Sentences with phrase «addition to a food crop»

ICIPE is also encouraging farmers to plant cotton as a second crop in addition to a food crop.

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It's time for us to stand back and see what is really happening here: further loss of food sovereignty, the addition of another crop which is not proven safe for either the environment or humans and another step towards world food control by a handful of multinationals.

In addition to inhaling or absorbing pyrethroids that linger in households, people ingest traces of pyrethroids in their food, since the chemicals are used on some vegetable, fruit and grain crops.

In addition to his crop improvement work for foods, Rooney also worked with Texas A&M geneticists to elucidate the genes underlying photosensitivity in sorghum to develop energy sorghum hybrids for the future bioenergy economy.

In addition, biofuel crop production is increasingly competing for the land needed to grow food.

In addition, there are the impacts to the poor as food becomes more expensive as crops are damaged by drought.

In addition to the above issues, the increasing cost of oil also makes the cost of growing crops and transporting food increase.

The programme is run by the Curitiba Food Supply Department and its partners, and provides all necessary practical training, assistance and conditions for garden and crop production, including education on home composting, guidance for the natural control of pests and diseases, in addition to providing organic fertilizer, limestone, seedlings and seeds.

In addition, technological developments are expected to increase future interest in more efficient «second generation» liquid biofuels, which are not derived from food crops, but from plant materials such as agricultural residues, forestry residues, and wood from forest plantations.

In addition to food, they grew several fiber crops including hemp, flax, and even silk, but to no avail.

-- actually lint might be a benificial addition to soil...), crop residues, spoiled and damaged crops and food, used paper pr - odu - cts, sewage, landfills and manure — it's probably impractable to hook up a pipeline directly to a cow but maybe we can feed it B - e-a-n-o or something:)-RRB- come down so much that they cut the nuclear renaissance short, perhaps before it ever takes off (given the time it takes to plan and build a nuclear power plant, unless that changes too).

Depending on how cold the present 30 - year cooling period gets, in addition to the higher death rates, we will have to contend with diminished growing seasons and increasing crop failures with food shortages in third world countries, increasing energy demands, changing environments, increasing medical costs from diseases (especially flu), increasing transportation costs and interruptions, and many other ramifications associated with colder climate.