Agricultural opportunities and challenges in arid areas, including the distinction between aridity and infertility, irrigation access, salinization risk and land ownership
Student Assessment - Mind Map - Opportunities and Challenges - Students should create a one page mind map of
the agricultural opportunities and challenges, to include place examples covered in class.
Students should create a one page mind map of
the agricultural opportunities and challenges, to include place examples covered in class.
Not exact matches
A field trip throughout Sonoma County that included: an overview of the area's
agricultural landscape
and the
challenges and opportunities the county faces amid shifting policies
and demographic changes; a tour
and tasting at Vella Cheese company as well as a demonstration of traditional cheesemaking by hand; a comparative tasting of heirloom tomatoes, stone fruits,
and melons at Green String Farm, along with a tour hosted by Bob Cannard, famous for supplying Alice Waters
and her restaurant, Chez Panisse; a tour, hops demonstration,
and guided beer tasting at Carneros Brewing Company.
Australia's abundance
and diversity of
agricultural land offers many
opportunities but also presents relatively unaddressed
challenges around transport costs.
Bago City, Myanmar (10 October 2017)-- An Australian - funded five - year research project led by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Myanmar is making a lasting impact on improving local rice farmers» ability to adapt to
agricultural challenges and respond to market
opportunities
The abstract of the Ainsworth et al seems to provide some support for both TC
and BPL: «Rising atmospheric [CO2] is altering global temperature
and precipitation patterns, which
challenges agricultural productivity,» yet «rising [CO2] provides a unique
opportunity to increase the productivity of C3 crops...»
In a paper prepared by him as the coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre, Sokona described this approach as an «
opportunity to transform climate
challenges into development
opportunities... to modernize
and upgrade their water, energy, urbanization plans
and agricultural systems.»