Sentences with phrase «green revolution»

The very first Original Green blog post detailed how we lost the first green revolution thirty years ago.

Does science hold the key to the next green revolution?

A new green revolution is starting, based upon traditional breeding but with an eye on the genome.

I have been following him from the original agricultural green revolution.

The Ghana Commercialization of Rice Project (G - CORP), through Agribusiness Systems International (ASI), with funding and technical support from the Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), has supported over 4,000 smallholder farmers in the Volta Region in a three - and - half year programme.

In Tsou's view, «The adoption rate of the so called modern varieties of cereal crops is still not very high after 30 years of Green Revolution.

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For a number of years now the UN has been shining a light the need for an agricultural revolution much different than the so - called Green Revolution which India went though, which big name international philanthropists like Bill Gates would like to see implemented in Africa, and which though saved lives in the middle of the 20th century by improving crops yields did so largely at the expense of the environment, smallholder farmers and the water table.

The new African Green Revolution would initially subsidize peasant farmers» access to high - yield technologies and thereby at least double grain yields.

Go to starbucks to have your breakfast and discuss about green revolution!

The best hope for improving African crop yields today would be to borrow technology from the decades - old green revolution that transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America.

The heartland of last century's Green Revolution lost 109 cubic kilometers of water from its Indus River plain aquifer between August 2002 and October 2008.

Green Revolution helped set up the system at Ridgefield Fitness Club in Hartford, Connecticut.

But Green Revolution plants typically achieved their high yields via fertilizer, irrigation water, and pesticides.

And who has proved that it works well when denying Green Revolution strategies and one - sighted industrialization of agriculture with technology from Europe and North America?

In serving 15 years as a Board Member and the wine director for Chez Panisse, Stephen was engaged in the ongoing green revolution that it helped spawn.

Green revolution researchers and aid agencies encouraged growers to switch to high - yielding varieties of coffee that grow well in full sun, eliminating the threat of fungal blight.

Rather, measures are often taken to reduce carbon emission and encourage green revolutions.

So, with the persistent trend of this latest green revolution, health care authorities around the world have found it a daunting task to promote the standardization of TCHM.

We can not kindle the next green revolution if we treat roughly three - quarters of a billion dollars in worthwhile scientific ideas as if they were table scraps.»

Paul Stoy, an ecologist at MSU, paces in front of whiteboards in a powder blue shirt and jeans as he describes how a landscape already dominated by agriculture could be transformed yet again by a different green revolution: vast plantations of crops, sown to sop up carbon dioxide (CO2) from the sky.

It also implies that the apparent loss of genetic diversity following the introduction of high - yielding Green Revolution wheat and rice varieties in the 1960s and 1970s, and attending the rapid adoption of superior GM crops today, is far from a new phenomenon.

This suggests that once this special combination of GMs was assembled, the plants proved so superior as a food crop that they were carefully propagated and widely adopted, perhaps causing something of a prehistoric Green Revolution.

Gordon Conway called for a «Doubly Green Revolution».

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Heartfelt and inventive, this documentary from exiled director Ali Samadi Ahadi chronicles Iran's abortive Green Revolution during the summer of 2009.

Sci - fi's green revolution began with the lyrical strains of folk singer Joan Baez, and the impressive orchestral music of her sometime arranger Peter Schickele (better known under the name of his classical novelty act «P.D.Q. Bach») with 1972's «Silent Running.»

Reversing soil carbon loss is a new green revolution where conventional agriculture is hitting a productivity barrier with exhausted soils and increasingly expensive inputs.

Over at the Nuclear Green Revolution, I've found a post linking to a recent blog posting by Monbiot, in which he points out that the green movement had four goals:

So, perhaps you've heard about Germany's heroic green revolution, about how it's overhauling its entire energy -LSB-...]

Many Green Revolution techniques could be applied to perennial crops, such as classical plant breeding to improve yield, stress tolerance, disease resistance, and other characteristics.

China's dramatic economic growth eradicated hunger for millions, much like the earlier Green Revolution in India.

Green Revolution II - based on a strategy of resilience rather than growth - means a circumspect look at how to adapt to climate extremes and less focus on ways to increase yields.

A group spinning class could generate about 300 kWh, according to Jay Whelan at Green Revolution.

To critics, the engineering focus has tended to put intensification ahead of sustainability, making it just a re-boot of the original Green Revolution.

BANGKOK, Thailand, 28 October 2014 — The second Green Revolution in rice has been under way for more than 6 years, reckons Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The second Green Revolution in rice has been under way for more than 6 years, reckons Robert Zeigler, director general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

The first green revolution of the 1970s was an easy accomplishment in comparison to this one, according to Fedoroff.

«The 3K RGP dataset is a powerful tool that will unite researchers from around the world to help drive the next green revolution,» Wing concludes.