intensification

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Intensification is designed to ensure that as much as possible of the farm ecosystem's energy flow is diverted into growing crops and livestock for human consumption.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2023

The UK-China Centre for Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture has brought Chinese universities together with one of Britain's leading agricultural research centres, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, to form a scientific cooperative to find environmentally friendlier approaches.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2016

Known as System of Crop Intensification, or S.C.I., farmers carefully cultivate seeds until the plants are established and then transplant them out into the fields to mature.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2013

The Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission is NASA's first U.S.-based hurricane research mission since 2001.

From US News • Sep. 3, 2010

Intensification of Defects by Inbreeding.—Most of these regional surveys that are now in progress show that there is particular danger in a population becoming broken up into small communities and isolated.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Guyer, Michael F.