Sentences with phrase «agricultural food productivity»

The study concludes SRM geoengineering is unlikely to negatively impact agricultural food productivity, especially since it compensates part of the damaging effects of unabated climate change to this food production.

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Boosting skills, lifting agricultural productivity, improving the UK's diet and dealing with the fallout from Brexit were identified as priorities for the coming 12 months at the first UK Food and Drink Sector Council meeting.

A demonstrated partner to farmers around the world, Pioneer is committed to increasing food production with high quality Pioneer ® brand products and agronomic knowledge that maximizes agricultural productivity.

From an efficiency perspective, global agricultural productivity is currently on track to meet the greater global food demand.

Looking forward, DuPont is committed to improving agricultural productivity, food quality, and long - term food safety.

«America's farmers and ranchers do their part to put food on our tables, and this bill is Congress's part to ensure the safety, productivity, and success of our agricultural industries,» House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.

He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing productivity of the farm resources centred on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.

The continuing and mysterious disappearance of the bees — aside from threatening one - third of the United States» food supply and at least $ 15 billion worth of agricultural productivity — could spell dessert disaster.

Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses food security based on caloric consumption — to predict how global food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural productivity and climate.

«High agricultural productivity — necessary for profit for farmers, agri - businesses and food retailers, whilst also keeping prices low for consumers — currently requires high levels of application of relatively cheap fertilisers.»

Schmid sees «an opportunity for the future of nutrition for humankind in the untapped potential of biodiversity» — a promising prospect as the OECD and the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are giving off worrying signals: Both organizations predict that agricultural productivity will rise less steeply in future than has been the case thus far.

In a November 11 keynote address at Sigma Xi's «Food Safety and Security: Science and Policy» symposium, Buchanan charted out several examples of how GM crops could improve agricultural productivity.

Biotechnology offers the most efficient, cost - effective means of raising agricultural productivity worldwide and this companion book to Food and You: A Guide to Modern Agricultural Biotechnology outlines the essenagricultural productivity worldwide and this companion book to Food and You: A Guide to Modern Agricultural Biotechnology outlines the essenAgricultural Biotechnology outlines the essential issues.

The sustainable land management (SLM) and restoration of terrestrial resources are vital to enhancing agricultural productivity especially for small - scale food producers.

2.4 by 2030 ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

[W] hile looking at seed technology to enhance agricultural productivity is important, it is only a small component of our food security partnership with the government.

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals... which is bad news for crop productivity and food security.

Among the risks the continent faces are reductions in food security and agricultural productivity, particularly regarding subsistence agriculture, increased water stress and, as a result of these and the potential for increased exposure to disease and other health risks, increased risks to human health.»

Climate - smart agriculture, which sustainably increases agricultural productivity and enhances achievement of national food security goals, provides a window of opportunity to avert the impact of drought.

The brief promotes climate - smart agriculture, where: agricultural development is directed along pathways that lead to sustainable increases in agricultural productivity; social and ecological resilience are increased in order to contribute to climate change adaptation; and agriculture is used to support the achievement of national food security and development goals.

Restoring soil organic content in agricultural soils — increasing soil organic content by at least 2 or 3 percent — is needed to increase food productivity in the amounts required by 2050.

Demand for food in these countries will also double, which, at their current low levels of agricultural productivity, will drive up demand for forest land.

Permaculture makes it possible to grow food, trees and fodder while enhancing water quality and abundance, increasing bio-diversity, conserving soil and increasing community food security, health and agricultural productivity.

Farmers and others who depend on rural livelihoods for income are benefitting from rising agricultural productivity around the world, including in parts of Asia and Africa where the need for increased food supplies is most critical.

Meanwhile, some regions around the world have seen the return of forests and grasslands, as rising agricultural productivity and the transition from biomass to modern forms of energy have reduced or eliminated the need of marginal farmland and forests for food and energy.

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.

It is also that capitalogenic global warming (CGW) has done fundamental and irreversible damage to agricultural productivity — primarily through more pervasive and crippling global droughts, along with help from the development of herbicide - resistant and CGW - friendly «super weeds» and antibiotic - resistant livestock diseases — so that a return to cheap food, a requirement for a re-expansion of cheap labor, may be impossible.

The rise in CO2 has also been clearly beneficial, measurably boosting agricultural productivity and thus keeping food costs down; a huge benefit to the ≈ two billion people in the world who subsist on $ 2 a day or less.

Those who study food production, for example, see our «Carbon Footprint» as a very good thing, and it's signal is quite evident in the increase in agricultural productivity over the latter part of the 20th Century.

(06/26/2013) If the world is to grow enough food for the projected global population in 2050, agricultural productivity will have to rise by at least 60 %, and may need to more than double, according to researchers who have studied global crop yields.

Major vulnerabilities induced from climatic hazards include human displacement, drinking water shortages, reduced agricultural productivity and food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, health hazards, energy crises, and disasters.

Reduced agricultural productivity and the resultant situation of food insecurity is potentially the most worrying consequence of climate change.

Were a cold flip to happen in our now - crowded world, dependent on agricultural productivity and efficient supply lines, much of civilization would be ruined in a series of wars over the shrinking food supply.

supporting advances in plant and animal biotechnology to increase agricultural productivity and sustainably boost production of food, feed, and fiber.

The story, based on a Lancet study, made dire forecasts regarding the effects of climate change on agriculture, while failing to note that the study actually predicts much more abundant food availability in 2050 thanks to advances in agricultural productivity.

So it's easy to see the appeal of a system which, its proponents insist, can surpass the productivity of existing agricultural spaces by up to 20 times, while using less water, cutting mileage and energy costs, and delivering food security.

The rampant use of agricultural chemicals is creating superweeds that laugh in the face of chemicals; which is bad news for crop productivity and food security... but may have a silver lining.

«They are hurt by declines in agricultural productivity but the value of their farm output may rise due to higher food prices, increasing their incomes,» explained Ahmed, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters.