Controlled environment agriculture is going to be one of the big movements of the 21st century.
--which certainly affects agriculture but it appears to be more related to what Chinese people have been growing for thousands of years Talhelm said.
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences found that the best way to get rid of the little buggers is to fill a foil roasting pan with water
Water) â#¢Agriculture: Climate disruptions to agriculture have been increasing and are projected to become more severe over this century.
Some areas are already experiencing climate-related disruptions particularly due to extreme weather events. While some U s. regions and some types of agricultural production will be relatively resilient to climate change over the next 25 years
and livestock across the country--a trend that could diminish the security of our food supplyâ#Climate change effects on agriculture will have consequences for food security both in the U s. and globally through changes in crop yields and food prices and effects on food processing
Agriculture) â#¢Ecosystems: Ecosystems and the benefits they provide to society are being affected by climate change.
since the 1980s with the largest increases occurring in the western United states affecting ecosystems and agriculture.
and Agriculture (NIFA) EFSNE is investigating the benefits that increased regional food production may hold both for consumers--especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods--and for local farmers retailers distributors and others in the food supply chain.
but of civilization itself says plant agriculture professor Lewis Lukens. How did humans get food?
and agriculture production high tunnels are less complex and less expensive versions of greenhouses. The structures'passive heating and cooling capabilities can offer growers a cost-effective way to extend the growing season for high-value crops such as fruits vegetables and cut flowers.
Agriculture & Forestry) Senior Researcher at the MTT Agrifood Research Finland detected in his doctoral dissertation study that the principles of feeding planning normally used for silage feeding also apply to grazing.
One of the strongest greenhouse gases methane comes from agriculture and fossil fuel use as well as natural sources such as microbes in saturated wetland soils.
and Hiroyuki Miura from Tokyo University of Agriculture reported on a prototypic method known as basal wire coiling that shows potential as a simple and effective method for increasing the sugar concentration in tomato fruit juice.
Neilsen and colleagues Denise Neilsen Frank Kappel and T. Forge from the Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre conducted research to determine the response
and adapt to it emphasises Permanent Secretary Jaana Husu-Kallio from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
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Report lead author Henk Westhoek program manager for Agriculture and Food at PBL (The netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) said The report shows that the nitrogen footprint of meat
and dairy consumption this would reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture by 25 to 40%and nitrogen emissions by 40%.
and policy making should promote urban own-growing rather than further intensification of conventional agriculture as a more sustainable way of meeting increasing food demand she says.
New public initiatives like Brazil's Low-Carbon Agriculture Program which provides US$1. 5 billion in annual subsidized loans to improve agricultural production
Automatic control of microclimates has the potential to mitigate the total cost of water for agriculture which in Mexico amounts to almost 70 percent of the vital liquid.
and the origin of agriculture--a major step in human evolution in different regions of the world he said.
or agriculture migration corridors for wildlife are broken blocking access to food shelter and breeding grounds. A scholarly theory was developed to estimate the number of species in such fractured landscapes where patches of forest surrounded by farms resemble islands of natural habitat.
Especially in the tropics island biogeographic theory's application is distorting our understanding and conservation strategies in agriculture the enterprise on
and clearing forests for agriculture and development have set the stage for management issues of considerable concern today a U s. Forest Service study reports.
The perfect storm for horticulture and agriculture is also an opportunity Davies said. Consumer trends such as views on quality nutrition production origin
and scientists from around the world have recommended changes including some in agriculture forestry and other land use designed to mitigate their effects on climate change.
Rice was part of a group of 18 authors from around the world who wrote the chapter pertaining to agriculture forestry and other land use.
Agriculture globally contributes about 10 to 12 percent to greenhouse gas emissions Rice said. If you add in forestry it moves it up to around 25 percent.
