Sentences with phrase «feed crops for»

The biggest driver behind these «land use changes,» as the climate change folks call them, is the expansion of pasture for cattle, feed crops for livestock, and oil palm for processed foods and biofuels.

On the other hand it uses and existing source instead of burning 1 / 6th of our feed crop for the ethanol boondoggle.

Not exact matches

There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

The emerging middle classes in China and India are consuming more meat, which requires more crops to be grown for animal feed.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

It was Christ who encouraged the fair treatment of women... God who commands us not to neglect the poor and to feed orphans and widows... God who insisted that field owners leave part of the crop behind to be picked up by hungry gleaners... God who said men should not take advantage of one another by charging interest... Christ who attacked the Pharisees for their rigid thinking and superiority complex toward Samaritans... How are my values inconsistent with the teachings and actions of God?

During Niger's 2006 crop failure and ensuing famine, for example, feeding centers were set up for individuals, particularly children, suffering from acute malnutrition.

With a global value chain that includes more than 460 crop procurement locations, 300 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 40 innovation centers and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, chemical and energy uses.

Since nutrient - rich quinoa is also drought resistant, and grows well on poor soils without irrigation or fertilizer, it's been designated a «super crop» by the United Nations, for its potential to feed the hungry poor of the world.

Buckwheat was a common and popular crop in Europe and the United States for many years - but more as animal feed than as human food.

It's funny because you always hear about how bad GMO soy, corn and wheat are for us (which they are) but those crops are mainly grown to feed the animals.

Producers must have a pasture management plan and manage pasture as a crop to meet the feed requirements for the grazing animals and to protect soil and water quality; and,

SFC found that when the animals are fed healthy, manufactured feeds, they produce highly nutritive waste, which is then turned into compost and used as fertilizer for the crops.

Despite years of vehement public opposition to the field and feed test of Golden Rice in the past decade — a genetically engineered rice promoted for commercialization in Asia, the Department of Agriculture — Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), PhilRice has filed renewed application this year toopen field test the genetically modified crop in the municipality of San Mateo in Isabela and Muñoz in Nueva Ecija.

The advantages of grassland - based animal production without concentrated feed are that pastures, which can not be used for arable crops, are used for food production.

In a world where nearly one billion people are starving, one third of all cereal crops — and well over 90 per cent of soya — goes into animal feed, not food for humans.

Livestock production is the largest source of water pollutants, principally animal wastes, antibiotics, hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures.

A third of all cereal crops, and well over 90 % of soya, goes into animal feed, not food for humans.

«We could feed 4 billion more people with existing cropland if we just used the crops for first - hand human consumption, rather than making animal feed or biofuels from it,» she told MFM.

Other factors also contribute to pest outbreaks such as excessive fertilizer which creates luxuriant crops for the hoppers to feed on and continuous rice cropping that doesn't allow for a break in the food supply of the pests.

The lab - grown meat — which the company calls «clean meat» — is developed from self - reproducing cells taken from a chicken, with the purpose of creating a product that omnivores can't distinguish from the real thing, but with a fraction of the considerable downsides of meat production, including environmental destruction and using agricultural land to grow animal feed rather than crops for human consumption.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

Of the four major crops that feed the world (corn, soy, wheat, and rice) rice is the primary source of nutrition for three billion people.

I also love the fact that these guys guarantee that you are not ingesting traces of nasty pesticides or herbicides, that crops were grown away from polluted areas, and that the cows producing milk for our whey were fed grass and foliage and certainly no GM feed.

Instead, the main GM crops marketed today are mainly used for the production of biofuel and animal feed.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Farmers around Europe — including in many countries that oppose growing GM crops — depend on the imports for feeding livestock.

For crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barrieFor crops that are not harvested, due to cost or other constraints, but are wholesome for human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriefor human or animal consumption, explore partnerships and opportunities with secondary markets, feed operations, or non - profit / volunteer groups to reduce or eliminate cost, transport, and / or labor barriers.

They include: high levels of degraded soils; reductions in irrigation quotas to restore the health of the Murray - Darling system; the re-forestation of some agricultural land to meet emissions reductions targets; the impacts of peak oil, such as the diversion of food crops into feed - stock for biofuels; and the price and crop yield implications of peak phosphorous, given Australia's dependence on imported fertilisers.

With a global value chain that includes 428 crop procurement locations, 280 ingredient manufacturing facilities, 39 innovation centers, and the world's premier crop transportation network, we connect the harvest to the home, making products for food, animal feed, industrial and energy uses.

But although 412 Food Rescue recently acquired a small refrigerated truck for highly perishable items, their model relies on a large network of 750 individual volunteers, much like the new crop of tech - driven companies around the nation that are finding ways to simultaneously reduce food waste and feed the food insecure.

Of the four major crops that feed the world (corn, soy, wheat, and rice), rice is the primary source of nutrition for three billion people worldwide.

If the technologists succeed in designing new characteristics for food formulations, the hardier sorghum crop could become a cheaper source for alternative ingredients to wheat, already the case for the animal feed market.

The report calls for the creation of innovative public - private partnership arrangements, as well as partnerships involving different levels of government, civil society organizations, and donor organizations, in areas from crop technology to the provision of school feeding programs to help bring about sustainable food security throughout Asia.

You'd think Wichita would be a hotbed of farming but apparently most of the crops are for feed.

I know lots of men who are doing lots of things — working to make the world safer from nuclear weapons, helping poor farmers in Africa and Sudan increase their crops so they can feed their families, investigating fraud, fighting for justice... Oh, wait — that's not what Regnerus means; he means try getting them to woo a woman properly and commit and marry.

All in all I am very proud of the modern mama for standing up for what is right (pumping time / space at work, etc.) and for society slowly responding with such things as the cropping up of «pumping / feeding booths» at ballparks and airports.

Through the 20th century, farming in the region shifted dramatically away from growing fruits and vegetables and towards producing commodity crops, which are primarily used in processed foods and for animal feed.

Just three corporations — Monsanto, Syngenta, and Bayer — are responsible for virtually all commercially released GM crops in the world (almost all the GM food crops are still just being grown in Canada, the USA, Argentina and Brazil, and almost all used for animal feed).

At least 70 percent more calories would be available if farmers shifted from growing crops for feed and fuels to food production

Its strategy consists of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and priorities identified by developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development of an enabling environment to support the safe application of crop biotechnology.

In addition, it promotes the public understanding of scientific advances in crop biotechnology and their implications for the consistent availability of sufficient quantities of food, feed, and fiber.

In that vein, feedlot operations could be more environmentally friendly if they used less fertilizers and cover crops in the grain production component for their feed.

Yields of many key crops in the region, including maize, beans, and a kind of grass used for feeding cattle, would drop significantly in an altered climate, the scientists determined.

• As the amount of meat in the diet was reduced between scenarios, the amount of land necessary for crops to feed livestock was also reduced.

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

Obviously, the numbers of people that it is trying to feed; problems of shortages of water, disappearing quantities of top soil on which we have to grow these different crops; and, of course, now climate change, which also is throwing a lot of randomness or bad factors into our attempts to grow enough food for everybody.

Despite its fruitful adaptations, the crop has gotten its share of flack for consuming precious water and nutrient resources, especially as its acreage has increased to meet biofuel and animal feed demands.

That's true for many crops: they either feed humans or farm animals.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»