Sentences with phrase «on staple crops»

The fall armyworm has rapidly spread across the continent and is wreaking destruction on staple crops

Fully 35 % of the world's 7 billion people depend on this staple crop for survival.

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And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

You may know them as the seeds that sprout on those cute terracotta Ch - ch - ch - chia Pets, but they're actually an ancient grain that's been a staple food crop in Central and South America for thousands of years.

IFPRI's fellows in the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research system are developing, for example, drought - tolerant or heat - resistant varieties of staple crops such as wheat and rice.

This suggests that the UK too will suffer a greater incidence of fusarium ear blight on wheat crops — greatly affecting one of our biggest staple crops.

Aside from its work on grasses, CIAT has focused on breeding improved varieties of beans, rice and cassava — staple crops that are important to the food security of the rural poor.

Most people on the planet are exposed to aflatoxins from fungi that infect staple crops, but now a GM approach could help change that

In the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences paper, the team focused on determining the water resources required to grow grain, the staple crop of the Roman civilisation, and how these resources were distributed within the Empire.

Focusing initially on five staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — the project seeks to empower public plant breeders to use genome - wide approaches to model plant performance in real time using tools that can be shared across diverse species and regions of the world.

Leading the charge of GR2.0 and 3.0 will be a crop of vibrant and intelligent young scientists in league with IRRI through the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) and spread out across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, «many of whom are attending their first International Rice Congress now,» said Zeigler, himself a plant pathologist who started young working on various crop staples.

Styled in crisp cotton with a tonal trim of sheer chiffon through the front and on the cropped sleeves, this white Marc Jacobs shirt is a versatile spin on the classic staple.

This Crop Top xx Top Shop with it's scalloped detail on the sleeve and bottom has become one of my go to pieces in my wardrobe — I own it in several colors and for $ 25 it's such a good wardrobe staple to pair with high waisted denim and pencil skirts.

These latest fashion trends feature modern updates on classic wardrobe staples, cool neutral shades, nods to military styles, monochromatic looks, cropped pants, and the ultimate resort wear that evoke beach vibes and nostalgia.

In outfit number one, I took one of my staple summer outfits: a crop top and high waisted jean shorts and exchanged the shorts for some skinny jeans, the sandals for some combat boots and threw on an awesome moto jacket to make this outfit perfect for fall!

With support from the British government, our foundation, and others, researchers at Cornell and the USDA are now working on a model for cassava, a root vegetable that's a staple crop in many tropical regions.

But for delivering sheer calories, especially in our staple crops of wheat, rice, maize, soybeans and so on, conventional farms have the advantage right now.

SciDev.net: China and India, the world's two most populous countries, are beset by stagnation in the production of staples like rice, wheat, soybean and maize (corn), says a new study on crop yield growth.

«Strategies to maintain adequate diets need to focus on the most vulnerable countries and populations, and thought must be given to reducing vulnerability to nutrient deficiencies through supporting more diverse and nutritious diets, enriching the nutritional content of staple crops, and breeding crops less sensitive to these CO2 effects,» Dr Myers said.

In forecasting the effect on wheat production — one of the world's most important staple crops — the researchers tested 30 computer models against field experiments to establish the most likely scenario.

Cheap, low - maintenance farming can be adopted elsewhere, Oglio thinks, and, while it may not produce thousands of acres upon acres of staple crops like rice, wheat, and corn (at least in the same place), it can help feed the world's poor without reliance on and oversight by corporations.

That's a problem, because rice is one of the most important staple crops on Earth — more than 3.5 billion people depend on rice for at least 20 percent of their daily caloric intake.

These are incorporated based upon prior work using (1) the surface ozone response to methane emissions changes from two global composition - climate models, (2) the impact of ozone on yields of four staple crops, wheat, maize, soy and rice, based on the methodology of Van Dingenen et al. (2009), and (3) their valuation using world market prices, as described in Shindell et al. (2012a).