Sentences with phrase «from feed crops»

The latter cut a five - year deal with the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, to develop fuels from farm waste, excess from feed crops, or biomass from shrubs.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

«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.

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.

Sun Chao, the president of Tianjin Tianjiao Group - the hog feed producer that supplies Shi - said that US soybeans meet Chinese demand from October to February, when the South American crop is still growing.

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.

Most mayonnaises, including Kraft Miracle Whip, contain genetically engineered ingredients, specifically oil and vinegar made from genetically engineered crops, and eggs from factory farmed chickens raised on genetically engineered feed.

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.

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.

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.

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

Crops and weeds from this plant family, which includes tobacco, produce chemicals such as nicotine that deter feeding by most insects, but not M. sexta, which makes its physiology especially interesting to scientists.

He raises pigs and turkeys, along with vegetable crops, but the livestock corn feed probably comes from Iowa, he said.

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams that feed Chesapeake Bay.

Therefore, researchers from the University of Wisconsin - Madison created a study to compare the effects of feeding strategies and the associated crop hectares on GHG emissions of Wisconsin certified organic dairy farms.

Where will the additional crops come from to keep the whole world fed?

And the fact that their primary feed source comes from conventionally grown terrestrial crops means that their diets can include trace amounts of pesticides and herbicides as well.

Several of the species from the family have economic importance with their larva living in the soil and feeding on the bases of some crops such as lettuce and cabbage.

Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Data shows that products from animals fed genetically engineered crops are no different than those fed...

Mouse feeding tests show GM technology is a safer way of delivering protection of crops from insects with the Bt - protein insect than is the traditional delivery method.

«Developing contacts with Chinese stakeholders is crucial to the United States» ability to ensure the safety of food and feed imported to the U.S. from China,» said Dr. Tim Herrman, state chemist and director of the Office of the Texas State Chemist and professor in the department of soil and crop sciences.

Making chips from up - cycled Sunflower oilcake PLANETARIANS shows that repurposing of oilcakes (dry matter left after oil extraction from seeds) from an animal into the human food can feed 1.5 B extra people without growing extra crops.

Produce from poultry and livestock fed these crops and their byproducts can also be nutritionally deficient and contaminated with agrichemicals.

The following table of a single year's U.S. projected kitten crop from the estimated number of owned pet cats compared to the estimated number of community cats that are fed by residents illustrates how community cats are the main source of new cats, even when the most conservative survival rates are used.

Although gluten probably does account for some problems with grain consumption, «I think that grain - free diets, if they are also soy free and contain protein from animals not fed GM crops, can help many dogs, due to being GM free — and not due to some allergy or gluten issue.»

Barn Cats save you money by eliminating and discouraging rodents from scavenging and nesting near your feed, crops and home, without poisons or messy traps and glue pads.

Save enough money and you can install automated systems to keep your crops watered and animals fed (or, if you prefer, you can snag yourself a husband or wife, who can take some of the burden) allowing you to focus on other hobbies and interests, such as brewing craft beer, beekeeping, crab - catching, playing on the arcade machine in the local bar, or cooking the various recipes you learn from watching the food channel on your TV.

The Big question from sceptics is:... That crops for bio-fuel takes away the ability of the world to feed it's growing population, this is answered in a couple of ways in the film.

The best biofuel is still ethanol from corn but it has to be part of an integrated production facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.

Those who do will surely suffer, since GW is predicted to reduce world net food crop output in several ways: droughts, floods, heatwaves that kill plants; land loss from sea rise; no irrigation in glacier - fed rivers after glaciers melt in a few decades — putting 40 % of India & China at starvation risk; crop loss due to increased pests (weeds & bug); fish decline from several GW factors; there's probably more.

doesn't that make for more crop failures, more expensive food, a shift to higher value cash crops (which may have lower food value or feed fewer but wealthier people), and a shift of agricultural areas away from the equator, resulting in costly changes in farm viability and land use?

In other countries, additional risks that could be exacerbated by climate change include greater erosion, deficiencies in yields from rain - fed agriculture of up to 50 % during the 2000 - 2020 period, and reductions in crop growth period (Agoumi, 2003).

Rising greenhouse gases caused rains to return to the region south of the Sahara, from Senegal to Sudan, boosting crop yields since the 1990s and helping the population to feed itself without relying on foreign donations.

But channeling agricultural crops away from livestock feed and food production and into energy has come at a cost.

Re climate and insightful solutions fer CO2 reduction, well yes, we need ter be wary of the definitive solution fer anything, but conservation farming is a useful contribution ter sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, improving crop yield and feeding people, especially «3rd world» communities that eke out a living by farming exhausted soils.

Comment (2 - 13): The Southeastern Legal Foundation provides the following reaction to the African rain - fed agriculture projection, which appeared in the Sunday Times (Leake, 2010a) and comes from former IPCC chair Robert Watson: «Any such projection [pertaining to African crop yields] should be based on peer - reviewed literature from computer modeling of how agricultural yields would respond to climate change.

With 9 billion people to feed by 2050 and with crops facing increased stress from rising temperatures and drought, plant breeders must marshal all of the available crop diversity to continuously develop new varieties of wheat, maize, rice, and other foods.

The search has spanned the gamut from funding research, investing in expensive solutions like desalination plants, toying with the idea of recycling wastewater, imposing water - use restrictions, letting lawns go dry and experimenting with irrigation efficiency techniques for the crops that feed the country.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

So crops from old plantations go to Europe for biofuels, while new fields are cleared to feed people at home.

Nelson, who now has a farm and cattle feeding operation in Lake Preston, South Dakota, noted the importance of this type of support in facilitating his own transition from a cash crop farm to a more integrated one.

A huge proportion of commodity crops grown by U.S. farmers are genetically engineered: 97 % of the nation's sugar beets, 93 % of the soybeans, 90 % of the cotton and 90 % of the feed corn for animals, according to the 2013 figures from the Department of Agriculture.

Diverse studies of global land cover and potential productivity suggest that anywhere from 600 million to more than 7 billion additional acres of underutilized rural lands are available for expanding rain - fed crop production around the world, after excluding the 4 billion acres of cropland currently in use, as well as the world's supply of closed forests, nature reserves, and urban lands.

• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.

The dairy herds are kept within restricted areas, feeding on cornstalks, wheat straw, and the harvest from a drought - tolerant forage crop that is used to reclaim land from the desert.

Cleaning Wastewater, farmed fish in Calcutta «feed on the 600 million liters of raw sewage that spews from Calcutta daily, turning a health risk into a key urban crop»; 4.

In years where we have a bumper crop of corn, and produce more than we need for feed, the market to distilleries will provide built in price supports; the DDGS from the other ethanol feedstocks will provide some cushion to food production in years when the corn crop is bad.

The Earth Policy Institute has noted that even if the entire U.S. grain crop were converted to ethanol (leaving no domestic crop to make bread, rice, pasta, or feed the animals from which we get meat, milk, and eggs), it would satisfy at most 18 percent of U.S. automotive fuel needs.