increasing fertilization and promoting the use of land-management techniques that integrate forests with agriculture.
the research arm of the Ministry of Agriculture, based in Brasilia. The biosafety commission has taken a favourable position towards biotechnology in past years,
) Degraded lands A rapid expansion of agricultural production over the past 50 years has left 25%of the planet's land resources'highly degraded',according to a United nations assessment of resources for food and agriculture.
But agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire said that he would work to uphold the ban.
One author of the report, Tekalign Mamo, Ethiopia's minister of state for agriculture and rural development, told Nature that policy-makers at Durban should take examples of good agricultural practice
and Marion Guillou, president of The french National Institute for Agriculture in Paris. Camilla Toulmin, director of the International Institute for the Environment and Development in London, hopes Benton is right.
And in answer to growing demands to consider agriculture as a separate sector within the UN climate framework (see Nature 479
Deforestation accounts for about 15%of global greenhouse-gas emissions and 75%of Brazil s. Katia Abreu, a senator from the state of Tocantins and  president of the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture
and examines how different levels of greenhouse-gas emissions could affect sectors such as agriculture, health and infrastructure over the twenty-first century.
Public health, business, agriculture and forestry, urban infrastructure and natural ecosystems are identified all as priority areas for early action.
but does not include emissions from agriculture or land use. The online database allows users to compare
(although if emissions from agriculture and other sectors in the full US inventory are included, that proportion would drop to around 83%).
In the past, the biggest pressures on locally held natural ecosystems have been agriculture and logging, but large mineral-extraction deals are now catching up."
agriculture. The United nations forestry initiative known as REDD, for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation was seen originally as a way of changing frontier economics by attaching a monetary value to standing forests,
If the money to transform agriculture and reduce the incentives for clearing forests doesn't begin to flow soon,
And the woman's genome provides clues as to how agriculture spread across Europe.""The farmer is most genetically similar to people living in Cyprus
It is established well that agriculture had its origins in the near east but there are still plenty of questions about how it spread.
In particular, did resident hunter-gatherers independently hit on the idea of agriculture, learn about it through word of mouth
In recent years, researchers have also been studying MITOCHONDRIAL DNA from prehistoric specimens3-5. They have found tentative support for the idea that agriculture spread across Europe through migration rather than word of mouth,
Organic farming is rarely enoughmaxim. photoshelter. com/Alamystrawberries are among the few crops that grow almost as well on organic farms as in conventional agriculture."
Seufert's next project is to analyse existing research on the environmental impacts of organic and conventional agriculture.
and farmers expressing their anger about the potential damage to agriculture. A 20-week public consultation period on the plan ends on 16 april.
which has been dominated by concerns about the costs to agriculture.""There was not a lot of information about what the benefits would be to the environment,
"Weed resistance is a game changer for agriculture in the same way that drug resistance has been a game changer for the health-care industry,
a research professor at Washington state University s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural resources in Puyallup."
The Brazilian Confederation for Agriculture and Livestock, one of the main business groups supporting the bill,
Pointing out that around 28%of the country s 851 million hectares is dedicated to agriculture whereas 61%is forest,
All 15 had their official Launch in Rio de Janiero yesterday at the 4th Agriculture and Rural development Day,
From 2013, the CGIAR will invest around $1 billion a year in agriculture research. Rijsberman said that figure
and deforested  lumping agriculture, towns and mining areas together, and making it difficult to track the impact of the gold rush.
including mining, agriculture and five different classes of forestry. Scullion says that there is a misconception among locals that researchers are against mining.
which is affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture, has a research partnership with Monsanto.""Although Embrapa has other financial sources,
Rousseff and her ministers defended their decision as a realistic compromise that promotes agriculture but also protects the environment.
Various agriculture and forestry initiatives at the state, national and international levels could help to maintain progress in reducing deforestation.
the government agency that oversees agriculture and biosecurity on the islands.""The last thing we need to do is to investigate his tissues,
and Agriculture (NIFA) where Sonny Ramaswamy was sworn in as director on 7 may. Ramaswamy is the former dean of agricultural sciences at Oregon State university and an entomologist by training.
