Sentences with phrase «grow feed crops»

(Land use changes, such as deforestation and desertification caused by over-pasturing livestock or growing feed crops, account for another 35.4 %, while manure accounts for 30.5 %).

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The emerging middle classes in China and India are consuming more meat, which requires more crops to be grown for animal feed.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

Many Thai farmers grow crops to feed animals rather than people — to the detriment of the environment.

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.

Growing crops to feed them to farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty.

Since nutrient - rich quinoa is also drought resistant, and grows well on poor soils without irrigation or fertilizer, it's been designated a «super crop» by the United Nations, for its potential to feed the hungry poor of the world.

It's funny because you always hear about how bad GMO soy, corn and wheat are for us (which they are) but those crops are mainly grown to feed the animals.

In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

Approximately 1.2 million hectares are given over to fodder crops to feed cattle, according to al - Zayat, which he says «limits the country's ability to grow badly needed wheat».

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.

As part of its Less Is More campaign, Greenpeace is now calling on governments to stop promoting meat and dairy - focused policies and instead support growing crops for humans, rather than to feed animals.

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.

Farmers around Europe — including in many countries that oppose growing GM crops — depend on the imports for feeding livestock.

These standards prohibit the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in all our products and forbid using genetically modified crops grown or purchased to feed cows.

Even if the northern New Mexico crops will never feed the world — which, given the landrace's limited growing areas, they never will — Madison hopes as people become aware of the chile it will help northern New Mexico's other cultural and environmental issues.

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.

Just three corporations — Monsanto, Syngenta, and Bayer — are responsible for virtually all commercially released GM crops in the world (almost all the GM food crops are still just being grown in Canada, the USA, Argentina and Brazil, and almost all used 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

It brought about a global revolution in agriculture — today, crops grown using ammonia - based fertilisers feed no less than 48 per cent of the planet.

How can we increase crop yields to feed the world's growing population?

Professor Bruce Fitt, professor of plant pathology at the University of Hertfordshire's School of Medical and Life Sciences, said: «There is considerable debate about the impact of climate change on crop production — and making sure that we have sufficient food to feed the ever - growing global population is key to our future food security.»

In this baseline diet, roughly 80 percent of available cropland was used to grow crops for animal feed, such as hay, while the other 20 percent was devoted to fruits, vegetables and grains for human consumption.

But the bubble burst when it became apparent that there wasn't enough agricultural land in the U.S. or elsewhere to grow sufficient amounts of corn, palm and other crops to feed both people and their engines.

Obviously, the numbers of people that it is trying to feed; problems of shortages of water, disappearing quantities of top soil on which we have to grow these different crops; and, of course, now climate change, which also is throwing a lot of randomness or bad factors into our attempts to grow enough food for everybody.

Could growing crops on high - rise buildings feed growing urban populations, thereby sparing the need to cultivate more and more tracts of land?

A new University of Washington study finds that urban crops in Seattle could only feed between 1 and 4 percent of the city's population, even if all viable backyard and public green spaces were converted to growing produce.

In the Northwest, water shortages to the Great Basin region will lead to large reductions in irrigated forage, such as hay, grasses, and other crops grown to feed livestock.

It shows how millions of hectares of land would have to be cleared in order to grow crops to make enough biofuels to fulfil the plan and feed Europe.

Furthermore, says Sutton, «80 % of the nitrogen in crops grown globally goes to feed livestock,» says Sutton.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

The group calculate that 4.1 to 6.9 million hectares of uncultivated land will have to be cleared to grow crops for biofuel and to feed the EU.

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.

These feed crops have to be grown somewhere, however, and the worldwide land conversions necessary to make up for lost U.S. crops would release carbon dioxide.

At least 140 million people in Asia are drinking arsenic - contaminated water, and the ever - expanding use of groundwater wells — a growing population needs water to drink, and farmers need it to grow crops to feed them — has been making the situation worse.

More than 3 billion people in the world depend on rice as their primary food, and nearly one - fourth of the world's crop is grown in rain - fed lowland plots prone to seasonal and sustained flash floods.

Add to that the looming specter of growing crops for biofuel, which reduce available land for food, feed and fiber production, he said: «Biofuel is going to be an unmitigated disaster, that's as true in an African village as it is in Iowa.»

Given that most fishes convert feed to flesh much more efficiently than cows, as well as producing healthier food and contributing less methane to the atmosphere, an alternative would be to reduce beef production and instead use available land to grow crops for fish feed.

GM crops will help feed a growing population and require fewer herbicides and pesticides.

Do we need GM crops to feed a growing population or not?

Since potatoes produce by far more food per unit of land and per unit of water than any other major crop, it is likely that their role will further increase along with the challenge to feed the growing world population.

It was the first to calculate both the amounts and type of food wasted and to model the behavior's impact on available resources like the amount of water and farmland wasted to grow the fodder to feed the livestock and cultivate the crops that consumers chuck.

Crop breeders in developing countries are facing challenges in their efforts to improve yields to feed growing populations, battle crop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor soCrop breeders in developing countries are facing challenges in their efforts to improve yields to feed growing populations, battle crop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor socrop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor soils.

There is a need to improve crops to feed the world's growing population with the backdrop of climate change.

According to the paper, microalgae, which can be grown in salt water or produced on otherwise degraded land, can be used as livestock feed, freeing up land currently used for pasture and feed crops.

Dividing the annual volume of meals to yearly caloric needs for one person we that we can feed 1.5 B extra people without growing new crops.

Add to this the fact that crops like corn, alfalfa, wheat and soy are now being used as animal feed so much of the land is being used to grow food for animals.

Corn, soy, alfalfa (fed to cows), canola, and sugar beets are among the top grown GMO crops.

Unfortunately, only about 20 percent of the land in the U.S. can be cultivated for crops, but 26 percent can be used to pasture livestock.19 Half of the cropland is used to grow feed for livestock.