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Agricultural in sentence

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The South and West became agricultural hubs, and in other parts of the country, suburbs took over farmland.
70 percent of the agricultural land on Earth, 30 percent of the Earth's land surface is directly or indirectly devoted to raising the animals we'll eat.
There's agricultural and environmental monitoring, Internet connectivity, navigation.
If I were a farmer in Iowa in the year 1900, and an economist from the 21st century teleported down to my field and said, "Hey, guess what, farmer Autor, in the next hundred years, agricultural employment is going to fall from 40 percent of all jobs to two percent purely due to rising productivity.
So one of the examples you give in "Sapiens" is just the whole agricultural revolution, which, for an actual person tilling the fields, they just picked up a 12-hour backbreaking workday instead of six hours in the jungle and a much more interesting lifestyle.
During the agricultural revolution, what happened is that immense technological and economic revolution empowered the human collective, but when you look at actual individual lives, the life of a tiny elite became much better, and the lives of the majority of people became considerably worse.
So you didn't need any more agricultural workers, so people moved to working in low-skill industrial jobs, and when this was taken away by more and more machines, people moved to low-skill service jobs.
Unsure of how to react, I held this agricultural tool in my hand in shock.
Turns out that farmers in agricultural institutions have been practicing something called livestock mortality composting for decades.
There is untapped agricultural capacity in the Sahel, and all it takes is changing market conditions to activate that capacity.
It was developed as a prayer in movement for rain and fertility, and a prosperity that this meant for an agricultural society.
We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food.
Brazil has emerged as an agricultural powerhouse.
This flip was everything to global agricultural markets.
We need to reform and commercialize the agricultural industries in Africa and in India.
Commercialization is about the entire agricultural system.
But you can also substitute for agricultural lands.
The agricultural revolution took place because it made steam engines and farming equipment that couldn't farm by itself, that never replaced us; it made us stronger.
Montana has lost agricultural areas from salinization, problems of forest management, problems of forest fires.
The top three killers of bees are agricultural chemicals such as pesticides, herbicides, fungicides; diseases of bees, of which there are many; and habitat loss.
One of the study's authors explained that "humanity now poses a threat to the stability of the planet ... [This requires] nothing less than a new global agricultural revolution."
It's past time that we mobilize the resources that are necessary to create the next global agricultural revolution.
Human actions are now releasing 9.4 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, from activities such as burning fossil fuels and intensive agricultural practices, and other ways we change the way we use land, including deforestation.
Soils around the world are experiencing unprecedented rates of degradation through a variety of human actions that include deforestation, intensive agricultural production systems, overgrazing, excessive application of agricultural chemicals, erosion and similar things.
And we can accomplish this by putting in place deep-rooted perennial plants, putting back forests whenever possible, reducing tillage and other disturbances from agricultural practices, including optimizing the use of agricultural chemicals and grazing and even adding carbon to soil, whenever possible, from recycled resources such as compost and even human waste.
Buying from your local market and subscribing to a community-supported agricultural produce box, better known as a CSA, may be the single greatest purchasing decision you can make as a consumer today.
There was no agricultural productivity left.
Organic material is useful for the agricultural crops, for the people, but also helps the trees.
We need to accelerate our progress in agricultural productivity to feed the nine to 10 billion people who will be alive in 2050 and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly the Goal Number 2, that is on reducing food insecurity, increasing nutrition, increasing access to the foods that we need for everyone.
We know that climate change is affecting agricultural productivity.
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