Sentences with phrase «food crops»

However the limit would still expand the use of food crops for fuel and would not end biofuels competing with food production.

Wheat is the most widely cultivated food crop in the world.

It is likely to signal the end to the expanding use of food crops for transport fuel.

Currently most liquid biofuels are produced from food crops and yield low economic and environmental benefits compared to fossil fuels.

As it is not suitable for food use, it is claimed that it will not compete with food crops.

A carbon dioxide - rich atmosphere could strip important food crops of their nutrients, a new study suggests.

Shortly after, one of the pesticides was banned for use on food crops commonly consumed by children.

There are vast areas of land available that are not suitable for use as food crops and labor is available in developing countries.

Critics believe that the grass would require water that could more effectively be used for growing food crops.

But not a single country had yet approved cultivation of a major food crop equipped with new genes.

They earn a steady income from selling cocoa from the farm, whilst also using the same land to grow various other food crops for their families.

But many food crops such as spinach and lettuce are not processed, only washed, allowing antibiotics to remain.

Plus, many crops are planted that are not food crops, so society will need to make policy choices between food versus income crops (e.g. coffee, tea) or energy crops.

The report begins by setting out the challenges to food crop production.

So is it true rising atmospheric CO2 will help plants, including food crops?

Yes cotton farming and processing is resource intensive compared to many food crops.

Further research involves ways to produce food crops enriched with omega - 3 fatty acids beginning early next decade.

But scientists will likely have to be very clever to assure that vital food crop yields keep pace with the coming climate of change.

Because its cultivation dates back thousands and thousands of years, the green pea is widely recognized as one of the first food crops to be cultivated by humans.

The result is the use of big data, artificial wisdom, drones, and other tools we are familiar with from other branches of technology for the purpose of improving food crops.

Also at the summit, a conservation group called for an endowment to ensure that the diversity of 35 key food crops is preserved for future breeding.

If no one is willing to eat these new food crops, after all, no farmers will grow them.

Social groups were unhappy about making advanced biofuels from food sources, such as corn, or on land used for food crops because a growing population will need more food.

The worldwide demand for legumes, one of the world's most important agricultural food crops, is growing; at the same time, their production has been adversely affected by drought.

The primary food crop is rice, which comprises nearly 40 per cent of total crop production.

Now, scientists have assessed the global scale of food crop disasters for the first time — and the news is not good.

The community members start by selecting food crops that they are willing to plant and that can withstand challenging climate.

In light of these emissions, many scientists now question the environmental benefit of so - called biofuels produced by converting food crops.

In the 1980s, with Russian troops occupying the country, an effort was made to increase food crops, rice, and wheat by means of large community farms.

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.

The firm has developed a technique to genetically modify a range of insects with the aim of protecting human health and boosting food crop yields.

Since food crops are grown in rotation with cotton, the project also benefits food production.

What's the story behind this ancient, ubiquitous food crop?

Finally, consideration is given to the consequences and complications of food crop innovation.

Cotton was the most common crop grown for profit, and corn was the most common food crop.

«Conventional» biofuels are made from food crops and so compete with food for land, yet efforts to limit the use of conventional biofuels did not make it into the 2009 directive.

Cotton diapers can be used as many as 150 times so comparisons to food crops in terms of farming impacts needs to take into consideration the durability of cotton products compared to foods.

New generations of biomass energy — ones that do not rely on food crops, unlike the mistaken strategy of making ethanol from corn — are extremely promising.

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

This finding may extend to how we grow important food crops.

That researchers are optimistic the technique will translate to a number of other food crops.

It does not compete directly with food crops, and it is the only renewable source of carbon that we have.

Now, scientists have assessed the global scale of food crop disasters for the first time — and the news is not good.

A new study reported in Planet Ark makes the picture even bleaker — a warmer world will favor crop pests that eat staple food crops like corn.

It is calling for a 10 - year moratorium on field trials of any GM food crop as well as nonfood crops such as cotton equipped to produce an insect - killing toxin from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt).

Traditional biofuels such as bioethanol are made from food crops like corn and sugarcane that require prime agricultural land — a commodity in relatively short supply.