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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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commercial
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The most obvious one is commercial animal agriculture in its dominant form.
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Between 300,000 and 800,000 children like Damaris are working as hired laborers in commercial U.S. agriculture today.
intensive
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Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture .
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About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture .
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
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Powys was an area of intensive agriculture , predominantly sheep breeding.
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Farming More intensive agriculture has led to increased concentrations of nitrate in groundwater in many areas.
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But on many streams which mink have colonised, particularly those close to intensive agriculture , fish are no longer abundant.
local
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This project was promoted by Lord Egremont who wished to improve the condition of local agriculture by upgrading transport facilities.
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Rawcliffe's good communications systems serve the local industries in agriculture and manufacturing.
modern
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It involves the whole political economy of modern agriculture - and that includes consumers and politicians as well as producers.
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Wild animals are not alone in suffering from some of the technological advances of modern agriculture .
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Most are ill-adapted to the demands of modern , mechanised agriculture and, unless converted to new uses, may well disappear.
sustainable
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The basic challenge for sustainable agriculture is to maximise the use of locally-available and renewable resources.
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One battleground in the debate is the issue of whether biotechnology threatens sustainable agriculture .
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While companies talk about sustainable agriculture , they create plant varieties that can withstand being sprayed by their most virulent herbicides.
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What is the expected response of farmers in industrialised countries to sustainable agriculture ?
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It is essential that sustainable agriculture be developed in the areas already deforested and settled.
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Hence sustainable agriculture could replace unsustainable agriculture, reducing the impact of erosion and flooding on downstream agricultural areas.
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Extensification for meat production purposes is therefore an option that is consistent with sustainable agriculture .
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Quietly, slowly and significantly, sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world.
traditional
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If agreed by the Council of Ministers it will form the basis for support to the maintenance of traditional agriculture without intensification.
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The shift from the main traditional occupation, agriculture , to unskilled labour, was considerable.
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The problem is that traditional slash-and-burn agriculture is still the only option most farmers know.
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Since almost all are high mountain areas, agricultural development is anyway unlikely but traditional agriculture for conservation objectives is supported.
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minister
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But Peter Walker, the agriculture minister , opposes the idea of a new law.
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Exporters will face extra charges for transporting animals inspected by independently nominated veterinarians, said junior agriculture minister Elliot Morley.
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Renate Ku nast, the new food and agriculture minister , will also have responsibility for consumer affairs.
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Earlier, Green Party co-leader Renate Kuenast as appointed agriculture minister .
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Mr Davies, 46, was Labour's shadow agriculture minister .
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On April 28 the agriculture ministers will meet in Brussels.
ministry
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They include the departments of health, trade and industry and social security, the agriculture ministry , and local authorities.
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The report, co-drafted with the agriculture ministry , also outlined the amount lent by agricultural cooperatives to the jusen.
subsistence
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The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
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The manufacture of cloth was thus no more than a marginal addition to the subsistence agriculture of the interior.
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Much of the worldwide loss was the result of impoverished farmers being compelled to clear the land for subsistence agriculture .
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By contrast, there was a general shift from subsistence agriculture to the production of cash crops and the provision of services.
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From this time on the position of subsistence agriculture declined in other regions, though the pace of this change was uneven.
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Fishing is also of major importance, while around 70 percent of the population depend on subsistence agriculture .
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The world which had been dominated by subsistence agriculture crumbled.
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The siting of a settlement is very closely connected with the decision to use the land around for subsistence agriculture .
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based
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The main industrial activity was also based on agriculture .
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The productivity of an economy based on agriculture and household industry had inherent limits.
develop
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But with foreign assistance to developing world agriculture in decline, that will be harder.
employ
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One other key variable that has traditionally been used to delineate rural areas is the percentages employed in agriculture and forestry.
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Industrialization is measured by the percentage of males employed in agriculture and the per capita consumption of energy.
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More than 700,000 people were employed in agriculture , forestry, and fishing in 1961.
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At the beginning of the 1980s, about a third of the total labour force was employed in agriculture .
engage
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They were engaged in agriculture and industry but they renounced trade.
increase
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High-level ministers have talked openly about increasing aid to agriculture and shifting economic policy from one of stabilization to one of growth.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
intensive farming/agriculture
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About 90 percent of wildflower-rich meadows have disappeared since the Second World War due to intensive agriculture and drainage.
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Also of concern is not only the cost but the amount of fossil energy subsidy required for intensive agriculture.
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Our increase in intensive farming has brought with it an increase in outbreaks of food poisoning.
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The corncrake and marsh fritillary have been the victims of intensive agriculture as ploughing and pesticides destroy habitat and insects.
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The increasing adoption of less intensive agriculture should further encourage a hare recovery.
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They said they didn't have strong views on intensive farming.
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They were replaced by cities dependent on intensive farming to feed them and on great armies to defend them.
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We now realise the importance of hedgerows, of small fields, of clean rivers and of less intensive agriculture.
subsistence farming/agriculture etc
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In the early l960s Bengali agriculture consisted mainly of subsistence farming.
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It report points out that, in many developing countries, women are primarily responsible for subsistence farming.
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It was there in 1903 that quarrymen went on strike for three and a half years, surviving on subsistence farming.
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Preferential interest rates also favor commercial over subsistence farming in many countries.
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She will most probably be involved in agriculture, in subsistence farming of crops like rice.
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The graphite boom temporarily reduced the social and economic importance of subsistence agriculture in the Low Country.
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This vast, dispersed rural workforce would need, and would receive, only the education needed for manual subsistence farming.
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Wine formed the most important cash crop, while cereal production generally took the form of subsistence farming.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this pattern has begun to change, especially in the ever-sensitive area of agriculture .
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Experts have recommended that fishermen are paid not to fish, mirroring recent developments in agriculture .
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Local wildlife and agriculture are likely to be badly affected, environmentalists claim.
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Prior to the invention of agriculture , game was both the primary diet and the focus of battles in the fields.
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The drainage of peatbogs for forestry and agriculture is making a significant net contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, the report concludes.
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The initiative will allow the entrepreneurs to test new approaches to agriculture or develop new agricultural products and activities.
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The spread of industrial agriculture in the South places thousands of native breeds at risk.
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Young people do not want to live in them, when as often as not work means agriculture or nothing.