Sentences with phrase «when local crops»

In interviews with The Age, the supermarkets said they came to rely more heavily on imports when local crops, such as tomatoes and pineapples, failed during the drought and floods.

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When picking my produce, local and organic is obviously cream of the crop, but a close second is local and my third pick is organic.

When a gardener anticipates growing vegetable crops during the fall or winter, it would be wise to contact the local agricultural representative in an effort to find out which types of vegetables grow best at specific times of...

It all becomes a part of our homeschool days... worms and composting, plant similarities and differences, making manure teas and sowing cover crops, learning local weather lore, and identifying medicinal herbs and knowing when to harvest them.

Now a local Indian civil engineer has mastered the art of making «artificial glaciers» that deliver water when it's needed most — in the early spring, right after farmers sow their single crop of wheat, barley, or peas.

Then, when necessary, we should use remaining aid money to buy either hybrid or genetically modified crops grown in African soil for local distribution.

It had been caught when its troop raided local crops, probably because they had lost their normal habitat.

Among its recommendations: encourage local farmers to maintain local types of livestock; share breeds across borders (particularly when breeds are likely to be suited to specific regions due to certain adaptive traits, such as a need for less water); and establish a gene bank — similar to the regional seed banks that preserve crop diversity — to maintain this genetic heritage.

In turn, this will influence when, where, and what types of food crops are planted and harvested — meaning agricultural practices will have to adapt — and impacting the types of produce available at your local supermarket.

If I could wear an embellished crop top like this one everyday I would be the happiest girl ever lol So when I saw this top from Alice + Olivia at my local Nordstrom it was love at first sight.

So when we do things that emit GHGs, we also likely emit local pollution that kills, & becomes regional acid rain (destroying lakes, crops & forests), & acidifies the ocean, depletes the ozone layer (some pollutants), and maybe a hundre other harms, in addition to contributing to GW, and to runaway GW.

Food security and food production systems: On a sentence on impacts of projected climate change without adaptation on the major crops, in response to queries from Tanzania and the UK, a CLA explained that: confidence goes down when restricting projections to certain crops and regions; and the use of local temperatures was consistent with the literature.

The authors find that, without adaptation, projected corn, rice and wheat production is reduced when areas experience 2.0 °C or more of local warming and that crop - level adaptations are projected to be able to increase yields when compared to similar scenarios that do not utilize adaptation.

As observed in my own article on the same subject, at best we can believe in the general direction of travel of the local instrumental record - especially when backed by such things as crop records / observations - but not in their accuracy to tenths of a degree (17)