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Combined with the arrival of TV DINNERS and Cold war fears over food security depictions of future food also enjoyed a revival.
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However, in the tropics pressure to plant more land is growing fastest due to increasing human population, changing diets, food security concerns,
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Lower prices for bread and greater food security for the worlds poor. Wheat is a relative latecomer to the world of DNA mapping.
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The EU must invest in food security.##However, Stuart Hine, a senior entomologist at the Natural history Museum, said insects still may not solve all problems.
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including $6 billion for a food security fund housed at the World bank. Just $925 million of those pledges has been paid
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prompting fears for food security as the insect is vital for pollinating many major crops. However UK scientists insisted that the decline of bees is due to a number of factors, such as disease or a lack of suitable food sources in the countryside,
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ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY THREAT In Southeast asia, China and parts of Africa, bird flu is already a major economic and food security issue,
and food security in parts of the world where bird flu is a major threat, but said using them would probably add slightly to farming costs.
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when policies present difficult, costly or time-consuming obstacles to innovative and holistic projects and neighborhood food security.
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Addressing animal health and welfare challenges and improving animal performance monitoring are vital pieces of the food security jigsaw.
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This study highlights the need for air pollution impacts on crops to be taken more seriously as a threat to food security;
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The goal of food security was achieved in 2040 and Qatar is now more than 85 percent self-sufficient in food production
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but now as a business that can assure food security, create wealth and generate jobs.####oeprivate sector investments are rising significantly as a result of our bold policy reforms.
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#Indiana Amish farm leads the way to local food security Greenhouse at Sunrise Hydroponics. There is an Amish farm in Topeka, Indiana that supplies all-natural,
and regain its food security and independence! Sunrise Hydroponics is located currently at the South Bend Farmers Market every Saturday morning.
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What 11 Billion People Mean for Food security Eat fake meat? Another perhaps more outlandish solution may be to eat meat that isn't from an animal at all.
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Agricultural development including wild-harvesting in conflict areas like Mali is one of the best opportunities for employing would-be combatants strengthening household incomes and food security and stimulating sustainable economic growth in remote rural areas.
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it's critically important for food security especially in the face of more droughts Andrews said.
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#What 11 Billion People Mean for Food security Editor's note: Â By the end of this century Earth may be home to 11 billion people the United nations has estimated earlier than previously expected.
What 11 Billion People Mean for the Planet However the world's future food security is not a simple matter of producing more food.
Rather food security relies upon a number of intertwining factors including population size climate change food production food utilization (for things like animal feed
which released a series of reports this year about the world's food security future. One obstacle to increasing food production will be climate change
Extreme weather events such as heavy rains and flooding as well as drastic changes in weather in a short period will also pose challenges for crop production said Walter Falcon deputy director of the Center on Food security and the Environment
Reduce food waste Another strategy to help ensure food security in a world with so many hungry mouths to feed is to simply reduce food waste.
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Indeed agriculture has been a critical driver of well-being for centuries ensuring the food security central to human health
and Oxfam America helps Ethiopian farmers strengthen their food security and income security through a combination of improved resource management crop insurance microcredit and savings.
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Clearly our ability to produce larger quantities of fruit and vegetables is not the only guarantee for global food security.
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As the climate changes our increasing reliance on a few major crops will jeopardise food security. The recent IPCC (2014) report predicts that without adaptation temperature increases of above about 1o C from preindustrial levels will negatively affect yields on the major crops in both tropical and temperate regions for the rest of the century.
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and food security and yet we tend to tackle these as separate problems as if they have no interconnections.
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Temperature rises threaten global food security: Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
David Battisti from the University of Washington in Seattle and Rosamond Naylor from Stanford university in California analysed data from 23 global climate models produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 scientific
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one of the study's authors and a senior science coordinator at the Global Crop Diversity Trust a foundation based in Rome that aims to improve food security says that the results will allow researchers
says Marshall Burke, a food security researcher at Stanford university in Palo alto, California, and another of the study's authors.
