Sentences with phrase «producing more food»

«Then when we won, we began producing more food than we needed as a nation.

Through a series of presentations from British and international experts, including academics, growers, and other experts we explored what opportunities there are for producing more food and how this can be achieved in a sustainable way.

The answer is obviously to produce more CO2, producing more food and better growing conditions for the plants on which we depend.

You have solar power, gray water, and rain catchment systems and are producing more food than most people think possible by utilizing vertical growing and permaculture.

Longer growing seasons may be good for producing more food, but agriculture economists have warned that drastic fluctuations in year - to - year weather can overstress crops.

While the previous two and a half million years of our existence had been shaped by sustainable subsistence, agriculture introduced the possibility of producing more food than we needed, letting us distribute the required amount to the members of the community and store the excess.

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.

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.

Sustainable water management is at the heart of producing more food with less resources in an increasingly complex environment due -LSB-...]

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

Previous research from Cambridge and elsewhere has shown sparing land for nature by producing more food per field is the «least worst option» for both biodiversity and greenhouse gas emissions, says co-author Andrew Balmford, Cambridge professor of conservation science.

Now, leading conservationists writing in the journal Science are calling on policymakers to harness the potential of higher - yield farming to spare land for conservation, instead of solely producing more food and profit.

All three, according to the citation, «have contributed significantly to increasing the quantity and availability of food, and can play a critical role as we face the global challenges of the 21st century of producing more food, in a sustainable way, while confronting an increasingly volatile climate.»

Sustainable water management is at the heart of producing more food with less resources in an increasingly complex environment due to climate change.

Producing more food with land already in use means reduced need for fresh farmland, cleared from forests.

Starting with a baseline assessment, farm managers get a clear picture of how the farm operates, and how it can run more efficiently while producing more food.

In the meantime, companies can focus on better predicting demand (to avoid producing more food than people will actually consume) and suppressing our appetite for red meat.

That will not only cut costs, produce more food for a growing population, reduce deforestation, and cut carbon emissions, but it will also promote better use of water.

A later link, also supplied by Syngenta, is advanced crop protection products to help plants produce more food with minimum damage to the environment.

It should be industrialized, so that fewer people can produce more food.

As farmers produced more food than they needed for their own families, cities came into existence.

We can produce more food but we need R&D programs to bring that to fruition,» Mr Warriner said.

How can Australian research and industry work together to help developing regions improve their resilience to an increasingly volatile world (geopolitical instability, warzones, and climate change) by helping them produce more food domestically, stabilising their markets and ultimately creating a new customer base?

I found quite confrontational, that we can not simply produce more food.

If it fails, the American Meat Institute (AMI) claims that an extra 1.5 million cattle would need to be slaughtered to meet demand for ground beef without the feared «slime» — also putting an end to the far more sustainable practice of using every part of the animal, at a time when we are trying to produce more food from less land.

Her grant money is helping to fund school garden renovations for Food Ark chapters so that they can produce more food, and fund two middle school food pantries.

«Everybody assumes that [agricultural] research as presently configured will just pull this rabbit out of the hat and produce more food than an entire previous history of humanity,» said Val Giddings, the lead author of the paper and a senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

And while mechanization can provide cost and labor efficiencies on large farms, bigger farms do not necessarily produce more food.

Once the need to produce more food is taken into consideration, it is clear that biofuels can only ever be a marginal contributor to world energy supplies.

In addition, last fall, Syngenta put forward a more global strategy called The Good Growth Plan which makes six commitments to improve resource use efficiency, including finding ways to produce more food with less waste, degradation, and poverty.

An Iowa corn field today, whatever critics say of its environmental impacts, is an extraordinary technological achievement and produces more food on an acre than almost any acre known in history — certainly any nonirrigated acre.

Families produce more food, but more babies, too.

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.

Integrating perennial plants with longer root systems among crops is an agricultural strategy that can simultaneously produce more food, and improve soil quality, said Jerry Glover, a senior sustainable systems advisor at USAID.

It is not enough to produce more food; we must also simultaneously stabilize the global population and reduce the ecological consequences of food production — a triple challenge.

The farms of the future will have to produce more food than ever before, while doing less damage to the environment.

«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.»

«If food companies are encouraged to produce more foods that fit into a cholesterol - lowering diet, these diets would be much easier for ordinary people» to follow, Jenkins said.

Currently, the UK produces more food and drink products each year than France and Germany combined.

After all, economists, optimists to the core, assure people that we can continue to produce more food.

Some might be modified in such a way that they could produce more food while using fewer natural resources.

More food gave rise to more people, who produced more food, which gave rise to more people, who produced more food, which gave rise to more people, and so forth.

Brazil's success points to the potential for tropical nations to produce more food without destroying forests, but the authors warn that these wins may be short - lived without more positive incentives for farmers on the ground.

«The key is to produce more food,» says Alex Avery of CGFI.

In the end, to achieve sustainable food security we will probably need many different techniques — including organic, conventional, and possible «hybrid» systems — to produce more food at affordable prices, ensure livelihoods for farmers, and reduce the environmental costs of agriculture....

Farms are increasingly looking for new ways to produce more food with fewer chemicals and more regard for the environment.

«We expect population to go up, and to produce more food, we will need more fertilizer.»

CO2 is causing huge increases across the board in the plant world, which produces more food for the animal world.

For most of history, whenever we've needed to produce more food, we've simply cut down forests or plowed grasslands to make more farms.

These can enable the transport systems of developing countries to play their part in the attainment of national goals: to develop economies, to create jobs, to reduce poverty and inequality, to produce more food, to improve health and education, and in general to ensure that citizens can live healthy and satisfying lives.