Sentences with phrase «food productivity»

And we have the urgent need of increasing food productivity.

Given limited farmland and the need to protect natural lands, it is critically important to increase food productivity on a per - acre basis, through advanced breeding and biotechnology.

However, researchers at the University of Illinois wanted to know if they could tweak the photosynthesis pathway for better food productivity.

A former Agriculture Department chief scientist weighs in on President Obama's U.S - India plan, arguing that biotechnology is crucial to the growth of food productivity and security that is necessary to feed a surging global population

He said that the inauguration of the council by President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday was not only timely but also commendable, adding that it would enhance food productivity as well as bring to a halt the persistent farmers - herdsmen clashes across the country.

«We'd like to build a satellite - based system to monitor the entire United States food productivity in order to predict the crop yield.»

«We believe that Swaziland neither needs the tons of food aid coming from western and eastern countries, nor complicated expensive strategies beyond the budget of the country to solve low food productivity,» Shongwe and Mahlalela state in their Google Science Fair entry.

Bhan hopes the Supreme Court will not send the wrong message at a time when GM research, he argues, should be stepped up to meet challenges to food productivity posed by climate change and a rising population.

«Understanding how climate change will affect food productivity and access is vital; yet, predictions of how drought may affect conflict may be overstated in Africa and do not get to the root of the problem.

Potentially such research could lead to reducing the amount of land used for crop production, with important possible implications for global food productivity and security, as well as for the global energy supply.

In developing countries where spoilage greatly cuts food productivity, the method could help cut losses between field and table.

The study concludes SRM geoengineering is unlikely to negatively impact agricultural food productivity, especially since it compensates part of the damaging effects of unabated climate change to this food production.

Dr. Peter Carter, an expert reviewer of the IPCC 5th assessment, says that «the entire world depends on the high food productivity of the Northern Hemisphere.

Science shows that climate change will reduce food productivity and food security at the same time our world's population is growing and requiring us to feed more people with fewer natural resources.

Right now, India's research mix has elements of the local and global; the hottest topics for research are agriculture and biotechnology (to increase food productivity), conventional (non-nuclear) energy, nanotechnology, theoretical physics, statistics, mathematics, and — obviously — information technology.

such as coal for electricity production is a primary leading factor to human - induced emissions affecting the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of millions of African people.

Africa's growing addiction to fossil fuels such as coal for electricity production is a primary leading factor to human - induced emissions affecting the health, livelihoods, food productivity, water availability, and overall security of millions of African people.

They also recommended that South Asian countries actively collaborate among themselves in sharing knowledge and technologies to increase food productivity, energy efficiency and reduce [continue reading...]

Although the researchers conclude on average doubling CO2 without SRM geoengineering leads to a larger decline in food productivity that doubling CO2 with geoengineering — this is not a direct conclusion from the above image, which it easier to interpret, but falsely suggests one could grow rice in the Siberian tundra — and that doubling CO2 would be a good idea.

Experts suggest that with increased food demand, food productivity is also estimated to double in the next five decades.

Mori, S., and M. Takahashi, 1999: An integrated assessment model for the evaluation of new energy technologies and food productivity.