Sentences with phrase «yield gaps by»

Overall, closing yield gaps by 50 % for crops and 25 % for livestock would lead to a 12 % savings in greenhouse gas emission per calorie produced.
At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

Not exact matches

The gap between Canada's 2 - year yield and its U.S. counterpart narrowed by 7.9 basis points to a spread of -17.4 basis points, its narrowest since Oct. 30.
The varying rates of cooking caused by fewer and weaker breakpoints in the oven leads to higher yield gaps: where some product on your rack is over cooked and other product is cooked just right.
Since 2008, IRRI through its Hybrid Rice Development Consortium (HRDC) has been promoting hybrid rice research and providing access to new germplasm with the goal of filling in yield gaps that have been compounded by climate change, and have made rice - consuming populations increasingly vulnerable.
The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) Project is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
And NIFA contends that plans to save $ 7.5 million by restructuring county debt would yield only $ 5.5 million in savings next year — leaving a $ 2 million budget gap.
Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...
A recent study from the Illinois Crop Physiology Laboratory, led by Fred Below, a U of I crop physiologist, provides the first estimate of the corn yield gap for the U.S. Corn Belt.
Crop science researchers at the University of Illinois interested in determining and reducing corn yield gaps are addressing this important issue by taking a systematic approach to the problem.
Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.
Yield gap closure alone still showed a greenhouse gas increase of just over 40 % by 2050.
One scenario investigated by the team is on the supply side: the closing of «yield gaps».
Since 2008, IRRI through the HRDC has been promoting hybrid rice research and providing access to new germplasm with the goal of filling in yield gaps that have been compounded by climate change, and have made rice - consuming populations increasingly vulnerable.
Ocean coverage by floats reached 90 % by 2005 [66], with the gaps mainly in sea ice regions, yielding the potential for an accurate energy balance assessment, provided that several systematic measurement biases exposed in the past decade are minimized [67]--[69].
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«Smart beta» or factor indices bridge the gap between active and passive management by allowing investors to tilt toward specific investment attributes — for example, low volatility or high dividend yield.
By taking a conservative approach to volatility and yield, ARCM intends to reduce the gap between cash / money market and the bond funds based on historical market yield and volatility.
If that happens to a high degree, it will worsen the gap between the market value and book value of assets, which will be covered by the wrappers in the short run, but will reduce the fund's yield as they pay the wrappers back.
The gap — the widest since 1986, according to data compiled by Bloomberg — is encouraging investors because earnings forecasts indicate the U.S. will keep growing, while bond yields show confidence that inflation will stay in check.»
Michael Crichton's basic question was whether the «methodology of climate science is significantly rigorous to yield a reliable result,» given the modification of data by filling in gaps, and the supposed lack of verification of the results.
These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.
Ocean coverage by floats reached 90 % by 2005 [66], with the gaps mainly in sea ice regions, yielding the potential for an accurate energy balance assessment, provided that several systematic measurement biases exposed in the past decade are minimized [67]--[69].
That, it says, means productivity must be increased by reversing declines in yield growth and closing the gap between actual and attainable yields in the developing world, while also reducing agriculture's environmental impact, including the depletion of fresh water and the increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
This result is related to a declining yield gap between irrigated and rain - fed agriculture caused by yield reductions of irrigated crops due to higher temperatures, or yield increases of rain - fed crops due to more precipitation.
While helping developers somewhat by filling the notable gap in available debt, these options come at higher rates and thus, as is the case with construction costs, drive down project yield.
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