and termites) and about 60%comes from human activities like cattle breeding rice agriculture fossil fuel exploitation landfills and biomass burning.
In an African green revolution the relatively lower yields of African croplands would require more area to be converted to agriculture to make up for the displaced crop production in the rest of the world.
and biodiversity from being cleared for agriculture to avoid increasing emissions he said. Boosting yields brings many benefits
while minimizing the environmental footprint of agriculture remains a major challenge. The paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
The research carried out by academics from the University of Birmingham represents a significant contribution to global research in plant genetic resources for food and agriculture particularly in the fight against the detrimental impacts of climate change on food security.
and alteration conflict intensive agriculture urbanisation and mismanagement of the environment. However until now there has been no attempt to systematically conserve the diversity of this important global resource.
and Agriculture Organisation of the UN with help from scientists at the University of Birmingham will for the first time plan
because there weren't any as far north as Georgetown Mickan said of his decision which coincided with his grandson Josh Swafford's December 2008 graduation from Texas A&m University with a bachelor's in agriculture.
#Climate-smart agriculture requires three-pronged global research agendafaced with climate change and diminishing opportunities to expand productive agricultural acreage the world needs to invest in a global research agenda addressing farm
In a paper appearing online in the journal Agriculture and Food security the authors summarize the findings of the second international Climate Smart Agriculture conference held in March 2013 at UC Davis. Climate-smart agriculture has become a global policy initiative for economic
development poverty reduction and food security says lead author Kerri Steenwerth a U s. Department of agriculture soil scientist and adjunct professor in the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology.
A third global science conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture is scheduled to be held March 16-18 2015 in Montpellier France.
There are currently no air quality standards in India designed to protect agriculture from the effects of ground-level ozone pollution according to the new study.
Ramanathan said that unlike most studies which look at the effect emissions will have on agriculture decades in the future the new study examined how ozone emissions are already affecting crops in India.
The authors of the article--some of the best known experts on the BMSB in North america--are from the the U s. Department of agriculture Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and a number of universities.
Role of agriculture reviewedwhat phenomenon enabled the demographic growth of Bantu farmers in Africa and led to their genetic differentiation from the Pygmy hunter-gatherer communities?
Up to now scientists thought that the emergence of agriculture on the continent 5000 years ago played a major role.
which might call into question the impact of agriculture which emerged more than 2000 years later.
Agriculture a trigger element in history? Agriculture has been a major technological cultural and environmental revolution for humanity.
Particularly in Central africa where it has changed fundamentally the landscapes and livelihoods of sub-Saharan populations since it emerged there 5000 years ago.
the genetic differentiation between the Pygmies and the ancestors of the Bantus and the demographic growth of the latter occurred long before the advent of agriculture on the continent.
In addition the ancestors of the Bantus experienced very strong growth of their populations between 7000 and 10000 years ago or more than 2000 years before the emergence of agriculture.
By questioning the impact of the discovery of agriculture on the history of genetics and demographics in Africa this work highlights a major question:
The domestication of animals and plants a prerequisite for the development of agriculture is one of the most important technological revolutions during human history.
This threshold is important to identify win-win situations where both agriculture production and biodiversity conservation is optimized.
and types of agriculture in different regions of the world Dr. Hu says. Story Source:
and a'road-benefits'layer that estimates the potential for increased agriculture production via new or improved roads.
In general areas that would benefit most from new roads are those that have converted largely to agriculture
We focused on agriculture because global food demand is expected to double by mid-century and new or improved roads are vital for farmers said Dr Gopalasamy Reuben Clements from James Cook.
The good news is that there are still expanses of the world where agriculture can be improved greatly without large environmental costs said Dr Nathan Mueller of Harvard university USA.
It supports the view of previous studies that climate change is likely to significantly affect pest pressure on agriculture with the warming Earth having a clear influence on the distribution of crop pests.
In order to lower emissions of N2o and develop more environmentally-friendly agriculture it is important to understand the processes involved not only in its production
and we shouldn't worry about the environmental consequences of agriculture we shouldn't worry about runaway population growth he said.
