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The company also began partnering with other food businesses in the Bay Area, including an urban winery and a sustainable-agriculture organization, and in coming weeks is hosting an array of cooking classes for the general public.
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Have you given any thought to funding sustainable-agriculture education and methods in Third World countries, where deforestation is rampant and poverty levels are extreme?
Ask Bill Gates 2007
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Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable-agriculture movement, educates consumers on food-related issues, and works to build community through food.
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In the words of Wes Jackson, a biologist and sustainable-agriculture researcher, we are fundamentally ignorant.
Intelligent-design debate reveals limits of religion and science 2005
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Greenhorns, a documentary tour of sustainable-agriculture enterprises, most of them covering an acre or two and none of them in the Midwest, is that it's about gardening rather than farming.
NYT > Home Page By MIKE HALE 2011
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In WNC, the organic, sustainable-agriculture movement is big; however, workshops and classes offered are not affordable for low-income people.
Smoky Mountain News 2010
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There are already signs that the sustainable-agriculture track is bending farther than before.
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While his nomination has been unpopular among some members of the sustainable-agriculture community, there is hope that under his guidance the USDA can grow into a very different agency than it has been during the past four decades, when it's been run by secretaries such as Earl Butz.
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But while many conservationists and sustainable-agriculture activists are disappointed by the appointment, it could have been a lot worse than Vilsack.
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Using global markets as our guide, we choose commodity production over soil fertility, leaving the vast majority of sustainable-agriculture enterprises with little or no access to either investment capital or philanthropic support.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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