Agriculture

Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago. After gathering wild grains beginning at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers began to plant them around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Industrial agriculture based on large-scale monoculture in the twentieth century came …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

In this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) Global Resource Centre demonstrates the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation to stabilize hydrology and ensure a reliable water and energy supply in …


Fraser Institute · 18 July 2024 English

The federal government has set a GHG emissions reduction target of at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, equivalent to 38.5% below 2022 levels. This report examines proposed policies …

more than 5%. • For Prince Edward Island, the agriculture sector primarily benefits from exemptions but other industries, which are then passed on to agriculture. As a result, the farming sector is expected


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 July 2024 English

This report explores Indonesia's agrifood systems transformation, offering insights from innovative economic models to guide policy-makers in developing effective, sustainable policies.

The Indonesian government and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognize that analyzing and Adaptation Climate Change Mitigation Food and Agriculture Project Food Systems Transformation Focus area


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

farmers on the Great Plains, beyond estab- lished agriculture in the Maritimes and the Canadas.45 The political


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

migrants between the Canadian Department of Agriculture and emigration agencies in England. Friendless paid or owed them by the Canadian Department of Agriculture. The more we read, the more we began to apprehend of children from the Cana- dian Department of Agriculture papers that comprise this record series 16 Friendless tionships between the Canadian Department of Agriculture and North West emigration agencies, between agencies emigrat- ed children by the Canadian Department of Agriculture. It interro- gates the previously unexplored


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 10 July 2024

aligning their practices, procedures, and operations with principles of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 10 July 2024

aligning their practices, procedures, and operations with principles of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 10 July 2024

aligning their practices, procedures, and operations with principles of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.


Fraser Institute · 28 June 2024 English

British Columbia'€™s Provincial Sales Tax harms business competitiveness and investment by taxing some businesses inputs, especially machinery and equipment, distorting consumer choices by taxing most goods but relatively few consumer …

Source: Bazel and Mintz, 2021: 15, table 2a. Agriculture Transportation and storage Forestry Communications Construction Electrical power, gas, water Forestry Agriculture Source: Calculations by the author based on the


NSP: New Society Publishers · 25 June 2024 English

Deep polarization in our society prevents us from working collaboratively to solve the problems we face. The Solutionary Way offers a practical approach, providing clear and achievable methods to bridge …

fuel-, water-, land-, and grain-intensive animal agriculture • exploitation of farm workers and those employed meaningful alternatives that shift the economics of agriculture away from exploitation and abuse without closing affecting kids living in poverty? Industrial agriculture, the Farm Bill, corporate lobbyists, and taxpay-


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