Sentences with phrase «impact on agricultural production»

Also, in one optimistic result, their analysis found that extreme weather events had no lasting impact on agricultural production in the years that followed the disasters.

This guidance document presents that climate change impacts directly agroecosystems, with in turn has a potential impact on agricultural production, which drives economic and social impacts, which impact livelihoods.

All this has a direct impact on agricultural production, on which the food security of most people in developing nations primarily depends.

In addition, «pinto beans would also have a positive impact on the agricultural production in a challenging environment like Mars.

Such a rise is expected to have impacts on agricultural production, sea levels, biodiversity, extreme weather, public health, food security, and even warfare.

Not exact matches

Agricultural production and marketing systems can have a variety of impacts, such as impacts on the nutritional content and safety of the food and on the environment.

However, the research plan does not include research on agricultural production practices, including organic practices, that have a demonstrated impact on pollinator health

But it only minimally addresses the impact of agricultural production methods on pollinators

MASIPAG and its member organizations strongly oppose large - scale mining because of its impacts on food and agricultural production, the loss of biodiversity and destruction of the environment.

Organic production is a production system designed to minimize the human impact on the environment, while ensuring the agricultural system operates as naturally as possible.»

In light of the current trend towards more regional products, a trend mainly occurring in Central Europe, different national market development strategies (e.g. export - orientation vs. production for the domestic market) and their impacts on the agricultural system should be discussed.

Increased frequencies of pest and disease outbreaks resulting from these changes may have additional negative effects on agricultural production and human well - being, with impacts projected to worsen.

For its part, Agriculture hopes to be able to determine what the overriding impacts and concerns might be for a given multistate region as well as offer advice on farming practices that might curtail agricultural contributions to greenhouse gas emissions (via such processes as fertilizer production and use, plowing practices, and rice paddy methane release).

A global team of scientists, led by those at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, used two different simulation methods and one statistical method to predict the impact of rising temperatures on global wheat production, and all came to similar estimates.

Reducing the use of animal products can have a considerable impact on areas suffering scarce water resources, as meat production requires more water than other agricultural products.

In addition, the benefits of avoided emissions of air pollutants have been estimated for agricultural production and the impact of acid precipitation on natural ecosystems.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

«With the new agreement for the IVCC and CVMA to work in concert, veterinary medicine in China will be enabled to keep pace with the country's changes in agricultural production and have a real impact on the overall economy.»

It could be that the fragile agricultural / distribution (energy intensive) food supply, energy procurement / production / distribution infrastructure, quality of basic life skills education, and social «getting alongness» between the various religions, countries, and «independent» peoples are larger here and now priorities than a new world wide hedge fund modeled carbon trading scam that will make ZERO impact on the weather and climate we live within for generations.

It's very difficult to estimate exactly what those impacts will be [but] what we can say for certain is that the pressures on agricultural production will certainly be greater because of climate change.»

Assessing future trends in agricultural production in Africa, even without climate change, remains exceedingly difficult (e.g., contributions to GDP and impacts on GDP because of climate variability and other factors - see, for example, Mendelsohn et al., 2000b; Tiffen, 2003; Arrow et al., 2004; Desta and Coppock, 2004; Ferguson, 2006).

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 most likely major biophysical constraint on future agricultural production is climate disruption, and it is already showing measurable impacts.

It aims to outline how the negative impact of climate risks on agricultural production is transmitted to the most vulnerable communities and households.

Building on earlier Turn Down the Heat reports, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day (0.8 °C), 2 °C and 4 °C warming above pre-industrial temperatures on agricultural production, water resources, ecosystem services, and coastal vulnerability for affected populations.

Finally, projected scenarios of future climate change impacts on crop production and risk of hunger in major agricultural regions are presented.]

We are also using our trainers» network to push for agricultural reform in Brazil, which has a significant impact on climate change and fossil fuel production.

The report warned that increasing production of liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, could increase the price of agricultural commodities with negative economic and social impacts, especially for the world's poor who spend a large proportion of income on food.

Gary Schnitkey, Darrel Good, and Paul Ellinger, «Crude Oil Price Variability and Its Impact on Break — Even Corn Prices,» Farm Business Management, 30 May 2007; 2006 grain used for ethanol from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), Feed Grains Database, at www.ers.usda.gov, updated 28 September 2007; 2006 grain harvest from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 12 September 2007; 2008 ethanol requirement from Renewable Fuels Association, «Ethanol Biorefinery Locations,» at www.ethanolrfa.org, updated 28 September 2007; 2008 grain harvest from Interagency Agricultural Projections Committee, Agricultural Projections to 2016 (Washington, DC: USDA, February 2007).

These include the consequences for vulnerable systems, such as agricultural production in tropical regions, impacts on human health and natural systems such as coral reefs, and on ice sheets and sea level rise.

By the end of this century, much of the Southeast will experience more than 100 days above 90 °F, which in the absence of adaptive actions is expected to lead to more heat - stress - related illness and deaths, decreased agricultural production, and negative impacts on fish and wildlife.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

Building capacity in climate, agriculture, livestock and food security experts through users» specific workshops and pilot application projects Improve understanding of the impacts of climate variability on key agricultural production areas including input / output markets and vulnerable areas in the region such as arid and semi-arid areas.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on human health include the effects of air pollution on increased respiratory disease, the spread of vector - borne illnesses like cholera, malaria, and dengue fever due to changing weather patterns, and compromised agricultural production and food security leading to greater malnutrition.

Precipitation projections, for example, are important for many impacts studies — of freshwater availability, agricultural production, and development of water - hungry industries — but global climate models differ wildly on precipitation in African locales.

This new report looks at the likely impacts of present day (0.8 °C), 2 °C and 4 °C warming on agricultural production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia.