Sentences with word «farmable»

A shortage of farmable land will also make it difficult to feed the animals we eat — which is breathing life into the burgeoning science of in vitro meat.

They said 70 % of farmable land is used to grow crops for animals and not humans.

China is the world's largest sheep meat producer with a flock estimated at nearly 140 million in 2011, but output has been declining as farmable land shrinks due to urbanisation.

Dubbed Farmable, the portal is expected to support farmers in Africa and other emerging markets through crowdfarming i.e equip farmers with the tools and resources necessary to fight hunger and build a sustainable food supply.

Experts say CRISPR could make traditionally low - yield crops, such as quinoa and wild legumes, more farmable, and even introduce traits that took thousands of years of breeding, like reduced bitterness, into plants that have never been farmed.

It's a game with plenty of replay value thanks to farmable equipment, weapon, armor, and rig upgrades, as well as upgrades to Warren himself through implants.

A return of trees would have far - reaching benefits, not only for the return of farmable soil and helping to prevent the sandstorms that a lack of trees has given rise to, but also in terms of climate change.

With 80 % of the world's farmable land already in use, Dickson Despommier, an ecologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, says that in 50 years we would need «another Brazil - sized landmass» to feed the three billion people expected to be added to the global population.

As drought afflicts more and more of the world's farmable land, Canada guards a precious supply of water.

He and others, however, used draining techniques they learned in the Netherlands to make the land farmable.

The project has created one local plant manager job and provides a farmable land for the Pileski family farm that leases the land over the mine and on which the project is located.

It might be time to consider genetically engineering a farmable insect specifically designed to be a human food source in the face of future runaway AGW (devastating to crop yields).