Climate change therefore poses real challenges to farmers in terms of adapting farming methods to new weather conditions and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Finally, many who are seduced by the romance of organic farming ignore its human consequences. American farmer Blake Hurst offers this reminder Weeds continue to grow, even in polycultures with holistic farming methods, and, without pesticides, hand weeding is the only way to protect a crop.

Those who know little about modern factory farming may wonder why such legislation would be necessary. Under farming methods that were universal 50 years ago, and that are still common in some countries today, all animals have the space to turn around and stretch their limbs.

There isn't time to go into it, but it's including things like tree nurseries, methods of farming most suitable to this now very degraded, almost desert like land up in these mountains.

The chapter on marine culture assesses mariculture methods (marine net pen rearing, ocean ranching, extractive aquaculture and intensive shrimp farming) for their environmental consequences, and suggests best practices to guide policy making.

Other experts agree. In October 2005, a United Nations task force identified as one of the root causes of the bird flu epidemic, farming methods which crowd huge numbers of animals into small spaces.

Farming was an energy bonanza.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

Let's go back to traditional farming.

Our farming has done the opposite.

Subsistence farming is drying up basically.

But it's much faster than conventional farming.

That means, you know, net fertility farming.

People here survive mainly on subsistence farming.

The main occupation here is subsistence farming.

She wanted to keep farming until she dies.

Trade is 10 times as old as farming.

Subsistence farming was the only source of livelihood.

After all, to improve their health and preserve their environment, people need access to information about birth control methods, modern farming and cooking practices, and much else. And to improve their economic prospects, they need the knowledge and skills that employers require.

The General Union of Farming Cooperatives (UGC), created in Maputo and with 10,000 members being 90 women, acts particularly in the green zones of Maputo and works with productive farming cooperatives in an effort to maximize economic activities in farming and livestock production.

Who is farming them? That's what I was wondering.

Off season farming credit for market gardening and produce.

There is a lack of pro poor farming research.

A programme has been launched by one other country with the support of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Programme for Arid Land Crops (IPALAC) in order to develop new farming methods and practices in arid areas.

Hazrat Ali is from a poor farming family in Swat.

Fishing, breeding, farming are still the world's foremost human occupations.

In Africa, progress is reported with improvements in farming techniques.

In Fizuli and Jebrail Districts, there is extensive large scale farming.

(c) Domestic economic considerations (leverage farming activities, increased domestic protein production)

Its activities are directed towards training in basic skills (education, health and nutrition), expanding opportunities and increasing market access (creating better and new jobs, improving production and farming methods, for example), and upgrading the physical environment (infrastructure, housing, water and sanitation), the aim being to structurally overcome extreme poverty.

And I grew up in this little farming town in northern Nevada.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's farming, God's building.

In the Kelbajar District, the FFM observed organized, large scale farming activity.

Many reports give an account of progress on improvements in farming techniques.

(Jordan) preparation of Permaculture pilot farm (4.8 hectares) establishing farming materials bank.

(Jordan) managing environmental conserving agriculture and forestry programs managing farming materials bank.

Methods

Methods

Factory farming spread because it seemed to be cheaper than more traditional methods. In fact, it was cheaper only because it passed some of its costs on to others for example, to people who lived downstream or downwind from the factory farms, and could no longer enjoy clean water and air.

Suffice to say it's like it's not the prettiest picture of sustainable farming.

We studied the biota, the ancient biota, the current farming and the protocols.

As in Kelbajar town, subsistence farming is the backbone of the local economy.

Increased research has led to the development of more climate friendly farming practices.

Renewable energy is intimately and inextricably bound up with farmers and farming activities.