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    Closing the gender gap in agriculture is a critical component of improving lives and reducing hunger in developing countries. If female farmers had the same access to resources as males do, they could increase the yields on their farms by 20-30 percent. This could raise the total agricultural output in developing countries by 2.5-4 percent, which could then reduce the number of food insecure people by 12-17 percent. (FAO, 2011) Women in developing countries lack access to productive resources and

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    Name: Anderson Lozano Topic: Animal Agriculture Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience that eating meat and other animal derived products like cheese, milk, and yogurt is harmful to us and our planet. Thesis: The buildup of Animal Agriculture is a great destruction to our planet and our species. It is creating lots of negative impacts like overuse of water, water pollution, destruction of land, depletion of natural resources, mass extinction of animals (especially fish), and atmospheric pollution

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    Fossil fuels are not the leading contender for use of greenhouse gas emissions as you might think. Animal agriculture is.Animal agriculture is intensive animal farming or the industrial livestock production,which has been proven to be the leading cause of environmental impact. It is the leading cause of species extinction,ocean dead zones,habitat destruction,and water pollution.Animal agriculture should not have such a huge impact on the environment.Considering the amount of resources used or destroyed

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    be careful where we let the growth take place. Water is a very important factor in agriculture. Farmers and ranchers use water everyday to feed their livestock and to grow their crops. In 2015, Envision Utah did a survey and study to find out what Utahns value and how to handle the state’s major growth moving forward. According to that study, Utahns do not want to take water or land from agriculture. They would be willing to just

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    food. As the dawn of agriculture came about in the globe, many of the earlier aspects of these societies had changed. In “An Edible History of Humanity” the invention of agriculture led many societies to develop new settlement patterns, religious beliefs, and ideas of social stratification all based on food production during the Neolithic Revolution. As more hunter-gatherer societies started using agriculture, many of their settlement patterns had changed. Prior to agriculture, early hunter-gatherer

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    In “Science and Technology in World Agriculture: Narratives and Discourses,” Pasquale Lucio Scandizzo persuades the experts in biotechnology that the World Bank can create a balance between conservative and radical parties. In order to reinforce his stance, Scandizzo uses various forms of evidence: the narratives of both parties, the description the ecological problems, and the World Development Report. Scandizzo uses a description of the narratives of both conservative and radical parties to establish

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    Animal Agriculture is one of the main reasons that the human race has survived for so long. It has impacted us in many positive ways. But we need Animal agriculture cause without it, it would cause over population of livestock, less nutrients in the ground and helps with people who have allergies against plants and fruit. These three things all prove why we need animal agriculture. Overpopulation would be a very serious thing if we didn’t have or use our livestock for food purposes. Livestock would

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    than good, even when intentions were well meant. Of course, it is quite impossible to always clearly foresee future results of our actions, but without taking the time to thoroughly think through all the possibilities, we achieve what we have with agriculture; a problematic planet which is slowly falling apart. This beautiful, amazing planet of ours was doing just fine providing us with the essential things we inhabitants needed for survival, as well as family and social unity which in much of the world

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    In developing countries, economic development necessarily implies improvement in agricultural economy. Agriculture has changed worldwide dramatically and particularly in India in recent times mainly due to technological innovation leading to farm mechanization, extensive and widespread use of chemical fertilizers and specialization. This, being the positive side of the development, has also resulted in reduced demand for labour, significant increase in cost of production, besides, of course, depletion

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    in a less than satisfactory state. 1. Article: Poverty, Peasantry and Agriculture in Ethiopia Historically, Ethiopia has been concerned with subsistence farming rather than for profit. Particularly, mixed agriculture has been the most predominate economic activity for the nation. Due to its location, Ethiopia has no significant variation in its local temperature which helps with the development of self-sufficient agriculture- a critical activity for the population of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is essentially

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