These high nature-value farming systems face a harsh choice between abandonment and intensification.
Windowfarms are vertical hydroponic farming systems that are designed to help apartment farmers and educators, with little access to space and light , get started growing their own food.
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Conventional farming is likely to be harder on insects such as bees - which we know are already in trouble in many countries, partly through use of insecticides that organic farming systems should avoid.
"There is less energy use from organic farming, and the conventional systems produce 40% more greenhouse gases, " Kintzer said.
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Long-term trials in the United States show organic yields matching those from non-organic systems, with organic farming outperforming non-organic in drought years.
The widespread adoption of GPS systems for large-scale farming is inevitable.
Rapid population growth has put enormous pressure on agricultural systems that have been pushed towards unsustainable farming practices in order to cope with demand.
Still, rising temperatures offer a lot of potential that Greenland is trying to tap into, hoping that farming will prevail here if the infrastructure, like watering systems, is in place.
In the countryside the men have the backbreaking work of farming without mechanisation: again, fuel is dear, and many powered irrigation systems have broken down.
Some industries such as banking are fairly well along in making computer systems year-2000 compliant, but others, including food processing, agriculture and farming, some government services, construction, law, and medical practice are lagging, Marcoccio said.
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