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Global warming threatens nutrition levels in staple crops by Adam Wernick, Public Radio International (PRI), Oct 29, 2017

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However, opportunities to increase the local production of staple crops could provide much needed employment prospects by creating businesses that add value to the processing of crops.

Growth in income will allow people to increase the amount of food they consume and «upgrade» their diets by adding more meat and processed foods to staples such as crops and starches.

Scientists, consumer groups and bee keepers say the devastating rate of bee deaths is due at least in part to the growing use of pesticides sold by agrichemical companies to boost yields of staple crops such as corn.

By overexpressing, or producing more of, the NF - YC4 gene in staple crops, the researchers can increase the protein value of plants without using transgenes, which could save time and costs in the regulatory process, Li said.

Conventional plant breeding and modern technology can increase the density of micronutrients in staple crops grown and consumed by smallholder farmers around the world.

In 2007 - 08, harvests of staple crops such as barley and wheat fell by 67 per cent and 47 per cent, respectively, compared to the previous year.

Fertilizer plays a key role in agriculture by increasing the production of staple crops, controlling fertility and reducing the risk to plants from pathogens and subsequent plant diseases.

By breeding staple crops such as wheat, rice, maize, and soy to be more pest - and weed - resistant, more nutrient - rich and high - yielding, they hope to offer more nutrition per acre of farmed land.

If temperatures increase by that much or more, sea levels could rise by four feet or more, coral reefs would disappear, and major staple crops could fail to feed the world by 2100.

The heat would also cause staple crops to suffer dramatic yield losses across the globe (it is possible that Indian wheat and U.S. corn could plummet by as much as 60 percent), this at a time when demand will be surging due to population growth and a growing demand for meat.

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.

Research scientists are coming to the aid of 300 million people along the River Ganges who face a hungry future because their staple rice crop is threatened by climate change.

The researchers found that about 30 percent of areas where staple crops such as bananas and maize grow could become unviable by the end of this century.

Climates differ and plants vary, but the basic rule for staple cereal crops grown at optimal temperature is that for every degree of warming, yields decline by 10 percent.

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.

By the time the Roman Empire sought to usurp control of the kingdom in 70 AD, broad forests of these trees flourished as a staple crop to the Judean economy — a fact that made them a prime resource for the invading army to destroy.

The deep blue and white color palette is inspired by the indigo plant, an early Low Country staple crop.