Sentences with phrase «for agricultural research»

Since primary employers within this field include government agencies (for inspection and supervisory positions) and universities (for agricultural research - related occupations), job stability and employer - provided benefits tend to rank among desirable perks.

This «would mean they have better antiseptic protection compared to other bees, and so would be more resistant to pathogen invasion,» lead author Dr. Cedric Alaux from the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Avignon told the BBC.

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The new SMS alert system has been tested in Indian Council for Agricultural Research farms and is now being implemented in fields in the Indo - Gangetic plane, which is most prone to crop damage from cold wave.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

Farmers and consumers in poor countries are now paying the price for decisions made by well - fed Westerners, as reported by my colleagues Keith Bradsher and Andrew Martin in their front - page article on cutbacks in financing for agricultural research.

They explain how the Green Revolution faltered after Western governments and agencies slashed funds for agricultural research, partly to shift money to other areas, like environmental projects, and partly because of opposition to high - yield agriculture from advocacy groups.

Seventy years later, in 2012, employees of a gene bank at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas in Syria (ICARDA), heroically duplicated irreplaceable wheat, barley, and lentil seeds and spirited them out of the battle - scarred country to the frozen Svalbard Seed Vault, located inside a Norwegian mountain.

Searching for agricultural research, about affect global cooling would have on crop production, and what steps should be taken to protect against that.

Covering 17 acres of land previously used for agricultural research, the 7,800 - panel solar array is the «largest concentration of photovoltaic modules on one site» in all of Maryland, according to the press release.

UPDATE 5/19: John Tierney has an interesting piece up on his blog reviewing how non-governmental funding for agricultural research aiding poor countries dried up as foundations and international lenders shifted priorities away from boosting food production, partly due to rising pressure from green groups.

Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.

Frederick Breidt is a food scientist and microbiologist who works for Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) since 1990.

Golden rice will be introduced in India through ISCB with possible funding from DBT, the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR) and the World Bank.

African Development Bank Group — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

COLLEGE STATION — The battle against fever ticks rages on, and a group of Texas A&M University and French National Institute for Agricultural Research scientists are doing their best to determine where the fray will head by synthesizing historical models for use in curbing the pest globally.

The Daily Blog — The CGIAR delegation was led by Director General of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nteranya Sanginga, and included the Director Generals of Africa - Rice, the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Africa Harvest.

Wang was joined by co-authors Drs. Michael Corson, researcher with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Ouest, Rennes, France; Bill Grant, AgriLife Research ecologist, department of wildlife and fisheries sciences, College Station; and Teel to conduct the work.

Winning the World Prize for agricultural research is Trudy Mackay, from the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University in the US, who pioneered research in quantitative genetics, which studies the interaction between genes, traits and environmental effects.

The centre was established in 2008 as a global hub for investigating wheat rust upon the request of the international institutions International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), based in Mexico, and International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), which is based in Syria.

Project information also will be shared with the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development biotechnology platform to encourage program adoption in the West African sub-region.

«For a long time, the root - knot nematodes have remained an evolutionary puzzle because the most devastating agricultural parasites are those that have abandoned sex and meiosis,» explains scientist Etienne Danchin of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research.

Lawmakers appear to be developing a soft spot for competitive grants for agricultural research.

The researchers, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute, the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, and Clark University in Worcester, Mass., report the results February 23 in Nature Genetics.

Mickaël Henry of France's National Institute for Agricultural Research in Avignon fed low levels of a neonicotinoid, thiamethoxam, to European honey bees (pictured).

The tough times are no surprise to advocates for agricultural research.

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development (Neiker - Tecnalia) has coordinated the European BATFARM project, which is seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of technologies and practices used on livestock farms in the European Atlantic region in order to reduce their environmental impact on the air, water and soil.

Jean - Marc Touzard, director of research on innovation at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Montpellier and co-coordinator of a national program to assess the impact of climate change on the wine industry, found the PNAS paper too alarmist.

Hoping to learn more about what keeps species apart — and how new species form — biologist Olivier Loudet of the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris turned to the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), a weed from the mustard family.

Yesterday, AERES released much more muted evaluation reports on the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).

The Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Neiker - Tecnalia, has created four new potato clones which are characterised by their high antioxidant content, their good production both in size and number of tubers, as well as by their resistance to the usual diseases of this crop.

Among the signatories are the directors of the national research agency CNRS, the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, and the National Institute for Agricultural Research.

Both articles were written in collaboration with David Horvath, a research plant physiologist for the Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Fargo, N.D.

The work, from an Anglo - French team led by Kostya Kanyuka at Rothamsted Research and Cyrille Saintenac at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), is reported today in Nature Genetics.

Advocates for agricultural research hope that by putting a high - profile scientist in charge, the Administration can boost Congress's interest in supporting competitive research at USDA.

To find out more, Mihai Covasa and his colleagues at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Paris swapped gut bacteria between obesity - prone and obesity - resistant rats.

«The decisions we make now about funding for agricultural research will have implications for a number of malnourished people in 2050,» Hertel said.

«If the university community would come forward with a prioritized set of asks [for agricultural research] that the scientific community had validated,» Grumbly says, «it would be easier to lift all the boats.»

Overall, North Africa imports about half of the global wheat trade, according to Abdelkader Benbelkcem, a researcher with the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) in Tunisia.

AAAS has commended the Obama administration for proposing to increase funding for agricultural research, a step specialists consider essential for helping to provide more and better food sources for a growing world population.

The spores like humidity, and struck irrigated fields in drought - stricken areas, says Mahmoud Solh, head of the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria.

Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carrière in the department of entomology at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Brévault from the Center for Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) in France scrutinized the available field and laboratory data to test predictions about resistance.

Her trip to the Middle East was partly funded by the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, based in Aleppo, Syria

Clovis» likely nomination, reported by the farm magazine Agri - Pulse and ProPublica, raised caution among advocates for agricultural research, who say they worry the administration will pay less attention to the effects of climate change on wheat and other vital crops, among other issues.

While the final plans for the institutes aren't yet clear, advocates for agricultural research are pleased.

The Department of Agriculture would receive $ 22 million for its Agricultural Research Service facilities affected by the hurricanes.

Plant ecophysiologist Guillaume Charrier, at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris, and colleagues...

The minister was in Zaria for an inspection tour agricultural institutes comprising Institute for Agricultural Research (IAR) and National Agricultural Extension Research and Liaisons Services (NAERLS).

Yogyakarta, Indonesia — The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development (IAARD), Department of Agriculture brought together key stakeholders in a 3 - day conference to tackle solutions toward addressing hybrid rice adoption challenges in Southeast Asia amid climate change threats.

«This speaks to the importance of the budding partnership between the International Rice Research Institute, the Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, as well as the Government of Odisha and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research.»