Sustainable agriculture

dramatically increased, creating a greater urgency for food security. Farmers managed to increase food production with the development of technology as well as scientific innovation. Industrialized agriculture was developed as a solution for securing food security and ending world hunger. Industrialized agriculture first began with the improvement of farm tools. The development of machinery such as the steel plow…

The future requires businesses to focus on the triple bottom line (people, profit, planet) in order to be sustainable. An example of business model that failed because of their inability to be sustainable was DuPont Chemicals. DuPont decided to ignore the triple bottom line and dump all their excess chemicals into a local water supply contaminating the water supply and destroying the eco system around it…

know a missionary who is in Kenya to help with agriculture and the soil. He said that the soil isn 't very good over there and that’s why nothing is growing well. He wants to teach other good agricultural methods to families so they can provide for themselves. Even though the agriculture in Kenya is the largest contributor of Kenya’s GDP, only 8% of the land is used for crop and feed production, but only 20% of that is even suitable for agriculture (Abrams, Andy). Technically the earth produces…

The Factual Jungle When Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle” he simply wanted a better-work environment and not for people to question what they were consuming. I believe that what Upton Sinclair wrote about the meat packing factories and the conditions of life in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s is true. Jurgis and his family lived their life similar to the actual real families in the height of this era according to Biennial Report of 1890. Even what Jurgis experienced everyday while working in…

Ninety-four percent of Americans say that animals raised for food deserve to live a life without abuse and brutality. A factory farm is a large manufacturing operation that raises animals for food. These operations focus on profit and efficiency without considering animal welfare. Farm animals across the country suffer from abuse and conditions that are despicable and inhumane. Although factory farms may be economically efficient to provide eggs, milk, and meat, they significantly impair the…

Conventional and Organic Farming On the back. What is your final decision? Did you change your mind after our discussion? Questions for Prompting Student discussion: Organic farmers don’t use antibiotics why do conventional farmers use them. Does the use have effects on consumers? Are there any long term effects of synthetic fertilizers on the soil? Why do we have to use fertilizers for the growth of food? Can we grow enough food organically for the human population? Does organic food…

I will write about “ The Japanese sense of the seasons”. In the book, the author says that Japanese people have a strong sense of the seasons. Because Japanese people had been engaged in agriculture, their lives depended on the seasons. The time of planting seeds, giving fertilizer, and harvesting food are all depended on seasons. So they treasured four seasons, and thanks to this, a lot of seasonal events were formed. I agree that the past Japanese people had strong sense of the seasons.…

Economic anthropology In the past, anthropologists have studied a variety of economic systems. Subsistence economies are some of the simplest forms of economic systems and can be divided into groups such as food foragers, horticulturalists, pastoralists and agriculturalist. The context of this essay will compare and contrast food foragers and horticulturalists. Economic anthropology is the study of the social and cultural basis of economic behaviour(Wolf, 1997). It is also the study that looks…

Comeaux argues that barns provide information and insight about the culture and any changes that occur over time. Barns as a piece of material culture also provide information on origin and disbursement of cultural groups and their characteristics. In his article, The Cajun Barn, he argues that the southern central Louisiana Cajun barns went through four evolutionary events that altered and adapted to the changes in time and the economy of the area. Comeaux traces the developments over time in a…

Analyse the impact of humans on a biome of your choice. Humans are significantly impacting grassland biomes. There are two types of grasslands - temperate and tropical. Temperate grasslands are vast plains of country with grasses being the dominant vegetation. The prevailing weather has distinct seasonal variations between hot summers and cold winters with moderate rainfall. This biome exists north of the Tropic of Cancer and south of the Tropic of Capricorn. Conversely, tropical grasslands…