Sentences with phrase «as an agriculture expert»

As an agriculture expert, «I was the only person at GISS at that time who could begin to answer that question», she says.

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Antitrust and industry experts see the regulatory hurdles to a deal as manageable because Bayer's main business in agriculture is pesticides while Monsanto's focus is on genetically modified seeds.

As an article co-authored by two environmental experts and Bob Kingston of the PSAC's Agriculture Union notes, there appear to be no plans for maintaining the careful stewardship of these pasturelands once passed down to the provinces and sold off.

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Would I travel to South Africa as the client's guest expert and testify at the hearing in front of the Registrar of Plant Patents of the South Africa Department of Agriculture?

In particular, learning about the group called RAID (Researchers in Agriculture for International Development) was one of those «ah - ha» moments as part of the scholar days as it linked, for me, the opportunities and possibilities of how volunteers and experts can contribute to a multiplier effect in capacity building within large projects.

Since 2003, the role of the IPC has been to provide the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) with expert advice, general input as well as demands relating to the FAO mandate on the right to food.

American experts spent much of their time teaching this novel aspect of agriculture at home and abroad as part of the Marshall Plan.

Resistance from entrenched interests and within the industries themselves are among the factors blocking innovation from flourishing in the nation's manufacturing sector — forces that are also prevalent in other legacy sectors such as energy, transportation, construction, health care, higher education, agriculture and to a lesser extent defense, the two experts said.

Aga is a proponent of the «One Health» approach to fighting antimicrobial resistance, which encourages experts working in hospitals, agriculture and other sectors related to both human and animal health to work together, as humans and animals are often treated with the same or similar antibiotics.

Also, prejudices might prevail because scientists from a university are often perceived as experts in theory, but not in practical agriculture.?

The Oct. 11 - 13 conference, based in Hanover, Germany, assembled a global group of bioethics and government experts to address security questions on gene editing as they relate to human health, agriculture and the potential to genetically alter species.

To meet this need, Diouf proposed setting up a network of 400 to 500 food and agriculture experts to provide «science - based analysis» using the U.N Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change as a model.

He serves on the World Health Organization's Roster of Experts, as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., and on the 4 - person Steering Committee of OFFLU (OIE - FAO Network of Expertise for Influenzas).

Although experts disagree on the top 10 list of antioxidant foods, even using the ORAC scale, here is the top 10 antioxidant foods as determined by the United States Department of Agriculture:

Science magazine has unveiled its 2015 «Breakthrough of the Year» and the winner is a gene - editing technology that experts say will change life as we know it — potentially revolutionizing medicine, basic science, and agriculture.

In Issues, a trio of experts has explained how better managing use of these nutrients — in agriculture and in urban areas — can yield environmental, socioeconomic, and national security benefits, especially as atmospheric warming drives climate change.

Finally, RUAF undertakes awareness - raising and advice on short food chains, more commercial forms of urban agriculture and associated value - adding enterprises by supporting studies and international expert panels, such as the Assistance to the World Bank for the Expert seminar on peri-urban horticulture and the Expert consultation on economic impact of urban agriculture at ODI.

Heritage, which has a staff of nearly 300, lists five experts on climate change, including one specialist and four more who also deal with other issues such as agriculture and government regulation.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Building capacity in climate, agriculture, livestock and food security experts through users» specific workshops and pilot application projects Improve understanding of the impacts of climate variability on key agricultural production areas including input / output markets and vulnerable areas in the region such as arid and semi-arid areas.

Suzuki received a PhD in zoology in the 1960s and uses it as a ploy to pretend he's an expert on everything from climate science to agriculture to immigration to fossil fuels.

The experts say our pollution has created an strong and increasing greenhouse effect and a rapid, out of control global warming is underway that will sky rocket temperatures, destroy agriculture, melt the ice caps, flood the coastlines and end life as we know it.

Dr Adrian Williams, an agriculture expert from Cranfield University, in Bedfordshire, said: «If you produce something in an unheated greenhouse abroad or in a field, you make a considerable saving, as you are not having to use large amounts of energy heating a greenhouse.

Paul Murphy (MII Accredited Mediator), Pat Finn (MII Accredited Mediator and Agriculture Sector Liasion), Minister Charlie Flanagan, IFA President Joe Healy and Ciaran Dolan (MII Accredited Mediator) pictured at the launch of the MII's Farm Family Disputes Mediation Information Leaflet at the National Ploughing Championships Wednesday, 20th September 2017: «We are delighted that Minister Flanagan is launching our new leaflet, * which outlines the benefits that mediation can deliver to the farming community,» stated President of the MII Sabine Walsh, «The MII has been developing mediation in agriculture as a specialist sector over the past couple of years and now has a designated Farming and Agribusiness section of trained accredited Mediators with expert knowledge and extensive experience of the farming and agribusiness secAgriculture Sector Liasion), Minister Charlie Flanagan, IFA President Joe Healy and Ciaran Dolan (MII Accredited Mediator) pictured at the launch of the MII's Farm Family Disputes Mediation Information Leaflet at the National Ploughing Championships Wednesday, 20th September 2017: «We are delighted that Minister Flanagan is launching our new leaflet, * which outlines the benefits that mediation can deliver to the farming community,» stated President of the MII Sabine Walsh, «The MII has been developing mediation in agriculture as a specialist sector over the past couple of years and now has a designated Farming and Agribusiness section of trained accredited Mediators with expert knowledge and extensive experience of the farming and agribusiness secagriculture as a specialist sector over the past couple of years and now has a designated Farming and Agribusiness section of trained accredited Mediators with expert knowledge and extensive experience of the farming and agribusiness sector.»