Sentences with phrase «change on agricultural production»

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Increased frequencies of pest and disease outbreaks resulting from these changes may have additional negative effects on agricultural production and human well - being, with impacts projected to worsen.

Beehives were donated to poor households in the communities for them to improve their livelihoods given the lack of alternative income generating activities and the adverse effects of climate change on their traditional agricultural production.

What we can say for certain is that the pressures on agricultural production will certainly be greater because of climate change.

«With the new agreement for the IVCC and CVMA to work in concert, veterinary medicine in China will be enabled to keep pace with the country's changes in agricultural production and have a real impact on the overall economy.»

It's very difficult to estimate exactly what those impacts will be [but] what we can say for certain is that the pressures on agricultural production will certainly be greater because of climate change.»

Assessing future trends in agricultural production in Africa, even without climate change, remains exceedingly difficult (e.g., contributions to GDP and impacts on GDP because of climate variability and other factors - see, for example, Mendelsohn et al., 2000b; Tiffen, 2003; Arrow et al., 2004; Desta and Coppock, 2004; Ferguson, 2006).

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

This guidance document presents that climate change impacts directly agroecosystems, with in turn has a potential impact on agricultural production, which drives economic and social impacts, which impact livelihoods.

Both black carbon and tropospheric ozone not only contribute to climate change, but also have negative effects on health, agricultural production and key ecosystems like forests and freshwater.

(v) conduct research to improve forecasting, characterization, and understanding of weather and climate variability and change and its effects on communities, including its effects on agricultural production, natural resources, energy supply and demand, recreation, and other sectors of the economy; and

Finally, projected scenarios of future climate change impacts on crop production and risk of hunger in major agricultural regions are presented.]

We are also using our trainers» network to push for agricultural reform in Brazil, which has a significant impact on climate change and fossil fuel production.

While we agree with PBL that the IPCC's statement could easily mislead readers without the proper context, we note that, before quoting the IPCC's projection on rain - fed agriculture, EPA's TSD includes the statement «Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely compromised by climate variability [emphasis added] and change.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that although the longer - term maximum technical energy potential of biomass could be large (around 2 600 EJ), this potential is constrained by competing agricultural demands for food production, low productivity in biomass production, and other factors.

According to the German Advisory Council on Global Change, agricultural production from rain - fed agriculture could fall by about 50 percent in some regions by 2020.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

Useful to Usable (U2U): Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers was a USDA - NIFA funded research and extension project focused on improving the usability of climate information for agricultural production in the Midwestern United States.

# 146 — From Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production «Temperature effects on the rates of biochemical reactions may be modelled as the product of two functions, an exponentially increasing rate of the forward reaction and an exponential decay resulting from enzyme denaturation as temperatures increase (Figure 6.