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and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), says that using food for energy oe like sugar cane for biofuels oe must avoid depleting food stocks
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Before the industrialisation of agriculture, most people lived in land-based villages no larger or more complex than the Tankas'simple water-based community.
but land-based agriculture may also be in danger due to a predicted shortage of the crucial nutrient phosphorus by the year 2050.
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It feeds agriculture and energy production, drives industrial processes and transportation systems, and nourishes the ecosystems that we depend upon.
Such is the case in agriculture, particularly in arid climates. For example, Jordan's Water Authority is presently treating domestic wastewater for reuse in agriculture;
water is an incredibly precious resource in this part of the world. Another widely used process for treating water that can expand our water resource is desalinisation.
the design team Koetter Kim suggested cooling towers could be replaced by recirculating water through green space such as wetlands, walls of vegetation, agriculture and fountains.
Such projects can look at how city agriculture and nearby industrial practices relate, and how they can be adapted to conserve water.
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when agriculture began. We are on track to convert more and more wild lands oe including rainforest and savannah oe to cropland.
Already 40%of the planet's land surface is used for agriculture. To interrupt the flow of wholesale land conversion,
It would make agriculture more efficient, reducing global land-use change and also mean fewer reservoirs and river diversions for irrigation oe currently 70%of our freshwater use goes on agriculture.
In my next column I'll examine another potential global transformer. I'm loving your fantastic suggestions on the BBC Future Facebook page oe do please keep them coming.
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Most urban centres are experiencing a re-birth of their direct connections to agriculture. Within just the past 10 years, an increasing interest in city farming has been paralleled by the creation of the slow food and locallly sourced,
Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.
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America had thousands of varieties in the 1800s before industrial agriculture crushed diversity. But apple trees live for 200 years:
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and across the entire value chain of rural agriculture. For the past few years, social enterprise Kilimo Salama has been piloting a crop insurance scheme for smallholder farmers,
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scientists increasingly advocate the use of crops that grow in areas that would not normally support agriculture oe such as salicornia, a salt loving plant oe or the use of algae,
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and farmer, spoke of his vision of aquaponic agriculture. His talk featured a fish tank with a tomato plant growing out the top.
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such as the vast monocultures we create through agriculture, efforts are already being made to restore native ecosystems,
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The US accounts for over a fifth of the world's pesticide use, the vast majority of which is used in agriculture,
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Overnight it changed archaeologists'perception of the site from a rarely-inhabited ceremonial center to a bustling city with a complex system of agriculture to support it.
Instead of a wilderness, here were two continents with vast populations, grand urban centres and widespread agriculture.
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But with over half of the world's land already used for agriculture, do we really want to plough the rest?
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With seven billion of us now needing water, agriculture, industry and to generate power, the human demand on global water supplies has never been greater.
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By living more efficiently in larger populations, we free up rural land for ecosystem services or agriculture.
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The next panel declares that synthetic food is just the next step in modern agriculture allowing science to feed a swelling population that is no match for old-fashioned methods of agriculture.
Triumphantly, the last panel of the comic declares that chemists could now set up efficient factories"to meet all the food shortages anywhere in the world Â
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Agriculture is the main culprit. A raft of practices oe from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops oe contribute to depleted soils.
farmers should switch to no-tillage agriculture, in which once the grain is harvested, the new seeds are sown simply into holes among the leftover plant matter.
a farmer who has been using no-till agriculture for the past six years on his wheat fields in Kent, southeast England.
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say advocates of an expanding type of agriculture called precision farming. This is based on research that shows there is a significant variation in how crops grow over distances as small as an acre,
says Raj Khosla, an agriculture researcher at Colorado State university, and president of the International Society of Precision Agriculture.
He is helping farmers to harvest a new crop: data. They do it by bringing electronic tools into their crop rows-global positioning systems, infrared devices that measure soil's electrical conductivity and light and sound sensors.
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blazing a trail across continents to clear trees for grazing and agriculture, enabling societies to develop from hunter-gatherers to rooted civilizations that produced complex technologies.
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and records, provide a stark example of inherent conflicts in the Agriculture departments historical roles as both marketer of agriculture products and Americas nutrition police.
