Essays Tagged: "farming practices"
Sustainable Food Production
will be able to feed itself, others share grave concerns about the future sustainability of current farming practices - especially in poor, food deficit countries with growing populations.There are th ... asis, soil erosion and other forms of land degradation now rob the world of 5-7 million hectares of farming land. Globally, land degradation threatens the livelihoods of at least one billion people, t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Sustainable Food Production
will be able to feed itself, others share grave concerns about the future sustainability of current farming practices - especially in poor, food deficit countries with growing populations.Three Worlds ... asis, soil erosion and other forms of land degradation now rob the world of 5-7 million hectares of farming land. Globally, land degradation threatens the livelihoods of at least one billion people, t ...
Subjects: Science Essays
Agricultural sustainability and biodiversity
Not EnoughFarming practices in the world are producing enough food as to sustain 8-10 billion people. This abi ... rt their dominance on their surroundings, it becomes increasingly important to practice sustainable farming practices. Without a concerted effort to sustain and increase the current agriculture produc ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Analysis of chapter 1, "Society and Economic Life" ( Martin Daunton) from the "Short Oxford history of the British Isles- The Nineteenth Nentury", edited by Colin Matthew.
n tells us of a country that within the Victorian period was in the process of great change, of new farming practices and labour methods, that on the surface seemed to be driving forward a new thrivin ... ess, causing other problems in the economy and livelihood of the people, such as the demands on the farming industry to produce more food for the growing population. This was a time of great pride and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Agents of Change Salinity in Australia
gh salinity occurs, to some extent, naturally in some areas, the problem is being increased by some farming practices.There are two types of soil salinity, dryland (occurring on areas of land not expo ... There are two types of soil salinity, dryland (occurring on areas of land not exposed to irrigation farming) and irrigation salinity. Both describe areas where the soil contains high levels of salt. U ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Biology
Social and Environmental Ramifications of Modern Farming Practices and Changing Trends towards Sustainable Farming Practices
65533;PAGE � �PAGE �1� Social and Environmental Ramifications of Modern Farming PracticesandChanging Trends towards Sustainable Farming PracticesINTRODUCTIONAn ever growing ... ltural methods. Today agriculture scientists around the globe are recognizing the fact that the old farming systems like organic farming that existed for millenniums present the best agriculture pract ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Agriculture