The public perception is of small-town universities just doing meat-and-potatoes production agriculture. But we have some of the top agricultural-science universities in the world.
In this country, we take food and agriculture for granted. The average American spends only nine cents per dollar on food.
if we don t worry about food and agriculture education too. We should consider adding an A
incorporating agriculture from kindergarten. Kids should know where food comes from, why it is important to think about the kind of food that we eat
Not to mention that agriculture is responsible for 70%of Earth s freshwater use.""The question is whether there is even enough water available to irrigate,
"We need to find ways to take the pressure off water-sensitive regions by perhaps intensifying agriculture elsewhere,
and policy-makers working at the intersection of forestry, agriculture and global warming. Many scientists are busy linking satellite measurements to field
and setting the stage for a deeper analysis of the impacts of logging, agriculture and forest regrowth.
citing food safety concerns and a general mistrust of corporate interests in agriculture. Opponents say that the labels will be perceived as warnings,
the Parliamentary Standing committee on Agriculture in India also called for a complete overhaul of the regulatory system for transgenic-crop approvals and recommended that all genetically modified (GM) products be labelled.
Missouri, argued that Dupont s agriculture subsidiary Pioneer hi-bred (now Dupont Pioneer) in Johnston, Iowa, infringed a Monsanto patent on Roundup Ready crops,
Brazil s fund for low-carbon agriculture lies fallowrice cultivation has received a boost in Brazil
"It s the world s most ambitious mitigation plan on agriculture, says Eduardo Assad, a climate scientist at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) in Campinas,
says Erikson Chandora, head of the ABC at Brazil s Ministry of Agriculture. Assad, however, says that poor publicity is only part of the reason for the tepid response.
As of 2011, low-carbon agriculture money could be used to fund activities that caused emissions of other greenhouse gases,
US$57 billion in credits has been given to traditional agriculture, which involves legal deforestation. And even that is only the first step.
liaised with ministries of agriculture and veterinary services worldwide, and wrote"to virtually everyone they could think of,
In two reports published today1, 2, the CGIAR says that reducing agriculture s carbon footprint is central to limiting climate change.
"The food-related emissions and the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the food system will profoundly alter the way we grow
an ecologist and director of the CGIAR research programme on climate change, agriculture and food security.
and adapting to the effects of climate change on agriculture
'Tree of life'constructed for all living bird speciesscientists have mapped the evolutionary relationships among all 9,
The USDA supports research to improve livestock and agriculture, but a spokesperson says that it has considered not work on GE animals to be the best use of its funding.
"Agriculture in particular will benefit fast, says Alan Archibald of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, UK, one of the paper s lead authors."
and the ant behavior and signaling dynamics could add to research about pest control for agriculture.
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.
They are the only GM CROPS approved by European union (EU) science advisory committees as safe for agriculture.
Nitrogen pollution soars in Chinanitrogen-containing pollutants from agriculture, transport and industry in China has increased by more than half in 30 years,
an agriculture researcher at the China Agricultural University in Beijing and a co-author of the study.
that nitrogen oxide emissions from transport and industry are increasing more rapidly than ammonia emissions from agriculture."
Improving practices in agriculture the biggest contributor of nitrogen pollution worldwide should be a top priority,
Natasha Gilbertafrican agriculture African farmers must use sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies to reverse rising hunger levels across the continent,
a group of agriculture and development experts based in London. One recommended practice is pictured in Malawi:
It says that sustainable intensification of African agriculture will produce higher yields and more nutritious foods while reducing reliance on fertilizers and pesticides,
interim head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisations's Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) in Rome.
But rising emissions from agriculture and industry industry threaten to offset some of the gains from forest protection.
Agriculture now accounts for the largest share of Brazil s greenhouse-gas output. Emissions from the sector increased 5. 2%from 2005 to 2010,
instead on its conventional agriculture business in the EU. See page 387 and go. nature. com/vkaxty for more.
