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.
Not exact matches
Food has become both a recruitment tactic and a way to keep workers
on campus and boost
productivity.
Higher farm
productivity also made
food cheaper for all consumers, leaving them with more money to spend
on other goods and services.
The lab joins PayPal's other Indo - Asia Pacific innovation lab in Chennai, India, and will be focused
on improving
productivity among SMEs in the
food and beverage industry.
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food service, hotels and other hospitality businesses can create smarter, safer, socially responsible kitchens that increase efficiency,
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From an efficiency perspective, global agricultural
productivity is currently
on track to meet the greater global
food demand.
«We remain highly focused
on our innovative
food offerings,
productivity, restaurant efficiency, and guest service mainly the core strength, which have been fundamental to our measured expansion and long - term bottom - line growth.»
The new project focuses
on overcoming the well documented
productivity challenges
food manufacturers face preparing ingredients.
Simon stated that 95 % of all research investments over the past 30 years have focussed
on increasing
productivity with only 5 % going to reducing
food loss.
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20 Apr 2018 — The
food and beverage industry is embarking
on its biggest transformation in decades, leveraging new technology to improve
food quality, increase plant efficiency and boost
productivity.
«America's farmers and ranchers do their part to put
food on our tables, and this bill is Congress's part to ensure the safety,
productivity, and success of our agricultural industries,» House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers said.
These mandatory inspection activities help ensure the safety and
productivity of the country's $ 186 billion meat and poultry industry, and keep safe, healthy
food on American tables.
He said the aim of the government is to use the «Planting for
Food and Jobs» programme to transform the agricultural sector; and this would be done by increasing
productivity of the farm resources centred
on small holding activities, to provide job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth and to provide raw materials for the industrial sector.
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.
This global biological recordbased
on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant
productivity and the health of the oceans
food web.
Hertel and doctoral student Uris Baldos developed a combination of economic models — one that captures the main drivers of crop supply and demand and another that assesses
food security based
on caloric consumption — to predict how global
food security from 2006 to 2050 could be affected by changes in population, income, bioenergy, agricultural
productivity and climate.
A robust and coherent global pattern is discernible of the impacts of climate change
on crop
productivity that could have consequences for
food availability.
Measuring the ratio, Gibson says, can help scientists understand changes in primary
productivity; that is, how much
food there is for more complex forms of sea life, like crustaceans or fish, to «graze»
on.
«We have very little knowledge
on the effect of microplastics
on soil organisms, and their impact
on farm
productivity and
food safety is unknown.»
«So far it's completely unclear how these
productivity hotspots are affected by ocean acidification and what are the impacts
on the oceanic
food web.»
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We now eat a preponderance of carbohydrate
foods that are also nutritionally deficient because they are grown
on soil whose
productivity has been pushed past what it is actually capable of supporting.
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California alone has 1/6 of CA agriculture, add in a need for more agriculture with a shift to biopower and biofuels, add in the effect of increased carbon dioxide
on decreasing
food quality in many species, and increased temperatures in decreasing
food productivity in many cases (rice).
We don't have good information
on the base of the
food chain for most of the past — that's just «noise» but now that we start having ways to track trends in primary
productivity — what's being made out of sunlight, water and CO2, by which organisms, and how fast do their populations change (remembering that some plankton populations turn over a new generation in a couple of weeks so relative numbers of different species can change that fast across the oceans).
Two frequently cited solutions — raising
productivity through large investment in fertilizers, irrigation and mechanization, and extending farming to degraded, abandoned or pasture lands — would still leave
food and energy supplies falling short of demand, according to a study released
on Thursday by the climate change advice division of Deutsche Bank.
This mega-shift in ocean
productivity from south to north over the next three to four decades will leave those most reliant
on fish for both
food and income high and dry.
Previous studies looking at impacts of climate change
on the global
food supply have only considered land - based
food sources and these concluded that tropical areas will see a decline in land
productivity.
As I said — intensification relates to higher
productivity on the same amount of land — and we will perhaps 70 % more
food by 2050.
Perennial grasses,
on the other hand, have naturally high
productivity, need fewer chemicals and water, and are not
food crops; hence, many governments worldwide are choosing them as future energy farming systems (El Bassam, 2010).
In addition, DOC can influence algal blooms, phytoplankton
productivity, and carbon sequestration in coastal waters, so understanding fluxes in DOC transport into the ocean is critical for evaluating its effects
on coastal
food webs.
Farmers and others who depend
on rural livelihoods for income are benefitting from rising agricultural
productivity around the world, including in parts of Asia and Africa where the need for increased
food supplies is most critical.
Food access could be threatened by climate change impacts on productivity in important cereal - producing regions of the world which, along with other factors, could raise food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased f
Food access could be threatened by climate change impacts
on productivity in important cereal - producing regions of the world which, along with other factors, could raise
food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased f
food prices and erode the ability of the poor in Africa to afford purchased
foodfood.
The Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that although the longer - term maximum technical energy potential of biomass could be large (around 2 600 EJ), this potential is constrained by competing agricultural demands for
food production, low
productivity in biomass production, and other factors.
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.
However, these potential benefits should be carefully weighed against potential negative side effects, for instance,
on crop
productivity and, thus,
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.
Acidity reduces the capacity of key plankton species and shelled animals to form and maintain shells and other hard parts, and therefore alters the
food available to important fish species.136, 139,140 The rising acidity will have particularly strong societal effects
on the Bering Sea
on Alaska's west coast because of its high -
productivity commercial and subsistence fisheries.17, 141
Furthermore, although it would be impressive to see an allotment produce 876 kg of
food, even at 31.28 tonnes per hectare, given the average yields for UK production in the FAO database are 20 tonnes for vegetables, 13 tonnes for fruit, 40 tonnes for roots & tubers, the allotment holder seems not to compete with his industrial farming counterpart
on productivity or cost.
The rise in CO2 has also been clearly beneficial, measurably boosting agricultural
productivity and thus keeping
food costs down; a huge benefit to the ≈ two billion people in the world who subsist
on $ 2 a day or less.
Were a cold flip to happen in our now - crowded world, dependent
on agricultural
productivity and efficient supply lines, much of civilization would be ruined in a series of wars over the shrinking
food supply.
The story, based
on a Lancet study, made dire forecasts regarding the effects of climate change
on agriculture, while failing to note that the study actually predicts much more abundant
food availability in 2050 thanks to advances in agricultural
productivity.
The NAMA focuses
on a set of interventions and measures related to policy development, technical assistance, and access to finance that will be integrated within sustainable commercial oriented investment activities that contribute to enhanced agriculture
productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, improved
food security, and increased incomes.
Increased marine
productivity then reverberates throughout the entire Arctic
food chain benefitting cod that are fed
on by seals that are fed
on by bears.
In particular, the report cites the effects increased temperatures and heat waves have
on essential
food crops — in most cases lowering
productivity — and warns of
food availability and price swings that could lead to civil unrest in countries that are already having problems meeting the basic needs of their citizens.
Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop
productivity and
food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend
on management strategies that reduce reliance
on chemicals.
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