosystems, and often what gives the biggest impact is changes in the extremes, but even the mean climate at a local scale has not been demonstrated to be accurately simulated.

Based on detailed reports of TCs that were generated in the Southern Ocean and hit Australia since 1970, from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Seo constructed damage estimates «using the reported financial loss, destruction of houses and capital goods, and losses of agricultural crops and livestock after a careful examination of the detailed individual cyclone reports,» which also included «local area income and population density where the storm hit.»

The role of an Agriculture Assistant is very challenging as they have to motivate the local farmers to use most modern techniques in cropping and yielding.

And despite five years of coverage that local press gave to landowner associations in their fight against provincial land - use policies, farmers are incensed to learn that there is such a thing as a Provincial Land Use Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural lause policies, farmers are incensed to learn that there is such a thing as a Provincial Land Use Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural laUse Policy, and that solar panels qualify as a legal crop on agricultural land.