Agriculture is significant but not the major contributor and has declined slightly percentage-wise since the last report in 2007 not so much because agriculture has changed that much
but because the energy sector is contributing more. IPCC Assessment Reports Backgroundthe IPCC was started in the late 1980s
Our chapter addresses agriculture's role in the future of the emission of greenhouse gases. This is the fifth assessment report said Rice who also served on the fourth report
but rather assessing the current state of the science on how agriculture forestry and land use contribute to
which impacted the U s. Key Recommendations for Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Usesoil carbon sequestration--One of the recommendations coming out of this
and residue those are major ways agriculture can reduce the emission of greenhouse gases because carbon dioxide is being taken up by the plant materials
In addition however agriculture's use of fossil energy could be reduced as a mitigation step Rice said:
When we make agriculture more efficient and use less tillage we're also using less energy.
We can make agriculture more efficient and more profitable in this way because energy is a significant cost.
That's one of the unusual aspects for our sector is that land is used for multiple things--agriculture forestry
Methane emissions from livestock is a major contributor to agriculture's footprint Rice said. Approximately 40 percent of agriculture's emissions are due to livestock
and if we could reduce livestock that would reduce emissions. The report acknowledges that there are social and political barriers to all of these options.
Agriculture's in a unique position Rice said. If you look at the mitigation options in the next 20 to 30 years
if agriculture implemented all of those mitigation practices around the world it would come close to mitigating all of agriculture's contributions to greenhouse gasses
so it would have a net zero effect plus a lot of these things would make agriculture more efficient.
A lot of these mitigation options are things we should be doing anyway--improving soil quality reducing erosion--so this effort is going to help Kansas agriculture
and UCL analyzed suicide figures of 18 Indian states--as well as national crime and census statistics and surveying done by the Ministry of Agriculture--to create data models that investigated
and reports from the field and suggest there is a suicide epidemic in marginalized areas of Indian agriculture that are at the mercy of global economics.
#Irrigated agriculture: precious habitat for the long-billed curlewdespite the recent rainfall California is still in a drought (snowpack 32%of average) so not only are limited water supplies
Curlews can't survive in the Central Valley without irrigated agriculture given the loss of most of their historic shallow-water habitats in summer
and certain types of agriculture (e g. rice alfalfa) provide nearly all of the habitat used by millions of ducks geese shorebirds and other waterbirds every fall winter and spring.
In the future irrigated agriculture will face increased water costs driven by competing needs of an increasing human population
In agriculture and forestry for example it could be used to keep animals from gnawing on trees.
This approach could allow us to produce energy and agriculture with the same water. But which crops to use?
and income growth will drive agriculture to ever-higher intensities. The danger is that it will become more vulnerable to climate extremes and pest outbreaks.
While branching has relevance in agriculture it is also very important in bioenergy crop production. Brookhaven plant biologist Benjamin Babst and Brittany Wienclaw who was a summer intern as part of the DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program at Brookhaven
Research by Alison Macintosh a Phd candidate in Cambridge university's Department of Archaeology and Anthropology shows that after the emergence of agriculture in Central europe from around 5300 BC the bones of those living in the fertile soils of the Danube river valley
Archaeological evidence has shown that the gradual intensification of agriculture was accompanied by rising production and complexity of metal goods technological innovation and the extension of trade
My results suggest that following the transition to agriculture in Central europe males were affected more than females by cultural and technological changes that reduced the need for long-distance travel or heavy physical work.
Overall in the first 6150 years of farming in Central europe the prosperity generated by intensive agriculture drove socioeconomic change
but also benefit agriculture worldwide as the population continues to rise. According to Long The Food and agriculture organization of the united nations predict that by 2050 we will need 70 percent more primary foodstuffs to feed the world than we are producing today
and genomics it also has the potential to be a large step forward for stabilizing agriculture in developing countries said Dave Hoisington program director for the U s. Agency for International Development Feed the Future Peanut
--and another reason to not let them be cleared permanently for agriculture said Chadwick Oliver the Pinchot Professor of Forestry
But conversion to agriculture is a permanent loss of all forest biodiversity. The manufacture of steel concrete and brick accounts for about 16 percent of global fossil fuel consumption.
For agriculture the moisture balance in the soil is what really matters said study coauthor Jason Smerdon a climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty.
The new research led by Luis Guanter of the Freie Universitã¤t Berlin used the data for the first time to estimate photosynthesis from agriculture.