Agriculture experts speculate that it may be more stable in cooler temperatures and thus more dangerous, making the current outbreak a mild precursor to what could come in the winter."
and sea walls have been used in past decades to reclaim land from the sea for agriculture and other human uses.
but little surprise at last week s announcement by the agriculture giant Monsanto that it will no longer be seeking approvals for genetically modified (GM CROPS now under review for cultivation in the European union (EU). As anti-GM campaigners celebrated,
Monsanto will now focus its European efforts on its conventional agriculture business and on enabling the import of GM CROPS for use as animal feed,
Bolivia and India are located in regions where agriculture first originated. But two notable exceptions are northern Australia and the eastern United states,
has stuck so far to a strict interpretation of a 1957 law designed to protect agriculture against plant pests that was coopted in 1986 to regulate GM CROPS.
Fruit-tree specialist Toshihiko Sugiura of the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Tsukuba, Japan,
So researchers have tried to green up agriculture by breeding plants that cut the emissions associated with wasted fertilizer.
Agriculture s climate problem is a nitrogen-fertilizer problem. Fertilizer contains ammonium (NH4+;+when it is laid first down,
says Henry Janzen, a soil biochemist at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Lethbridge, and co-author of the chapter about agriculture in a 2007 report on climate mitigation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
"It s a massive undertaking to reduce these emissions while making more food. The solution, says Michael Peters,
compared with more than 200 Â kilograms used in high-intensity agriculture, such as in Germany. Yields are typically 30-80%lower as a result.
says Johannes  Kotschi, a soil scientist at the Association for Agriculture and Ecology in Marburg, Germany,
"Conservation agriculture is excessively time-consuming, and organic fertilizer produced on-farm does not replenish soils with nutrients,
if investments increase in agriculture projects such as oil-palm plantations.""If that ever happens, you could see some dramatic changes,
said Li Bo, director of the Office for Management of Alien Species in the Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, at the second International Congress on Biological Invasions in Qingdao last month.
decade-long project funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology to study invasive species in agriculture and forestry.
We fill a unique niche in world agriculture. Our mission is to be a world-leading centre of crop science
"Agriculture has spent the past century wiping out the microbes living in our plants, through pesticides and fertilizers.
But most of the biomass produced in agriculture and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose.
) Precision agriculture, a method that uses remote sensing to aid farm management, will also benefit from swarms,
the country s health and agriculture ministries have developed contingency plans should H7n9 arrive, including closing markets and shutting down trade routes."
#Iowa Scientists Say Climate Change Threatens State Agriculture At the Iowa Climate Science Educators'Forum last week a group of more than 150 scientists representing 36 colleges
Calling climate change a rising challenge to Iowa agriculture this year's Iowa Climate Statement says that changing weather patterns
Most of the current planetary output still occurs outside of the realm of man's agriculture.
3) It does not take into account current or future advancements in agriculture. Again assuming a sub-optimized Earth potential.
Natarajan Ganesanoak there's more than enough CO2 in the atmosphere for the limited agriculture potential. Beyond that is being absorbed into the oceans and raising the ppm of the atmosphere.
me started on the reasons for the propagation of GMO tech eg. further industrialization of the agriculture better control of the farmers etc.
âÂ# A report published by the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture
Another group of researchers creating incorrect global computer models now of agriculture to inaccurately inform public policy is just
You probably don't have an idyllic childhood memory to go along with the sugarglop that's killing both the American people and the American tradition of agriculture.
Because unusual seasons are so disruptive to agriculture scientists want to develop ways of predicting when an early spring will occur.
It is indeed during the blink of an eye relatively speaking that people settled down from nomadism to permanent settlements developed agriculture lived in towns
For American agriculture bees are valuable not for their honey but for their pollination services--without them you wouldn't have almonds blueberries tomatoes and a long list of other crucial crops.
and also agriculture) but more industries like tourism and fisheries would improve. Of course this is only based on research for a single park
which as we all know sucks for like you know agriculture. We are living in a brief and balmy period that is not the norm
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?
Can agriculture adapt to be both more productive and more resilient? One answer to that question may be add fungus.
but the influence of the agriculture-industrial complex that reaps massive profits from chemicals that Bioensure could render unnecessary d
Advances in water conservation and management have prevented the current Arizona drought from becoming as bad as the Dust bowl a shorter dry spell that devastated American plains agriculture during the Great depression in the 1930s.
