This trait makes honeybees essential to modern agriculture, which has itself evolved to depend on their services.
And in the process, Fr. de Laulanie set in motion possibly one of the most important, and most controversial, advances in modern agriculture.
Erosion-control practices and drought-resistant crop hybrids are just two examples of ways in which modern agriculture attempts to mitigate the impacts of severe drought.
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Yet these ancient churchyards have been untouched by modern agriculture.
He wants us to begin to invest even more in the new jobs of the 21st century -- in infrastructure, in information technology, in clean energy, in manufacturing, in modern agriculture.
The sophistication of modern agriculture enables us to safely cultivate crops for both food and new pharmaceuticals, and to ensure that ne'er the twain shall meet, at least in a way likely to cause injury.
To better avail itself of many modern advantages, agriculture needs scale, and that means consolidation of plots through freedom to buy and sell land.
"It will further enable the transition of the local economy from one of traditional industries, such as agriculture, to a modern, high technology based economy, building on strong existing foundations".
The organic community remains unswayed by either biology or history, however, and modern genetic engineering remains prohibited from organic agriculture.
Weiss is dusting off evidence in the region known as the Fertile Crescent, including much of modern-day Iraq and Syria, indicating that a human revolution in irrigated agriculture occurred after an extended drought and cold spell.
The White Springs, West Virginia, resort declared bankruptcy in 2009, and new owner Jim Justice, a local coal-and-agriculture baron, is trying to bring the 6, 750-acre property into the modern era of luxury--and extend its appeal beyond a graying demographic.
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