These findings indicate that farming is one of the most unequal professions in the United States today. Further, we investigate whether three forms of sustainable agriculture improve incomes for women farmers. We find that only farms engaging in Community Supported Agriculture experience a marked ...
U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the illicit drug from which heroin is derived, but warn there are still strong prospects for future expansion of the deadly trade. December 12 Brazilian beef and leather c...
Public schools are on the state chopping block. Billions of dollars could be slashed. Thousands of employees could be laid off. And class sizes could be getting larger. But there is at least one program the federal government wants to expand here in Texas and nationwide: Breakfast in the cla...
Agricultureis still the mainstay of the country's economy. 农业仍然是这个国家经济的主要支柱. 《简明英汉词典》 He showed his poverty in his knowledge ofagriculture. 他表现出缺乏对农业知识的了解. 《简明英汉词典》 The benefit which the reservoir brings to the villagers is not limited toagriculture...
Urban Agriculture in the United States: Revitalizing Neighborhoods January 16, 2024 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (UNFAO) accounts for over one-tenth of the global population,approximately 800 million people, practicing urban agriculture worldwide. In theUnited States, millions of citizenslack...
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the gender gap for farming in the United States. Using the 2012 U.S. Census of Agriculture we show that farms operated by women earn 40 percent less farm income than farms operated by men after controlling for farm and operator ...
“In Europe,”said Thomas Jefferson, “theobject is to make the most of their land, labor beingmore than enough; here it is to make the most of ourlabor, land being more than enough." It was in theUnited States, therefore, that the great advances innineteenth-century agricultural ...
Agriculture in the United States (US) cycles large quantities of nitrogen (N) to produce food, fuel, and fiber and is a major source of excess reactive nitrogen (Nr) in the environment. Nitrogen lost from cropping systems and animal operations moves to waterways, groundwater, and the atmosphe...
As the saying goes, “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago; the second best time is today.” 1. Every year our forest loses an area almost the size of. A. Brazil B. Panama C. South Africa D. the United States
He served as head of the United States Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service in the early 1990s and instituted a program that led to rapid expansion of no-till. He advises that farmers who follow conservation agriculture principles need to be more proactive, from local...