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Agriculture, livestock, fishing and the food industry are the greatest source of carbon dioxide water pollution, but in both cases the effects of human excretion (through breathing or due to waste water treatment) are next on the list.
just like manure is reused as fertiliser in agriculture. oethe problem is that in many cases our rivers have a very low water level
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where expanding agriculture often comes at the expense of the tropical forests that act as massive carbon sinks because of their rich diversity and abundance of plant life.
and his colleagues, makes a strong case for intensifying agriculture on already-converted land instead of putting new fields into production. oeone path is to expand agricultural land,
says West. oethe other path is to intensify agriculture on existing lands. The realty is there will be some of both.
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A policy paper on the eating of insects is being considered formally by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
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The departments of Treasury, Agriculture and Health and human services have proposed spending $400 million a year to bring grocery stores
The departments of Treasury, Agriculture and Health and human services have proposed spending $400 million a year to bring grocery stores
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and produce to consumers. oethere is unbelievable consumer interest in local agriculture that we havent seen in decades,
but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U s. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation.
and do huge volumes of food and thats part of American agriculture and thats good, Merrigan said. oebut there are a lot of people who want to do alternative markets,
and produce to consumers. oethere is unbelievable consumer interest in local agriculture that we havent seen in decades,
but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U s. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation.
and do huge volumes of food and thats part of American agriculture and thats good, Merrigan said. oebut there are a lot of people who want to do alternative markets,
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For 15 years, Eddie Anderson, a farmer, has been a strict adherent of no-till agriculture,
lower crop yields, rising farm costs and more pollution of land and water. oeit is the single largest threat to production agriculture that we have seen ever,
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 agricultures 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 theyve always promised,
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Agriculture Law reports that the district court agreed with the plaintiffs that the environmental assessment undertaken by the USDA was inadequate
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and monitor a persons metabolic reaction to the food eaten will cause the agriculture industry to evolve with great precision around the tiny niche demands of consumers.
and precision of farming operations will create unprecedented new levels of opportunity in agriculture, making future agribusiness professionals some of the most highly skilled people on earth.
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the secretary of the Australian Council of Deans of Agriculture, says coupled with declining university enrolments,
When contacted by the ABC the Federal department for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry and several state agencies said they were aware of the projection
scientific research in agriculture will be needed more than ever. But Ms Trench-Thiedman says many of the specialist agriscientists needed to develop
Professor Pratley says agriculture loses many graduates to other industries. oewere probably losing them even out of the industry to other areas
because people who are trained in agriculture can almost do said anything, he. oetheyve got very strong levels of multi-skilling
Mr Kerin says this situation has made post graduates in agriculture oescarcer than hens teeth. He blames the image of agriculture
and community ignorance Professor Pratley agrees there has been a negative perception of the industry. oetheres been a perception for quite a
while that perhaps there are no jobs in agriculture, that the jobs arent that exciting, that the pay rates arent good enough and you perhaps dont need educated people in the industry,
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but that isnt stopping modern agriculture scientists from attempting to recreate, and build on, the successes of this ancient farming technique.
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such as ground transportation or agriculture, emits a unique portfolio of gases and aerosols that affect the climate in different ways and on different timescales. oewe wanted to provide the information in a way that would be more helpful for policy makers,
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Monsanto only released the raw data after a legal challenge from Greenpeace, the Swedish Board of Agriculture and French anti-GM campaigners.
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and a healthy environmental balance in agriculture worldwide. With the soybean genetic code now determined
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CA on the rapidly evolving topic of the future of agriculture. Growing up on a grain farm in the little town of Mobridge,
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and all indoor agriculture, will be less costly and likely more environmentally friendly than fertilizer guzzling
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About 10 years ago, Dad started thinking that the future of agriculture wasnt necessarily in bigger equipment,
Kinzenbaw on changes in agriculture. I was sure proud of how quickly the farmers in Iowa were able to get the corn crop planted this spring,
But agriculture is all about innovation.##Photo credit: marketwire Via USA Today Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati s
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and delivered as online services#rom movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading
Agriculture is powered increasingly by software as well, including satellite analysis of soils linked to per-acre seed selection software algorithms.