Emissions from agriculture threaten to keep increasing as global meat and dairy consumption increases. If agricultural emissions are addressed not nitrous oxide from fields
#Health costs of air pollution from agriculture clarifiedammonia pollution from agricultural sources poses larger health costs than previously estimated according to NASA-funded research.
The improved simulation helped the scientists narrow in on the estimated health costs from air pollution associated with food produced for export--a growing sector of agriculture and a source of trade surplus.
The new research by Paulot and Jacob calculate the health cost associated with the ammonia emissions from agriculture exports to be $36 billion a year--equal to about half of the revenue generated by those same exports--or $100 per kilogram of ammonia.
Our study suggests controls on ammonia emissions from agriculture could help reduce particulate matter and provide significant societal benefits Paulot said.
Lead researcher Jared Decker an assistant professor of animal science in the MU College of Agriculture Food and Natural resources says the genetics of these African cattle breeds are similar to those of cattle first domesticated
SWAT was used to simulate the impacts of current land-use practices and conservation agriculture with agroforestry in strategic locations.
%and sediment concentration (35%)in the Gabayan watershed under agroforestry and conservation agriculture. The study was
and the needs of agriculture energy water resources finance transport industry trade and cities. In this way REDD+would add value to other initiatives such as agroforestry projects that are being implemented within these sectors
-and-burn agriculture and the extension of coca plantations the forests are fragmented highly. The forest relicts are surrounded by an open largely degraded cultural landscape.
and Agriculture (NIFA) which funded the research. I applaud the research team for their efforts as their work truly represents the science needed to bring about solutions to some of our greatest challenges.
As society places increasing demands on agricultural land beyond food production to include ecosystem services we needed a new way to evaluate'success'in agriculture said Jason Kaye professor of biogeochemistry.
This study was supported by the Louisiana State College of Agriculture and a Louisiana Agcenter Undergraduate Research Grant.
Agriculture accounts for 70 percent of our global freshwater consumption and therefore has a huge potential to affect local water scarcity lead author Anne Biewald says.
Many of the newly described species are known only from a few specimens collected before 1950 from locations that are impacted now heavily by agriculture or development.
and agriculture to health and energy--the researchers took the so-called CH2011 Scenarios as their starting point for the future development of temperature and precipitation in Switzerland.
This also includes improved management such as in agriculture for example--including the choice of varieties and pest control--and in water supply.
and their ideas--an international postal system organized agriculture research and meritocracy-based civil service among other things--shaped national borders languages cultures and human gene pools
Agriculture in Africa is dominated by smallholder farmers. Their priority is to produce enough food. Under such circumstances any measures that will be put in place to mitigate the effects of climate change should also improve food production.
Since farmers began planting Bt crops in 1996 with 70 million hectares planted in the United states in 2012 there have been only three clear-cut cases in agriculture of resistance in caterpillars
Their findings reveal that dung beetles were much more frequent in the previous interglacial period (from 132000 to 110000 years ago) compared with the early Holocene (the present interglacial period before agriculture from 10000 to 5000 years ago.
when humans began to use the land for agriculture explains Professor Jens-Christian Svenning. Bring back the large animals to Europeif people want to restore self-managing varied landscapes they can draw on the knowledge provided by the new study about the composition of natural ecosystems in the past.
They are also at great risk due to climate change and other human interference such as mining cattle ranching and agriculture.
Another danger of a more homogeneous global food basket is that it makes agriculture more vulnerable to major threats like drought insect pests and diseases
International agencies have hammered away in recent years with the message that agriculture must produce more food for over 9 billion people by 2050 said co-author Andy Jarvis director of policy research at CIAT and leader for climate
change adaptation with the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) which CIAT leads
In a paper published online this week in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems researchers at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University provide an overview of current farmland use and food production in the Northeastern U s. identifying potential
and director of the Agriculture Food and Environment program at the Friedman School the authors evaluated the degree to
The industry has become a poster child for agriculture's downsides but capturing wastewater methane leaks for energy would be a step in the right direction.
