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Plants For A Future - New introduction
It all seems so much extra work compared ... supplying information and where possible the plants. All plants are grown without the use of artificial fertilizers, sprays or animal products (see our leaflet Vegan-organics). We do not charge for our ...
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The Lost Treasures of Eden
Europe who eat such an artificial food without raising questions, who live such an artificial life without even wondering how this could relate to the rest ... the plants and a crop might only give high yields when given large quantities of artificial fertilizers, sprayed with polluting and toxic pesticides and irrigated at critical stages of its development. This ...
www.eden-foundation.org


Eleusine coracana
Green manures such as cowpeas, sunnhemp, artificial manures and oil cakes, have been used on both irrigated and unirrigated crops. Artificial fertilizers are usually applied near close of intercultural operations. Inorganic ...
www.hort.purdue.edu


Land Stewardship Resource Centre
Choose products made with methods that reduce or eliminate the use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers: Examples of methods that work with and protect ecological processes: Integrated Pest Management (IPM)- ... are well adapted to the local area often reduces or eliminates the need for fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation. In addition, they attract and provide habitat for birds, butterflies and ...
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Land Stewardship Resource Centre
Aim to mimic natural, continuous cycles of reuse and renewal of all the resources on ...
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The real roots of security
Last June, more than half the 150 countries attending the International Technical Conference ... all manifestations of biodiversity. In essence, countries are struggling to win or impose artificial niches in the globalizing economy so that their citizens can maintain jobs and ...
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Greening the fields
This reversed earlier policies which actively encouraged the use of chemicals to improve output ... year. Comprehensive efforts, including crop rotation and the proper use and handling of natural fertilizers, have cut this by 30 per cent. Phosphorous compounds have nearly been halved, and ...
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Press Release / 26 July, 1996
And more important organic farming yields in the tropics are often as ... the FAO's new green revolution. The FAO strategy still remains the chemical alternative using artificial fertilizers and pesticides, although efforts will be made to limit the use of the latter with ...
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Is organic agriculture a possible solution to world hunger
HYV need for input - water, fertilizers and pesticides. Agricultural land area on the planet is shrinking. Agricultural productivity is ... in yields have been experienced in experimental projects. There is no need to transport artificial fertilizers over long distances and equally there is no need for excessive irrigation. Organic agriculture ...
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DRINKING WATER
... shallow aquifers has been contaminated with nitrate (a "plant nutrient" that is found in both artificial fertilizers as well as in animal and human waste) derived from different human land use activities ...
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