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and smaller operators are healthier than bees used in commercial agriculture. Youre putting them on a semi
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and about 90 percent less water than outdoors agriculture. While LED bulbs are expensive, the cost is steadily dropping.
The science behind LED lighting in agriculture is quite rigorous and well known, #he said, and the costs are dropping dramatically.
and people need to get used to the idea of sunless, landless agriculture. But its clear to me a system like this is necessary.#
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and so are our brains Scientists blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanization. Man has conquered Everest and landed on the Moon,
They blame agriculture, with restricted diets and urbanisation compromising health and leading to the spread of disease.
The timing points to the switch from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture which began 9, 000 years ago.
However, the rise of agriculture does not explain why brains are also shrinking. The male brain of 20,000 years ago measured 1, 500 cubic centimetres.
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Economic damage to agriculture, timber, and landscaping by deer totals more than $1. 2 billion a year.
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Modified seeds and large monocultures in general, are monopolizing our nations agriculture system like never before
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but these studies show further restrictions over the use of organophosphates in agriculture may be necessary to protect kids health.
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we hit upon the topic of micro agriculture which conjures up a strong sense of fascination among nearly everyone weve talked to.
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the researchers estimated that bats could be worth billions to agriculture around the world. Several migratory tree-living species of bats were being slaughtered in unprecedented numbers#by wind turbines
they clearly show how bats have enormous potential to influence the economics of agriculture and forestry.#
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Two USDA agencies#the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Agricultural research service#fund projects at universities and research centers to study how to control
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define the future of agriculture in America. Maybe global agriculture.##We think its going to take longer than a month to make real progress. echoing Robb's concern, above.
Later on in the discussion, they talk more about how groups of both the biotech and organic sectors should have smaller meetings,
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In 2009, the richest nations pledged more than $20 billion to aid agriculture in developing countries,
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Dams And Agriculture Pose Big Threat Inefficient agricultural irrigation and draw offs for the increasing number of hydroelectric dams in the country are among the factors drying up important wetlands in Turkey.
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The upheaval, in some ways echoing the mechanization of agriculture a century ago, began its latest turbulent phase with the migration of tech manufacturing to places like China.
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who directs their the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center. The limiting factor is light. The total food produced depends on the amount of light reaching plants.
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It is nontoxic to bees, ladybugs and other beneficial insects and therefore unique to agriculture and conventional pesticides.
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and represents one of the major advances in agriculture. In that regard, it facilitated the rise of sedentary human civilization. 11.
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The analogy is not only to the industrialization of agriculture but also to the electrification of manufacturing in the past century,
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#U s. colleges see increased demand for degrees in agriculture An agronomist measures and records corn growth and other processes.
Many U s. colleges see a boom in enrollment for agriculture as students flock to study subjects they feel offer a clear path to a job on graduation.
as a booming agriculture industry and practical skills taught at the colleges can help develop a career that addresses issues such as global hunger
when we use the term agriculture, it s not all plows and cows. It s clearly looking at the real intricacies of science
and innovation,#said Ian Maw, vice president for food, agriculture and natural resources at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities in Washington, D c. At traditional agriculture powerhouses such as Penn State,
Iowa State university, where the agriculture college this fall expects to surpass an enrollment record set 35 years ago,
said Wendy Wintersteen, the agriculture college dean. Anthony Lackore, 24, graduated from Iowa State in 2010 and works as a production agronomist raising soybean seeds for Dupont Pioneer,
Lackore recalls a College of Agriculture graduation ceremony in which graduates future plans were read aloud as they walked to the podium.
The university reports a 95%job-placement rate for graduates from the colleges of engineering and agriculture.
Dupont Pioneer has been a top employer of College of Agriculture graduates for the past two years,
in part because some predict agriculture productivity will have to increase 70%by 2050 to feed the world s growing population,
and agriculture is a bright spot in the economy,##she said. We really need people to help us meet those world challenges.#
#Even agriculture colleges in states not known for large-scale production of cash crops are reporting increased interest.
