Farming in sentence

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The spread of irrigated farming and water-intensive industries, together with the demands of a rising middle class, have led to a severe struggle for more water.

This investment pays off wonderfully, with research centers such as the International Rice Research Institute and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre providing the high-yield seeds and innovative farming strategies that together triggered the Asian Green Revolution.

The economic boom brought on by soaring global demand for commodities – Argentina is a leading exporter of soy beans, corn, wheat, honey, and limes, for example – resulted from a shift in Argentine farming that pre-dates the Kirchners: the old landholders have given way to operators with managerial skills.

Imagine you own a patch of land and have made it valuable through careful farming practices – good seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and bees to pollinate the crops.

In fact, the farming of animals for meat and dairy products accounts for 16.5% of global greenhouse-gas emissions.

Moreover, if we treated climate change as the emergency it is and were serious about slowing the pace of warming over the next 20 years, the proportional influence of livestock farming would be even greater.

Beyond climate pollution, a staggering 60% of all biodiversity loss is attributable to land-use changes from animal cultivation, and as much as 80% of all land in farming is devoted either to raising animals or to growing their feed.

For starters, governments can – and should – stop subsidizing factory farming and the crops that fatten up factory-farmed animals for slaughter.

Deforestation, growing population pressure, urbanization, soil erosion, over-fishing, and the impact of foreign domination over marketing, inputs, processing, and even farming also play a role.

This will enable hundreds of thousands of displaced people to return to their village communities and live from farming.

Many of the young people with whom we spoke said that their biggest obstacle to a career in farming is learning the digital and technical skills necessary to succeed in today’s agricultural market.

But then, in 1846, the Conservative Party split over curtailing protective tariffs for grain, which was bad for the party’s rural farming base, but good for manufacturing, and for society generally.

In a study of the congressional vote on the McFadden Act of 1927, which sought to boost competition in lending, Rodney Ramcharan of the US Federal Reserve and I found that legislators from districts with a highly unequal distribution of land holdings – farming was the primary source of income in many districts then – tended to vote against the act.

The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), led by the peasant leader Evo Morales, is proposing a state-led industrialization model based on gas revenues, part of which are also supposed to support small farming, petty traders, and artisans of all sorts.

In regions where earlier inhabitants engaged in farming rather than herding, forcing them to cooperate more extensively, their descendants are more likely to form bonds of trust today.

Its vast agricultural holdings were hamstrung by worn-out equipment and the inertia of Soviet state farming.

Agriculture, predominantly subsistence farming, employs over 60% of the African workforce, implying widespread destruction of livelihoods, to say nothing of increased food insecurity as crops are disrupted.

These impoverished villages need financial help to buy vital inputs for farming and to invest in basic infrastructure such as roads and electrification.

Three-quarters of the world’s poorest people get their food and income from farming small plots of land, and most of these smallholder farmers are women.

The transformation of grasslands into deserts due to deforestation, encroachment into forests for subsistence farming, overgrazing, and loss of biodiversity and soil threaten the entire continent.

By depriving peasants of their land and making them de facto state employees, collective farming allowed Moscow to control people as well as their produce.

And in Belarus, Europe’s last dictatorship, collective farming was never undone, and a former collective farm director, Aleksandr Lukashenko, runs the country.

During his tenure as Secretary-General of the United Nations, Annan, who died last month, often wondered why so much of Africa – with its abundance of fertile land and freshwater – had failed to turn farming into an asset.

Traditionally, these oral agreements have allowed farmers to clear forests and begin farming.

More recently, British polymath Dick Taverne warned that, “in the practice of medicine, popular approaches to farming and food, policies to reduce hunger and disease, and many other practical issues, there is an undercurrent of irrationality that threatens science-dependent progress, and even the civilized basis of our democracy.”

Factory farming was born.

It isn’t called “factory farming” merely because those sheds look like factories.

Yet, despite these well-founded criticisms, over the last 20 years factory farming – not only of chickens, but also of pigs, veal calves, dairy cows, and, in outdoor feedlots, cattle – has spread rapidly in developing countries, especially in Asia.

Supporters of factory farming often point out that bird flu can be spread by free-range flocks, or by wild ducks and other migrating birds, who may join the free-range birds to feed with them or drop their feces while flying overhead.

Factory farming spread because it seemed to be cheaper than more traditional methods.

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