Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labor, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.

The spread of irrigated farming and water intensive industries, together with the demands of a rising middle class, have led to a severe struggle for more water.

In some countries of central Asia, agricultural policies that promote highly mechanized and industrialized farming have led to overgrazing of rangelands where there are high animal densities.

Adoption ( apadrinamiento in Spanish, apadrinament in Catalan, parrainage in French) of a farm plant or animal is a method of commercial sponsorship in the farming and cattle raising sector.

Green Care Farming Across Europe and the United States of America Editors Jan Hassink, Majken van Dijk, 2005 See also Animal assisted therapy Horticultural therapy Green exercise Ecopsychology Prison farm

In view of the mixed results of experiments with ranching and control of animal densities, these land reforms have brought the issue of rehabilitating pastoral farming back into the limelight.

Care farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices.

In response to demand for vegetables in the tourism sector and the increasing number of retail outlets, an increasing number of small farmers have invested in drip irrigation technology for intensive farming.

The chapter on marine culture assesses mariculture methods (marine net pen rearing, ocean ranching, extractive aquaculture and intensive shrimp farming) for their environmental consequences, and suggests best practices to guide policy making.

The majority of the population engages in some form of subsistence production of food, with approximately half producing almost all of their basic food needs through farming, sea harvesting, and animal husbandry.

Not Just Subsistence Farming

Moreover, there must be greater balance between capital intensive and labor intensive activities.

Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care The Association publishes the Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care.

Initiatives for the rehabilitation of degraded land in the context of reforestation, agricultural productivity, integrated farming and animal husbandry, rain water catchments, alternative renewable energies or the banning of slash and burn practices are reported to show positive results.

In tough economic times, why would anyone ban industrial farming of a highly profitable and useful plant that requires almost no pesticides and can be used to make textiles, food, animal fodder, and alternatives to petroleum, cotton, and pulp wood?

An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensive care medicine.

Closer to farming communities, roads disappear entirely.

Creating a sustainable agricultural farming systems network

The participants were trained in urban farming techniques.

Collective farming and communal farming are various types of agricultural production in which the holdings of several farmers are run as a joint enterprise.

The IDR process is resource intensive.

Reviving the Animal Spirits

Terrestrial Animal Health Code

Aquatic Animal Health Code

Traditional farming uses few inputs and gets poor yields.

Ethiopia is seeking to move to lower carbon farming.

The promotion of practical farming in the southern states.

The Arab population were occupied mainly in cereal farming.

They only come back home at the farming season.

Off season farming credit for market gardening and produce.

There is a lack of pro poor farming research.

Early high growth economies Japan, South Korea, Taiwan initially exported labor intensive products, then graduated to more capital intensive goods like motor vehicles, and then to human capital intensive activities like design and technology development.

But encouraging labor intensive industries, which create jobs for the poor, must not be at the expense of capital intensive industries.

An early warning and response network has been established throughout Darfur to warn against a possible outbreak of disease, and support is provided for the early resumption of farming activities, as well as community based animal health initiatives, land tenure policy reform and natural resources management.

Urban farming Urban farming is the process of growing and distributing food, as well as raising animals, in and around a city or in urban area.

Labor intensive industries were especially hard hit.

Robert Full on animal movement

David Brooks The social animal

A horse is an animal.

A lion is an animal.

What is your favorite animal?

What is your favourite animal?

He is eating the animal.

Moral Progress and Animal Welfare

World Organization for Animal Health