Sentences with phrase «agricultural regions of the world»

The method adopted involved estimating the change in yield of major crop staples under various scenarios using crop models at 112 representative sites distributed across the major agricultural regions of the world.

Not exact matches

Previous to the CSWA and Fetzer positions, Thrupp served as Life Scientist & Policy Specialist at U.S. EPA Region 9, consultant to both Robert Mondavi Winery and the Funders Agricultural Working Group, and Director of Sustainable Agriculture at World Resources Institute.

The district he represents, the 23rd in California, includes the San Joaquin Valley, one of the most productive agricultural growing regions in the world...

The research will become important across agricultural regions, she says, as climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world.

Dr. Julie Wolf, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), senior author of the study said: «In many regions of the world, livestock numbers are changing, and breeding has resulted in larger animals with higher intakes of food.

«Persistent and extreme June dryness across the central and Eastern corn belt and extreme late June and early July heat from the central Plains to the Ohio River Valley have substantially lowered yield prospects across most of the major growing regions,» says the July issue of the USDA's monthly report, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates.

«The prevalence and severity of global malnutrition could drop significantly by 2050, particularly in the poorest regions of the world,» said Thomas Hertel, Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

The Indian monsoon, a seasonal event that brings key moisture to an agricultural region where about 20 percent of the world's population resides, is getting more extreme, researchers report.

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research's (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security identified world regions that will bear the brunt of climate change's consequences on food availability.

Extremes in local and regional weather patterns and climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past; climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly affect crop yields in many regions of the world.

Also, the fact that most of developing or third world regions used their own edible oils for centuries were now more dependent on importing American and European processed edible oils has destabilized their local food and agricultural economies.

This Black Earth interest came about when I began i) seeking agricultural plays on the increasing global demand for protein as living standards improve around the world, which evolved into ii) identifying the most fertile farmland, generally accepted to be the Black Earth region of Ukraine & Russia and the Pampas of Argentina (followed by the Canadian Prairies), and iii) finding the cheapest (but acceptably fertile) farmland globally.

My interest in Cresud came about when I began i) seeking agricultural plays on the increasing global demand for protein as living standards improve around the world, which gradually evolved into also ii) identifying the most fertile farmland in the world, generally accepted to be the Black Earth region of Ukraine & Russia and the Pampas of Argentina (followed by the Canadian Prairies), and iii) the cheapest (but acceptably fertile) farmland globally.

Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin have a sobering story in The Times showing declines in funding for agricultural development assistance and basic research even as the world's poorest regions face spiking prices and shortages of basic foods.

The World Bank has provided a $ 120 million loan to integrate the use of biogas in the agricultural systems of Anhui and Hubei provinces, Chongqing Municipality, Hunan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (pictured right).

Heck, even if AGW weren't an issue, understanding the range of climate variation (that is temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, etc) expected from natural variability is still something that needs quantifying accurately, especially as we zoom towards a 10 - billion world population with all of the major agricultural areas concentrated in small regions of the globe.

Brazil is also home to much of the Pantanal region, the world's largest tropical wetlands, which holds one of the greatest concentrations of wildlife on Earth and is threatened by agricultural expansion.

There are many signs that the world is heading into a period of warming --- one that could melt glaciers, flood small islands and coastal cities, threaten some animal species and make crops difficult to grow in previously productive agricultural regions.

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 report furthermore provides lessons learned from the case studies for sustainable development of CRFS and offers a large number of strategies and tools that can be applied by city regions around the world, including the promotion of (peri) urban agriculture, preservation of agricultural land areas and watersheds through land use planning and zoning, development of food distribution and social protection programmes for vulnerable groups, support for short supply chains and local procurement of food, and promotion of food waste prevention, reduction and management, as well as the recovery and redistribution of safe and nutritious food for human consumption.

«[S] ince vast tracts of land worldwide have experienced similar booms of agricultural productivity in recent decades, it is possible that other areas of the world have experienced similar climatic effects due to agricultural intensification, especially in light of recent observational connections between extreme temperatures and agricultural intensification in other intensely cropped regions (Mueller et al., 2017).»

That could, among other effects, produce a disruptive mix of intensified flooding and withering droughts in the world's prime agricultural regions.

As for «supposedly caused», it is exactly the sort of drought that climate scientists have predicted for a generation would result from AGW, it is clearly linked to AGW - driven changes in weather patterns, it continues to worsen and spread as I write, and it is much like similar mega-droughts already affecting major agricultural regions all over the world.

In many of the principal aquifers that support the world's agricultural regions and in most of the major aquifers in the world's arid and semi-arid zones, groundwater extraction is occurring at far greater rates than natural recharge.

According to the United Nations, if the ongoing mega-droughts afflicting not only North America but most of the world's most productive agricultural regions continue for one more year, there will be a «global hunger crisis».

But according to the World Wildlife Fund, improvements to irrigation practices in just one Turkish agricultural region could remove much of that uncertainty, saving enough water annually to meet Istanbul's needs for up to three years.This month, a joint project by WWF and Turkish cookie and cracker manufacturer ETİ Burçak will begin training farmers in Konya, a fertile region of central Anatolia known as «Turkey's breadbasket,» to use modern drip - irrigation methods that reduce water consumption by one third to one half.

In Morocco's Oum Er Rbia River basin, a key agricultural region suffering from water shortages, the government and the World Bank are working together to «make irrigation in the basin more sustainable, more profitable, and more resilient to climate change» by limiting growers to a fixed — but reliable — amount of water consumption, subsidizing efficient irrigation equipment, and connecting farmers with domestic and international markets.