Sentences with phrase «to produce more food»

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

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

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.

As the world looks to feed more and more people, this and other emerging technologies hold promise for producing more food without using chemical pesticides.

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

Families produce more food, but more babies, too.

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.

For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation.

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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

A dog can easily learn that nudging, jumping up on, or nipping at the child produces more food on the floor.

Earlier this month Hilary Benn the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs lectured farmers on the need for them to produce more food in the UK, in order to combat climate change and feed a growing population.

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

While large farms excel at producing a lot of a particular crop — like corn or wheat — small diversified farms produce more food and more kinds of food per hectare overall.

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.

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.

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.

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

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....

To do that, Arnalds said, we'd need to produce more food within the next 50 years than humankind has during the last 10,000 years combined, which might be a nearly impossible task considering global food production per hectare is already on the decline.

Today, 2 percent of Americans produce more food than we can consume.

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

«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.»

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.

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.

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

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.»

If we can improve the efficiency of digestion in cows and other ruminants, we may be able to produce more food for people whilst using fewer resources.

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

However, the most important research for China to engage in now is how to produce more food and fiber with less water and less arable land.

I will only say that I believe that the most important research for China to engage in now is how to produce more food and fiber with less water and less arable land.

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

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?

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.

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

«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.

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.

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.