نتایج جستجو برای: industrial agriculture

تعداد نتایج: 208246  

Journal: :Journal of civil engineering and environmental sciences 2021

Now a days we see that large amount of water has been wasted either in sewage or soil. it suffers from shortage supply for irrigation uses. On the other hand, production system Rajasthan region is characterized by many agricultural food industries, activity which produces amounts wastewater.

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 2002
Leo Horrigan Robert S Lawrence Polly Walker

The industrial agriculture system consumes fossil fuel, water, and topsoil at unsustainable rates. It contributes to numerous forms of environmental degradation, including air and water pollution, soil depletion, diminishing biodiversity, and fish die-offs. Meat production contributes disproportionately to these problems, in part because feeding grain to livestock to produce meat--instead of fe...

Journal: :Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 2010

Journal: :Environmental biosafety research 2005
Daniela Soleri David A Cleveland Flavio Aragón Mario R Fuentes Humberto Ríos Stuart H Sweeney

Genetically engineered transgenic crop varieties (TGVs) have spread rapidly in the last 10 years, increasingly to traditionally-based agricultural systems (TBAS) of the Third World both as seed and food. Proponents claim they are key to reducing hunger and negative environmental impacts of agriculture. Opponents claim they will have the opposite effect. The risk management process (RMP) is the ...

2013
J. GREGORY ZEIKUS

impact of biobased industrial products in the twenty-first century. The priorities for research and commercialization were described in terms of agriculture expanding into health, energy, chemicals and materials. Agriculture is now armed with new biotechnology and bioprocessing tools, and is going back to reclaim the markets it lost to the petrochemical industry after the 1930s. This paper will...

2001
Jenny Ballinger

1.2 The title of the session is “Industrial Archaeology”; however, given that industry, technology and trade have been considered in detail in the other period seminars for the Regional Research Frameworks process this paper will consider the archaeology of the industrial period. The broad period band for the industrial period is 1750 to the present day. The major emphasis is upon the process o...

2011
P. Jeyakumar

Conservation agriculture (CA) integrates ecological management with scientific agricultural production. CA promotes minimal disturbance of the soil by tillage (zero tillage), balanced application of chemical inputs (only as required for improved soil quality and healthy crop and animal production), and careful management of residues and wastes. CA Promotes application of fertilizers, pesticides...

Journal: :Third world quarterly 2011
Philip McMichael Mindi Schneider

This article reviews proposals regarding the recent food crisis in the context of a broader, threshold debate on the future of agriculture and food security. While the MDGs have focused on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, the food crisis pushed the hungry over the one billion mark. There is thus a renewed focus on agricultural development, which pivots on the salience of industrial agric...

2014
Michelle Allsopp Reyes Tirado Paul Johnston David Santillo Patricia Lemmens

Executive Summary 3 1: Introduction 9 2: Factors causing bee declines – implications for agriculture 15 3: Ecological farming versus industrial agriculture – impacts on bees 21 4: Ecological pest control to eliminate the use of synthetic chemical pesticides 39 Appendix 1 54 Appendix 2 56 3 The drastic decline of wild and managed bee populations recorded in recent years in Europe and North Ameri...

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