I think it's great that they are bringing more attention to the impacts of animal agriculture
In 2013 a team of entomologists and agriculture scientists reviewed 77 previous studies about international Bt crops.
That's the narrative setup for Viridis an online game out of France that combines contemporary networked communications technologies with the ancient technology of agriculture with a couple intriguing twists:
the Telegarden or Telerobotic Garden which also combined the'net and agriculture. Established in 1995 (and in operation until 2004
They are generally found in small backyard flocks Schmidt tells Rothman rather than industrial agriculture complexes
Schmidt s team s work is part of a five-year $4. 7 million climate change grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
This drought has been particularly severe in California where agriculture accounts for 80 percent of all water use.
The region has virtually no agriculture and little industry. Instead it has tourism: 40 million people a year who when they land in the Mojave desert seek only an oasis he dancing fountains of the Bellagio the imitation Venetian canals pirate ships swimming pools and golf courses.
Goddess Demeter whose dominion over agriculture is absolute got@Chobani to 100 calories. Not your pitiful mortal'science.'#
With the beginning of agriculture the crops stood still and most men settled down. But over the years by selection the animals changed and the cereals changed.
And the huge agriculture of the seas we have ignored completely except to rip out the fringes for iodine or fertilizer.
Small-scale agriculture is notoriously inefficient Hunter warns. I worry about the colonists underestimating the amount of human capital needed to grow
and growing new varieties of well-beloved crops is one of the many ways agriculture will have to adapt to climate change in the future u
In response an international research team suggests eight ways to make ruminant agriculture aising cows goats sheep buffalo camels llamas reindeer and yaks for meat and dairy nvironmentally sustainable.
#Extensive use of antibiotics in agriculture creating public health crisis, study showsciting an overabundance in the use of antibiotics by the agriculture
and aquaculture industries that poses a threat to public health economics professor Aidan Hollis has proposed a solution in the form of user fees on the nonhuman use of antibiotics.
and co-author Ziana Ahmed state that in the United states 80 per cent of the antibiotics in the country are consumed in agriculture and aquaculture for the purpose of increasing food production.
While the vast majority of antibiotic use has gone towards increasing productivity in agriculture Hollis asserts that most of these applications are of low value.
and the United states. The Institute of Agriculture and Natural resources scientists calculate that this decrease or stagnation in yield gain affects 33 percent of major rice-producing countries
or intensify agriculture by applying more fertilizers and pesticides. Liu has introduces the telecoupling framework as an integrated way to understand how distance is shrinking
Of course with increasing pressure on water energy and other resources there are multiple other reasons to reduce the use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture wherever possible.
and more importantly it is populated also densely by people who practice intensive agriculture in the area.
The trees are one of the best successes to date in the genetic modification of forest trees a field that is much less advanced than GMO products in crop agriculture.
The initial work was funded by ILRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS.
Food security depends on irrigation--farmers are main water userswater scarcity is a major threat for human development as for instance food security in many regions depends on irrigation--agriculture is the main water user worldwide
We need to do additional research on how the water requirement portfolio will develop in the future in different sectors like agriculture industry
The ISI-MIP team describe how adverse climate change impacts like flood hazard drought water scarcity agriculture ecosystems
#Lost freshwater may double climate change effects on agriculturea warmer world is expected to have severe consequences for global agriculture
Now a new analysis combining climate agricultural and hydrological models finds that shortages of freshwater used for irrigation could double the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture.
and agriculture Elliott said. We found that maximal usage of available surplus freshwater could end up ameliorating between 12 and 57 percent of the negative direct effects of climate change on food production Elliott said.
which conducted a fast-track exercise to generate new knowledge about climate change impacts on agriculture for the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The rigorous Agmip multi-model approach is enabling advances in research on how climate change will affect agriculture worldwide
A 2011 survey by the National Association of State departments of Agriculture determined that raw milk and raw-milk products were legal to sell in 30 states
Another sustainable approach would be to adopt wholesale precision agriculture strategies. These would allow farmers to identify which areas in fields need more water and fertilizer.
New precision agriculture strategies combine GPS technologies with site-specific management to apply optimal amounts of water
when the environment was transformed by unprecedented levels of population growth large scale urbanisation economic globalisation and successive revolutions in agriculture and industry.
