1850年至1890年间，随着欧洲集约化农业方法在世界范围内的推广，数百万公顷的森林和林地被砍伐殆尽。
Millions of hectares of forest and woodland fell before the newcomers' axes between 1850 and 1890, as intensive European farming methods expanded across the world.
拖拉机革新了农业方法。
面对快速变化的市场和日新月异的科技进步——金融方法上的，医疗上的，农业方法上的，软件上的——管理机构需要快速地做出决定。
Faced with a rapidly changing market and technological advances-of financial instruments, medical therapies, agricultural methods, software-the regulatory agencies have to make decisions quickly.
有许多提高世界较贫困地区农业效能的方法。
There are many ways to increase agricultural efficiency in the poorer areas of the world.
他们说，除非通过低耕农业等方法节约用水，否则该地区将变得依赖进口食品。
They say the area will become depended on imported food unless water is saved through methods like Low Till Farming.
只有使用现代的灌溉方法，我们才能减少农业用水短缺的情况。
Only by using modern irrigation methods can we reduce water shortage in agriculture.
除了粮食产量之外，还有许多不同的方法来衡量农业表现：能源使用、环境成本、水的纯度、碳足迹和生物多样性。
There are many different ways to measure agricultural performance besides food yield: energy use, environmental costs, water purity, carbon footprint and biodiversity.
甚至还有来自其他农业国家的游客，想看看他们是否可以使用类似的方法。
Visitors are even coming from other agricultural countries to see if they can use a similar method.
这种方法不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业的限制。
It's an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional large scale agriculture led by international corporations.
在20世纪40年代早期，农民们沐浴在以化学品为基础的集约农业的光辉下，贪心地把杀虫剂当作增加作物产量的一种可靠方法。
In the early 1940s, basking in the glory of chemical-based intensive agriculture, the farmers avidly took to pesticides as a sure measure to boost crop yield.
现代农业耕作方法可能对环境造成负面影响。
Modern farming methods can have an adverse effect on the environment.
这是一种被称为全球农业可持续增长的方法。
This is an approach that is described as the sustainable growth of global agriculture.
这个国家几乎已经打败了棉铃象鼻虫，农业部对每包棉铃都用复杂难懂的方法进行了单独的测试。
The country has pretty much defeated the boll weevil, and the Department of Agriculture individually tests every bale on obscure measures.
有人认为，一旦狩猎采集者占领了整个世界，世界各地的人口就会开始增长，食物将变得稀缺；农业本来是解决这一问题的方法。
It was argued that once hunter-gatherers had occupied the whole world, the population started to grow everywhere and food became scarce; agriculture would have been a solution to this problem.
新方法意味着从事农业的人更少了。
即使这种计时方法在细节上是新颖的，早期的农业社会也将时间与自然现象联系在一起。
Even if this method of timekeeping is novel in its particulars, early agricultural societies also connected time to natural phenomena.
“这是我使家族农业遗产最大化的方法，”他说。
"This is my way to maximize my family's agricultural heritage," he said.
为了预测农业生产，一些公司就在研究使用中国各地的卫星、气候和土壤数据的方法。
To predict agricultural production, firms are studying ways to use satellite, weather and soil data throughout China.
但最近不只是那些援助组织加强对这种农业类型的扶持，他们多年来一直认为食品计划才是对付饥荒的最佳方法。
But it is only recently that aid organizations - many of which for years believed that feeding programs were the best response to hunger - have increased their support for this type of agriculture.
用植物包裹建筑物的方法解决了农业生产所需的自然光问题，同时还能为建筑物调节气候，并能成为一种好看的景观。
Shrouding buildings with plants solves the natural-light problem for agriculture, ACTS as a passive form of climate control for the buildings and makes for a nice view.
创造就业机会的少数可用的方法之一是增加阿富汗农业的产值，尤其是在充斥着矛盾的南部地区。
One of the few available approaches to creating jobs is to add value to Afghan agriculture, especially in the conflict-ridden south.
这就是伯尼在比较提高农业生产量的各种方法对于气候影响时艰难做出的平衡举动。
This is the difficult balancing act Burney performs as she compares the climate trade-offs of different approaches to agricultural production.
采用保护性农业等土地利用方法还将有助于将大量的碳保持在土壤中。
Adopting land use practices such as conservation agriculture would also help to maintain significant amounts of carbon in the soil.
农业学家们坚持认为关键在于他们一直沿用了数代传下来的方法。
The key, agronomists contend, lies in their adherence to methods used for generations.
许多学者担心这种方法造成无法预期的影响，如改变降水方式可能会影响农业生产。
Many worry about unintended consequences such as variations in rainfall patterns that would affect agricultural production.
许多学者担心这种方法造成无法预期的影响，如改变降水方式可能会影响农业生产。
Many worry about unintended consequences such as variations in rainfall patterns that would affect agricultural production.
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