Sentences with phrase «key food crops»

Scidevnet: The impact of climate changeon key food crops in Africa and South Asia may be much worse than previously estimated — with reductions of up to 40 per cent by the 2080s — according to a study, which synthesised results from related studies published over the last 20 years.

The herbicide is currently used on about 90 percent of key food crops grown in the U.S.

For example, the 2003 heat wave in Europe caused 20 to 35 percent drops in the yields of key food crops.

Not exact matches

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

«In a previous study, the same research team found that organic crops and organic crop - based foods have up to 60 percent more key antioxidants and lower levels of the toxic metal cadmium than conventional crops.

Apart from the better food resources in organic fields, the key factors are more fauna - compatible plant protection management, organic fertilization, the more diversified crop rotation and the more structured landscapes with semi-natural habitats and field margins.

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.»

Its strategy consists of four key components: 1) Priority identification — we respond to the crop biotechnology needs and priorities identified by developing countries; 2) Technology appraisal — we work to identify, evaluate, and facilitate the acquisition of new crop biotechnology applications; 3) Project implementation — we implement a portfolio of crop biotechnology projects that have a potential for near - term impact in food, feed, fiber crops, and forestry; and 4) Services for the enabling environment — we provide advice and services to assist in the development of an enabling environment to support the safe application of crop biotechnology.

Myers and other researchers have found atmospheric CO2 levels predicted for mid-century — around 550 parts per million — could make food crops lose enough of those key nutrients to cause a protein deficiency in an estimated 150 million people and a zinc deficit in an additional 150 million to 200 million.

A native Australian grass that «plays dead» during droughts and selectively culls its own cells to survive could provide genetic keys to help world food crops like chickpea withstand global climate change.

Bouis, an economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), envisioned impoverished farmers in Africa and South Asia growing staple crops that are enriched in key nutrients like iron, zinc, and vitamin A. His presentation had the audience hooked — until he said he would accomplish the feat via old - fashioned plant breeding techniques.

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

He didn't know whether the drop in production would affect food prices nationally but predicted that some key crops would get more expensive.

The scientists are convinced that the cultivation of crop mixtures in agriculture and forestry will play a key role in food safety in the future.

Bumblebees» ability to produce the buzzing — or vibration — that enables them to pollinate key commercial food crops may be harmed by the controversial pesticides neonicotinoids, according to new research.

«As global population continues to grow, biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to produce more food from the same acre of land.»

Trade association EuropaBio says the deal breaches a key principle: that crops should be allowed everywhere if the European Food Safety Authority decides they pose no risk.

This previous study — also published in the British Journal of Nutrition — showed that organic crops and crop - based foods are up to 60 % higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally - grown crops and contained less of the toxic metal cadmium.

Onion (Allium cepa) is a key global food crop with over 80 million tons produced

Onion (Allium cepa) is a key global food crop with over 80 million tons produced annually.

Protecting crop plants from diseases and adverse growing conditions is key to achieving sustainable food production.

Summary: British & American scientists, including Joshua Elliot from Chicago, warn climate could bring «food shock» by hitting key crop areas.

«Western honeybees — the most important pollinators for U.S. food crops — are facing unprecedented declines, and diseases are a key driver,» says Berry Brosi, an evolutionary biologist at Emory University and a lead author of the review paper.

Based on many studies covering a wide range of regions and crops, negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (high confidence)... Since AR4, several periods of rapid food and cereal price increases following climate extremes in key producing regions indicate a sensitivity of current markets to climate extremes among other factors (medium confidence).

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

63 Fig. 20 - 17, p. 485 Move hazardous material storage tanks away from coast Connect wildlife reserves with corridors Develop crops that need less water Waste less water Move people away from low - lying coastal areas Stockpile 1 - to 5 - year supply of key foods Expand existing wildlife reserves toward poles Prohibit new construction on low - lying coastal areas or build houses on stilts

Recent studies have separately warned that high levels of carbon dioxide, or CO ₂, make crops less nutritious for reasons that are not totally clear, and put shellfish and other key parts of the food chain at risk by making oceans more acidic.

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These extreme events in turn have dramatically impacted crop production in key food basket regions.

This guidance document presents the application of «Save and Grow» practices and technologies to production of the world's key food security crops — maize, rice and wheat.

Crop - withering heat waves have lowered grain harvests in key food - producing regions in recent years.

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«The key thing in that business that may drive M&A is the world is getting smaller, with shrinking distance between producer and consumer — globalization and world population shifts — think of the food business as a long continuum starting with biotech, leading to seed production, leading to crop inputs and that's where you see some activity in Canada in fertilizer in terms of potash,» explains Woollcombe.