But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

China's approach to protecting its environment while feeding its citizens \ offers useful lessons for agriculture and food policymakers worldwide.

The author mentions car industry at the beginning of the passage to introduce a special feature of agriculture.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The loss of glaciers there due to global warming represents an enormous threat to agriculture.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

Agricultural workers in green tea fields near Mt.

The United States Department of Agriculture and the food industry collect sales statistics and keep accurate records

since African agriculture is still broadly unproductive, food is imported, consuming a portion of revenue.

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

Irrigation is the primary agricultural use of human waste in the developing world.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

Whether the biotech industry should take priority over agriculture.

About 70% of this is consumed by the global agriculture sector, and the level of use will continue to rise over the coming decades

In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.

\There is a large potential for waste water agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers,\ said liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling t

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may \create serious problems for food security\ in the country.

It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture lead by international corporations.

Reading magazines like The Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture.

While farming is often difficult for both the body and mine, Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by desire to set a new standard for agriculture.

Young farmers are guided by their love for agriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology to find inexpensive and appropriately sized tools.