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and evilto safely use bacteria in agriculture to help fertilize crops it is vital to understand the difference between harmful and healthy strains.

because they are found primarily in the dry and acidic soils of the Southern hemisphere making them potentially important for agriculture in less productive areas.

Although some members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex have been used to protect plants from dangerous fungal infections their potential to cause infection has resulted in severe limits on their use in agriculture.

Our goal is to have discovered these newly nitrogen-fixing bacteria be used for a more sustainable approach to agriculture in the future.


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while minimising the use of water and the impact on the environment says JÃ rg Fuhrer leader of the project Water demand in Swiss agriculture and sustainable adaptive options for land and water management

and the related risks for agriculture. 1st Agroscope Sustainability Conferenceon 23 january 2014 the Institute of Sustainability Studies at Agroscope will organise a conference on Water in agriculture--today and tomorrow.


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and wait 10 years after municpialities to adopt technologies. 10 percent is in agriculture. On average, agriculture uses about 70 percent of the water in the world.

I'm talking to you from California. Eighty-five to ninety percent of the water in this state is used in agriculture.

Why would you conserve water in the urban environment when the farmers are flooding the fields?

 Then you start to see a baseline water need that is significant--and that's no fun, no agriculture, business, nothing.

You could make a world of difference if agriculture handled things better. But I just don't know how.


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Support local agriculture, small gardening plots on unused city property and farmers markets. Switch city-owned fleet vehicles to electric or natural gas vehicles.


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Now, agriculture may pave the way to a new urban renaissance


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An old Chicago slaughterhouse turned vertical farmin a neighborhood with close ties to the American industrial food system, an old Chicago meat-packing plant could become the symbol of the new urban


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because as much as 30 percent of the global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by agriculture. One of the main foci is an operation in the Sacramento Valley owned by the Muller brothers


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In an economy as heavily dependent on agriculture as Argentina's, boosting production and protecting workers are vitally important.


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The biggest concern when you re doing agriculture in urban environments is the soil. So we re not using New york city soil.


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We're always finding ways to build sustainability into the agriculture in countries in which we operate.


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Metaphorically speaking, he's betting the farm that the next revolution in agriculture will be more about software and machines than soil and irrigation.


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the recently established director-general of the United nations'Food and Agriculture Organisation, believes that the U s. is causing a rise in the global price of grain.

FDA tackles antibiotics in livestock Agriculture's future power struggle: Land grabbing, resource control and competition Bioengineering e coli to turn seaweed into fuel Fatty foods cause brain scarring, study shows


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aerospace, agriculture surge; computing leadsif you could measure 2010 in terms of brainpower, it was a banner year.

In second place was the agriculture industry, with an 11 percent gain year over year;

Agrochemicals & Agriculture: 22,726 patents in 2010; up 11%from 2009. Cosmetics: 6, 438 patents in 2010;

Agrochemicals and Agriculture Agrochemicals led the industry in growth, with a 14 percent boost year over year.

However, traditional agriculture remains by far the industry's largest sector, with 67 percent of the overall industry.


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So-called precision agriculture of the type being embraced by Pepsico could help reduce water usage by up to 50 percent


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As part of this year's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival program, the Greenhouse uses the by-products of agriculture for insulation


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He is the first director of the USDA s new National Institute of Food and Agriculture,

the federal government s principal funder of agriculture research conducted at public institutions. I talked to Dr. Beachy recently about how biotechnology can help put food on the table,

Our Secretary of agriculture Tom Vilsack is convinced that the answers to the future of agriculture and rural prosperity will come from science

These are linked all around food and agriculture. It s a different setting than even 20 years ago.

It s a time for change in agriculture and a time for change in the perception of agriculture.

what might impact our agriculture production with the change in climate. If we grow more biomass

we ll have to expand agriculture to our parks, forests and golf courses. When you increase production,


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which Jessi and her classmates in Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability presented 11 different innovations aimed at solving problems related to agriculture and healthcare in the developing world.


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Good news for an insect that does so much for our agriculture but has been the subject of the terrifying colony collapse disorder,


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getting residents used to the idea that a city can be a center of growth for agriculture, not just people and concrete.

The study appears in the current issue of The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development.


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in an era of industrialized agriculture, would be headed otherwise for extinction. Ovadã Â a supports growers of tamarillo, a type of tree tomato,


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Oxford economist Paul Collier argued the virtues of big agriculture. He also called on the European union to support genetically modified crops and for the United states to kill domestic subsidies for biofuel.

