Sentences with phrase «staple crops in»

After this trial period, researchers hope that hemp will become a staple crop in the farming industry.

Adding buckwheat is also a little nod to Polina's Georgian roots, as buckwheat is a staple crop in Georgia.

It is a commonly used staple crop in South America, specifically grown in the Andes.

South American sweet potatoes became a staple crop in Polynesia at least 500 years before Columbus's first voyage.

Sorghum is also a staple crop in many African countries.

It was first cultivated in Asia over 8,000 years ago, but nowadays it's a staple crop in West Africa and India.

Rice is still a staple crop in South Asia, and we can only imagine the harm it continues to generate (along with run - off of Agent Orange).

Potato Research Institute geneticist Jaroslava Domkářová says that while potatoes are a staple crop in the Czech Republic, the recent blue «specialty varieties» are harder to market.

Other native dishes to the area include corn (sometimes called maize), still a staple crop in Belize today.

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.

«Rice is the most consumed staple crop in the world and maize is close behind in rank as the third most important cereal crop.

From its founding some 3,000 years ago, to the dawn of the Common Era, the trees became a staple crop in the Kingdom of Judea, even garnering several shout - outs in the Old Testament.

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When former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said last fall that his earlier enthusiasm for corn - based ethanol production in the United States was a mistake, he was conceding something that had long been obvious: the practice of diverting food crops to biofuels has contributed to food shortages and driven up prices for staples across the globe.

It's estimated that Bolivians in the Lake Titicaca area began to cultivate quinoa at least five to seven thousand years ago; quinoa was a staple crop from Argentina and Chile, through Bolivia and Peru and up to Ecuador, when Spaniards arrived in South America.

Rice The second - largest world crop, rice is a staple food in Asia.

This has prompted farmers groups in Asia to call for the immediate halt of the said project, stating that the said GM crop would adversely affect the staple food crop of billions of people across Asia.

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.

Rice is the staple food crop for more than half of the world's population, and is especially important in Asia, where more than 60 % of the world's 1 billion poorest live.

Rice is a staple food for almost half of the global population and is one of the most important crops in Asia.

«It's important to incorporate C4 in rice because rice grows in places where other crops such as maize do not grow and because rice is the staple food of more than half the world, including many people who live in poverty.»

Rice is the most important food crop in the developing world and the staple of more than half of the world's population.

Civil society in Asia and GMO watch groups have been wary of Golden Rice as rice is not just the staple food for one third of the world's population, it is also a political crop.

An agroforestry system in Morocco that combines a staple food crop (cereals) with a cash crop (the oil from argan trees is used in expensive cosmetics).

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.

The banana is the world's leading fruit crop and ranks fourth as a global staple food, with 140 million tons of bananas produced annually in subtropical and tropical regions.

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.

When it is grown next summer, the new variety will be the first transgenic staple food crop to make it into farmers» fields anywhere in Asia.

Bouis, an economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), envisioned impoverished farmers in Africa and South Asia growing staple crops that are enriched in key nutrients like iron, zinc, and vitamin A. His presentation had the audience hooked — until he said he would accomplish the feat via old - fashioned plant breeding techniques.

Wheat and rice being improved was good for India and China, but it was largely irrelevant for the staple cassava or maize crops in Africa.

In the meantime, researchers are sorting through thousands of varieties of staple crops, trying to find those that are best at drawing nutrients out of the ground.

Although he agrees with some of the report's recommendations, Mooney says the Third World should receive a «rock bottom» compensation of at least $ 300 million a year, in recognition that most of the world's staple crops originated there.

As part of an initiative launched in Washington DC earlier this month, researchers in 12 countries have started to hunt for varieties of the top five staple crops — rice, wheat, corn, cassava and beans — that might grow better in poor soils, as well as providing added trace nutrients for the people who eat them.

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.

A recently published study from two Iowa State University scientists shows that a gene found only in a single plant species can increase protein content when introduced into staple crops.

India alone has at least 10 domestically developed GM crops in its research pipeline — including GM versions of cauliflower, eggplant and okra, in addition to staples like rice — and China has invested heavily in the research.

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.

In August, for example, Harvard University researchers showed for the first time that rising carbon dioxide levels are significantly reducing the amount of protein in staple cropIn August, for example, Harvard University researchers showed for the first time that rising carbon dioxide levels are significantly reducing the amount of protein in staple cropin staple crops.

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

Importance of virus - resistant transgenic maize in Africa Despite being Africa's most important staple food crop, average African maize yields are less than a quarter of world averages.

In all food staple crops; such as corn, soybean, rice, wheat, barley, sorghum and canola, the eventual harvest of seed is the ultimate measurement of productivity.

The study, out this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to explore how this interaction between warming temperatures and air pollution affects staple crops.

Healthy cassava tubers — a staple food crop in the region — can grow as thick as your upper arm.

The group has received $ 18.5 million in funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through Cornell to create a breeding database for five major staple crops — wheat, rice, maize, sorghum and chickpea — but ultimately, they hope to develop a system that will work for any crop.

During June and July at BTI, visiting researchers from crop breeding programs in Nigeria, Nairobi, and Uganda have been working closely with researchers in Lukas Mueller's group to discuss ways to improve the development of online resources related to two of Africa's most important staple crops: cassava and banana.

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.

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.

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.