Sentences with phrase «crop productivity»

With a better understanding of microbial communities, scientists might further improve crop productivity.

The productivity of land - based products is subject to change over time based on future estimates of crop productivity change.

Changes in rainfall patterns and temperature variations reduce crop productivity and decrease its quality.

The work to boost crop productivity comes as concerns about food shortages rise with the world's population.

Its hottest offering right now may be its ability to pull up 30 years of satellite images of fields to analyze historical crop productivity.

Finally, we find that future improvement in food crop productivity directly affects land - use change emissions, making the technology for growing crops potentially important for limiting atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

This includes doubling crop productivity and the fodder available to feed animals, while also reducing by a third the risk of crop failure due to droughts and other climate shocks.

If we could do that, we might be able to improve crop productivity and reduce or eliminate fertilizer use.

This analytical report assesses farmers» incentives and conditioning factors that hinder or promote adaptation strategies and evaluates its impact on crop productivity by utilizing household level data collected in 2011 from nationally representative sample households in Malawi.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

Soil organic matter is very important in crop productivity as it increases both nutrient and water use efficiency.

Schleussner, C. - F., D. Deryng, C. Müller, J. Elliott, F. Saeed, C. Folberth, W. Liu, X. Wang, T. Pugh, W. Thiery, S.I. Seneviratne, and J. Rogelj, 2018: Crop productivity changes in 1.5 °C and 2 °C worlds under climate sensitivity uncertainty.

«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.

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.

There are a few things — more crop productivity and the opening up of the Northwest Passage are two.

Crop productivity reductions, by up to 6 per cent, were also observed in North Africa and the Middle East.

And a study in March found that even a 1.5 degree C increase will severely degrade coral reefs and hurt crop productivity in the tropics.

GCAM can also reach 4.5 Wm − 2 under different assumptions of crop productivity growth (Thomson et al. 2010).

The amount of dedicated bioenergy crops produced is sensitive to assumptions about crop productivity improvements (see Thomson et al 2010).

Spensa Technologies helps drastically reduce pesticide use, and enables better plant crop productivity (Drawdown Solutions # 3 and # 4 — Food Waste, Plant - Rich Diet)

Potential production - Estimated crop productivity under non-limiting soil, nutrient and water conditions.

These include an increase in dangerous air pollutants and algae blooms that suffocate fish, coupled with a decrease in crop productivity due to drought.

What they can't admit is that global greening and increasing global crop productivity is the result of us putting some of that CO2 back where it was in the first place — in the atmosphere.

This lack of internal consistency will especially affect the representation of agricultural land use, where changes in crop productivity play an important role (Ewert et al., 2005; Audsley et al., 2006).

Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals.

Although the net observed effect appears unnoticeable, agricultural scientists are concerned that dimming will adversely affect crop productivity.

Extreme summer heat can endanger food security by reducing crop productivity, stressing livestock, reducing soil moisture, and increasing water consumption.

Growth in the Asia - Pacific region has been attributed to the strong demand to improve crop productivity of cereals & oilseeds within the concept of good agricultural practices.

Some of the results were astounding, with a switch from focusing on crop productivity, to focusing on preservation and storage of food resulting in reduction in food loss by 98 % and increasing income of farmers by 100 %.

In addition, the U.K. Met Office has emphasized the uncertainty surrounding predictions of crop productivity in Africa.

Tobacco plants modified to use light more efficiently had higher crop productivity than unmodified plants.

Turning crop wastes and other biomass into charcoal and spreading it on tropical soils can sequester carbon and boost crop productivity

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.

Plant biologists have bumped up crop productivity by increasing the expression of genes that result in more efficient use of light in photosynthesis, a finding that could be used to help address the world's future food needs.

Increased crop productivity in more northern countries, like the U.S. and Canada, won't make up for decreased agriculture in other countries, particularly Africa, that will become drier.

Soil organic matter is very important in crop productivity as it increases both nutrient and water use efficiency.

Crop productivity and diversity were increased through the use of crop rotations, incorporating fallows and leguminous cover crops.

A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change on crop productivity that could have consequences for food availability.

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