Indeed, big agriculture earns its moniker--it tends to work most lucratively with large-scale plantations and operations to


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Cloud computing and Internet services for agriculture are growing in popularity, allowing farmers to keep better track of their assets--from crops to livestock to expenses.

Agriculture, of course, is a big one, alongside healthcare, financial services, energy and defense. The New york times'Randall Stross profiles a few of these companies,


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but it uses about one tenth of the water required for traditional agriculture. It also has the potential to help both fish

grapes for wine and other products--Echternacht said the point is not to replace traditional agriculture,


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The agriculture biotechnology company has been testing out drought-resistant corn seeds. The genetically modified corn takes up water more gradually from the soil

Most likely a combination of new seed technologies and old agriculture methods like dry farming will provide our best defense against the inevitable loss of precipitation over our farmland.


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according the UN Food and Agriculture Administration. That's a lot of logs to keep track of.


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and itll be tied more with the agriculture tradition. Theres an interesting issue about durability in the physical environment and the desire for that--like what vinyl siding does so well


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AGRICULTURE One major innovation: the development of nitrogen-based fertilizer at the close of the 19th century by chemists Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber.


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The company provides basic technical assistance to farmers and buys their surpluses at rural agriculture centers in surrounding communities.


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produce was consumed locally before advances in refrigeration and transportation transformed agriculture into a global business.


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and agriculture and it is clear that we won t solve them without engaging in action with respect to the food system.

Industry (or Ëoeconventional) agriculture requires a great deal of resources, including disproportionate amounts of water and fossil fuel that s needed to make chemical fertilizer,


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the use of drones also offers new capabilities in police work, mapping, agriculture, conservation and scientific studies.

Precision agriculture: This is expected to be the largest market for drone technology, the AUVSI study finds.


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agriculture expertise and process engineering (not to mention marketing weight) to the table, while the latter brings its intellectual property around enzymes.


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Last week, the Ministry of Agriculture announced that the already drought-prone country has had only 14 percent of the average rainfall in the last year.

because, before last year, almost all of the funding for Information and Communication Technology in agriculture was private,


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and is used widely in agriculture. You can t grow plants without phosphorus. It s a major component for animal life also.


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and grass-fed productions into agriculture, and by changing policy incentives, the nation's agricultural system would be equipped better to deal with several environmental impacts such as climate change, biodiversity loss and resource issues.

U s. agriculture has had an impressive history of productivity that has resulted in relatively affordable food, feed,

Agriculture is at a pivotal stage in terms of meeting societal demands for products while improving sustainability.

why we are supporting big agriculture instead of supporting more sustainable practices? However, as customers shop at stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and farmer's markets,


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70 goes to agriculture, and 10 goes to you. What we need to look at is those first two markets

With agriculture if you think about a farmer today, typically they're getting their water free or highly subsidized.

There exists a state-level policy that prohibits the reuse of wastewater for agriculture --but we didn't have the technology then to do so safely.


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or roughly 3 percent of the total surface dedicated to agriculture. That's a lot said Blas,


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Overall, the agriculture industry in Hong kong has gone into decline over the past few decades. In fact, the market share of locally grown vegetables and fruits has shrunk from 30 percent in the 1990s to 2. 3 percent in 2011, according to the government.


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possibly pioneering the technology for agriculture in this sunny section of Italy. The hybrid system from Solergy captures


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The negative team (animals should be on the menu) was made up of agriculture lecturer and pig farmer Fiona Chambers, animal scientist Bruce Mcgregor,


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and regenerate agriculture. And while Open Food Foundation endeavors to rethink food distribution chains, a new social enterprise is focusing its attention on city's home growers.


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-and-burn agriculture and ranching, new bamboo plantations are rising. Nicaragua's bamboo boom has given root to


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Precision agriculture â we re starting to use a lot of computers and satellites to optimize crop development.


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agriculture, in the form of raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle. What's surprising is that many industries produce chemicals that actually cool the globe, according to the study.


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The reactor breaks down water and human waste into fertilizer to be used for agriculture, and hydrogen,


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but are not being utilized enough for urban ag Existing green roof incentive programs have not been designed to support rooftop agriculture.


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That's important because of Pepsico's largesse in the agriculture space. In the U k. alone, it's the largest purchaser of domestic potatoes and a top buyer of local oats and apples.


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Now, Picarro is working with agriculture and food products companies to apply the sensors to measuring the isotopes in foods.


