Sentences with phrase «impact on agriculture»

Changing climate impacts on agriculture, food production, transport, and consumption, and new and evolving practices.

The company directly employs a full - time staff of a half dozen, but said the firm has a wide ranging impact on agriculture and farming in the area.

Climate change is having a large impact on agriculture.

This is optimistic, however, because water scarcity in a hotter climate will nearly certainly have even more dire impacts on agriculture.

The report provides a clear picture of the devastating impacts on agriculture, water resources, ecosystems, and human health.

Subsequent research detailed a range of adverse impacts that would occur if temperatures rose more than 2 °C, from increased risks of severe weather to adverse impacts on agriculture.

Since climate change has a direct impact on agriculture, environmentally sound farming methods need to be developed and practised.

While the greenhouse effect is a natural occurence, too much warming has severe negative impacts on agriculture, health and environment.

The loss of glaciers, which are the source for as much as 50 percent of the water in the upper Amazon, could have a significant impact on agriculture and urban water supplies as well as the Amazon rainforest.

«We wanted to build a business that has a massive impact on agriculture and lets us invent the future of farming.»

In implementing these innovative growing techniques, Auvil Fruit Co. is following the example of its founder, who had an enormous impact on the agriculture industry as well as the community.

While not every part of the planet is expected to experience adverse effects of climate - linked impacts on agriculture, the report's numbers suggest that by 2020 there will be a 14 percent deficit between wheat production and demand, global rice production will stand at an 11 percent deficit, and there will be a 9 percent deficit in corn production.

It also endangers freshwater supplies, which in turn could have a big impact on agriculture.

However, any effort at assessing climate impacts on agriculture faces multiple levels of uncertainty, including uncertainty that a) accompanies all climate projections, b) is specific to agricultural projections, and c) is created by adaptive actions (human interventions) that can mask a direct climate signal.

Early warning systems and preparedness: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN will continue to build on its various early warning systems to ensure early action is triggered to reduce impact on agriculture - based livelihoods and develop comprehensive early warning - early action systems, including for El Niño affected countries..

Scidevnet: The lack of rains in large, monsoon - dependent, agricultural areas of South Asia has compounded concerns expressed in a recent report about an impending global water crisis and its detrimental impact on agriculture.

Projected impacts of climate change include extended periods of drought and, on the other hand, loss of soil fertility and degradation as a result of increased precipitation, both of which will negatively impact on agriculture and food security.

But it shows that increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations, as well as increased temperatures in cold or temperate climates, and more rainfall in not very humid areas, entails beneficial impacts on agriculture.

Improving each aspect of climate analysis is essential, many experts say, if the country is to move from pondering what to do about a general warming trend to considering consequences for particular regions and the likely impact on agriculture, ecosystems and water supplies.

«The future of the monsoon will have direct impacts on agriculture, on livelihoods.»

Droughts have a significant impact on agriculture and can harm the economy.

Climate impacts on agriculture in other regions of the world can also create uncertainty and have a major impact on Montana agriculture by changing commodity prices and input costs.

To date, concerns about climate change's impact on agriculture have focused on drought — another likely outcome of warming world.

Honey - bee populations around the world have been hit hard by a mysterious phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder which has seen numbers drop dramatically and raised fears about the impact on agriculture and food prices.

And a new study shows that biochar could have an impact on agriculture's other greenhouse gas emission: nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, which is no laughing matter when it comes to climate change.

After the physics comes the biology (impact on agriculture and wildlife) and finally the economics.

Socio - economic and climate change impacts on agriculture: an integrated assessment, 1990 — 2080 Phil.

Which brings up an important question that I've never heard asked: how much of 20th century agricultural productivity increase might be attributed to higher CO2 in the atmosphere, and what would be the impact on agriculture if CO2 could be returned to 280?

Climate Change: Impact on Agriculture and Costs of Adaptation.

Long Run versus Short Run Analysis of Climate Impacts on Agriculture.

«Significant large scale deforestation in any of these regions could have impacts on agriculture — across the world there will be regions that suffer,» she said.

«Most previous modeling studies were idealized experiments used to explore potential impacts, but this is a much more realistic simulation of the actual impacts,» said David Lobell, a Stanford University scientist who studies climate impacts on agriculture and was not involved in the study.