'It was said completely serendipitous Mcglone who works in the Animal and Food Sciences department of the College of Agriculture and Natural sciences.
and agriculture can't be sustained. Currently there is no ground-or satellite-based global network monitoring soil moisture at a local level.
which will be important for drought monitoring and a wide range of applications related to agriculture. Having the ability provided by SMAP to continuously map soil moisture conditions over large areas will be a major advance.
and offer cheap land for agriculture thus encouraging a population boom in the area. Images of the fishbone deforestation in Rondã'nia state were publicized widely
(seen in this image) where large tracts of land are being cleared for mechanized agriculture rather than small-hold farming.
and increase crop yields in horticulture and agriculture for decades now says Poppenberger. But we have leveraged never the potential of brassinosteroids.
and agriculture gravely threaten primary forests and those outside of protected areas are especially vulnerable.
The finding by Jim Westwood a professor of plant pathology physiology and weed science in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other on a molecular level.
and biomass energy plants to create a new safe and sustainable source of nutrients for agriculture.
which at present have limited commercial value into saleable land conditioners for use in agriculture. Previous studies by Stopford Energy & Environment have shown that biomass-ash
The new technology could potentially revolutionize hybrid breeding in agriculture. The study published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is a pilot research project on rice.
It is a real pest to agriculture and causes extreme damage to crops all around the world. â#oeof all of the current techniques used to control these flies SIT is considered the most environmentally friendly as it uses sterile males to interrupt matings between wild males and females.
#Climate change and drought in ancient timesthe influence of climate on agriculture is believed to be a key factor in the rise and fall of societies in the Ancient Near east.
in order to find out what influence climate had on agriculture in early farming societies. Her findings are published in this week's PNAS--Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
and widely differing effects on agriculture and societies in the Ancient Near east with settlements finding a variety of ways to deal with the problem.
The project is funded through the Agriculture and Foods Research Initiative. Corn Growing Degree days or GDDS will show producers how their crops are developing in lieu of this year's planting delays
These insecticides are used widely in agriculture and the authors conclude that fipronil and imidacloprid are inhibitors of mitochondrial bioenergetics resulting in depleted cell energy.
Florida's crop brings in $366 million annually according to the State department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
One of the biggest moves in agriculture Vierstra says is to be able to grow plants at higher density allowing producers to plant more crops in a given area thus saving space and other resources.
He hopes the research team's findings become the scaffold for a toolkit others can use--one that might fundamentally alter agriculture.
The report Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity-Scale Inventory will help the USDA evaluate greenhouse gas mitigation programs
and his team includes several CSU undergraduate students in computer science engineering and agriculture. The USDA report is the work of 38 experts in GHG estimation in the cropland grazing land livestock and forest management sectors across academia the USDA and other agencies of the federal government.
-and-burn agriculture and wildfires--figures into both climate change and public health. But until the release of a new study by Stanford university Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Mark Z. Jacobson the degree of that contribution had never been quantified comprehensively.
The effort to sequence the African rice genome was led by Rod A. Wing director of the Arizona Genomics Institute at the UA and the Bud Antle Endowed Chair in the School of Plant sciences in the UA College of Agriculture
#Changes in agriculture increase high river flow ratesjust as a leaky roof can make a house cooler
In times of flood and in times of drought water flow rates were exacerbated by more or less agriculture respectively. The authors suggest that
The UI research paper Roles of climate and agricultural practices in discharge changes in an agricultural watershed in Iowa can be found in the April 15 online edition of Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment.
Stanford professor David Lobell said he wanted to study the potential impact of climate change on agriculture in the next two decades because of questions he has received from stakeholders and decision makers in governments and the private sector.
The research by the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell walls in the University's School of Agriculture Food and Wine in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany will be presented at the upcoming
Similar results were obtained by researchers at the Center for Nuclear energy in Agriculture (Cena) at the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Esalq) of USP Piracicaba campus in an experiment conducted using Brachiaria decumbens a common
and Agriculture who believe that restoring habitats is the key to saving the species. The New england cottontail is a species of great conservation concern in the Northeast.
To understand how climate change may affect the availability of water for agriculture researchers at Princeton university analyzed trends in the water cycle in maize-growing areas of 21 African countries between 1979 and 2010.
