Sentences with phrase «green revolution helped»

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Vandana Shiva makes, this point in more detail with regard to the social systems of developing countries — the Green Revolution, she writes, has in fact impoverished most of the people it sought to help, and the Gene Revolution now following on its heels will only increase the damage.

«While IRRI has historically helped India to meet its overall food security needs through the green revolution high - yielding rice varieties such as IR8, the challenge now is to deliver increased livelihoods for farmers through increasing the value of rice, and increasing the well - being of farmers and consumers through enhanced nutrition outcomes.

A lot has been written about the Green Revolution in the late 1960s, which helped prevent mass famine.

In serving 15 years as a Board Member and the wine director for Chez Panisse, Stephen was engaged in the ongoing green revolution that it helped spawn.

The primary reason for such groundwater depletion is irrigation, which has fed the Green Revolution that transformed cereal production in the region and helped sustain a growing population that has reached 114 million people.

The center honors the 1970 Peace Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, a renowned wheat breeder who helped lead the first green revolution in the 1960s and avert widespread famine in India.

He is the director - general of the International Rice Research Institute based in the Philippines, an organization that was instrumental in helping Asia increase its rice yields during the first green revolution.

Phosphorus, one of the key ingredients behind the green revolution of the 20th century, has helped maximize farm yields worldwide.

Paired with similar strains developed for rice and other cereals, a «Green Revolution» was evident in the fields of Asia and helped stave off apocalyptic famine predictions.

«The 3K RGP dataset is a powerful tool that will unite researchers from around the world to help drive the next green revolution,» Wing concludes.

Her sons attended Ánimo Inglewood Charter High School, and she springboarded from support for the school and its network, Green Dot Public Schools, to becoming a co-founder of Parent Revolution and helping get a state law passed that allows parents to force change at failing schools.

The speech was very traditional commencement fare, brimming with encouragement about pursuing public service and helping propel a new «green revolution.»

«We're at the beginning of the greatest transformation of our food system since the Green Revolution: the information revolution,» says Danielle Gould, the founder of Food + Tech Connect, which helps food and agriculture startups create a better futureRevolution: the information revolution,» says Danielle Gould, the founder of Food + Tech Connect, which helps food and agriculture startups create a better futurerevolution,» says Danielle Gould, the founder of Food + Tech Connect, which helps food and agriculture startups create a better future for food.

Then there's the fact that the plan would also help accelerate the renewable energy revolution underway across the country and grow jobs in the green - tech sector that already employs over 3 million Americans.

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Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

They can choose to anger the greens, join the shale gas revolution, and go for a low - carbon, domestic, abundant source of energy that will help to regenerate the economy of Lancashire — in effect, launch a new phase of the industrial revolution in which that area was a key region.

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Now Business Green reports that an installation of a Quiet Revolution near the Portland Marina Olympic sailing venue in Dorset has lead to a # 2m contract for 400 more turbines from the company who helped manufacture it: