Example collocations logo

Agriculture in sentence

1280 examples of Agriculture in a sentence

What really started to change in agriculture is when you started moving from this brute force engineering and chemistry into biology, and that's where you get your productivity increases.
And 50 percent of the EU budget is going to subsidize agriculture from mountains of stuff that people have overproduced.
It may be to have stuff process that coal in a biological fashion as you did in agriculture.
It is beginning to understand the transition that occurred in agriculture, from brute force into biological force.
What Cacilda and I have argued is that no, this economic relationship, this oppositional relationship, is actually an artifact of agriculture, which only arose about 10,000 years ago at the earliest.
So before agriculture, before the agricultural revolution, it's important to understand that human beings lived in hunter-gatherer groups that are characterized wherever they're found in the world by what anthropologists called fierce egalitarianism.
So we've argued that human sexuality has essentially evolved, until agriculture, as a way of establishing and maintaining the complex, flexible social systems, networks, that our ancestors were very good at, and that's why our species has survived so well.
It takes a little bit of fuel, but as you know, agriculture can have a carbon footprint, and fish has a much smaller one, so it's less polluting.
Most of the organizations, however, were limiting their growth in agriculture.
By involving local communities, investing in their agriculture and their economies, by monitoring more carefully, by enforcing the law more strictly.
Now, Erick realized that agriculture would be the key to creating jobs in the rural areas of Madagascar, but he also realized that fertilizer was a very expensive input for most farmers in Madagascar.
And agriculture suddenly appeared to me not as an invention, not as a human technology, but as a co-evolutionary development in which a group of very clever species, mostly edible grasses, had exploited us, figured out how to get us to basically deforest the world.
So it helped me understand industrial agriculture, which of course is a Cartesian system.
This is well beyond organic agriculture, which is still a Cartesian system, more or less.
Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires.
We don't need to clear-cut all the forests to actually get more jobs and agriculture and have more economy.
The reason is that sometimes it's the cheapest, safest, and most effective technology for enhancing food security and advancing sustainable agriculture.
We took this wild creature and put it inside of a box, practically domesticating it, and originally that was so that we could harvest their honey, but over time we started losing our native pollinators, our wild pollinators, and there are many places now where those wild pollinators can no longer meet the pollination demands of our agriculture, so these managed bees have become an integral part of our food system.
We could require agriculture to give up antibiotic use.
And in fact, draining a swamp to make way for agriculture and development was considered the very essence of conservation not too long ago.
The first one has to do with agriculture, which is probably the biggest problem that we're facing worldwide.
This forest was almost completely cleared for timber, agriculture, cattle ranching and the construction of cities, and today only seven percent of the Atlantic forest is still left standing.
In the Atlantic Forest, we found out that tapirs move through open areas of pastureland and agriculture going from one patch of forest to patch of forest.
The reason for our rejection is historical, and the story probably begins around 10,000 BC in the Fertile Crescent, a place in the Middle East that was a major birthplace of agriculture.
The areas in red shown here, are areas that until recently have been very successfully used for agriculture, but cannot anymore because of lack of rainfall.
The other thing to remember about Africa is that most of their agriculture is rainfed.
I'm going to focus on the main one, but agriculture is involved, diet is involved, population is involved.
Tea doesn't actually cure poisonings, but the story of Shennong, the mythical Chinese inventor of agriculture, highlights tea's importance to ancient China.
Say you wanted to make a fruit fly that feeds on ordinary fruit instead of rotting fruit, with the aim of sabotaging American agriculture.
We believe that this type of technology can actually help us address an issue with agriculture and allow us to create a type of agriculture that's sustainable, that will allow us to scale to meet the demands of tomorrow.
BackNext