Sentences with phrase «crops on less land»

We've learned to grow more crops on less land.

Not exact matches

That's why the Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to advance a variety of strategies, such as crop intensification (growing more food on less land), and with traditional forest - dwellers to develop livelihoods that don't hurt forests or ecosystems.

Study author Catherine Bowyer says the next generation of biofuels, made from wastes or wood rather than crops, would have less impact on land use than biofuels made from crops, but «the policy is also not effectively stimulating advancements in biofuel technologies».

Genetically modified crops could help us grow more food on less land in a world struggling to cope with climate change, say biologists.

They need to grow quickly and have to be successful on marginal land that's less suited to growing food crops.

However, with me at least, a bit part of the deal is the increased acidity reducing fish harvests, water shortages, droughts severely reducing crops (sure — more rain, but more over the ocean, less on land — and with greater evaporation before the water trickles to a dry stream bed), increased heat reducing rice production and other heat sensative crops, the heat waves, etc..

We also have a sorghum crop, increasing dramatically, on less desirable land conditions (not suited to corn) that supplied 10 - 15 % of last years ethanol feedstock.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.

It's also, apparently, a genetically - interesting crop, and scientists have unlocked the secret to its super efficient form of photosynthesis that uses considerably less water and allows it to grow on less - than - hospitable land.