Enrollment at the University of Connecticut s College of Agriculture and Natural resources has doubled more than since 2004,
said Gregory Weidemann, the agriculture college dean. Students show an interest in the big problems of the day#obesity and food safety in the U s. and hunger in the developing world,
in contrast to Iowa, where they have a large agriculture industry.##The skills taught in ag programs also tend to offer a clear career path once students earn a diploma,
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Irrigation canals are the blood vessels of agriculture, delivering water throughout America s farmland. Pretty soon, they may well deliver a bit of electricity too, thanks to the Hydrovolt micro-generator.
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Texas agriculture contributes $80 billion to the state s economy, second only to petrochemicals, according to the Texas Department of agriculture.
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The significance of bees to agriculture cannot be underestimated##says Lu. And it apparently doesn t take much of the pesticide to affect the bees.
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but experts at the Reuters Food and Agriculture Summit in Chicago this week said an estimated 30 percent to 50 percent of the food produced in the world goes uneaten.
Agriculture is the world s largest user of water, a big consumer of energy and chemicals and major emitter of greenhouse gases during production, distribution and landfill decay.
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He referred to the green revolution#that has transformed global agriculture over the past half-century and added that what we now need is a new green revolution for the next 50 years.#
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for farmers, for the planet First, in an excellent and frankly a bit depressing article for Mother Jones, Tom Philpott says that agriculture in the US is at a crossroads.
We (in the form of the USDA) say yes to Dow chemical and Monsanto and their herbicide-drenched#version of intensive agriculture.
Treehugger covered the Gates vision of African agriculture before, so suffice it to say that Gates,
invested in Monsanto, supports a high-tech vision of agriculture, rather than the low-tech, affordable, diverse, climate-resistant,
his focus on high-tech agriculture, and technological development in general#hen clearly a less high-tech approach would be just as or even more effective#s just delusional.
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South China Agriculture University scientists were able to create the glow-in-the-dark pigs by injecting fluorescent protein from jellyfish DNA into pig embryos.
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We are headed also towards another agriculture revolution, from horizontal agriculture to vertical agriculture, where we grow very high quality food in AI controlled buildings.
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camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption. The Self-Filling Water bottle http://www. behance. net/gallery/Atmospheric-Water-Collector/3949181 The Atmospheric Water Collector shown above is still not a functional product,
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and weight issues of previous prototypes. 9. Agriculture Robots Agricultural robotics are, somewhat surprisingly, still in their infancy.
there is still talk of a possible general labor shortage in the near future#articularly in agriculture.
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#Agriculture the New Game of Drones Futurist Thomas Frey: A few days ago the people in Deer trail, Colorado made national news with a proposed ballot initiative to allow hunting licenses to shoot down flying drones.
more specifically, the use of drones in agriculture. Even though the vast majority of drone use today is government and military,
one of the big emerging markets will be agriculture. Several new companies have begun moving into the ag-drone space,
Agriculture drones typically come in a fixed wing or quadcopter configuration Today s Ag Industry Drones There are many possible uses for flying drones,
Precision Agriculture prescription data Tiling/drainage evaluation and survey Timesaving pre-assessment for field tasks Oblique shots for de-tassel timing Drainage estimates
and agriculture seems to be at the top of everyone s list. Startups in this area require a rare blend of skills.
In addition to the obvious skills of aviation and agriculture, they need people skilled in wireless communications, image sensors
-use unmanned helicopters began with a request in 1983 from the external branch of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries,
and agriculture will be the launch point and proving ground for many others. Farmers will become thousands of times more precise in how they apply chemicals and fertilizers
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#Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria, has announced that the country expects about 3. 5 million jobs to be created in the agriculture and allied industries by the end of 2015 with the current policy and institutional reforms taking place
The group was joined at the Geneva meeting by the Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Akinwumi Adesina;
We have stopped viewing agriculture as a development program, but now as a business that can assure food security,
Nigeria s agriculture will further drive economic growth and unlock new opportunities for millions of our farmers and agribusinesses,
Nigeria s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina had introduced the Nigeria s Agricultural Transformation Action Plan (ATAP) last year to provides a comprehensive government strategy that will reduce the cost of food imports,
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Most urban centres are experiencing a re-birth of their direct connections to agriculture. Within just the past 10 years, an increasing interest in city farming has been paralleled by the creation of the slow food and locallly sourced, or#oelocavore#movements
Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.