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and conservation is a major concern for the world's future food security. He will seek agreement from the treaty's governing board at this week's meeting to launch a campaign that aims to raise US$116 million over the next five years.
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Nature Newson 10 july, G8 leaders promised to dedicate US$20 billion over three years to food security around the world.
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The study by the International Food Policy Research Institute in WASHINGTON DC is one of the most comprehensive to look at the links between climate change and food security.
This report links climate change to food security, Keith Goulding, says a soil scientist at Rothamsted Research in Hertfordshire Britain's largest agricultural research centre.
and that could further increase the risk to food security.
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News briefing: 1 october 2009: Nature Newspolicy Events Research Business The week ahead News maker Number crunch Policy Merkel wins:
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He agrees with Zhang's assessment that continued use at these rates could threaten China's food security.
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which supports thousands of scientists working on agriculture and food security in developing countries. Debate over the CGIAR's future direction
and agriculture'and'mobilizing agricultural biodiversity for food security and resilience'.('By contrast, donors currently fund individual centres directly,
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China may want to rethink its food security issues because the current strategy is completely unsustainable, says Scanlon.
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Devinder Sharma, chairman of the Delhi-based Forum for Biotechnology and Food security, a group of scientists that is against GM CROPS
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aims to increase food security by finding genetic traits that might be suited to future climates. Samples of wild plants will now be conserved alongside existing stores of domesticated seeds (such as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.
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and food security in response to climate change in the region. go. nature. com/b4gqxb 2 december Commercial spaceflight company Spacex, of Hawthorne, California,
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This gap could imperil food security in the developing world, where up to 40%of household income can depend on livestock,
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to conserve global food security. The funding was confirmed at a meeting of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture this week in Bali, Indonesia.
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began work last month to figure out how to achieve sustainable agriculture that contributes to food security, while tackling climate change.
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increase food security and have a positive impact on biodiversity for a pretty low cost, Fisher says.
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and is vital for global food security. It has proved surprisingly economically stable compared with major grain crops such as rice, wheat and maize (corn:
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Environmental groups and a presidential advisory panel, the National Council for Food security and Nutrition, have called for more transparency in biotechnology science and decision-making,
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and food security that can be used across tropical regions. The practice can generate twice as much income compared with growing just rice,
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threatening the food security and livelihoods of local populations by denying them access to their traditional lands and food sources4.
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which tends to focus on food security, and the OIE, which looks mostly at animal health and trade.
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UK,"is to link this genome sequence to traits that are useful and important, especially for food security and human health
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US$5-billion agricultural research portfolio unveiledthe CGIAR is a global network of research centres working to help foster food security, poverty reduction,
which concluded that significant annual investment would be required to ensure food security through to 2050. Funding will be provided by the governments of 60 countries,
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and food security, adapting to climate change, energy, water, nutrition, and food safety. Â Â Â Luckily for us, in the past couple of years NIFA has received actually a little bit more funding, especially in the competitive-grants arena.
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And to help to ensure food security, farmers across the globe will probably have to switch to cultivating more climate-hardy crops and farming practices."
an ecologist and director of the CGIAR research programme on climate change, agriculture and food security.
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Lots of the pure discoveries we make have great import for food security and the challenges farmers in tropical countries face from insects and fungi that infect their crops,
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The essence of GMO research is to provide a product that can complement efforts towards food security.
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"It s bad news for Europe, for European farmers and for global food security, says Jonathan Jones, who uses both GM and conventional approaches to study disease resistance in plants at the Sainsbury
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and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles.
3. The changing climate is raising major concerns about food security in many countries, and pests may contribute to making matters worse."
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The BBC report cites worries that the modified rice will threaten the nation's food security
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Future projections that would ensure global food security are typically based on a constant increase in yield a trend that this research now suggests may not be possible.
