Sentences with phrase «with conventional agriculture»

In comparison with conventional agriculture, organic production methods are considered to have less detrimental environmental effects.

Various typical agricultural practices (e.g. ban of synthetic pesticides, organic fertilization, and habitat diversity) on organic farms are less detrimental for arthropod species compared with conventional agriculture.

PARIS — Organic farming may yield up to a third less of some crop types, according to a study proposing a hybrid with conventional agriculture as the best way to feed the world without destroying it.

Not exact matches

Plant - based dairy products such as milk continue to take market share from the sales of conventional milk in the U.S., with sales in the former category growing as sales in the latter category decline.45 It seems likely that cultured meat products will have similar effects, sometimes replacing plant - based products, but also replacing products of animal agriculture — particularly because they will likely be harder to distinguish by taste and texture than current substitutes.

If cultured meat weren't able to become cost - competitive with conventional meats, then it may have a very limited impact on the demand for conventional meats and so a very limited impact on decreasing the vast number of animals subject to industrial agriculture.

I was the only «experienced» farm girl among the participants, and I was chosen in part because I come from a conventional agriculture background while the teachings and discussions were in line with Slow Food's philosophy of food that is good, clean, and fair.

The researchers say their interest was piqued after seeing a study that positioned organic agriculture as less productive than conventional, with lower crop yields.

Wagoner and the Rodale Institute passed the baton in 2002 to the Land Institute, in Salina, Kansas, a nonprofit agricultural - research centre dedicated to replacing conventional agriculture with processes akin to those that occur in natural ecosystems.

However, unlike conventional agricultural practices which use large amounts of arsenic - based herbicide, insecticide and feed formulations — organic agriculture strictly prohibits their use — as well as a wide range of toxic pesticides with documented negative health and environmental effects that end up on and in our food supply on a daily basis.

That's because along with strawberries and peppers, green beans are one of the most heavily sprayed crops in conventional agriculture.

The US Cattlemen's Association (USCA) hasfiled a petition with the US Department of Agriculture, asking it todifferentiate conventional meat from alternatives by creating a formal definition.

With respect to energy consumption, organic agriculture is performing better than conventional agriculture.

In contrast to conventional agriculture, organic farmers depend more on a high and sustained supply of organic substances including crop rotations with clover / grass ley, underseeds, catch crops, green and animal manure.

Under European conditions, organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture with regard to certain parameters: for example, 30 to 100 percent higher microbial activity3 and a significantly higher biomass (+30 to 40 percent), density (+ 50 to 80 percent) and species diversity of earthworms, a key soil - macro faunal species4.

Organic agriculture performs better than conventional agriculture on a per hectare scale, both with respect to direct energy consumption (fuel and oil) and indirect consumption (synthetic fertilizers and pesticides).

Conventional agriculture in the area uses the water from the rivers and causes further salinization by over-irrigation with already salinated water.

Proponents have countered that increasing research could reduce the yield gap, and organic agriculture generates environmental, health and socioeconomic benefits that can't be found with conventional farming.

Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scientists have compared the environmental impacts of conventional meat production with those of alternative sources of food.

«Thirty years ago, there were just a couple handfuls of studies comparing organic agriculture with conventional.

Recent publications include an authored book with William Kerr and Peter Phillips, Biotechnology Regulation and Trade (2017); a co-edited book with Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes, Peter Phillips and Justus Wesseler, The Coexistence of Genetically Modified, Organic and Conventional Foods (2016); and a co-editor book with Peter Phillips and David Castle of the Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology and Development (2014).

The herbicides are also building up in rainwater, because the air has become more polluted with pesticides from conventional agriculture and intensive chemical GMO agriculture.

If the human safety of farming with bugs and flowers versus deadly chemicals seems clear, why do you think growers maintain conventional agriculture?

Supplements are called for especially if all ingredients are not organically certified, because the soils of conventional agriculture are nutrient deficient, and almost toxic with synthetic agrichemical fertilizers and pesticides which also contaminate crops.

Savage took these unprecedented USDA / NASS data and compared them with similar USDA statistics from conventional agriculture during the same crop year.

Reversing soil carbon loss is a new green revolution where conventional agriculture is hitting a productivity barrier with exhausted soils and increasingly expensive inputs.

However, because of the convenience and labor - saving methods of conventional agriculture, organic farming has taken a back seat since the technological breakthroughs that led to significant yields beginning in the 1940s, called the green revolution (not to be confused with today's «green» practices designed to minimize environmental impacts).

Of course, in order for bioremedial technologies such as this to move forward, the dichotomy between organic and conventional agriculture will have to be collapsed, a sober view of organic agriculture will have to be adopted, and we'll have to read the banana leaves with greater skepticism.

Along with «exponentially higher» yields, the CropBox promises that their complete growing system also uses 90 % less water and 80 % less fertilizer than conventional agriculture does.