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2.0.. agro: Crop:
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Ultimately, other crops could be planted on an area that was covered once with salt water. Precious resourcerethinking the spatial distribution of resources is one strategy that can have tremendous impact on reducing demand
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What if we could engineer crops to make photosynthesis more efficient? Ultimately all of our food oe indeed, all life On earth oe relies on the conversion of carbon dioxide into sugars by photosynthesis,
Most plants, including most crops, use a chemical pathway for photosynthesis that binds three carbon atoms from the air.
Some of the crops that we cultivate use the C4 pathway including corn (maize), sugarcane, sorghum and millet.
But many of the most popular crops, including wheat and rice, are C3 plants. Their yields suffer in hotter drier conditions oe just where
Switch makersscientists are now trying to genetically manipulate C3 crops to turn them into C4s.
and it works in rice, Langdale says it will be fairly simple to convert other crops, such as wheat, barley and rapeseed (canola).
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and their crops and cattle spread into unoccupied land giving most people a richer diet.
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Cities needed crops. In the middle East, for example, einkorn wheat was cultivated first successfully around 11,000 years ago in the southeastern part of
This new development promises to significantly reduce energy costs involved in growing such crops. Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand), in the near future,
consumers are likely to ask for a wider variety of vegetables and fruits grown without pesticides,
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Destroying crops, spreading diseases.""Once a wild pig is full-grown, it is invulnerable to almost all forms of predators angry alligators being one possible exception Â. Boars are smart, fast, hard to hunt."
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Farmer payouts are calculated automatically based on their crops, location, and number of seeds purchased. By coupling bank loans with Kilimo Salama's insurance scheme, the organisation has enabled banks
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or elephants trampling crops-via SMS, allowing agencies to track hotspots of conflict or poaching.
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showed that emissions from burning biofuels varied hugely depending on the type of land used to grow the fuel-crops.
Crops grown in an unsustainable manner can actually create fuels that emit 10 times more CO2 than fossil-fuel based fuel."
whether land used for growing the necessary crops is taking land away from growing food,
scientists increasingly advocate the use of crops that grow in areas that would not normally support agriculture oe such as salicornia, a salt loving plant oe or the use of algae,
However, there is still a long way to go before these crops are grown on anything like the scale needed to support aviation.
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As an added bonus, pollination from the bees actually helps improve crop yields 15-30, %further adding to income.
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They also collect information from the farmers-such as which crops are expected growing and yields-on behalf of organizations ranging from the World Food Program to Great lakes Coffee (a local coffee purchaser) that lack an affordable means of collecting such granular, real-time information.
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and finding ways to grow our food crops under these unfamiliar conditions. Even if we stopped burning fossil fuels today,
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The effect on crop production and hence population growth was immediate. The number of humans that could be fed from 1 hectare of land (2. 47 acres) rose from 1. 9 to 4. 3. Half of the protein in our bodies now comes from ammonia made in the Haber process.
which are fed on fertilised crops. Overuse of fertilisers is a particular problem in China, where whole river systems are polluted
Planting legumes that fix nitrogen can take up space in the field that many farmers would prefer to dedicate to cash crops.
if they are going to catch up with the rest of the world in crop production (that is, close the yield gap)
so that the protein in the crops we fertilise is used in the most efficient way. Meanwhile, traditional methods should be embraced.
for example, while also sowing the most effective crops for the area, climate and soil type oe
With an enormous variety of crops, fields and farmers, there will be a variety of different practices used (including the investigation of wild-type relatives of staple crops),
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which aims to help farmers in East Africa grow more crops, more food and ultimately earn money.
used properly, can double or triple crop yields. The Mcdonalds moniker comes in because the company offers franchises,
along with specific instruction on growing more than two dozen different crops, including maize, sorghum and mangoes. Â But Zedeck says she realized early on that to have the impact she wanted,
It allows farmers using low-end phones to receive information via SMS, in English and Swahili, on growing 20 different crops.
The app will cost $1. 25 as a kind of starter kit with information on two crops.
will have information on 26 crops, including nine indigenous ones. It will also feature a community section to allow farmers to connect with each other,
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the slurry that comes out of the biogas can be used to fertilize grass and crops, he says.