For example land use in addition to tying up this valuable resource in agriculture is the main cause of biodiversity loss.
And the tool the team has created for analyzing the environmental costs of agriculture can be expanded
and actions could make it possible to both meet the basic needs of 3 billion more people and decrease agriculture's environmental footprint.
It proposes a set of key actions in three broad areas that that have the greatest potential for reducing the adverse environmental impacts of agriculture
Agriculture is responsible for 20 to 35 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions largely in the form of carbon dioxide from tropical deforestation methane from livestock and rice growing and nitrous oxide from crop fertilization.
Agriculture is the main source of water use greenhouse gas emissions and habitat loss yet we need to grow more food West said.
The research is funded by the U s. Department of agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Wheat is a staple source of food for the majority of the world.
and water resources and changing diets and health expectations said Sonny Ramaswamy director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture and a former Kansas State university faculty member.
and water resources to such an extent that agriculture soon stops being viable. In the authors'view this also casts a different light on the discussion about what to western eyes appears to be unused land in many parts of Africa.
They found no resistance from the sites in Greater manchester compared to 1. 7%resistance detected in West yorkshire implicating fungicide use in agriculture.
The use of certain compounds in agriculture notably difenoconazole propiconazole epoxiconazole bromuconazole and tebuconazol are particularly likely to lead to resistance yet are used freely in agriculture.
and that the primary reason was the onset of irrigation in agriculture and population growth.
We know irrigated agriculture is the major cause of depletion in the Texas Panhandle as compared to increasing urbanization in GMA 8 Chaudhuri said.
and Panhandle were involved equally in agriculture and irrigated crops over the Ogallala Aquifer. However the sandier soils of the South Plains allow more infiltration
and phenotypic analyses to identify multiple QTLS relevant to traits of interest in agriculture. Using the de novo sequencing data from this work
In New mexico for example demands on potable water from agriculture and a growing populace are so great that basically the only water left for the landscape is treated effluent Leinauer says.
or a plain given over to intensive agriculture) and under more or less favourable weather conditions (clear skies and temperatures higher than 28â°C or cloudy skies and temperatures between 15â°C and 20â°C). The results
The research developed by UB research group was supported also by the UB Science and Technology Centres (CCITUB) the Group of Rangers of the Government of Catalonia the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture Nutrition and Environment the Government of Andalusia and The french
and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling. â#The discoveries of these proteins
The calculation appears in a study conducted by researchers at the Center for Nuclear energy in Agriculture (CENA) of the University of SãO Paulo (USP) in collaboration with colleagues from the Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (Esalq) also at USP.
The researchers from the Australian Centre for Plant Functional genomics at the University of Adelaide's Waite campus within the University's School of Agriculture Food and Wine say that in soils where boron toxicity is reducing yields genetic improvement
Curran Carlson and their colleagues focused on small streams flowing through oil palm plantations smallholder agriculture
A total of 22 million hectares were acquired for agriculture. The authors Maria Cristina Rulli from Politecnico di Milano and Paolo D'Odorico from University of Virginia said:
Were these lands already used for agriculture prior to the acquisition and (if so) for the cultivation of what crops?
Unlike the Amazon which remains over 80%forested over half of the Cerrado has been cleared for agriculture including sugar cane biofuel crops.
agriculture river floods coasts tourism energy droughts forest fires transport infrastructure and human health. The report also includes a pilot study on habitat suitability of forest tree species. Connie Hedegaard European Commissioner for Climate Action said:
Expected biophysical impacts (such as agriculture yields river floods transport infrastructure losses) have been integrated into an economic model
Premature mortality accounts for more than half of the overall welfare losses (â20 billion) followed by impacts on coasts (â2 billion) and agriculture (â8 billion.
Of China's industries agriculture is the most water-intensive in terms of production and covers most of the country's northern provinces.
and that they moderate blood glucose concentrations following a meal according to a presentation by Susan M. Toth Phd research scientist Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
While pesticides are critical for the modern agriculture industry certain commonly used pesticides are neurotoxic
which was caused by more intensive agriculture and the expansion of the growing Chinese civilization. The sedimentary record shows a vicious cycle of primitive levees built larger and larger as erosion increased and periodic floods grew more widespread and destructive.
