1.   In Balance Ever since Stone Age man began to keep livestock and cultivate crops, farming methods have been subject to change.

2.   Stricter controls of farming methods are needed, if we want to prevent the disaster from repeating itself.

3.   Consumer pressure is being put upon the food industry to cut down on factory farming methods.

4.   Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.

5.   A further problem is lack of evidence on farming methods.

6.   The introduction of a new support system to encourage public access and conservation-friendly farming methods.

7.   But he rejected suggestions that the best way forward is to discontinue intensive battery farming methods.

8.   The projections build in the ability of farmers to adapt to climate change by changing crops and farming methods.