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or crops already hit by climate change, or being too poor to afford food whose price has been raised artificially by commodities trading.
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Technology and innovation has saved already us from plagues, low crop yields, water shortages, reliance on fossil fuels and more.
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A raft of practices oe from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops oe contribute to depleted soils.
Essential minerals, such as nitrates, that crops suck up from the soil take a particularly long time to be replaced naturally.
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But breeding high-yield crops in this manner more than doubled farm field yields globally in 50 years, particularly in Latin america and Asia,
When this happens, yields can improve by 15%in vital crops like wheat, rice and soybean.
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide further is hardly a practical or desirable way to boost crops, so the team set about looking for the genetic switches that could mimic the action
However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent
and others ethical, arguing that the developing world should not be used as a laboratory to test such crops.
 Turning the world greentraditionally, farmers have sought out the best places to plant their crops oe nutrient rich flood plains and the sides of volcanoes.
As a result, there is a push to develop crops that not only grow in these conditions oe they relish them.
The best-known example of boosting nutrition in staple crops is golden rice, which has been engineered with genes from daffodils and bacteria to produce beta-carotene,
This is based on research that shows there is a significant variation in how crops grow over distances as small as an acre,
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#Planting Climate Friendly Crops Could Help Offset the Effects of Global Warming Climate friendly crops reflect sunlight Planting climate friendly crops that reflect sunlight could help offset the effects of global warming,
The crops, spread across large fertile regions of North america and Europe, would send a small percentage of the suns light
Different strains of crops such as wheat have significantly different levels of reflectivity, or albedo, say scientists.
as they suggest that simply by choosing to plant specific strains of crops, we could alter the reflectivity of vast tracts of land
A global climate computer simulation was used to assess the potential for planting crops with high reflectivity.
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In the summer following Indonesias 1815 Tambora eruption, frost wrecked crops as far off as New england,
scientists have shown that eruptions also affect rainfall over the Asian monsoon region, where seasonal storms water crops for nearly half of earths population.
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The seriousness of the problem is documented in the most comprehensive and fine-grained analysis of the worlds existing carbon stocks and global crop yields.
and crop production at a level of detail that has never been possible before, according to Stephen Carpenter, one of the senior authors of the study and a professor at the Center for Limnology at UW-Madison. oethe main news is that agricultural production by clearing land in the tropics releases a lot of greenhouse
but crop yields are not nearly as high as they are in temperate areas. oethis creates a kind of double whammy for a lot of tropical agriculture:
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and protect crops. Elephants have such large appetites they can soon convert woody areas into open grassland.
A big issue in east Africa is elephants damaging crops, which is one reason elephants have been harassed
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#Scientists Crack the Genetic Code of Wheat Wheat is the worlds oldest and most important crops.
British scientists have decoded the genetic sequence of wheat one of the worlds oldest and most important crops a development they hope could help breed better strains of the global food staple.
Other crops have had their genetic codes unscrambled within the past few years rice in 2005, corn in 2009,
The reddish, wind-borne fungus known to scientists as Ug99 has devastated wheat crops in places such as Kenya,
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#New Study Suggests Exposure to Pesticides Prime Cause of ADHD Organophosphate pesticides are used widely in the United states to control insects on food crops.
which are used widely in the United states to control insects on food crops. Epidemiologist Brenda Eskenazi of UC Berkeley and her colleagues have been studying more than 300 Mexican American children living in the heavily agricultural Salinas Valley.
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Last year, nearly half the worlds transgenic crops were grown in US soil Brazil the worlds second heaviest user, grew just 16%.
and proliferation of feral transgenic crops are ineffective. Current tracking and monitoring of GM organisms are insufficient
A major advantages of herbicide-resistant crops is that non-selective herbicides can be used, reducing the number of applications needed.
