Sentences with phrase «world grain harvest»

Since expanding irrigation helped triple the world grain harvest from 1950 to 2000, it comes as no surprise that water losses can shrink harvests.

This helps explain why the share of the world grain harvest used for feed has not increased over the last 20 years even though production of meat, milk, eggs, and farmed fish has climbed.

The spread of these highly productive seeds, combined with a tripling of irrigated area and an 11-fold increase in world fertilizer use, tripled the world grain harvest.

Between 1950 and 1990, world grain yield per hectare climbed by 2.1 percent a year, ensuring rapid growth in the world grain harvest.

One key to the threefold expansion in the world grain harvest since 1950 was the rapid adoption in some developing countries of high - yielding wheats and rices (originally developed in Japan) and hybrid corn (from the United States).

Indeed, the tripling in the world grain harvest since 1950 is due in part to impressive increases in multiple cropping in Asia.

Since the mid-twentieth century, the world grain harvest has nearly quadrupled, with most of this growth coming from the tripling of the grain yield per acre.

That year we were off the blocks in alerting the world to issues that have mostly gotten worse: China's worsening water shortages, rising sea level, the drop in the world grain harvest, and climate change.

Click here to view the most recent Grain Harvest Indicator and Data The 2001 world grain harvest of 1,853 million tons was up 1 percent from the 2000 harvest, but below the all - time high of 1,880 million tons in 1997.

The world grain harvest quadrupled during the last century.

Thus any attempt to expand the world grain harvest enough to rebuild depleted world grain stocks starts with reversing the decline in China.

From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated area.

Not exact matches

In 1972, when the world suffered an exceptionally poor harvest, there were 209 million metric tons of grain, or 66 days» worth, in world reserve.

John has another such parable, in which the thought takes a deeper turn: «A grain of wheat remains a solitary grain unless it falls into the ground and dies; but if it dies, it bears a rich harvest»; 27 and then, with an echo of Luke's language about «hating» one's own life, «The man who loves himself is lost, but he who hates himself [in this world] will be kept safe [for eternal life].»

In the plant world food was chosen first from wild edible grains and fruits of nature, and then was systematically planted, cultivated, and harvested.

Today, the truRoots team maintains strong relationships with farmers from around the world to source only the highest quality grains, beans and seeds — all of which are harvested using certified organic standards and time - honored traditions.

Then, a shift from a grain - based vegetarian diet to one rich in meat and milk led to greater diversion of the world's grain harvest into animal fodder.

The blood type O individuals of these early populations would not fare well in today's world of processed foods, harvested grains and dairy products because that is not what their bodies were designed to use as fuel.

If the world were to have a poor grain harvest this year, there could well be chaos in world grain markets by late summer.

Between 1950 and 1973 the world's farmers doubled the grain harvest, nearly all of it from raising yields.

This decline in the grain harvest in a country that is home to more than one fifth of the world's people will affect all of us.

This presents an unprecedented geopolitical situation in which 1.3 billion Chinese consumers who have a $ 120 - billion trade surplus with the United States — enough to buy the entire U.S. grain harvest twice over — will compete with Americans for U.S. food, likely driving up food prices for the United States and the world.

In 2002, record - high temperatures and drought reduced grain harvests in India, the United States, and Canada, dropping the world harvest 90 million tons, or 5 percent below consumption.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

These two consecutive disappointing harvests have reduced this year's projected world carryover stocks of grain, the amount in the bin when the new harvest begins, to 24 percent of annual consumption, the lowest level in 20 years.

If world grain demand continues to grow during this coming year at the 16 - million - ton - per - year pace of the last decade, then the 2002 harvest will have to jump by 70 million tons to avoid a further drawdown in stocks.

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Chapter 2 Data: Population Pressure: Land and Water (XLS PDF Highlights) World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Grain Consumption and Stocks, 1960 - 2009 Wheat - Oil Exchange Rate, 1950 - 2008 Wheat Production in Saudi Arabia, 1960 - 2009, with Projection to 2016 Grain Harvested Area Per Person in Selected Countries and the World in 1950 and 2000, with Projection to 2050 U.S. Corn Production and Use for Fuel Ethanol, 1980 - 2009 Countries Overpumping Aquifers in 2009 World Irrigated Area and Irrigated Area Per Thousand People, 1950 - 2007 World Population of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Africa, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Nigeria, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in China, 1961 - 2007 World Total and Per Person Wild Fish Harvest, 1950 - 2007 Top of Page

Just when it seemed that things could not get much worse, the United States, the world's breadbasket, is planning to double the share of its grain harvest going to fuel ethanol — from 16 percent of the 2006 crop to 30 percent or so of the 2008 crop.

The world's farmers are now essentially in a situation where a record grain harvest is needed each year just to keep up with the rise in demand.

With the U.N. - affililated Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) already warning of declining grain harvests due to extreme weather, a U.S. study released last week suggests that global warming could cause world agricultural systems to face possible collapse by 2080, with countries in the south being the hardest hit.

Falling water tables are already adversely affecting harvests in some countries, including China, which rivals the United States as the world's largest grain producer.

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.