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Cutting the number of ruminant livestock could have additional benefits for food security human health and environmental conservation involving water quality wildlife habitat
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and hungry world where in many areas livestock can be crucial to food security said Harvard university's William C. Clark editorial board member of the Sustainability Science section at PNAS.
The initial work was funded by ILRI and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS.
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Food security depends on irrigation--farmers are main water userswater scarcity is a major threat for human development as for instance food security in many regions depends on irrigation--agriculture is the main water user worldwide
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Understanding the climate change implications of freshwater availability is key to the future food security goals of society said Cynthia Rosenzweig co-primary investigator of Agmip.
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The Tsimane experience higher exposure to parasites and pathogens and less food security thus they face a tradeoff between investing energy to maintain good immune function
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#Scientists map food security, self-provision of major citieswealthy capital cities vary greatly in their dependence on the global food market.
while Tokyo primarily ensures its food security through import. The Copenhagen hinterland produces less than half of the consumption of the most common foods.
For the first time researchers have mapped the food systems of capital cities an essential insight for future food security
The three major cities in our study achieve food security by different degrees of self-provision and national and global market trade.
and its effect on the open food trade says Professor Dr. John R. Porter from the University of Copenhagen who is leading author on the study recently published online in the journal Global Food security.
John R. Porter is also the main lead author of the forthcoming report from the IPCC Working group 2 on food production systems and food security
Scientific debate on food security and urbanizationmore than half the human population lives in or near cities.
Both food security and urbanization is on the program for next year's major international conference on sustainability hosted by the IARU partnership.
The congress will be an important event to discuss new insight in global food security and the different challenges faced by rural and urban populations.
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and food security they write. Localized studies suggest that farmers around the world already are benefiting from increasing the number of harvests.
Increasing cropland harvest frequency is another piece toward solving the global food security puzzle Foley said.
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#Enrollment in SNAP does not substantially improve food security, dietary qualitymillions of families in the United states struggle to provide nutritionally adequate meals due to insufficient money or other resources.
To combat food security issues over one in seven Americans currently rely upon the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program (SNAP) the largest federal nutrition program to provide monetary support for nutrition.
However according to a new study from researchers at the Harvard School of Public health in Boston Massachusetts SNAP benefits alone may not be enough to provide its beneficiaries with the long-term food security
After participating in SNAP for a few months a substantial proportion of SNAP participants still reported marginal low or very low food security
New SNAP participants were more likely to be non-White normal weight of lower household food security
Dr. Rimm and his colleagues found a small improvement in food security for both SNAP participants and nonparticipants after the three-month study but no significant differences between the two groups.
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A concerted international approach is needed to safeguard the food security of millions of people. The results of the study were published in the scientific journal Plant disease.
and the introduction and spread of Panama disease would threaten the food security of millions. A concerted international approach is needed now to prevent the spread of Panama disease
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and Food security Center to bear on the project. A postdoctoral researcher at Sanchez's Center Lydiah Gatere recently rolled out the Soildoc product.
The ultimate goal is to significantly increase crop production and food security in Africa. Gatere will present Field Kit Soil Tests to Assess Acidity N P S and K Fertility in Kenyan Soils on Monday Nov 4 2013 at 2: 45 PM.
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and further develop these nutritive-rich ingredients is being sought from the recently established (2010) Global Institute for Food security (GIFS) says co-author of the study Dr. Nicholas Low a Professor of Food Chemistry at the Department of Food and Bioproduct Sciences University
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Global food security is a huge issue says Khosla. Smart agriculture is very much a part of the solution
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and food security national and global efforts to catalog and conserve these plants are ramping Up on Wednesday Nov 6 at 1: 05 pm Nora P. Castaã eda of the International Center for Tropical agriculture (CIAT) in Cali Colombia
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#Understanding soil nitrogen management using synchrotron technologyas food security becomes an increasingly important global issue scientists are looking for the best way to maintain the organic matter in soils using different methods of fertilization and crop rotation.
