Sentences with phrase «grain food crops»

To understand the population bottlenecks during domestication, researchers made a comparison analysis between vegetable and grain food crops.

Not exact matches

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.

Despite bumper crops, distribution of food grains continues to be faulty — almost 30 % of the food produced in the country is wasted.

Focus on eating whole foods, like vegetables, root crops, fruits, nuts, seeds, spices, whole grains and beans (especially lentils).

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Such industries include red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava.

(Comment 30) A few comments addressed farmers, food companies, and restaurants making «gluten - free» claims about their grains / crops, food products, or menu items, respectively.

The technologies are particularly effective for industries such as red meat, poultry, dairy, brewery, canning, paper and packaging, food processing and agribusiness processing including many of the world's most important crops, including fruit, cane, grain, maize, yams, sorghum, potatoes, beans and cassava

This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming sysFood Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming sysfood and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value - crop alternatives to the commodity farming system.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»

You may know them as the seeds that sprout on those cute terracotta Ch - ch - ch - chia Pets, but they're actually an ancient grain that's been a staple food crop in Central and South America for thousands of years.

In addition to inhaling or absorbing pyrethroids that linger in households, people ingest traces of pyrethroids in their food, since the chemicals are used on some vegetable, fruit and grain crops.

Farmers around the world are starting to experiment with perennial food crops — both grains, like wheat and sorghum, and legumes, like peas and beans.

Annual crops contribute heavily to the world food system, with three domesticated grains — wheat, maize, and rice — providing 60 percent of the calories humans consume.

Finally, countries like India recognize the importance of using biotechnology to make the country self - sufficient in food grains, including rice, wheat and oil seed production with the first biotech food crop, biotech eggplant, expecting approval in the near - term.

- Amaranth, buckwheat, chia, millet, quinoa, sorghum, kamut, einkorn, spelt and teff (which are sometimes called «ancient grains» because each was an important food source for ancient civilizations, and although not 100 % gluten - free, are much lower or non-existent in gliadin content compared to modified, high - yield wheat crops).

Remember that grains are extremely cheap to grow and process compared to other crops, and this means BIG money for giant food conglomerates.

I have had Cane Corso's for almost 10 yrs The first one I got had her ears cropped I admit I like the look but I will not put a dog through an Unnecessary surgery just to get a look I have had 3 dogs with ears intake for 6 yrs and I haven't had ear infections I clean my dogs ears on a regular basis Gook in ears are diet related Usually related to grain found in crappy dog food Like corn & wheat And yes cropped ears need to be cleaned too Also dogs with cropped ears hate the rain as it Gets in their ears easily I do believe in tail cropping if it's done before day 3 These dogs never stop wagging their tails & it really hurts when they hit you There was a reason the Italians did tails & ears It was to protect the dogs from the wild boar they were hunting Today it purely «the Look»

Grains are the seeds of grasses, called cereal crops, cultivated as food.

The Chitwan Valley is inhabited by numerous rural farming communities as the fertile land is ideal for grain and food crops, but it is the region's non-human inhabitants that provide a compelling reason to visit the area.

The main question is when will these extremes hit the global food supply and cause shortages, just this week there are articles about how China's rice and grain crops are being stressed by flooding and drought events.

Major food producing areas like Russia, the US Grain Belt, and the South have already taken devastating climate hits and seen crops wiped out.

As the name of the project states, central to the task is stimulating the cultivation and local marketing of organically grown staple crops like beans and grains to provide a foundation for year - round food resources in the Willamette Valley.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

The Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Valley Project is a step by step strategy to rebuild the local food system by increasing the quantity and diversity of the food crops that are grown in the Willamette Valley.

Meanwhile, by diverting grain and oilseed crops from dinner plates to fuel tanks, biofuels are jacking up world food prices and endangering the hungry.

This corn - centric agriculture is displacing wheat and other crops, dramatically increasing grain and food prices, and keeping land under cultivation that would otherwise be returned to wildlife habitat.

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In a world with limited grain stocks, a crop - shrinking heat wave in a major grain - producing region could lead to food shortages and political instability.

Clinton also criticized the heavy U.S. reliance on a food crop, corn, to produce ethanol for fuel, which helped drive up grain prices worldwide.

Food riots in several nations due to raising prices that are at least partially directly tied to diversion of grain crops to ethanol production.

While smaller farms grow biomass for energy alongside food crops, grain elevators at large organizations become refueling stations.

• 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.

Crop - withering heat waves have lowered grain harvests in key food - producing regions in recent years.

I don't want to start a big debate on vegetarianism vs. meat - eating, but right now there is way more than enough food being produced in the world; it's just that we grow crops that we feed to animals, and then we eat the animals (in many cases it's a way to make money — sell meat for a premium to the rich instead of selling tons of grain for a fraction of that price to starving people).