Sentences with phrase «on less land»

But it isn't that easy when it comes to producing more food on less land with fewer resources.

Urban expansion coupled with land lost to climate change means growing more crops on less land.

By pinning down a chemical modification of DNA that leads to poor oil production, researchers may help oil palm (above) growers produce more oil on less land.

What is clear is that it will require vast amounts of land — so we desperately need ways to grow more food on less land.

We've learned to grow more crops on less land.

These advanced trees could mean more cocoa could be produced on less land, and certain characteristics could be screened for, BBC News explains:

Growing more food on less land with fewer environmental impacts will require better seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and things such as vertical greenhouses and laboratory meat that make us less dependent on land and water to grow food.

«We're going to have more people on less land and sooner that we think,» said lead author Charles Geisler, professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell.

As cattle raising in the country has intensified, meaning there are more cows on less land, those acres are taken up by sugar cane growers.

Genetically modified crops could help us grow more food on less land in a world struggling to cope with climate change, say biologists.

The ultimate benefit of eucalyptus plantations would be the ability to grow more wood on less land, ArborGen's Hinchee said.

Applying this knowledge is expected to help farmers produce more cocoa on less land and with fewer pesticides, which can improve farmers» livelihoods.

The new Design Option III can be built on less land, for less investment per key and is scalable to individual developers» and market needs.

Producing more food on less land through using modern fertilizers and irrigation allows for less productive farmlands to revert back to being grasslands and forests.

He sees genetic engineering as a tool for environmental protection: crops designed to grow on less land with less pesticide; new microbes that protect ecosystems against invasive species, produce new fuels and maybe sequester carbon.

That's why the Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to advance a variety of strategies, such as crop intensification (growing more food on less land), and with traditional forest - dwellers to develop livelihoods that don't hurt forests or ecosystems.

Biotechnology is a great tool that will allow us to produce more food on less land and with less depletion or damage to water resources and biodiversity.

«Biotechnology is one of the tools necessary in helping farmers grow more food on less land,» explained ISAAA Global Coordinator Randy Hautea.

Thanks in large part to global warming and more CO2, global farmers are producing more food on less land to feed a growing global population.

By producing more food on less land, it may be possible to reduce these emissions, but this so - called intensification often involves increasing fertilizer use, which can lead to large emissions of nitrogen - containing gases that also contribute to global warming.

The Palo Verde Nuclear Power Station near Phoenix generates nearly 900 times more electricity than Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base photovoltaic panels, on less land, for 1/15 the cost per kWh — and does it 90 % of the time, versus 30 % of the time for the Nellis array.

Because of technology and growth, we can produce more food on less land than ever — in fact the amount of land dedicated to agriculture has shrunk for years, allowing forests to steadily expand in the US for over eighty years (that is, until the environmentalists got the government to subsidize ethanol).

Imagine fossil fuel companies taking responsibility for their CO2 emissions and imagine the beef industry taking that CO2 and storing it in the soil, where it enables the production of more food, on less land, for less money, using less water.

It allows humans to grow more food on less land, thanks to energy - heavy inputs such as fertilizer and tractors.

By creating technological substitutes for natural resources, and by growing more food on less land, humankind's negative impact on the natural environmental can peak and decline within a few decades.

Developing countries have huge opportunities to increase crop yield and thereby grow more food on less land, given that cereal yields in less developed nations are 30 % of those in North America.

Genetically modified food crops have been heralded for their environmental benefits, including the ability to grow more food on less land, and a decreased need for pesticides.