Sentences with phrase «changes in other crops»

Similar changes in other crops could expand the geographic range of these crops, or stimulate an earlier yield.

Not exact matches

«If we grow regeneratively, using hemp as part of the rotations and other crops in that rotation, we are able not only to reduce and potentially mitigate climate change, we are able to boost soil health, boost the nutrients within our food, and to help really sustain our fields so that we can be growing food for a very long time for our people,» said Elizabeth Kucinich, Hemp History Week endorser and Rodale Institute board member.

Studies have shown that using different varieties of certain crops, changing temperatures of food storage and processing, and other food handling practices can lower levels of acrylamide in food.

In wealthier nations, agronomists and other scientists have been noticing changes in harvest times for at least one crop in particular: wine grapeIn wealthier nations, agronomists and other scientists have been noticing changes in harvest times for at least one crop in particular: wine grapein harvest times for at least one crop in particular: wine grapein particular: wine grapes.

«The International Rice Research Institute and other research institutions have developed a wide range of sustainable technologies that will help reduce use of water, chemicals and energy in rice, and protect the crop from pests, disease and the impacts of climate change.

The Climate Commission had warned in its 2011 Critical Decade report that wine grapes and other temperature - and water - sensitive crops needed to adapt to climate change «or move to locations where growing conditions are more amenable to their production.»

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

Just as Australian farmers have looked to Israel on how to grow crops in a desert, Australia's struggle with extreme heat and drought could serve as a case study for other nations facing similar situations under climate change.

Among proposed changes: more widespread adoption of so - called no - till farming, a practice that involves leaving unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind in the field undisturbed by plows and other soil - agitating instruments.

«Cultivating Hopi corn and other traditional, drought - resistant crops could become crucial for human survival in other places impacted by climate change.»

The latest findings offer new focus points into how these genes and others may be modified to fine - tune a wheat variety for a particular environment, which will result in less crop and food loss due to changing environment.

During the other phase of NAO, when the air pressure difference is weaker, the same areas have shown positive changes, in crop productivity.

Wild cousins have provided the genes to boost nutrition in domesticated potatoes and other crops, but they face trouble as the climate changes

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

This finding, published in a study in the journal Nature Climate Change, is critical in predicting how much wheat and other crops we'll need to feed the world, said Senthold Asseng, a UF / IFAS professor of agricultural and biological engineering and leader of this study.

Unlike other models, GCAM includes carbon stored in forests, causing forest acreage to increase even as energy systems change to include fuels generated from bioenergy crops and crop waste.

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

Dynamically changing levels are the most noteworthy element, and though this idea has cropped up in other games, it's done exceptionally well here.

Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

Researchers state that jackfruit could prevent millions suffering from hunger in the future, as a replacement for wheat, corn and other crops under threat due to climate change.

California has a vested interest in countering the effects of climate change, from vehicle emissions, and other sources, because its economy depends on being able to have access to water (not limited by droughts and floods), as well as having stable land to use to grow crops with, both of which are currently at risk.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

Bangladesh's Farmers Already Switching to Climate - Resistant Crops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple cCrops The effects of climate change may seem distant for many TreeHugger readers (they aren't, but that's another story...), but for farmers in Bangladesh they are very much immediate — and they are already taking action to adapt, switching to climate - resistant varieties of rice, wheat, and other staple cropscrops.

Conversely, other worrisome changes, such as crop damage in the United States, might not happen until we go above the 2 °C threshold.

2) There may be an increase of about 80 ppmv if one should measure at exactly the same place as in the 1940's at Poona in exactly the same circumstances of wind speed and other natural points (temperature, sunshine) and surroundings (no change in urbanisation, energy use, cars, same crops in the fields, same level of trees,...).

In other countries, additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003In other countries, additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).

In addition, «many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the draft report sayIn addition, «many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the draft report sayin crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the draft report says.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populaChange states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populachange» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Food availability could be threatened through direct climate impacts on crops and livestock from increased flooding, drought, shifts in the timing and amount of rainfall, and high temperatures, or indirectly through increased soil erosion from more frequent heavy storms or through increased pest and disease pressure on crops and livestock caused by warmer temperatures and other changes in climatic conditions.

Other agricultural impacts of rising temperatures include changes in insect pests and the northward shift of optimal zones for crops.

Among the economic costs climate change is expected to enact on the United States over the next 25 years are: $ 35 million in annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms, $ 12 billion a year as a result of heat wave - driven demand for electricity, and tens of billions of dollars from the corn and wheat industry due to a 14 percent drop in crop yields.

«Many agricultural regions will experience declines in crop and livestock production from increased stress due to weeds, diseases, insect pests, and other climate change - induced stresses,» the report says.

It can be influenced by the crop and its harvest, the forrests and pinebeetles and some other changes in the land.

But the new research also offers a potential avenue for fast - tracking such crop studies, in other climate - change prone areas.

Some of these changes include the wider adoption of «no - till farming,» a process that leaves unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind undisturbed to increase carbon storage in the soil.

I didn't know the specifics regarding why the soil won't work for wheat, but I had essentially raised this point on the «Cockburn's form» among others regarding how crops are already adapted to specific soils which exist in specific climates — and you can't just pick up the soil and move it as appropriate climate moves northward when one skeptic / optimist suggested climate change would be beneficial.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

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.

This is properly referenced back to chapter 9.4 of WG2, which says: «In other countries, additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).&raquIn other countries, additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).&raquin yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).&raquin crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).»