But while deforestation is expected to slow as the focus shifts to more intensive agriculture on existing plantations the emissions from wastewater lagoons will continue unabated
She ended up doing an honors thesis on palm oil agriculture and wastewater emissions. This paper is an extension of that thinking.
and Agriculture-sponsored Zebra Chip Specialty Crop Research Initiative. We are looking at three different approaches:
Under a National Institute for Food and Agriculture grant of $500000 Zhang and other Texas A&m scientists will take advantage of the recently developed DNA sequencing technology to map
and related crops thus supporting the long-term genetic improvement and sustainability of U s. agriculture and food systems she said.
and deforestation caused by expansion of agriculture as well as methane released by the animals themselves with a lesser amount coming from manure management and feed production.
But our results show that targeting the production side of agriculture is a much more efficient way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
emissions from agriculture and land use change by 25%.%Most of the savings would come from avoided land use change.
and could lead to developments that improve agriculture and the environment. It will be published by elife on March 11
Partial funding for this research was provided by the Iowa Agriculture and Home economics Experiment Station College of Agriculture and Life sciences at Iowa State university.
#Making biodiverse agriculture part of a food-secure futureis biodiverse agriculture an anachronism? Or is it a vital part of a food-secure future?
Large-scale agriculture is simplified characteristically and less diverse than smallholder agriculture Prof. Johns cautions. This is true in genetic ecological and nutritional terms.
however smallholder farmers can be both more productive and more sustainable than large-scale intensive agriculture.
Carbohydrates--mainly cereals sugars potatoes and other tubers--and vegetable oils produced efficiently by large-scale agriculture
Brazil's National School Feeding Law and program since 2009 requires that at least 30 percent of food in the program must come from family agriculture.
and it provides incentives for the purchase of diversified foods preferably from local family agriculture.
Food-policy makers around the world should seek to develop novel compensation mechanisms that reflect the benefits of small-scale biodiverse agriculture Prof.
Top-down and bottom-up approach neededmashed smashed and fried Americans love potatoes but only a few varieties are grown in much of North american agriculture.
This is the first study showing that grape seed can enhance the potency of one of the major chemotherapy drugs in its action against colon cancer cells says Dr Cheah researcher in the School of Agriculture Food and Wine.
A description of Vodvotz's work was published recently in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistrydetailing the production and manufacturing process as well as testing that showed both formulations maintained nearly 75%of key cancer-fighting chemicals for approximately 5 weeks in a controlled temperature setting.
The researchers who report their findings in the current issue of Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment did not see a drop in the number of pollinators such as bees in the fields.
The great demand for forest products to use for agriculture by the population of the Ethiopian highlands has resulted in the deforestation of a region with the lowest human development rate in the world.
With an economy based on subsistence agriculture associated with honey production the social implications of this shift in the status of honey are likely to be contentious
The research offers new perspective on evolutionary biology microbiology and the production of natural gas and may shed light on climate change agriculture and human health.
College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the senior author of the study. He is also a faculty member at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
Methanogens also play an important role in agriculture and human health They live in the digestive systems of cattle
but the damages they are causing to the U s. agriculture industry are anything but. Every year they feed on crops
This may be welcomed by agriculture and forestry while an introduced plant spreading uncontrollably in nature can become a major concern.
There are many good reasons to reduce agriculture's reliance on chemical weed control. But for the objective of plant species conservation other strategies like preserving farmland habitats including woodlots pastures
The study compared 360 patients with Parkinson's in three agriculture heavy Central California counties to 816 people from the same area who did not have Parkinson's.
Our findings show that at least in certain regions of the country community-focused agriculture has had a measurable effect on economic growth.
and may help inform policymakers about supporting community-focused agriculture programs. The researchers defined community-focused agriculture as farm enterprises that sell products directly to consumers
or that generate farm income from agritourism activities or both. Agritourism offers harvest festivals pick-your-own activities
According to the 2007 U s. Census of Agriculture--the most recently available data at the time of this study--only 6. 2 percent of all farms engage in direct sales
Goetz and his colleagues measured the impact of community-focused agriculture on local economic growth by examining its impact on agricultural sales overall.
