Sentence examples for improving farming from inspiring English sources

Given a blank slate, nobody with an interest in either alleviating poverty or improving farming would construct such a law.

These include appropriate water pricing, incentives for conservation, improving farming technologies and practices, capturing stormwaters, reducing leakage in aging distribution networks, limiting groundwater withdrawal, and recycling waste water.

Pacific Rivers Council's Salmon-Safe has certified some 40 farms, dairies and vineyards in the Pacific Northwest for improving farming practices to restore water purity to salmon habitats.

However, Professor Watson emphasised that GM foods could only play one part in solving a world food crisis, stressing that improving farming in developing countries is also vital.

It is that its success and appeal to technophiles may, in the minds of those who pay for agricultural research, crowd out other approaches to improving farming.

That may be around $100m since 2007 – more than any other government or world body is known to have handed out – but 95% of the foundation's work is devoted to developing better conventional seeds, and improving farming practices.

No period in history compares to the Great Acceleration after World War II, a rapid increase in human activity driven by population expansion, globalisation, technological and communications improvement, improved farming methods and medical advances.

With agriculture employing almost 80% of the workforce, improving farm productivity is key.

Progress in cutting nitrogen pollution was "very poor" and improving farm practices "poor", it said, with Queensland poised next year to bring in tougher laws governing use of fertiliser.

Frederick Savage applied his previous experience of developing and improving farm equipment to the invention of increasingly fantastic steam-driven rides, especially carousels.

In addition to maintaining prices, they provide subsidies for agricultural inputs such as tractor fuel and chemical fertilizers; they also gave assistance in consolidating small farms into larger ones and in improving farm buildings.