Mr. Obama, who had built an extensive grass-roots network throughout the state, received the support of about 80percentt of black voters, the exit polls showed.
In terms of land use, which is the metric that matters most for conservation, extensive (grass-fed) beef uses 15-20 times as much land as intensive feedlot cattle operations.
Agriculture is one of the most widespread landuse types in Ontario, Canada, where cultivated lands are often located within small first-order catchments with extensive grass-dominated riparian areas.
Kalee Kreider, director of Greenpeace's U.S. climate change campaign, said in Kyoto that environmental groups in the United States would begin an extensive grass-roots campaign to increase public support for the accord.
Some also said that the low turnout and relatively narrow approval margin dented assumptions about the strength of the Brotherhood, whose extensive grass-roots network had yielded a string of electoral victories since President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February 2011.
With steep slopes, poor soils and a short growing season compared to lowland England, these are marginal farming areas, traditionally managed for the extensive, grass-based production of sheep, beef and some dairy farming, and their designation as European Union (EU) Less Favoured Areas (LFA) reflects this.
Three villages (Miamakawa, Gaya South, and Kutama) were recruited in consultation with local organizations (Federation of Moslem Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN) and the Evangelical Church of West Africa (ECWA) with an extensive grass-roots presence in Northern Nigeria.
