Anupam Mishra The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting

'Could I get a job, harvesting?' he asked.

We can start harvesting condensation, and start greening the desert from within.

At the moment, the focus is in the areas of harvesting and marketing.

In the United States, cultivating and harvesting cotton became the leading occupation of slaves.

Yesterday in the morning, I was harvesting potatoes. Because of the rain they were partly rotten.

Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields.

Poles had worked in some agricultural jobs in sugar beet and wine harvesting even during the communist era.

Illegal harvesting is rife and violent conflicts now occur over natural ginseng patches in formerly peaceful rural communities.

Farmers in these lands are given work during planting and harvesting time, but they have no income during off milling season.

I went there because the Japanese wanted to start harvesting them and turning them into high fashion golf gloves, protein and oil.

This is why subsequent governments have kept a keen eye on the growing, harvesting, buying and selling of maize meal to consumers.

She counted the hand movements involved in harvesting the roots and the minutes it took to wash and prepare them for sale.

Sir Eric made 50 recommendations to clean up the system, including banning political activists from handling postal ballot papers to stop vote harvesting.

There are those who are satisfied with harvesting their wood and selling it, there are those who want to add an added value.

But harvesting stem cells from very early stage embryos that will in the end be discarded is, in my view, ethically distinct from abortion.

But harvesting stem cells from very early stage embryos that will in the end be discarded is, in my view, ethically distinct from abortion.

They argue that they would not use captured animals for harvesting fur, in order to protect near extinct wild animals such as silver fox.

Harvesting machines were alleged to lower the quality of the grain collected, because it was no longer subject to immediate inspection by the human eye.

OTTAWA One quarter of all the food in the world is lost each year, owing to inefficient harvesting, inadequate storage, and wastage in the kitchen.

For millennia, the Dene people lived as nomads, tracking vast herds across the Sahtú and harvesting the itinerant animals for their meat, skin and bones.

The idea that human embryos could be created with the express purpose of harvesting them for medical purposes incites fear of a brave new world revisited.

Together with ISA, the indigenous nations of the Tiquié River presented original research that identifies in their river basin the cycles of fishing, hunting, planting, and harvesting.

Investments in soil nutrients and water harvesting could help African farmers double or triple their food yields. Anti retroviral medicines can help save millions from death due to AIDS.

The major Austrian timber firm Holzindustrie Schweighofer is positioned as a main beneficiary of the practice, having built a wood processing capacity in Romania that exceeds that country s legal wood harvesting quota.

From restaurant kitchens to care for the elderly, from harvesting cotton to laboring on building sites, people in rich countries want to consume services that they are no longer willing to provide themselves.

More troubling still, local people respond to increasing argan fruit prices with more aggressive harvesting techniques. During the harvest, nearly all of the fruit is now collected, leaving little hope for natural regeneration.

From restaurant kitchens to care for the elderly, from harvesting cotton to laboring on building sites, people in rich countries want to consume services that they are no longer willing to provide themselves.

While a lot of the time this might not be harmful for us, we have little control over what we want to keep private and what is available for viewing, recording and information harvesting.

Ramni Jamnadass, tree research project leader at ICRAF, points out that there has been such little research on the vast majority of indigenous crops, including baobab, that there s no way to assess the sustainability or scale of current harvesting practices.

Because they don t visit their fields often, they rely heavily on relatives and friends. When I decided to farm wheat for the first time this spring on leased land in my childhood village, my mother agreed to supervise plowing, planting, and harvesting.

The idea that human embryos could be created with the express purpose of harvesting them for medical purposes incites fear of a brave new world revisited. Even if that extreme is unlikely, the possibility of abuse of any sort generates strong opposition.

Harvesting machines were alleged to lower the quality of the grain collected, because it was no longer subject to immediate inspection by the human eye. Likewise, advanced automobile plants are now largely composed of robots, and their products are safer than ever.

Miners' wages are very high here, whereas coffee harvesting is paid 15,000 rupees (1.2 euros) a day and the average monthly wage is two million rupees (167 euros) explains the porter, who previously worked as a mason in the island resort of Bali.

Surgically harvesting eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing them outside her body, and transferring the resulting embryos into her uterus enabled effective treatment of female infertility caused by irreparably damaged fallopian tubes. Since then, rapid innovation has led to new applications for IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies.

Living standards could be improved significantly and rapidly through low cost targeted investments in malaria control, school feeding programs, rainwater harvesting for drinking water, mobile health clinics, and boreholes for livestock and irrigation in appropriate locations. Cell phone coverage could revolutionize communications for sparse populations in Darfur s vast territory, with major benefits for livelihoods, physical survival, and the maintenance of family ties.