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Investing in Agriculture: Far-reaching Challenge, Significant Opportunity: An Asset management Perspective. This report was written by the DB Climate Change Advisors


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and commercial agriculture purposes and raise animals for food--chickens, bees, et cetera. Another aspect of the study is to  work on a standard lease agreement that can be used by various city departments with vacant land to make it easier to lease those spaces for community gardens.


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If the whole population is not working in agriculture then people's time is freed up to work on other things.

Seeing how food and agriculture behavior has been changing over centuries, we're heading in the direction of not being able to provide for everybody.


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but primarily it is our agriculture. All the corn, rice and wheat we grow to feed ourselves.

Like slowing the monsoon which has a significant impact on agriculture. SP: Are there any such schemes that hold some promise?


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with production reportedly slipping 17 percent, according to the agriculture ministry. Roughly 100,000 farmers have lost an estimated 105 billion yen ($1 billion.


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or agriculture based in multistory buildings. Despommier says that scaling  aeroponics, hydroponics and drip irrigation to the size of a 30-story,


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which results in very little water wastage. oewe use about three percent of the water of traditional agriculture and it all recyclable, says Farmedhere CEO Jolanta Hardej in an interview with Designbuildsource


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when land has been bought for agriculture, it was split equally between food and non-food crops.

"If there is no investment in agriculture in Africa, it will not grow, "said Dr Answeeuw.""We need these investments;


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The crop mob was conceived as a way of building the community necessary to practice this kind of agriculture


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who said industrial agriculture was doomed? Robotics engineers are buzzing about a machine with potentially transformative implications for agriculture, surveillance, and mapping:

the"robobee.""Researchers atâ Harvard School of engineering and Applied Sciencesâ plan to have mechanized the critters flapping though the air autonomously within the next three years, according to NPR.


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a farmer, has been a strict adherent of no-till agriculture, an environmentally friendly technique that all but eliminates plowing to curb erosion and the harmful runoff of fertilizers and pesticides.

rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,

The first resistant species to pose a serious threat to agriculture was spotted in a Delaware soybean field in 2000.

The superweeds could temper American agriculture enthusiasm for some genetically modified crops. Soybeans, corn and cotton that are engineered to survive spraying with Roundup have become standard in American fields.

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 they ve always promised,


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Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could instead go to thirsty populations rather than irrigating freshwater dependent crops.


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the United nations Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) has predicted that feeding the world, expected to rise to nine billion by 2050,


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Researchers say new agriculture methods and crops could halve food price inflationresource conservation technologies in agriculture could potentially halve the staggering increases in food prices in the face of climate change,

the International Food Policy Research Institute has found. IFPRI will release key findings on agriculture and soil degradation at this month's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Rio de janeiro.

The institute, one of the many centers affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research,

IFPRI researchers have found that drought tolerance technologies for rain-fed agriculture would increase maize output by 27 percent,


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Li said the Chinese Agriculture Ministry had recommended the use of Orgacids probiotics, acidifiers and other green products in animal feed as part of their efforts to phase out the harmful antibiotics. oeafter using Orgacids and probiotics,


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Every inch of the space is built for agriculture, be it a fish tank of tilapia that fertilizes the lettuce,


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Rising Asian middle-class likely to change U s. agriculture The sophisticated food demands of newly affluent consumers in China


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and by 1, 000 BC, many of the practices that define agriculture today, such as using manure for fertilizer,

The world population of three billion that had arrived by 1960 gave way to the industrialized agriculture that defines food production today.

and the start of the animal agriculture business all saw dramatic increase in yields, and the use of technology to produce GMOS was born.


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It a hybrid of the two, an alternative version of agriculture for the 21st century:

But you use a strong cropping system as the foundation for your agriculture. Then, when you need it,


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There are 450 million wage workers in agriculture worldwide, and in many countries they are paid often inadequately, with 60%living in poverty.


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and agriculture incubator--but none to date match the scale of Farmedhere


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The fuel of the futureone has to ask oewhat the hell were they thinking? Clearly, instead of thinking, the EU political elites were seduced by Greenpeace, FOE and similar activists.


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What woes it mean for agriculture? Today post was prompted by an invitation from Andrew Revkin to join in on a discussion spawned by his recent post at NYTS oedot Earth titled,

synthetic fuels, biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, etc. â agriculture and food production: engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation:

So much of this discussion potentially relates to agriculture. The authors of the paper, Kent H. Redford, William Adams, Georgina Mace, Rob Carlson, Steve Sanderson,

A few things that synthetic biology might bring to us in agriculture are: the ability to raise crops using fewer pesticides;

This may well favor applications in existing industrial processes and commodity chains (energy, agriculture, aquaculture) and the operations of large business corporations.


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