Sentences with phrase «into agricultural research»

But as others have pointed out, there seems to be a gap between the resources going into agricultural research now and the size of the potential challenge.

Gender awareness and gender - sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, extension, and policy in Ethiopia.

Gender awareness and gender - sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, extension, and policy in Ethiopia, based on recent statements from a cross section of professionals and practitioners in the country.

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For starters, Canada should tap into one of the hottest research topics among agricultural scientists: transforming annual crops, such as wheat, soybeans and corn, into perennial ones.

The food and agricultural industry are investing billions of dollars into nanotechnology research, and currently there are several nano food products in the market.

The Brewers Association has signed an agreement with the United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service (USDA - ARS) to fund public hop breeding for the purpose of developing and releasing disease resistant aroma hop cultivars into the public domain, in support of hop growing efforts throughout the U.S..

While it is vitally important to be a specialist in one area so you can give the most up - to - date advice in your research area, having an understanding of how your research fits into the wider system increases its relevance and practicality, as the end goal of international agricultural research is to develop technologies and methods to increase efficiencies on farm and in the supply chain.

They provided me with insight into some new avenues in international agricultural research that I had previously not considered.

Shetterly decided to research all this which took her on a road trip through Nebraska and into Iowa, where she witnessed firsthand the changing face of agricultural America.

ICPC in a 49 - count charge preferred against him and a former Chief Accountant of IAR & T, Mr. Zaccheaus Tejumola, told the court that the duo opened an unauthorized bank account titled «the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training Ibadan Staff Club and Cooperative Account» into which they transferred N204, 926, 265.35 from the personnel emolument (salaries) account of the Institute.

To prevent this agricultural crisis, Nelson estimates, would require an investment of at least $ 7 billion per year in the most affected countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America for increased agricultural research into, for example, drought - resistant crop varieties.

In 1978, he joined the then Agricultural Research Council's genetic manipulation programme, investigating ways to insert foreign DNA into plants.

As the storm got more attention, Shmuel Assouline of Israel's Agricultural Research Organization and Bou - Zeid emailed several colleagues and suggested they look into the cause of the storm.

«Without the regulations, projects can't move forward into unconfined trials where crops are released into the environment and their performance is tested under different climatic and soil conditions,» says Simon Gichuki, crop scientist and head of the biotechnology centre at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) in Nairobi.

«It's not just about researching a new type of soy bean — we do a lot of human nutrition research, for instance, taking an agricultural commodity and turning it into a product that everybody can use,» she says.

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service are testing a fungus that could one day be sent into battle against the land - grabbing vine, kudzu.

Conventionally, feedlot managers would divert this liquid into huge, smelly ponds or lagoons — some 10 - feet deep or more, explains Bryan L. Woodbury, an agricultural engineer with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Nebraska.

At the same time, CGIAR announced that the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR) in The Hague, Netherlands, would be shuttered and its efforts folded into the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, D.C.

Princeton University research suggests that termite mounds can help prevent the spread of deserts into semi-arid ecosystems and agricultural lands by providing a moist refuge for vegetation.

Working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other donors, international agricultural research centres have already introduced dozens of conventional drought - tolerant varieties into 13 of the most important maize - producing countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

During the second world war he became one of Hitler's biopirates — scientists who rushed into the Soviet Union behind the advancing German troops, occupying agricultural research stations and commandeering their plants and seeds.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Just after midnight on 14 July, three female activists clad in white HAZMAT suits and wielding motorized grass trimmers broke into an agricultural test plot near the capital, Canberra, operated by CSIRO, Australia's preeminent research organization.

The Earth Island Institute, among other groups concerned about forest loss due to paper consumption, would instead like to see more research into using agricultural waste to make paper instead of wood pulp or bamboo.

Nina has experienced science on a global scale; she worked for the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research in Italy where she provided advice on the integration of molecular genetics techniques into conservation and plant breeding activities.

Several products with HFCS were tested by an agricultural research group which found this toxic chemical and discovered that HMF breaks down into other substances even more deadly.

Agricultural universities and the Cooperative Extension System reluctantly joined in with research and teaching of organic food and farming systems as they slowly became accepted and moved into the mainstream.

Funds initially came from universities that sponsored research into unrelated agricultural, meteorological, and purely scientific questions, and from corporations that developed instrumentation for industrial processes, and from military services that needed geophysical information and infrastructure for their Cold War operations.

Transforming Climate Variability and Change Information for Cereal Crop Producers, is an integrated research and extension project working to improve farm resilience and profitability in the North Central Region by transforming existing climate information into usable knowledge for the agricultural community.

Now the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has produced a study into 15 years of pollen data, investigating anecdotal signs of an increase in the ragweed pollen season - and whether it could be linked to climatic changes.

The chief objective of an agricultural scientist is to research on various methods to convert raw agricultural merchandise into healthy food products for the society.