Sentences with phrase «key food inputs»
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.
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The Chemistry Research team's new laboratory is an essential part of the range of «turnkey» projects provided by Leatherhead Food Research; our experts offer key input into projects such as evaluation of changes in levels of active and functional ingredients on storage or processing, and analytical support for bioavailability and bioaccessibility nutrition projects.
The authors of the paper, New feed sources key to ambitious climate targets, argue that algae could become an important feed for livestock that would help reduce carbon concentrations to pre-industrial levels in the next 80 years by changing land - use patterns and providing critical food inputs.
6: Agriculture, Key Message 6).105, 106,107,108,109,110,111,112,26 Livestock and fish production is also projected to decline.201, 202 Prices are expected to rise in response to declining food production and associated trends such as increasingly expensive petroleum (used for agricultural inputs such as pesticides and fertilizers).203
Alertnet: Malnutrition is worsening in developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India because of the impacts of climate change — particularly on water resources, a key input for producing food for more than a billion people in the region.
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.
«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.