But if transgenic crops escape and breed with related weed species, then that advantage could be eroded,
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and over the longer term could be covered by larger wheat crops in Argentina and Australia.
soybean and wheat crops will be huge. High wheat prices are likely to be felt most in places such as the Middle east and Africa,
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Study The study says climate change may drive up to 6. 7m Mexicans across the border into the US by 2080 A warming climate could see millions of adult Mexicans migrate to the US as rising temperatures cause a drop in crop yields, according to a study by researchers
For every 10%of lost crop yields in Mexico, another 2%of Mexicans are likely to leave their country,
And now a team of researchers led by Michael Oppenheimer says rising temperatures affecting crops through floods, droughts,
The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said a 10%reduction in crop yields would lead an additional 2%of the population to emigrate. oeit has been established well that farmers do tend to want to migrate
The study used census data from 1995 to 2005 as well as statistics on climate data and crop production
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but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
but crops grown in those communities are often commodities like cotton, not fruits and vegetables,
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as indoor, hydroponic crops are known. On that subject, everyone became bashful. There are strict rules about the size of grows and, of course, at the federal level,
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#Super-Yeast Developed That Can Generate Ethanol from Energy Crops and Agricultural waste Super-yeast is a significant step toward developing second generation biofuels.
and upgrade non-food material, especially dedicated energy crops and agricultural residues such as straw, bagasse, stover and corn hulls.
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Crops on the Red Land such as; potatoes, oats, corn oil flower vegetables, Different color crops so arranged,
when looking from afar it seems like God painted them on a cloth so full of gorgeous color.
Each has its own preference kinds of crops. That caused and produced this beautiful pieces of colors.
Lexiaguo is full of crops that its curves and lines were made so beautiful by the sunlight...
The curve-like crops lines enhanced more clearly by the red soil...In life, sometimes we do need not to ask ourselves so many Whys,
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The study from Lund University s Faculty of engineering punctures the controversial argument against biofuels made from food crops, such as ethanol from grain,
While initially seen as a major boon for the fight to control climate change, many have come to believe that growing these crops serves no net climate benefit.
there is nothing to suggest that biofuels produced from Swedish-grown crops under present circumstances would lead to indirect soil effects,
if we sharply increase biofuel production from food crops very quickly, said BÃ rjesson. oethere is a limit,
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In rural areas, it was the one cash commodity that could be made of crops; in urban ones, it was a way to thwart the will of puritanical elites.
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which play a large part in fertilizing our flowers and crops. Many bees, and in fact whole colonies have been dying due to an unknown factor
The collapse in the global honeybee population is a major threat to crops. It is estimated that a third of everything we eat depends upon honeybee pollination,
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lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,
after Monsanto created its brand of Roundup Ready crops that were modified genetically to tolerate the chemical,
Today, Roundup Ready crops account for about 90 percent of the soybeans and 70 percent of the corn and cotton grown in the United states
and reach seven feet or more, choking out crops; it is so sturdy that it can damage harvesting equipment.
By combining Roundup and Roundup Ready crops, farmers did not have to plow under the weeds to control them.
In addition, some critics of genetically engineered crops say that the use of extra herbicides, including some old ones that are less environmentally tolerable than Roundup,
belies the claims made by the biotechnology industry that its crops would be better for the environment. oethe biotech industry is taking us into a more pesticide-dependent agriculture when theyve always promised,
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Concerns range from worries about how nontraditional genetic traits in crops could affect human and animal health to the spread of herbicide-resistant weeds.
Biotech crop supporters say there is a wealth of evidence that the crops on the market are safe,
Whatever the point of view on the crops themselves, there are many people on both sides of the debate who say that the current U s. regulatory apparatus is ill-equipped to adequately address the concerns.
whether these crops are safe or not. We simply arent doing the kinds of tests we need to do to have confidence in the safety of these crops,
said Doug Gurian-Sherman, a scientist who served on a FDA biotech advisory subcommittee from 2002 to 2005. oethe U s. response (to questions about biotech crop safety) has been an extremely patronizing one.
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Pics) Can you imagine being able to produce enough water in the Sahara to grow crops there?
The Seawater Greenhouse was designed to address the problem of irrigating crops in arid coastal regions by evaporating seawater and condensing it into fresh water.
which can use up to five times more water to irrigate crops than the respective regions average annual rainfall.
