They razed the forest to accommodate crop farming, and local tribes were reduced to selling trinkets at the oil camps, or to retreating further into the bush.
Alternative livelihoods such as ecotourism and fish farming could provide an alternative to intensive crop farming, while better management of crops and irrigation and the adoption of alternative energy sources such as solar power would all contribute to environmental sustainability.
For example, in the island nation of Papua New Guinea, an increase in population growth coupled with rising sea levels is decreasing the amount of crop land making farming very difficult for the indigenous people of the region, according to the U.N.
Indeed, one would think people working in Agriculture would tend to be experts in farming or crop management, not health sciences.
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The weather impact was exacerbated by decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, cover crops and other techniques to prevent wind erosion.
But he calls new subsidies for his crop insurance critical, since farming is so unpredictable.
In the immigrant heavy farming industry, crop production employment dropped by 15.6 percent in the first 4 years after LAWA was passed.
Lawmakers from corn-farming states love the emphasis on that crop, but they don't represent everyone in Congress.
But with organic farming representing 3% of U.S. crop production, there is certainly room for GM crops to help.
The crop damage is dealing a further blow to Britain's farming industry, which is already reeling from a spate of recent livestock deaths due to the cold weather.
Studies have shown that precision farming techniques can lower application of pesticides and fertilizers by 10% or more without affecting crop yields.
Weeds continue to grow, even in polycultures with holistic farming methods, and without pesticides, hand weeding is the only way to protect a crop.
The coffee giant intends to use the farm to help coffee farming communities around the world mitigate climate change impacts, and to support long-term crop stability on a warming planet.
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