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and Food security (CCAFS) at a high-level event with Kenya's agriculture and environment ministries finds that overall Kenyan farmers--who make up 75 percent of the country's labor force--may not only survive
and food security in Kenya between now and 2050 is one chapter in an upcoming book produced by IFPRI and CCAFS East African Agriculture and Climate Change
and food security The chapter on Kenya will help frame Kenya's landmark National Adaptation Planning (NAP) conference that gets underway today in Naivasha.
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It defies the widespread notion that livestock are necessarily in the minus column of any food security and environmental calculation.
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#Spread of crop pests threatens global food security as Earth warmsa new study has revealed that global warming is resulting in the spread of crop pests towards the North and South poles at a rate of nearly 3 kilometers a year.
and the increased loss of crops to pests will pose a serious threat to global food security.
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and is a great threat to global food security. Two of these proteins are already being studied as potential drug targets against other pathogens.
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The research was conducted as part of a three year interdisciplinary study of the impact of H5n1 on mechanisms of transmission local livelihoods and food security.
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Meat takes a particularly big toll on food security because it takes up to 30 crop calories to produce a single calorie of meat.
This study sought to quantify the benefit to food security that would accrue if some or all of the lands used to produce animal feed
while a complete shift from animal to plant-based diets may not be feasible even a partial shift would benefit food security.
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Helping plants to naturally obtain the nitrogen they need is a key aspect of World Food security.
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IWMI and other centers involved with the CGIAR's Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security (CCAFS) are drawing attention to the Volta study as leaders from across Africa gather in Ghana for Africa Agriculture
The above story is provided based on materials by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change Agriculture and Food security.
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Late blight is still a major threat to global food security in the developing world she adds. Knowing how the pathogen genome has changed over time will help modern-day farmers better manage the disease.
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#Maize trade disruption could have global ramificationsnew research on the global maize (corn) trade suggests that any disruptions to U s. exports could pose food security risks for many U s. trade partners due to the lack of trade among other producing
or the diversion of corn to non-food uses such as ethanol suggests that significant stresses in these areas could jeopardize food security.
Maize is at the center of global food security as increasing demands for meat fuel uses
The centrality of maize means that it would become a critical food security risk if major exporters experience disruptions due to non-food diversions plant diseases and climate impacts according to the article.
Felicia Wu of Michigan State university and Hasan Guclu of the University of Pittsburgh use network models--essentially food trade maps--to track the movement of maize in their article Global Maize Trade and Food security:
and imports to study how clustering in trade patterns may affect food security. The clustering shows that nations generally do not trade broadly worldwide.
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#Trade-offs between food security and climate change mitigation exploredimproving crop yields using sustainable methods could cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 12%per calorie produced according to a new study published in the journal Environmental
and so investing in better farming practices could lead to big benefits both in terms of food security and greenhouse gas emissions.
However says Valin Increasing livestock yield is not as beneficial to food security as can be increase crop yield just
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'Improving nutrition is a key part of food security as food security is about more than just calories. Around two billion people worldwide are thought to be deficient in micronutrients.
and Food security (CCAFS) said:''It is sustainable intensification that can provide the best rewards for small-scale farmers and their heritage of natural resources.
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and provide food security. In the current study researchers assessed agricultural statistics from across the world
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and create policies to improve food security and feed more people he added. Basso part of MSU's Global Water Initiative and his team of researchers developed the System Approach for Land-use Sustainability model.
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#Improving crop per drop could boost global food security and water sustainabilityimprovements in crop water productivity--the amount of food produced per unit of water consumed--have the potential to improve both food security
and water sustainability in many parts of the world according to a study published online in Environmental Research Letters May 29 by scientists with the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment (Ione) and the Institute of Crop science and Resource
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Andy Jarvis of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change and Food security; and Paul Struik Wageningen University.
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and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security according to a new study published in Significance the magazine of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.
and crop quality and to ensure food security. Spatial variation is at the core of precision agriculture and geostatistics..
Precision agriculture will aid efforts to improve food security and also crop quality Professor Oliver notes in the article.
