These are largely ignored in industrial agriculture, with negative impacts in environmental, community, and individual health.
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When teachers guide students in gaining awareness that industrial agriculture writ large, for example, results in chemical runoff from nitrogen-based fertiliers in the Mississippi River that in turn creates a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico so large that it is visible to the human eye through satellite distant imaging, students are able to grasp the basis for sustainable agriculture.
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It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
The CaliforniaFIRST program, run by Oakland-based Renewable Funding for the California Statewide Communities Development Authority ( CSCDA), is available to owners of office, multi-family residential (5 or more units), retail, industrial, and agriculture properties in 14 counties and 126 cities.
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It also permitted agriculture on an industrial scale.
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Production of crops and livestock is water-intensive, and agriculture alone accounts for 70% of all water withdrawn by the combined agriculture, municipal and industrial (including energy) sectors.
Technically, his role will be to oversee a new round of world trade negotiations, which is due to start in Seattle in November: it will cover, among other areas, agriculture, services, industrial tariffs and, probably, electronic commerce.
Very few of Africa's economies have been able to transform themselves from colonial-era mineral extraction and agriculture to a more diversified industrial base.
It coincides with the rise of agriculture and civilization, through the industrial revolution to the information age today.
The demand for water originates from four main sources, namely, agriculture, production of energy, industrial uses and human consumption.
All of them suffer from industrial collapse, from collectivised and deeply inefficient agriculture, and from the environmental and economic follies of central planning.
The main industries now are book publishing, construction, transport and agriculture with a growing number of firms in the light industrial sector.
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Agriculture still looks a big winner, and so do industrial materials, but it seems today there's relatively more demand in basic industries than for the finished goods that use them.
However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farming enterprises.
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The industrial sector uses an estimated 45% of water in the United States, agriculture accounts for 42% and domestic uses, like drinking and sanitation, account for a mere 13%.
Industrial demand is expected to grow significantly in the coming years, decreasing the amount available for people, agriculture, and ecosystems.
Much of this optimism is coming from expectations for a big contribution from agriculture, and not investment-led growth, which may last longer and boost the beleaguered industrial sector.
All of which is very good for the social side of agriculture - boosting employment (in the same way that artisanal fishing provides more jobs than the industrial kind), promoting local ownership of land and, in the poorest countries, mitigating against land-grabs.
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