The school has a 64 ha farm and agriculture features strongly in its curriculum.
In his new book, Two Percent Solutions for the Planet, Courtney White, co-founder and executive director of the Santa Fe-based Quivira Coalition, a nonprofit that works to find common ground between the worlds of conservation and agriculture, features 50 different examples of farmers and ranchers who are having success doing just that.
As depicted in Figure 4, increasing population and resource pressure drives agriculture through a progression of modes from expansive/long fallow, to low external input/highly integrated, to high external input/specialized, to new conservation agriculture featuring extensive integration and high knowledge intensity.
The basis of Aztec success in creating a great state and ultimately an empire was their remarkable system of agriculture, which featured intensive cultivation of all available land, as well as elaborate systems of irrigation and reclamation of swampland.
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With a moderate climate and good farmland, Moldova's economy relies heavily on its agriculture sector, featuring fruits, vegetables, wine, and tobacco.
In Table 1 are shown the most common indicators of sugarcane agriculture, their parameters, features, performances, and the particularities that deserve to be considered.
When you think about Canadian strengths in terms of production and exports, agriculture and oil feature prominently.
Advanced water systems and hydrological conditions favorable for fisheries and irrigated agriculture are another feature of the region's natural ecology.
This section describes some key characteristics and features of agriculture in DRC, relevant to the problems under review.
A desktop review of 14 LCA customised agriculture tools identified the features that influence these objectives: tool purpose, mode of access, ease of use, results presentation, degree of practice parameterisation, capacity for regionalised analysis, system scope, impact categories assessed, and alignment with other assessment frameworks.
