Sentences with phrase «terms of agricultural production»

The simulations produced permit assessment of the interplay between long - range trends and near - term climate variability in terms of agricultural production.

«There's nothing more important than water in terms of agricultural production,» says Robert Fraley, Monsanto's executive vice-president and chief technology officer.

Not exact matches

The effects of the latter could be disastrous in the long term for agricultural production.

While the long - term effects of cannabis cultivation on the environment are unknown, the researchers concluded that land management and agricultural policy informed by further research may reduce these threats in California and in other states and countries where cannabis production can be regulated.

He surprised me by suggesting that BD isn't really the way to fly considering its high cost; in terms of dollars relative to regular diesel (including the federal bio-subsidy), lower BTU, and especially displacement of agricultural land to production of fuel crops.

«Industrial Hemp Development Act»; providing for the development and regulation of an industrial hemp industry; defining certain terms; providing for industrial hemp as an agricultural product; requiring licensing; specifying production and notification requirements; requiring rulemaking by the commissioner of commerce; providing for fees; providing an affirmative defense for possession of marijuana; exempting industrial hemp from the marijuana and wild hemp definitions.

Broadly speaking, food security is less seen in terms of sufficient global and national agricultural food production, and more in terms of livelihoods that are sufficient to provide enough food for individuals and households (Devereux and Maxwell, 2001; Devereux, 2003; Gregory et al., 2005).

A recent study suggests the volatility of U.S. corn prices is more sensitive to near - term climate change than to energy policy influences or to use of agricultural products for energy production, such as biofuel.22

The production of food and fibre; the urbanization of once agricultural or forested lands; and the sequestration of that portion of carbon emissions from fossil fuels that is not already absorbed by oceans or by long - term sequestration strategies in agriculture or forestry, all constitute competing or non-overlapping uses of ecosystems.

water - use efficiency carbon gain in photosynthesis per unit water lost in evapotranspiration; can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water

It can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that although the longer - term maximum technical energy potential of biomass could be large (around 2 600 EJ), this potential is constrained by competing agricultural demands for food production, low productivity in biomass production, and other factors.

Human activity has caused a significant long - term cooling trend -LRB--0.35 °C between the 1940s and 2009) and higher rainfall totals via the mechanism of «agricultural intensification» — a photosynthesis - associated increase in the air's water vapor or humidity levels due to an explosive (400 %) increase in crop production and yield since the 1940s.

If the transient climate sensitivity to CO2 doubling is close to what Nic Lewis has calculated, and if the time required for CO2 to double is 140 years, and if the agricultural effects of short - term warming and CO2 increase are beneficial, then we can safely take actions independent of worries about CO2 production for the next 30 years or so.

It concluded that areas with high agricultural yields, low production costs and good access to markets — like the Atlantic Forest and the Gulfs of Guinea and Thailand — are places where conservation faces long odds in terms of economics.