Rather than look at the direct effect of community-focused agriculture on economic growth we looked at the effect of these operations on total agricultural sales
Using county-level data from the 2002 and 2007 U s. Census of Agriculture the team analyzed the link between direct farm sales--sales made directly from farmer to consumer--and total farm sales.
Identifying lands locally valuable for agriculture or other high-value uses considering biodiversity and the threat of deforestation our analysis provides both maps and a framework for realistic conservation planning.
Its not over yetandrew Novakovic is a professor in Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life science's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
whose research focuses on the U s. dairy industry and federal policy related to dairy other agriculture and food.
The Dairy product Donation Program (DPDP) is a program that requires the Secretary of Agriculture to immediately procure
#Finnish agriculture increasingly steered by market forcesagriculture in Finland is becoming more market driven in the next few years.
MTT Agrifood Research Finland anticipates that the major structural changes in agriculture will continue and the number of livestock farms in particular will decrease steadily.
The recent report by MTT Agrifood Research Finland describes the outlook of Finnish agriculture in the following five years.
For Finland there will be no significant changes in the overall level of EU support to agriculture by 2020.
The report EU's Common Agricultural Policy during 2014-2020 and Finnish agriculture can be found online (in Finnish with an abstract in English:
and demonstrates how the environmental impact of intensive agriculture can be minimized without harming fruit yield or quality.
Our results demonstrate how the environmental impact of intensive agriculture can be minimized without harming fruit yield
and are used in agriculture to produce seedless fruit to prevent fruit drop and to promote rooting
In addition the drug traffickers themselves convert forest to agriculture as a way to launder their money.
These new data provide evidence to support suggestions that the native hill breeds are less susceptible to the virus. Mainstream agriculture is looking to locally adapted breeds of livestock to increase resilience to new pressures from climate change
and adaptations to harsh conditions that agriculture might well need in years to come. If the breeds are lost we lose forever the opportunities offered by this crucial biodiversity.
They enable low input farming and food production on land unsuitable for other forms of agriculture.
whether it be automated through an harvester in agriculture a six-foot-six swimmer or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
Olmstead co-wrote a paper that created four-year peach orchard budgets and growing operation plans with former UF doctoral student Kim Morgan now an assistant professor in agriculture and applied
The National Honey Board the U s. Department of agriculture-National Institute of Food and Agriculture-Agriculture and Food Research Initiative-Coordinated Agricultural Projects and the Foundational Award programs funded this research.
Guano has played historically a key role in agriculture worldwide because it is rich in plant nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous.
A paper describing the research appears in the journal Agriculture Ecosystems and Environment. I was surprised to see all the different birds that are using these agricultural fields--especially during spring migration said Kelly Vanbeek a wildlife biologist at the Wisconsin Department of Natural resources who conducted the study while a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
There's so much land in agriculture that if only 3 or 4 percent of farmers adopted this approach it would have a greater effect than all the land that we have in wildlife preserves in Illinois he said.
Human activities such as agriculture fossil fuel combustion wastewater management and industrial processes are increasing the amount of nitrous oxide in the atmosphere.
The study featured in Conservation Biology provides a readily transferable method for conservation planners trying to anticipate how agriculture will be affected by such adaptations.
A Princeton university research team has created a readily transferable method for conservation planners trying to anticipate how agriculture will be affected by such adaptations.
Against all odds their productivity should even improve significantly by 2050 thanks in particular to conservation agriculture practices adopted by the country.
Conservation agriculture is unexpected essentialthis benefit would result from the combination of several factors. Firstly how the cotton is grown is crucial.
because agriculture accounts for 24-to-28 percent of the countryâ##s gross domestic productâ#said Abdurakhmonov who also serves as director of the Center of Genomics and Bioinformatics at the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan
and part of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources. â#oethe increased value of longer and stronger lint at 10 cents per pound would be at least $100 per acre more income from the lint for each
Methane from cows--a greenhouse gas 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide--makes up 20%of greenhouse emissions from agriculture or about 1%of all anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
and the most reliant upon agriculture to provide its income. The researchers also note that
and other organisations to better understand the role of different pollinators in European agriculture. Story Source The above story is provided based on materials by Pensoft Publishers.
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