In the Everglades area of Florida where soils have been drained for agriculture organic soils have lost as much as five feet or more of their organic matter.
Alien species are one of the main threats to biodiversity and native species as well as causing immense economic damage e g. via yield losses in agriculture.
The existence of wetland-related agriculture near the markets such as farms that raise ducks in flooded rice fields appeared to be a contributing factor linked to the initial emergence of the virus
A U s. Department of agriculture Coordinated Agriculture Project grant is funding the work. The researchers are part of a College of Veterinary medicine team studying preharvest food safety in beef cattle.
Rapid population growth and expansion of agriculture has fueled deforestation of more than 80 percent of the original forest cover according to doctoral student Francis Dwomoh of the Geographic Information science Center of Excellence at South dakota State university.
That's not good for agriculture either he added. Historically the area experiences two rainy seasons--the primary one from April to July when the major crops are grown then a short dry period in August and a minor one from September to November.
#El Niã o expected to benefit U s. agriculture, economist saysa Kansas State university senior agricultural economist says there's a 70 percent chance an El Niã o will arrive this fall â
and industrial communities to discuss recent advances in robotic applications for agriculture and horticulture. The world's rapidly growing population brings new challenges for global food security.
*This research was funded by the Canola Council of Canada Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Loblaw Companies and the Canada Research Chairs Program.
The leaf-tailed gecko is a large nocturnal gecko from Madagascar threatened with extensive habitat loss from cattle grazing logging agriculture and collection for the pet trade.
But researchers in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences have found an effective way to kill poison ivy using a naturally occurring fungus that grows on the fleshy tissue surrounding the plant's seed potentially giving homeowners and forest managers the ability to rid
in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences. Preconceived views about risks and benefits of agricultural genetic engineering
The growing demand for land for agriculture and urban development often means that commercial forests are planted in marginal dry mountainous locations.
Conferred by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation the prize recognizes European scientists for innovative and exemplary research approaches in the areas of nature conservation agriculture and forestry and related sciences.
Agriculture accounts for around 80 percent of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions worldwide which have increased substantially in recent years primarily due to increased nitrogen fertilizer use.
Agriculture accounts for 8 to 14 percent of all greenhouse gas production globally. We're showing how farmers can help to reduce this number by applying nitrogen fertilizer more precisely.
During the last 15 years expansion of agriculture in the state has helped Brazil become one of the world's top producers of soy corn cotton and other staple crops.
The inventory of forestland in Mato grosso that is ideal for conversion to agriculture is starting to dwindle.
and land used for agriculture. Forestland remains green all year. Land used for agriculture displays spikes in greenness that correspond with growing seasons.
By looking for changes on those patterns of greenness Spera and her colleagues have mapped land use patterns in Mato grosso from 2001 to 2011--a time during
which agriculture exploded in the state. The rigorous mapping of land cover change and cropping is unprecedented in the temporal scope
Among those transformations was a dramatic expansion of agriculture on newly cleared forestland. In 2001 3. 3 million hectares of mechanized agriculture were cultivated in Mato grosso.
By 2011 agriculture had expanded to cover about 5. 8 million hectares. Most of that expansion however was concentrated in the early part of the decade.
Later in the decade--after about 2006--clearing of forestland slowed and the intensification of farming on existing farmland increased.
Following the theory Spera looked to see what characteristics may have been common to the land developed at the beginning of the agriculture expansion.
They found that the land initially converted to agriculture tended to be flat low elevation and close to roads.
They found that the forestland cleared for agriculture over the decade tended to be similar in those characteristics to the land developed at the beginning of the study period.
Moreover land on which agriculture was started but then abandoned during the study period tended to be significantly different from the initial land developed for agriculture suggesting that land that deviates too much from those characteristics is less than ideal for agriculture.
Spera then set out to see how much land with those ideal characteristics remains in Mato grosso. They found available land with those characteristics declined by as much as 40 percentage points over the decade.
