intensive agriculture

Examples of agribusiness

agribusiness
This suggests that organic crop farmers in our sample have a greater interest in departing from the conventional agribusiness-dominated input and marketing system.
Capital intensive technologies required to realize these gains can favor agribusiness over family farms5.
Recent examples of the organic movement's resistance against genetically engineered food29 point to a still critical position to the established agribusiness and food supply systems.
Market segmentation and consumer profiling strategies have been used in agribusiness management analysis to understand consumer response to a number of issues.
The corporate agribusiness model typically replaces indigenous, less productive strains of plants and animals with those that are more productive, but which require high inputs.
To those who see organic agriculture as an idealized alternative, it is ironic and contradictory when large agribusinesses venture into organic production1,8.
There are numerous technical professionals in every state who are employed through federal, state and county agencies, agribusinesses, agricultural lending institutions and churches.
On farm subsidies, a deliberator might question with regard to this dimension why subsidies should also go to large agribusinesses.
Furthermore, forestry land is continuing to be concentrated by agribusiness.
I am dismayed by his prejudice against agribusinesses.
The 35 contributors include lawyers, economists, agribusiness experts and biotechnologists, and the papers are admirably readable.
But in a world of industrialized farming, agroecology is hard to put into practice, if only because of the vested interest of the agribusiness.
It's hard to teach subversive farming in regular academic curricula, which is mostly beholden to big industrial agribusiness interests anyway.
From supply push to demand pull: agribusiness strategies for today's consumers.
Larger farms could be managed more productively and become professional partners with agribusiness concerns.
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