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a leading expert on agriculture, has declared that#oea green revolution is already under way.##Some readers may find that statement incredible.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the leading nongovernmental donor to African agriculture reports that 10 African countries are posting annual output increases of 6 percent, more than twice the rate of population growth.
#In short, African agriculture is booming. And that transformation is happening despite the fact that African farmers have a ways to go in adopting new farming technologies
So there s a considerable upside to African agriculture. If farmers adopt proven technologies in the coming years,
I also received research grants from international donors with a keen interest in African agriculture,
who leads the agriculture program at the United kingdom s Overseas Development Institute. Here s why:
Of this, 400 million hectares can be used for agriculture, reports the World bank and the Food and agriculture organization.
an investment fund focused on agriculture in Sub-saharan africa.##oewe could be moronic and not grow anything
#oeoutsiders often miss the real action in African agriculture by ignoring important staples that are grown in the region
introducing a worldwide campaign around#oeclimate-smart agriculture.##Climate change can also be managed by greater reliance on drought-tolerant crops.
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Melinda talked about the benefits of contraception and agriculture. But I put special emphasis on our Reinvent the Toilet Challenge,
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#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
Humans have practiced a rather crude form of agriculture for millennia: we douse fields to give them as much water
#In Idaho, the nonprofit is collaborating with Millercoors to support farmers who upgrade their irrigation systems to new precision agriculture systems.
Change in agriculture comes slow. Yet the promise of precision agriculture is to find the right mix of profit and environmental protection.#
#oewe are also seeing a changing of the guard, #writes TNC s manager of Idaho s Silver Creek Preserve.#
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As in other developing countries, a lot of Chinese people work in agriculture#oughly 37 percent of the population, in fact, in comparison to 0. 7 percent in the United states and 1. 4 percent in the United kingdom
According to a report in the South China Morning Post,#oethe Ministry of Agriculture oversees the raising of hogs,
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#Tribine agriculture s latest breakthrough innovation Tribine Grain harvesters have been called combines since the 1930#s. They were called combines
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and the threat it poses to agriculture were part of the original inspiration for creating a robotic bee,
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#8 big changes coming to agriculture by 2030 Farmers will own more than 1 drone by 2030.
On Monday, Iowa Farm Bureau s Economic Summit included a speech outlining big coming changes to agriculture in the years ahead.
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AGRICULTURE AND MORE I have seen even a startup that utilizes sensors to monitor the health
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It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:
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long-established industriesand they do not come much larger or older than agriculture. Farmers can be terrible managers,
It could be the biggest change to agriculture in rich countries since genetically modified crops And it is proving nearly as controversial,
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#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.
Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.
Precision agriculture: Farming management based on observing (and responding to) intra-field variations. With satellite imagery and advanced sensors, farmers can optimize returns on inputs while preserving resources at ever larger scales.
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#The future of drones expected to transform agriculture 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.
That s because agriculture operations span large distances and are mostly free of privacy and safety concerns that have dogged the use of these aerial high-fliers in more heavily populated areas.
and nearly half a billion in tax revenue to be generated collectively by 2025, much of it from agriculture.
the applications in agriculture, said Kevin Price, a former professor at Kansas State who left the university this month to join Roboflight,
fertilizer and other applications based on how much is needed at a specific point in a field a process known as precision agriculture saving the grower money from unnecessarily overusing resources
who also owns a precision agriculture company. While some farmers could join Johnson and buy their own drones,
Still, he said for drones to have a meaningful and long-lasting impact in agriculture, they need to be retrofitted with additional devices to collect more information such as thermal sensors to identify early signs of plant stress that can later be parsed,
there is some uncertainty over how much flexibility the federal government has given really agriculture to use the aircraft.
Drones are being used for agriculture in a slew of countries including Canada, Australia, Japan and Brazil.
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