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what crops are growing where and giving all that sort of information thats coming in, where is it best to grow what crop.
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Advocates have hoped long that biocharpread over farm fieldsould improve soil quality and crop yields, while simultaneously trapping carbon in the soil.
The key questionoes biochar-infused soil lead to more crops and better soil fertility? s still wide open.
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which is used a weed killer primarily on corn crops, could have potentially harmful effects on populations of amphibians,
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it would be much less controversial than growing crops for fuel in cars. The process is much less energy intensive than current methods of producing plastic.
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But he said any premiums for specialty crops would have to be driven by consumer demand.
a program trying to biofortify crops with trace elements through plant breeding. Funding came from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The program aims to biofortify existing crops with iron, zinc or Vitamin a to help overcome malnutrition in Third world countries.
He said farmers might be able to supercharge their crops with trace elements by adding them to fertiliser or foliar sprays.
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of biofuel crops. The research is published in the journal Nature. oeenergy security looms as one of the most important scientific challenges of this century
and study than important agricultural crops, including wheat and barley. The research also supports the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy;
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The next shift with see crops grown underground. Dutch-based Plantlab recently announced it has figured out how to triple plant yield in a sunless,
which helps them grow crops using just one-tenth the water needed in traditional greenhouses.
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#Researchers are looking for ways to protect soybean crops from Megacopta cribrariawhile still searching for a species that will kill kudzu and leave crops alone.
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To protect our farming resources for future generations we need to pay more attention to the potential benefits of perennial crops.
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and harvesting of their crops is not the same precision they use to control their growing environment.
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Podponics crops use 90%less water than traditional farms no pesticides, less fertilizer, and go from harvest to your plate in just a matter of hours!(
Backhaus says theyve talked with lighting groups about improving LEDS, R&d partners for maximizing crop production,
they keep you updated with the latest in computer controls and recipes for crop production, and they may even buy the lettuce you produce
plant and harvest crops, and perform regular maintenance because, as he puts it these are farms,
so that each pod captures all the water they need for their crops. Fertilizer is recycled as much as possible as well.
with pods located just a few miles from where crops are to be eaten, transportation costs are at an absolute minimum.
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The fact that 165 million acres of GMO crops are currently being cultivated is made even worse by the idea that its difficult
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Fischer once worked with a company that trucked bees around the country to pollinate sunflowers in South dakota, almonds in California and other crops in other states.
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or finding ways to radically increase crop yields. Meeuws and three other Dutch bioengineers have taken the concept of a greenhouse a step further, growing vegetables,
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According to Karen Batra of the Biotechnology industry Organization Oregon-based ag journal Capitol Press, Under the agencys new two-year pilot project, biotech developers would conduct their own environmental assessment of transgenic crops
while it finishes work on a full environmental impact statement on the beets effect on other crops and the environment.#
According to Grist, Judge White warned that environmental impact statements on crops were being conducted too fast,
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Between 1999 and 2003, EPA put in place restrictions on the most toxic organophosphate pesticides on crops and in homes.
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#and is also a major grower of other crops including barley, pinto beans, and flaxseed. The state also currently accounts for 2 percent of domestic oil production.
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crop yields are affected, #said Dr Mccracken. Pesticide applications go up. Even if our estimates were quartered, they clearly show how bats have enormous potential to influence the economics of agriculture and forestry.#
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They feed on a wide range of important food crops, #Hoelmer says. Crops such as sweet corn, apples, pears, grapes, berries, peaches, tomatoes and peppers appear to be the most vulnerable.
Some growers have lost their entire crop to stink bug infestations, #Hoelmer says. This adds up to many millions of dollars of losses in crop values.
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We also have an early sense of the crops condition. We begin with the big four wheat producers#China
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Most leafy greens are cool-weather crops, so theyre best grown in spring and fall in most areas#hot weather will cause them to bolt.
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smaller yields and crops diverted to biofuels. Volatile weather patterns often attributed to climate change are wreaking havoc with some harvests.
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allowing uniform crops with minimum water use. The region is also a center for filtering and other control systems for all types of liquids.
