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broadcasting and GPS mapping to weather forecasting for agriculture and climate monitoring. Since 2010, satellite capacity across the continent has tripled nearly, helping in part fuel Africa's"mobile revolution#.
From health and agriculture, to business and electioneering, it is quietly playing an ever more central role in many of our lives."
Bluetooth is also being used to help those in agriculture in other ways. Kenyan mobile tech company Virtual city has developed Agrimanagr
and across the entire value chain of rural agriculture. For the past few years, social enterprise Kilimo Salama has been piloting a crop insurance scheme for smallholder farmers
which includes recommendations on how to make the island agriculture fisheries transportation and energy systems more sustainable.
and human activities, such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock. uman activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management,
or in agriculture and water management, suggests Ignasi Vilajosana, CEO of Worldsensing, a project partner based in Spain. n the context of smart cities, for example,
impacting health, energy agriculture, production, transportation and tourism. In 2011, an EU-funded project began an in depth analysis of these challenges with an eye toward developing long-term solutions.
but also in agriculture, cosmetics and beyond, says Polymode project co-ordinator, Professor Bruno Moerschbacher of the University of Münster in Germany.
This 460 hectare vineyard is located in a green and prosperous area of the country where agriculture is the main industry.
Tóth is assistant professor at the Slovak University of Agriculture in the city of Nitra where he teaches in agricultural entomology,
Broomrape has plagued European agriculture for years, although climate change has made it more aggressive recently, Tóth says."
Food Agriculture and Fisheriesbiotechnology; Nanosciences nanotechnologiesmaterials and new productiontechnologies; Energy; and Environment (includingclimate change. Established in 2010 and due to continue until2014 the project is focused on developing ahighly integrated multipurpose refinery.
Theproject will provide an efficient bridge betweenthe agriculture and chemical industries byintegrating the entire biomass chain in asingle concept adaptable for use in a rangeof locations.
Experts once believed filoviruses came into being some 10000 years ago coinciding with the rise of agriculture.
The US Department of agriculture s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the UC Davis School of veterinary medicine s Center for Food Animal health provided funding r
and agriculturalists can search for ways to cross Asian and African species to develop new varieties of rice with the high-yield traits of Asian rice
and pathogens of honey bees. n addition to Ostiguy researchers from Acadia University Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Dalhousie University and University
The Agriculture and Agrifoods Research and development Program the Forestry and Agrifoods Agency the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the US Department of agriculture supported the study.
and human activities, such as leakage from natural gas systems and the raising of livestock. uman activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management,
A 21-member team organized by the American Academy of Microbiology established a set of recommendations on how advances in microbiology can be harnessed to improve agriculture.
and indeed promoted by agriculture#says Hanotte. A research group in China independently discovered and reported the same findings with local Chinese and North american breeds.
It is supported by the US Department of agriculture#s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additional researchers from UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences the USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory and Kansas State university also contributed to the study.
Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carri##re in the entomology department at the University of Arizona s College of Agriculture and Life sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Br##vault from the Center
#I see these crops as an increasingly important part of the future of agriculture. The progress made provides motivation to collect more data
That why we still talk about agriculture as being different from industry. Chasing cows, making them wait
#Ethiopia Agriculture ministry rolls out specialized phone service for farmers The Ethiopian government has rolled out a new phone service that farmers can call to get information on crops in their native languages.
Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.
Humans have practiced a rather crude form of agriculture for millennia: we douse fields to give them as much water
Change in agriculture comes slow. Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit
and the threat it poses to agriculture were part of the original inspiration for creating a robotic bee,
It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
long-established industries and they do not come much larger or older than agriculture. Farmers can be terrible managers,
It could be the biggest change to agriculture in rich countries since genetically modified crops. And it is proving nearly as controversial
#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Below are 15 emerging technologies related to agricultural and natural manufacturing under four key areas of accelerating change:
Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.
and might be used more often in U s. agriculture Doug also discussed the success of conventional corn breeders who have increased drought tolerance at a steady pace of 1 percent per year over decades.
With 70 percent of the world's freshwater supply already going to agriculture every drop counts.
According to the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations global animal agriculture produces vast amounts of crops to feed billions of farm animals long before they are consumed themselves.
The scope of animal agriculture s impact on climate change has for decades been underestimated. The raising and slaughtering of farm animals is just one component.
As a result of animal agriculture's impact on climate change organizations like the Natural resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club support eating more plant-based meals.
About a half-billion fewer animals are now being raised for food than just several years ago reducing animal agriculture's global impact.
the Nicaraguan government reportedly declared that it would include coffee rust on a list of special research projects designed to safeguard the country s agriculture.
Since the lunar environment has none of the resources needed for agriculture (except for sunlight) just how would this take some of the strain off earth's resources?
Covering manufacturing agriculture health transport civil security and households the initiative#calledâ SPARCÂ#is the EU#s industrial policy effort to strengthen Europe#s position in the global
It could be used for small package delivery or vertical takeoff and landing, long endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications."
few investors gave much thought to technological innovation in our agriculture system. What a difference a year can make.
