• The Agriculture Retention and Development Act was created as part of New Jersey's efforts to counteract the loss of farmland in the state. The legislation...
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  • development rights to their farms to the county.[citation needed] Agricultural Land Reserve, British Columbia Agriculture Retention and Development Act...
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  • Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981 which put permanent deed restrictions on the sale of farm properties. The Farmland Assessment Act continues...
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    the act, so the state purchased deed restrictions on farms through the Agriculture Retention and Development Act of 1981. Through the Agriculture Retention...
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    employee retention tax credit; $2 billion allocated for Pentagon military intelligence programs and $500 million allocated for missile development; A policy...
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    water infiltration, and improves moisture retention in the soil. According to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, approximately 21% of cultivated cropland...
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  • outbreak, and raised concerns about the nation's ability to respond to agro-terrorism. The new legislation, called Securing our Agriculture and Food Act (H.R...
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    the final bill. The last section of the act signaled a shift in public land policy from disposal to retention by authorizing the president to set aside...
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  • significant role in the initial development of sustainability standards in the 1970s and 1980s, and continue to act as a driving force for sustainability...
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    various agricultural techniques and technologies to manage water retention for crop growth, including diverse field designs like runoff agroecosystems and terraces...
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  • Sustainable development is an approach to growth and human development that aims to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future...
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  • The environmental impact of agriculture is the effect that different farming practices have on the ecosystems around them, and how those effects can be traced...
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    conducting and supporting research specified bioterrorism agricultural research and development activities. Title IV amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require...
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  • Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations (UN) members in 2015, created 17 world Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The aim...
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  • Genetically modified food in Hawaii (category Genetic engineering and agriculture)
    the environment and impacts on conventional and organic agriculture. Hawaii is attractive to researchers and seed companies because of its moderate year-round...
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    for plant development and is commonly sought in fertilizers. This nutrient is essential for agriculture because it improves water retention, nutrient...
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    000 m3) of flood water retention; no single dam may provide more than 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m3) of total capacity; and projects with costs greater...
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  • The smallpox virus retention debate has been going on among scientists and health officials since the smallpox virus was declared eradicated by the World...
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  • entity in the United States created under the federal Liability Risk Retention Act (LRRA).[when?] RRGs must form as liability insurance companies under...
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  • Organic Agriculture, Poverty Reduction, Climate Change, and the Millennium Development Goals (Chapter 1 of Organic Agriculture and Post-2015 Development Goals:...
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    Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to: (1) conduct and support research and development activities for countermeasures...
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    conditions)[clarification needed] $1 billion for food security and agricultural development $906 million for the Millennium Challenge Corporation $875 million...
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    Best management practice for water pollution (category Hydrology and urban planning)
    century, and some practitioners have used the term BMP to describe both structural or engineered control devices and systems (e.g. retention ponds) to...
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    20(2)), and the data processor is required to stop processing the data upon such objection (section 20(3)). In terms of retention of records, the Act prohibits...
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  • example given was the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, a shortage of both schools and teachers. Since their inception, flagship...
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  • which the Development Council hoped to spread its influence. Committees on Agriculture, Rating and Taxation, Textiles, Electrical developments, Chemical...
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    woven fibers like jute are often used in ditch bottoms to act as filtration media. Silt retention mats can also be placed in situ to capture floccules. Sedimentation...
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    Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (or climate resilient agriculture) is a set of farming methods that has three main objectives with regards to climate...
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    Sustainable development in Scotland has a number of distinct strands. The idea of sustainable development was used by the Brundtland Commission which...
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    culture is both an enabler and a driver of the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Culture is defined as a set...
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