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Genetically engineered crops have not been tested for long-range health effects on humans and wildlife. 2. Contamination of Non-GE Crops Alfalfa plants are pollinated by bees, most
of which can travel and pollinate plants as far as five miles away. So a farmer who has been making a concerted effort to steer clear of GMOS in his fields can very easily be contaminated.
We also know what Monsanto does to farmers who are contaminated unwittingly by their GE crops:
while farmers douse their Roundup Ready crops with glyphosate, weeds are continually adapting defenses to survive nonetheless.
these farmers crops can be contaminated at any time. There are several organizations, including the Center for Food safety,
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and crops such as wheat and oil seed rape. Already the beekeeping community is divided over the use of pesticides
prompting fears for food security as the insect is vital for pollinating many major crops. However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
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Glowing crops could minimize pesticide use, it is hard to imagine poor farmers of developing nations being able to afford the sentinel plants.
bacteria and other pathogens known to reduce crop yields, which normally force farmers to apply costly pesticides.
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While no crops are in immediate danger, the results show that experts need to pay attention,
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and Carter family members tending the tobacco, corn and cotton crops at Shirley Plantation, which turns 400 next year.
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It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, and in the revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas.
Crop rotation The practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. 14.
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#Even agriculture colleges in states not known for large-scale production of cash crops are reporting increased interest.
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cotton and other crops, as well as raise cattle. But increased warming can play havoc with plant growth,
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what is used typically in crops or in areas where bees forage. Scientists, policymakers, farmers, and beekeepers, alarmed at the sudden losses of between 30%and 90%of honeybee colonies since 2006, have posed numerous theories as to the cause of the collapse,
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While we ve used pesticides on our crops since the turn of the 20th century, the sheer quantity has risen to epic proportions.
Instead, through the establishment of the National Organic Program in 1992, a small agricultural group was left untainted and conventional crops were left to wreak havoc on our environment and our bodies at a much cheaper price.
Today farmers use five times as many pesticides on their crops as they did even 10 years ago.
what is sprayed on crops it can cause DNA damage. While they are much less expensive than their organic and sustainably produced counterparts
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#USDA speeds approval for new herbicide-tolerant crops despite Superweed problem If your answer was Monsanto,
It s been an interesting week for genetically engineered crops and farming in the U s. Monsanto acknowledges it thought weeds would never develop resistance to Roundup.
start to lookaway from more biotechnology as a solution and toward more sustainable (and better understood) techniques like using cover crops.
So are crops being pushed by Dow that are resistant to 2, 4-D, the controversial herbicide that was a key ingredient in Agent orange.
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and insects that might harm crops, and churning the soil as it moves underground. Much remains to be discovered in further study
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which ranks among the world s most widely planted staple crops. The new cellular machinery might be packaged in a micro-compartment that operates within the plant cell.
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#Food crops harmed by air pollution crossing continents: study Ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern hemisphere s major industrialized regions damages six important agricultural crops.
Europe loses 1. 2 million tons of wheat a year due to man-made pollution from North america,
researchers show how ozone pollution generated in each of the Northern hemisphere s major industrialized regions (Europe, North america and South East asia) damages six important agricultural crops (wheat, maize
and show that the negative impacts of air pollution on crops may have to be addressed at an international level rather than through local air quality policies alone.#
he and the research team were able to predict impacts on staple food crops, each with their own unique sensitivity to ozone pollution.
This study highlights the need for air pollution impacts on crops to be taken more seriously as a threat to food security;
currently air quality is overlooked often as a determinant of future crop supply Given the sizeable yield losses of staple crops caused by surface ozone,
and emissions from Asia to increase, the findings suggest that increasing pollution from Asia may partly offset crop production benefits gained in Europe and North america through local emission reduction strategies.#
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It s hoped it will overcome this resistance by dousing crops with two different herbicides,
That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted and not somehow spread beyond the fields they are planted.
Loss of the right to save seed through the introduction of patented GE crops could prove disastrous for the 1. 4 billion farmers in developing nations who depend on farm-saved seed.
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