In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year in 2014,
receiving over $2. 36 billion of investment across 264 deals spanning the agriculture value chain,
Most tech innovation in agriculture was concentrated narrowly in biotechnology and seed genetics, and both investment and innovation was limited to players with close ties to the ag sector.
and demand in agriculture shifting consumer tastes, and a confluence of new hardware technologies that freed computation from the desktop and automated multivariate collection of big data.
-and-demand pressure on our agriculture system. The population is growing at approximately 77.6 million per year
and more concerned about the impact that agriculture has on the environment. Agriculture now accounts for about 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions
a 75 percent increase since 1990, which makes agriculture a huge target for disruption. In addition, informed consumers are demanding locally grown, sustainable food with fewer chemicals,
and the agriculture supply chain must evolve to deliver such products. This has created opportunities for a new generation of startups to gain a toehold into new markets that are too small for larger agriculture players.
Finally, a confluence of hardware and software technology advances are creating opportunities to address this market.
Inexpensive and infinitely configurable mobile devices (enabled by advances in wireless and energy storage) have liberated technology from the office desktop.
and the Internet of things, have realized quickly that the agriculture value chain provides fertile first market opportunities for many technologies that are advanced not enough or have not yet found solutions in the consumer space.
Many investors looking at these technologies are going to need to get smart on agriculture if theye going to make informed investment decisions.
Growth potential Agriculture has a long value chain and the sector is described often as being more horizontal than vertical (we tracked 16 subcategoriess diverse as biotech,
Already this year, wee seen a $50m investment into drone maker 3d Robotics and a $95m investment into microsatellite company Planet Labs, both of which count agriculture as key early market opportunities.
Agriculture accounts for 70%of freshwater withdrawals, and under Byzantine water rights laws that date back to the 1820s there has been little incentive for farmers to manage this resource more sustainably.
Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
in agriculture, without the occurrence of any symptoms researchers can still detect if pathogens are present.
Similarly, in agriculture, without the occurrence of any symptoms researchers can still detect if pathogens are present.
chemical industry, mining, agriculture & husbandry, automotive, and power plant. In 2014, the oil & fuel application was the largest segment of the global tank level monitoring application market,
%The agriculture & husbandry was the fastest-growing application of the market, and is projected to grow with a CAGR of 7. 6%from 2015 to 2020.
they created an easy way to tweak the genetic information in a cell nucleus. This has implications for medicine and agriculture.
nearly two-thirds of the company total greenhouse gas emissions occur upstream of its direct operations. e know our greatest impact is outside our four walls particularly in agriculture,
According to the TEEP selection committee, the winning business plans represented a multitude of value adding sectors ranging from agriculture to Information and Communications technology (ICT), education and fashion.
Georgia Tech says that its algorithm for controlling large teams of robots could be used in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture,
which is relevant in manufacturing, agriculture and disaster areas.""It's not possible for a person to control a thousand
-because there are existing machines that do this pretty well-the Carbon Engineering'direct air capture plant'will deal with everyday carbon emissions from buildings, transportation, and agriculture."
which is in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
"We may also apply this to agriculture for predicting crop yield, drought condition, or insect outbreak."
Arraywhereas external application of gibberellins has been utilized in agriculture for several decades for example, to produce larger fruits
"Shamba Maisha is the first trial to link agriculture with HIV outcomes, "Cohen said.""The intervention is unique in that it is sustainable,
and irrigation for agriculture to the prevention of icing and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces,
Phosphonates are an abundant and diverse class of natural signaling molecules that have already proved useful to medicine and agriculture
which Jin-Soo Kim points out,"paves the way for the widespread use of RNA-guided genome editing in plant biotechnology and agriculture."
the government used its controls of state banks to deter agriculture and logging use of forests.
flows in agriculture A quantitative model for measuring sustainability in the Finnish agricultural sector has been developed in a new thesis. The new model challenges the OECD method which is used currently
Improvements for OECD nutrient balance modelcurrently the static nutrient balance approach of OECD is used to assess nutrient emissions from agriculture.
The stocks and outflows from the stock calculated using the dynamic model could be utilized in sustainability assessment as indicators of environmental pressure from agriculture.
Our dynamic approach would provide better estimations of the nutrient leaching from agriculture to environment than the conventional method of OECD. Story Source:
and the U s. Microsporidia are a large group of extreme parasites that invade humans and animals and cost great damage for health care systems and in agriculture;
This year's spring pulse held less than 1 percent of the volume of the Colorado's annual spring floods before the construction of ten major dams and diversions to municipalities, industry, and agriculture.
Thus its application in agriculture horticulture forestry plants ornamental plants or any other plant with commercial interest would represent a significant environmental and economic saving.
"Human activities such as agriculture, fossil fuel combustion, wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
In an economy as heavily dependent on agriculture as Argentina's, boosting production and protecting workers are vitally important.
