Sentence examples for changed farming practices from inspiring English sources

The number of monarch butterflies that completed an annual migration to their winter home in a Mexican forest sank this year to its lowest level in at least two decades, due mostly to extreme weather and changed farming practices in North America, the Mexican government and a conservation alliance reported on Wednesday.

That hasn't changed farming practices yet.

The rich genetic diversity of this crop is, however, endangered by diseases, adverse environmental conditions and changed farming practices, and the need for its characterization and preservation is urgent.

Likewise, conservation of existing gene resources is essential, especially when we observe the continuous loss of banana diversity due to indelicate environmental treatment of the rain forests, as well as changed farming practices of smallholders.

Modelled economic impacts show that there are substantial opportunity income losses from applying conservation-based scenarios, and that there are limited opportunities to offset these with changed farming practices that do not create other environmental problems.

"The demand for this corn grain could be so dramatic," he said, "that it would change farming practices".

McDonald's may have an unfortunate effect on international eating habits, but at least it is using its market power where it can to change farming practices for the better.

"There's much, much work that needs to be done, and I don't think the full community understands," said David McGuigan, the E.P.A. official leading an effort by the agency to change farming practices here in Lancaster County.

Nitrogen (N) lost from cropping is one of the major threats to the health of the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in northern Australia, and there are government initiatives to change farming practices and reduce N losses from farms.

Lobby group Friends of the Earth said the proposals would continue subsidising factory farming, and not do enough to change farming practices.

There are two ways to increase this amount: One is to change farming practices by, say, increasing the amount of cultivated or irrigated acreage.