Sentences with phrase «crop yield gaps»

Prior research from England suggests there are complex drivers and impacts of spatial clustering of organic farms that may or may not relate to organic crop yield gaps [39, 40].

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At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

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Crop science researchers at the University of Illinois interested in determining and reducing corn yield gaps are addressing this important issue by taking a systematic approach to the problem.

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.

Gaps between crop yields achieved in «best practice» farming and the actual average yields exist all over the world, but are widest in developing countries — particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The GOBii project hopes to bridge the gap between plant breeders and the available genomic resources to yield better crops, especially in developing countries.

Overall, closing yield gaps by 50 % for crops and 25 % for livestock would lead to a 12 % savings in greenhouse gas emission per calorie produced.

Given the glaring yield gaps between rich and poor places, particularly, can campaigners and citizens passionate about environmental conservation (and «green» eating) learn to embrace the need, in many crops and situations, for intensification as a path to a greener, thriving world?

The glaring gap between the yields of basic crops in poor and rich countries offers huge low - cost opportunities to improve people's lives and cut environmental impacts from farming.

Related I also recently found a useful resource for anyone looking to focus research on places in the world where the gap between current crop yields and potential yields is greatest: The Global Yield Gap Atlgap between current crop yields and potential yields is greatest: The Global Yield Gap AtlGap Atlas.

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

The opposite trend was observed for barley (Hordeum vulgare), wheat (Triticum aestevum), and hay crops, however, suggesting the geographical yield potential has an inconsistent effect on the organic yield gap.

Meta - analyses comparing yields of organic and conventionally grown crops have repeatedly demonstrated a yield gap between the two systems.

This result is related to a declining yield gap between irrigated and rain - fed agriculture caused by yield reductions of irrigated crops due to higher temperatures, or yield increases of rain - fed crops due to more precipitation.