#Where the bio-rubber meets the road My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers,
If there s one area where resource optimization is needed more urgently than any other it s agriculture Projections call for the Earth s population to exceed nine billion by 2050 up by about two billion from today.
on land that is not used for agriculture, we escape that conundrum.""But we are talking about the Amazon basin,
said Warren Ruder, an assistant professor of biological systems engineering in both the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering."
In agriculture, bacteria-robot model systems could enable robust studies that explore the interactions between soil bacteria and livestock.
leishmaniasis is common in people who work in agriculture and forestry, said lead author Vanessa Adaui, Ph d,
. and State departments of Agriculture and state Board of Agriculture Chairman Scott Enright met Monday with farmers.
and plant science solutions for agriculture and pest management in the United states. CLA welcomed today release of the White house National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators.
Many of BIO Food & Agriculture Section members are doing their part to help improve pollinator health
How Innovation is Transforming Agriculture Data analysis and computational technologies are giving farmers the ability to monitor their land better,
and agriculture--for controlled delivery and release but this is one of the first demonstrations of this approach for controlled capture says Jennifer A. Lewis the Hansj rg Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at the Harvard School of engineering
because the agriculture technology (gtech space is thriving. For example, Monsanto acquired Climate Corporation for nearly $1 billion in 2013.
And agriculture technology companies received $2. 36 billion of investments across 264 deals last year alone
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. They matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in the Colorado potato beetle
including long haul transportation and trucking, agriculture (tractors), mining and off-road vehicles, motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others.
Light technology is now an active area of research in energy, health and agriculture. First lighting the way In the late 1800s
in agriculture, more effective harvesting of solar energy and its conversion into heat via greenhouses could enable year-round production as well as access to crops not currently available in certain climates.
and long-endurance surveillance for agriculture, mapping and other applications,"Bill Fredericks, an aerospace engineer at the Langley Research center, said in a statement."
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
produce and commercialise specialist chemicals to be used, in particular, in agriculture and pharmaceutical industry. The Institute publishes approximately 200 original research papers annually.
2015visible Light-sensitive Photocatalysts Used for Purification of Contaminated water in Iran June 30th, 2015food/Agriculture/Supplements Bacteria Cellulose,
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
and specialized in the use of drones for agriculture: They contribute to the early detection of diseases that affect grapevines,
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
and other conflicts and even more are harmed by activities such as development and agriculture. Some were destroyed before they were surveyed even
It's harder to think about how this technology could be used in agriculture. Countless acres of genetically engineered crops would need to be fed this manmade ingredient, from a crop duster or by some other means.
but it also provides the latest glimpse of how farming is moving into the 21st Century thanks to some pioneering high-tech agriculture ideas.
and agriculture sectors in the affected countries where two thirds of the population depend on agriculture for their livelihood.
Everyone is fairly certain antibiotic resistance comes from extensive use of antibiotics in animal-based agriculture.
'The research was funded by NC State start-up funds, the North carolina Agriculture Foundation and Dupont Nutrition and Health h
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade.
Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture, suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities.
The researchers aim to tally those indirect impacts later this year. This paper was an early step in a larger effort to better understand
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
that livestock are blamed for two-thirds of agriculture climate pollution every year. ee seeing an expansion of agricultural lands in some areas because of the growing global population,
said. ee also seeing intensification of agriculture. Although annual climate pollution from deforestation is declining,
but agriculture is discussed barely during the talks. here been a lot of discussion back and forth, and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,
Agriculture has only come onto the agenda more recently. Some countries, particularly India, have been averse to discussing agricultural impacts during U n. climate negotiationsargely
Doug Boucher, the director of climate research at the Union of Concerned Scientists, says agriculture climate impacts could be reduced without taking food off tables.
The biggest opportunities for reforming agriculture climate impacts can sometimes be found miles from where any food is grown.
but there are all kinds of agriculture efficiencies that have not been put into place.""While there are mixed views on
the fact remains that agriculture uses the most water, by far. Farming and agriculture use more than 70 percent of the water that flows from the Colorado river to the seven river basin states.
In addition to those crops, cotton is one of the thirstiest crops a farmer can grow, especially in a desert.
providing a substantial supply for both L a. and San diego. The All-American Canal moves water along the tail-end of the Colorado river near the Mexican border, nourishing one of the state's most valuable agriculture areas,
Scientists at UQ Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) have identified a hereditary component in wheat that is essential for anyone hoping to consistently make premium-quality bread.
In a world first, Professor Wallace Cowling from The UWA Institute of Agriculture and his team have taken the breeding model commonly used by animal breeders,
greener and safer nanotechnology and could lead to enhanced efficiency of antimicrobial products used in agriculture and personal care.
whether an RNA-insecticide spray would be stable enough to use in agriculture. The researchers matched double-stranded (ds) RNA to an actin gene in Colorado potato beetle
a professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences. There's so much information to sift through that it was simply too daunting of a numbers game.
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