An understanding of the characteristics that make land suitable for agriculture could inform future policymaking Spera said.
Maybe the land that we know isn't well-suited for agriculture anyway should be prioritized for protection from deforestation.
and Agriculture indicates that lakes in New england and the Adirondack mountains are recovering rapidly from the effects of acid rain.
and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture U s. Department of agriculture and the work was published online June 8 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics Unlocking the genetic make-up of the common bean is a tremendous achievement that will lead to future
advances in feeding the world's growing population through improved crop production said Sonny Ramaswamy director of USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
While we have much to learn about the application of genomics in agriculture this study is groundbreaking.
When forests are cleared-for palm oil plantations agriculture or livestock--we lose vital resources put animals at risk of extinction
The agriculture industry is expected to be one of the largest market segments for drone usage.
and how willing are the forest owners to convert land used for pasture agriculture and other purposes to forest and convert forest land to land for cultivation of energy crops?
and soil sciences in UD's College of Agriculture and Natural resources has identified a naturally occurring microbe living right in the soil around rice plants--Pseudomonas chlororaphis EA105--that inhibits the devastating fungus known as rice blast.
Since the dawn of agriculture tilling land has led to the loss of about half (55 to 78 gigatons) of the carbon ever sequestered in soil the team reports.
In many countries the pressure on the land available for agriculture and livestock farmers pushes people
and climate change does not severely damage agriculture Purdue University researchers say. The prevalence and severity of global malnutrition could drop significantly by 2050 particularly in the poorest regions of the world said Thomas Hertel Distinguished Professor of Agricultural Economics.
There is a clear link between productivity growth in agriculture and the number of malnourished people Hertel said.
Up to 2050 there could be some pluses for agriculture he said. But in the longer run adverse temperatures will likely become overwhelming and rising carbon dioxide concentrations won't help after a certain point.
since the development of agriculture typically use apparent physical traits to guide strain selection for crossbreeding with the hope that the offspring will manifest a combination and improvement of the desired traits such as drought pest and disease resistance
and Jordi Voltas professor from Agrotecnio describes the characteristics of agriculture at its beginnings by comparing kernel
and wood samples from ancient Near east sites--the birthplace of Western agriculture--with present samples.
Penelope Measham and Nicholas Macnair from the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tasmania along with Audrey Quentin from CSIRO Ecosystems Science published the results of their experiments using two common sweet cherry varieties.
Our findings also draw attention to the necessity for Brazil to implement more effective policies for reducing the use of fire in agriculture as fires can both devastate private property
Dr. James A. Macklin Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Canada; Dr. Zhi-Qiang Zhang Landcare Research New zealand;
The study was carried out in collaboration with Guy Boivin of the Horticulture Research and development Centre of Agriculture
The conversation at the forefront of critical American infrastructure--including agriculture energy and public health--has shifted from
Together with Neiker-Tecnalia the public body that reports to the Sub-Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Policy of the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community the following are part of this project:
Teagasc-The Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Ireland) IRSTEA (France) INTIA (Navarre) the University of Glasgow Caledonian (Scotland) and the Higher Institute for Agronomy (Portugal.
of Agriculture and Life sciences. He also is a member of the UA's BIO5 Institute.
Study of these microbes may have unrealized potential for agriculture biomass digestion for bioenergy crops or other discovery research applications.
Agricultural impactthis effort could help to answer key questions about the possible impact of climate change on agriculture.
Florida Museum assistant curator of Lepidoptera Akito Kawahara said new species of insects sometimes lead to powerful discoveries that affect other fields including agriculture and medicine.
This moth could have potential for improving agriculture and extending the shelf life of some foods.
and a true life-saver as it helps agriculture to feed a growing world population --but it is unfortunately also a dangerous pollutant says Benjamin Bodirsky lead-author of the study.
About half of these nitrogen pollution damages are from agriculture. This is why the scientists ran extensive computer simulations to explore the effects of different mitigation measures.
Both farmers and consumers would have to participate in mitigationit became clear that without mitigation the global situation may markedly deteriorate as the global food demand grows says Bodirsky who is affiliated also to the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Colombia (CIAT.
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