Sentence examples for improving farming practices from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
"The way to solve bovine TB is by radically improving farming practices, ensuring that TB testing actually works, and ensuring infected cattle aren't moved from farm to farm".
Reducing the amount of nutrients that flow into creeks and rivers in America's heartland by improving farming practices and restoring wetlands is a boon to wildlife.
Supporters of the SUN Movement focus on implementing solutions that directly improve nutrition — such as support for breastfeeding or ensuring access to essential vitamins and minerals — as well as efforts that have a broader influence on nutrition, such as empowering women or improving farming practices to increase accessibility of nutrient-rich crops.
Improving farming practices, breeding new strains of crops, and even genetically engineering plants could help improve yields (see "Why We Will Need Genetically Modified Foods").
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.
Improved farming practices would help, too.
Improved farming practices and disease monitoring can reduce the impact of cassava diseases in the field.
But when women are better educated it is much easier to limit population growth, to teach hygiene and healthy living, and to improve farming practices.
For example, improved farming practices, such as the use of cover crops on fallowed fields or wetland construction near streams and rivers, have the potential of reducing sediment and phosphorus concentration from fertilizer runoff.