We dream that our recent advances enable the adoption of this technique across all agriculture in the western US
and address environmental issues related to production agriculture. Pandey's research also revealed that when G proteins quantities were elevated in Camelina sativa the plant produced more seeds
Pesticides are important for the efficacy of our modern agriculture methods. And pesticides are not necessarily pesticides--differentiation is necessary in this context.
These papers touch on issues as diverse as climate policy land use and agriculture and non-CO2 greenhouse gases among others.
when applied correctly in agriculture the EU has been using mathematical simulation models (FOCUS models) since the end of the 1990s.
The scenarios reflect contrasting patterns and intensities of land development wood harvesting conservation and agriculture. The two-year study is unique in its forward-looking approach
since this has huge ramifications for the agriculture industry says Dr. Hannah Burrack an associate professor of entomology at NC State
and phosphorus load on the Baltic sea comes from agriculture. Agriculture is considered thus to be of key importance in efforts to improve water quality.
However a recent doctoral study shows that nutrient abatement measures currently being undertaken in agriculture are not sufficient to meet the targets set.
MTT Agrifood Research Finland researcher Janne Helin explored in his dissertation the effectiveness and costs of various means for reducing the nutrient load generated by Finland's agriculture.
The focus was on economic analysis . In addition to various measures undertaken on the fields the study evaluated abatement options such as reducing the nutrient balance through feeding changes on dairy farms.
The nutrient load from agriculture is expected to be reduced by one third from what it was between 2001-2005.
We use only about a fifth of that in our row-crop agriculture--cotton corn soybean wheat etc.
And we actually have at least 550 million acres that have been abandoned from agriculture in the last 150 years.
and extreme events which are all areas that concern key sectors such as energy health and agriculture.
It is planned now to study the impacts of climate change on air quality and on other key sectors of the economy such as energy and agriculture.
Less precipitation leads to reduced runoff for communities industry and agriculture. Decreased precipitation also exacerbates early snowmelt tied to warming temperatures.
and hydrology) and human impacts (distance from roads agriculture forest loss and density of forest edge)
#Increasing cropping frequency offers opportunity to boost food supplyharvesting existing cropland more frequently could substantially increase global food production without clearing more land for agriculture according to a new study from the Institute on the Environment (Ione) at the University
Closing the gap would boost crop production on existing croplands without resorting to further clearing for agriculture
and frequently colonizes many plants important to agriculture and forestry. Glomeromycota also called arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) play a vital role in how phosphorus
That theory suggests that human activities such as rice agriculture were responsible for the increasing methane concentrations. Opponents of that theory argue that human activities during that time did not produce significant amounts of methane
and the development of rice agriculture and cattle domestication likely had an influence on methane emissions.
The FTU services centre which cost RM14 million to develop is now serving a horde of local companies like Malaysia Agriculture Hightech Stella Gen Johor Biomicrobe Pascal Biotech MVP One
and the College of Agriculture and Life sciences of Texas A&m University recently announced the release of'Carotex-312'a new high-yielding orange-fruited Habanero type F1 hybrid pepper (Capsicum chinense Jacq.).
Other wild species were domesticated in association with the development of agriculture and then needed to exist in close proximity to humans.
and whether it was linked with the development of agriculture fewer than 10000 years ago or whether it occurred much earlier.
or more severe causing damage to most of our region's agriculture stressing our region's water resources
and damaging to agriculture and will possibly drive dairy and livestock production farther north. Warm weather during winter months reduces yields of blueberry peach
During the green revolution in the 1960s numerous high-yield varieties with half the normal height were produced for agriculture in developing countries.
Middleton along with Jim Spain MU vice provost for undergraduate studies and professor of dairy nutrition in the MU College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources studied 100 dairy cows over two
#Floods didnt provide nitrogen fix for earliest crops in frigid northfloods didn't make floodplains fertile during the dawn of human agriculture in Earth's far north
and are not subject to sources of human-caused nitrogen enrichment--much like river systems humans encountered there hundreds of years ago as agriculture emerged in such boreal habitats.
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