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& Food security demonstrates that as their crops on higher ground fail due to unreliable rainfall people in countries like Uganda are increasingly relocating to wetland areas.
While the environmental significance of wetland loss is important so are National Food security targets and the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people who suffer from hunger by 2015.
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Aluminum toxicity comes close to rivaling drought as a food security threat in critical tropical food-producing regions.
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and improved their food security. The study published in the March issue of the Journal of Hunger
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. and the European union on how production of biofuels will impact food security. This has led to a realization that increased production of biofuels must take place on so-called marginal land acreage not suitable for growing food crops but capable of growing switch grass Indian beech trees and Barbados nut trees.
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The farmers'families tend to become better educated and local nonprofit groups currently supporting food security health
Maize agriculture for example is both a subsistence crop--ideal for helping to ensure food security which is most important among the rural poor--and a cash crop.
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and this work supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security. The researcher selected three winter cover crops often grown in the Salinas Calif. area--rye mustard
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and associated fishery yields threatening riverine livelihoods and food security. Adequate protection of Amazon freshwater ecosystems requires broadening the forest-centric focus of prevailing environmental management
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and improved livelihoods of smallholder farmers in African countries like Ethiopia Tanzania and Kenya and is crucial to the food security in India (being the largest producer consumer and importer of the crop).
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Food security in the grabbing countries increasingly depends on'grab-land agriculture 'while in the grabbed countries local populations are excluded from the use of large parcels of land.
or in the future to enhance their own food security D'Odorico said. He noted that countries such as Sudan
However both the United nations and the national governments should ensure that some of the wealth generated by foreign investments in agricultural land are used to benefit local populations for example by sustainably improving their food security
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and this research supports the USDA priority of promoting international food security. Breksa also noted that the profiles may reveal clues to mechanisms underlying the microbe's mostly unknown mode of attack.
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and biomass of emerging bioenergy feedstocks such as miscanthus and switchgrass and that can be applied to improve food security and major cereal crops.
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Pathogenic fungi are a major threat to our food security--they can devastate crops and cost billions of pounds worth of damage.
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'Weather has affected always food security particularly for many of the world's poorest people. Perhaps we think of farmers
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and achieve food security without providing adequate and balanced nutrients. While corn producers in the U s. have relied long on nitrogen fertilizers to improve yields they should not overlook other nutrients such as potassium
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#Evolutionary tools improve prospects for sustainable developmentsolving societal challenges in food security emerging diseases and biodiversity loss will require evolutionary thinking
By encouraging cost sharing local communities and governments play a crucial role in ensuring that everybody gains from the benefits of using evolutionary biology to realise the long-term goals of sustainable development such as increasing food security protecting biodiversity
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Increased agricultural production will be necessary for food security and to meet the demand of the emerging global middle class.
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#Plant diversity in China vital for global food securitywith climate change threatening global food supplies new research claims the rich flora of China could be crucial to underpin food security in the future.
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.
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which will help to underpin future food security. Now a comprehensive database of globally important CWR exists thanks to this study.
so it is now even more crucial that we conserve crop wild relatives as part of the wider need to address global food security issues.'
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A new University of Virginia study published online in the American Geophysical Union journal Earth's Future examines global food security
The food security for rapidly growing populations in the world increasingly is dependent on Trade in the future that trade may not always be reliable due to uncertainties in crop yields
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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
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.
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The new food security bill requires the country to provide 61.2 million metric tons (67.5 million U s. tons) of cereal grains--that include wheat and rice--to India's poor each year at a subsidized rate.
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and reducing food waste are part of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change say the team behind a new study.
It is imperative to find ways to achieve global food security without expanding crop or pastureland.
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and help improve food security around the world according to Kansas State university research. For their study the university's Kadri Koppel assistant professor of human nutrition and Edgar Chambers IV university distinguished professor and director of the Sensory Analysis Center worked with around 100 consumers from India
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