Sentences with phrase «such as crops»

Handling problems regarding the everyday activities of a farm, such as crops, weather conditions, soil and so on

Because we know that there will be winners and losers from climate change, in the same way as the Tuatara example, we may be able to use information about stress in organisms such as crops and shellfish to prepare for a warmer world — in short, siding with the winners and cutting losses from the losers.

Bioenergy refers to sources of energy (electricity and solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels) derived from biomass: plant - or animal - based materials such as crops, crop residues, trees, animal fats, by - products, and wastes.

REDD + opportunity costs are the difference in net earnings from conserving or enhancing forests versus converting them to other, typically more valuable, land uses, such as crops or livestock.

We don't yet know how climate change will impact spiders, and in turn impact agriculture such as crops and farms.

The authors found that one single linear relationship can be used to scale SIF to GPP across different vegetation types such as crops, forests and grasslands, which contradicts previous findings obtained with low - resolution data.

Moctezuma also takes his students to botanical gardens, where «a lot of the exhibits are set up very similar to the... lectures that I teach,» illustrating topics such as the crops of the world, or different biomes and ecosystems.

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.

The finding may also guide future discoveries of meiotic drive genes in other organisms, such as crops or humans.

«Businesses and service providers were without the critical market infrastructure required to create fee - for - service business models and develop financial products designed to help the poor withstand potentially ruinous financial shocks such as crop destruction.»

Icici has unveiled a mobile app specifically designed for India's huge rural population, providing a host of banking services as well as useful information such as crop prices.

Organic farmers also use numerous integrative pest management techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.

Soil building practices such as crop rotations, inter-cropping, symbiotic associations, cover crops, organic fertilizers and minimum tillage are central to organic practices.

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.

He said the economy could crumble under any major economic shock such as crop failure or sharp fall in commodity prices.

His words «On our part, 7 Division is involved in empowerment schemes such as crop farming, ranching and fish farming under the auspices of BIIP an initiative of the COAS.

However, simply labelling manipulated images is not the solution, says Farid, because this would tar all altered images with the same brush — even those that used legitimate adjustments such as cropping and colour modification.

The corporation funds nearly 100 postgraduate students, working in areas such as crop improvement, soil structure and animal care.

«It will be exciting to look in other organisms, such as crop plants and pathogenic fungi, to find out what mRNAs this protein regulates,» said first author Amy Lee, a former UC Berkeley American Cancer Society postdoctoral fellow who is now an assistant professor at Brandeis University.

Wildlife is greatly affected by other aspects of farm practices, such as crop rotations, says study coordinator Les Firbank of the Centre for Hydrology and Ecology.

Pepper concludes, «The overall strategy for genotyping - by - sequencing, marker discovery, and annotation that we have provided in this study will be useful for researchers working with the many economically important allotetraploid species (such as the crop brassicas), but can be extended to any species, including those that do not currently have a reference genome.»

Essentially, big agra has hybridized wheat heavily over the last 5 decades to improve things such as crop yield and baking characteristics, but never once thought about the impacts on human health of changing the biochemical structure of wheat.

With this motivation in mind, she balances her design esthetic between both tomboy and ladylike appeal, to manufacture clothing with boxy dimensions, such as cropped pants and quirky mismatched separates.

Club Monacco, A / W17 Since I became a mom, I started to favor the chic look of roomy clothes such as the cropped leg trousers.

There's no doubt that high heels give your skinny jeans a touch of zing, and summer staples such as the crop top, classic tee, sloppy - joe top or stretch vest all look good.

You can find dressy crop jackets or casual ones such as a cropped denim jacket.

Pair your full midi skirt with modern staples, such as a cropped moto jacket, a chic crop top that shows just a sliver of midsection, or a shrunken gray sweatshirt.

Dresses and a simple layering piece such as a cropped jean jacket are the perfect way to dress for summer, especially if you live somewhere with warm days and chilly nights.

While acknowledging that his district's allocation «wouldn't be a huge amount of money,» Fawcett said the funding would go toward developing curriculum and to collaborating with post-secondary institutions as well as business partnerships to develop internship / externship opportunities in fields such as crop science and bioengineering.

Image manipulation, such as cropping, background removals, blending, and merging of multiple images is included

They also need to revisit some practices regarding modifications to the dogs» appearance such as cropping and docking ears and tails.

Immediately compelling for its subject and formal decisions such as cropping and frontality, Green Heart shows the direction her paintings would take in the 1970s: carefully descriptive, cool, colorful depictions of sex and naked bodies, sourced by the disembodied camera, but reinterpreted in paint by the artist.

Conversely, other worrisome changes, such as crop damage in the United States, might not happen until we go above the 2 °C threshold.

Using so - called second - generation technologies to convert material such as crop residues into bioenergy has a role to play and avoids competition for land.

We experience weather and the phenomena it affects, such as crop yields.

That's why I used the expression «represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment» (temperature increase by 2100 of up to 6.4 C, increased droughts, floods, tropical cyclones, heat waves, extreme high sea level plus secondary effects, such as crop failures, spread of vector diseases, loss of drinking water from melting glaciers, etc. all as listed in IPCC AR4).

A diverse mix of potential adaptation strategies, such as crop breeding, changing crop varieties, adjusting planting time, water management, diversification of crops and a host of indigenous practices will all be applicable within local contexts.

If temperatures are not kept down then Africa faces a range of devastating threats such as crop yield reductions in places of as much 50 % in some countries by 2020; Increased pressure on water supplies for 70 — 250 million people by 2020 and 350 — 600 million by 2050; The cost of adaptation to sea level rises of at least 5 — 10 % of gross domestic product.

«Tokyo is a paradise for honeybees,» Seita Fujiwara says to Asahi, adding the absence of both natural enemies such as bears, and manmade hazards, such as crop dusting with pesticides, makes urban centers like Tokyo an ideal breeding ground:

From Civil Eats: [Straight economic figures] are more difficult to project, partly because the benefits are often measured in terms of what is not happening — like adverse environmental and health impacts — or practices with indirect benefits, such as crop diversity.

The Commission will investigate further whether the deal may reduce competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and certain...

The Commission will investigate further whether the deal may reduce competition in areas such as crop protection, seeds and certain petrochemicals.

A pilot who has aviation practices that are considered a higher risk such as crop dusting, aerobatics or bush piloting are often assessed a higher rate.

Simple edits such as cropping, and brightness and contrast adjustments, are joined by tools that allow you to morph your 3D creations, for example to give face scans a big chin or an alien - shaped head.

The app includes basic tools such as cropping, straightening, rotating and red - eye removal.

It's possible to study for a Masters or other postgraduate qualification in a related area such as crop science and management, animal technology and agricultural technology.

For example a range of postgraduate taught and research - based courses, on areas such as crop production and fresh produce management, are offered by Writtle College.

Not exact matches

Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

A better place to invest R&D dollars might be in turning crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans, into headrests, door panels and other parts of cars.

For starters, Canada should tap into one of the hottest research topics among agricultural scientists: transforming annual crops, such as wheat, soybeans and corn, into perennial ones.