Sentences with phrase «of global agricultural production»

Despite all the attention organic agriculture commands and its rapid growth — sales of organic products grew 11.3 percent in 2014 and are now purchased by the majority of U.S. households — organic still accounts for just 1 percent of global agricultural production.

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are a vital component of global agricultural production, mainly due to their role as pollinators.

However, the research team also mapped the proportion of global agricultural production reinvested in environmental incentives, and compared it to the proportion gifted to the industry through government subsidies.

Since organic farming currently accounts for such a small percentage of global agricultural production, Crowder said its effect on food security is not an immediate concern.

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The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

They are also part of Australia's F&A future, with industry noting the importance of GMOs in supporting the survival of primary agricultural production as climate change harshens farming conditions and global biosecurity threats evolve.

Meat production is responsible for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization, with some scientists saying the percentage is higher.

Thanks to industrial - age agricultural production, global commerce and the 20th century's green revolution in farming, the world can support billions of people who once would not have found enough to eat.

Agricultural production in the western U.S. is an important part of the global food supply.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

The epicenter of agricultural production has moved north and west over the past half - century, and that trend will likely continue at an accelerated pace due to global warming, a new study finds.

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.

In the central United States, for example, observational data indicate that rainfall increased, surface air temperature decreased, and surface humidity increased during the summer over the course of the 20th century concurrently with increases in both agricultural production and global GHG emissions.

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.

All of global nature has become dependent on a circuit of capital premised on accumulation by financial means rather than on industrial or agricultural production.

The standard of scientific and technological performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of the productivity of the economy that is measured by the relationship between global GDP and sectoral GDP and resources used in production processes (raw materials, supplies and labor); 2) reduction of the costs of agricultural, industrial production, and services; 3) increase in investments in R&D; 4) innovation of new products and processes that is measured by its advance over previously used products and processes; 5) increase of the durability of products / services; 6) increase of physical safety of products / services provided to people and users; and, 7) decrease in the levels of technological dependency of the country from the outside.

But in a report published in the June 19 issue of the journal Science, an international team of ecologists and agricultural experts warns against a «one - size - fits - all» approach to managing global food production.

I would guess that the answer to your question «are ancillary benefits of global warming important enough to include in the cost / benefit calculations» is «yes» - e.g. reduced travel times through ice - free Arctic is probably non-trivial to world trade, changing patterns of agricultural production are net wins for some populations.

Broadly speaking, food security is less seen in terms of sufficient global and national agricultural food production, and more in terms of livelihoods that are sufficient to provide enough food for individuals and households (Devereux and Maxwell, 2001; Devereux, 2003; Gregory et al., 2005).

Biofuel production on abandoned lands could meet 8 % of global energy needs (6/23/2008) Using abandoned agricultural lands for biofuel production could help meet up to 8 percent of global energy needs without compromising food supplies or diminishing biologically - rich habitats, reports a new study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

Nitrogen fertilizers represent one of the largest sources of GHG emissions from global agricultural production resulting in significant emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), a GHG with approximately 300 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide (CO2).

An early 2008 study led by Tim Searchinger of Princeton University that was published in Science used a global agricultural model to show that when including the land clearing in the tropics, expanding U.S. biofuel production increased annual greenhouse gas emissions dramatically instead of reducing them, as more narrowly based studies claimed.

And all of these impacts of global warming would impact agricultural production, as well.

As the earth continues to recover from the abnormally cold conditions of the centuries - long Little Ice Age, warmer temperatures, improving soil moisture, and more abundant atmospheric carbon dioxide have helped bring about a golden age for global agricultural production.

The MWP is frequently cited by global warming skeptics as evidence that the consequences of global warming are not all negative, especially as they relate to agricultural production.

Greater cropping systems diversity can also help mitigate risks associated with the impacts of global climate change, which will drive more extreme and variable weather events, not to mention sustained temperature and precipitation changes that will impact agricultural production.

Where is Donahue in talking about the implications of Global Warming and the costs of species going extinct, agricultural production distrupted through weather pattern changes, and dealing with the impacts of rising ocean levels and more severe weather?

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.

With global demand for food projected to increase by 50 % before 2030, we will need an additional 120 million hectares of agricultural land to support the required food production.

[2] • Agriculture (14 % of 2004 GHG emissions)-- global greenhouse gas emissions)-- Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture mostly come from the management of agricultural soils, livestock, rice production, and biomass burning.

But this can be avoided if the efficiency of production is increased — and especially if the African agricultural trade is embedded in the global economy.

There is very little discussion of the effect of climatic instability and heat waves on agriculture, and no mention of the fact that global warming has already decreased agricultural production in many areas.

Anyone that talks about increased agricultural production in the north because of global warming has not seriously studied the capital requirements of the agricultural industry.

See also: Politics of global warming Agriculture See also: Climate change and agriculture According to the EPA, agricultural soil management practices can lead to production and emission of nitrous oxide (N2O), a major greenhouse gas and air pollutant.

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# 146 — From Global Climate Change and Agricultural Production «Temperature effects on the rates of biochemical reactions may be modelled as the product of two functions, an exponentially increasing rate of the forward reaction and an exponential decay resulting from enzyme denaturation as temperatures increase (Figure 6.

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Limiting global warming to 2 - degree rise will require $ 180 / t carbon price says energy think tank (11/13/2008) In a report released Wednesday the International Energy Agency warned that a business - as - usual approach to energy use would result in a 6 ° - degree rise in temperatures putting hundreds of millions at risk from reduced water supplies and diminished agricultural production.