Sentences with phrase «closing yield gaps»

Overall, closing yield gaps by 50 % for crops and 25 % for livestock would lead to a 12 % savings in greenhouse gas emission per calorie produced.

Closing yield gaps and halving food waste still showed a small increase of 2 % in greenhouse gas emissions.

«Closing the yield gaps is a key part of the solution, particularly in areas with there's a poverty

Today, hybrid rice closes yield gaps evident in many areas.

The results of this participatory approach, presented in Nature this week, may help to close yield gaps - differences between farmers» actual yields and those thought to be attainable in a given region - and enhance food security in other parts of the world, the authors propose.

Not exact matches

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

The IRRC continues as a partnership mechanism in GRiSP and serves as a platform for several projects, including the Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia with Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP).

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) Project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

But, he added, in order to close the import - export gap, farmers need help making ends meet during the three transition years in which they must farm organically and often experience lower yields than under conventional methods, but do not yet qualify for the higher price premium of organic to compensate for their losses.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

Successful implementation of preschool to 3rd grade programs yields benefits in increasing school readiness, improving attendance, and strengthening parental involvement in school education — strategies that can close the achievement gap for children at risk, according to a new University of Minnesota study.

One scenario investigated by the team is on the supply side: the closing of «yield gaps».

But even with the yield gaps closed, projected food demand will still require additional land — so the impact on GHG emissions and biodiversity remains.

IRRC also promotes alternate wetting and drying (AWD) technology through Closing rice yield gaps in Asia with reduced environmental footprints or CORIGAP.

And while Wake County's reform plan has yet to yield any statistical improvements in the state's largest school system, Elliott says she's confident the system will soon begin to close the gap.

At the same time, she noted that there are numerous strategies to close the teacher - student diversity gap that have yielded positive results in several states that would boost the diversity of the teaching force if introduced on a wider scale.

Ruth also worked closely with school districts and schools across Ontario to implement high - yield research informed strategies to close achievement gaps and improve outcomes for all students.

When it comes to closing achievement gaps, big interventions are not always big enough — and small interventions can yield surprising results.

Meanwhile, as you can see, KO's yield has significantly closed the gap over the past 5 years.

-- As a result, shareholders would enjoy an 8.2 % dividend yield, and might reasonably expect it to attract new investors & help close / narrow the existing gap between Zamano's share price and its underlying intrinsic value per share.

The net result is a highly leveraged portfolio that creates massive profits when yield spreads are wide but can also close quickly if the gap between the REIT's borrowing rate and securities income narrows.

I'd like to spend part of this year finding and drawing attention to people who are the Douglas Martin equivalents trying to develop ways to bring illumination and cleaner, cheap sources of cooking energy to the billions who lack these core assets; devising scaleable means of providing potable water and sanitation (not easy) in poor places; closing the huge «yield gap» between African farmers and their * counterparts in many other regions; boosting environmental literacy and engagement with science...

Closing the «yield gap.»

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

That, it says, means productivity must be increased by reversing declines in yield growth and closing the gap between actual and attainable yields in the developing world, while also reducing agriculture's environmental impact, including the depletion of fresh water and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.