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2.0.. agro: Crop:
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the slurry that comes out of the biogas can be used to fertilize grass and crops, he says.
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But breeding high-yield crops in this manner more than doubled farm field yields globally in 50 years, particularly in Latin america and Asia,
When this happens, yields can improve by 15%in vital crops like wheat, rice and soybean.
Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide further is hardly a practical or desirable way to boost crops, so the team set about looking for the genetic switches that could mimic the action
However, this is not the only way of increasing photosynthesis. Scientists are also exploring the idea that genes from the ancestors of modern-day plants might boost the ability of crops to harness the sun. It is well known that primitive plants known as cyanobacteria have a talent
and others ethical, arguing that the developing world should not be used as a laboratory to test such crops.
 Turning the world greentraditionally, farmers have sought out the best places to plant their crops oe nutrient rich flood plains and the sides of volcanoes.
As a result, there is a push to develop crops that not only grow in these conditions oe they relish them.
The best-known example of boosting nutrition in staple crops is golden rice, which has been engineered with genes from daffodils and bacteria to produce beta-carotene,
This is based on research that shows there is a significant variation in how crops grow over distances as small as an acre,
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Pics) Can you imagine being able to produce enough water in the Sahara to grow crops there?
The Seawater Greenhouse was designed to address the problem of irrigating crops in arid coastal regions by evaporating seawater and condensing it into fresh water.
which can use up to five times more water to irrigate crops than the respective regions average annual rainfall.
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The next shift with see crops grown underground. Dutch-based Plantlab recently announced it has figured out how to triple plant yield in a sunless,
which helps them grow crops using just one-tenth the water needed in traditional greenhouses.
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and harvesting of their crops is not the same precision they use to control their growing environment.
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It s hoped it will overcome this resistance by dousing crops with two different herbicides,
That these proprietary crops will stay where they are planted and not somehow spread beyond the fields they are planted.
Loss of the right to save seed through the introduction of patented GE crops could prove disastrous for the 1. 4 billion farmers in developing nations who depend on farm-saved seed.
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reducing the cultivation of cash crops in places where that practice hurts the environment, break our dependence on pesticides
What about the hundreds of thousands of small farmers who produce these crops now? Artemisinin is farmed by an estimated 100,000 people in Kenya, Tanzania, Vietnam and China and the vanilla plant by 200,000 in Madagascar, Mexico and beyond.
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self-irrigating crops, and even#oewaterless#cities. The earth s atmosphere is a far more elegant water distribution system than rivers, reservoirs,
Moisture is harvested out of the air to irrigate crops through an efficient system that produces large amounts of condensation.
and pumped to the roots of crops via sub surface drip irrigation hosing. A2wh http://a2wh. com/Developed by Joe Ellsworth in Seattle,
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They grew row crops-grain and corn,#oehad a couple of horses, occasionally had some cattle, but not usually,#Oster explained.
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Even infamously food-insecure Malawi and Ethiopia now grow record amounts of crops and even export surpluses to their neighbors.
and small-scale production of cash crops that can quickly and easily be sold in urban markets.
whose goods it then sells at Dutch flower auctions. 3. International demand for Africa s crops is soaring Global prices for African cocoa,
and improving their farms. 4. The#oelost crops#of Africa have been rediscovered Long ignored, Africa s#oeforgotten#crops, including cassava, sunflower seeds,
and cowpeas, have in the last two decades rapidly expanded in production, bringing unexpected benefits.#
whose heartiness has earned it the nickname#oethe Rambo of crops.##In Nigeria alone, output tripled from the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s to reach 45 million metric tons per year, according to figures from the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations.
and when to deliver the harvested crops. In the last decade, sunflower seed production has tripled more than.#
but radio#ore popular than television in Africa#elivers basic information about how to choose crops,
farmers in central Malawi who had relied previously on rain to water their crops learned the benefits of spooning water directly onto their plants.
For years African governments opposed the genetic modification of crops, but recently some have backtracked and now promote its adoption, starting with a nonfood crop#otton.
such as the Gates Foundation, have been reluctant to promote the bioengineering of African crops. Yet because such crops require less water, fertilizer,
and pesticides and reap higher yields, African farmers are interested. The case of cotton in Burkina faso highlights biotechnology s potential.
Most African cotton farmers grow other crops, sometimes planting them between rows of cotton. So if they can spend less to grow more and better cotton
these other crops should benefit, too. 7. Government support for food producers is getting better Everyone agrees that African farmers remain heavily inhibited by poor governance.
#Climate change can also be managed by greater reliance on drought-tolerant crops. Here, hearty cassava is a natural choice.
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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.
So, the The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has joined forces with America s beer brewers to change how farmer irrigate their crops.
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ultra-nutritious crops that would bring exotic produce to the supermarket and help to feed a hungry world.
the technology has bestowed most of its benefits on agribusiness#almost always through crops modified to withstand weed-killing chemicals
who say that transgenic crops have concentrated power and profits in the hands of a few large corporations,
Some of these crops will tackle new problems from apples that stave off discoloration to Golden Rice
Other next-generation crops will be created using advanced genetic manipulation techniques that allow high-precision editing of the plant s own genome.
Whatever promise these crops may show in the laboratory they will still have to demonstrate their benefits in painstaking, expensive and detailed field trials;
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and interferon for multiple sclerosis and crops like Monsanto s Roundup Ready soybeans was based on relatively crude methods for inserting a gene from one organism into another.
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and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.
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and maintain crops at the plant level. Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.
predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention. Small-scale implementations are already on the horizon.
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
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and analyzes the data collected on corn, soybean and other field crops. Farmersare going to be able to see things
and monitor their crops in ways they never have before. In the next 10 years almost every farm will be using it.
Today, satellites, manned planes and walking the field are the main ways farmers monitor their crops.
watering issues, assessing crop yields or tracking down cattle that have wandered off help farmers recover the investment, often within a year.
when to sell his crops. I m always looking for an advantage looking for how I can do said things better
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and ranching operation is looking out on a deep green field of sunflower vetch corn clover buckwheat savannah grass and other crops.
Brown is among a growing number of farmers who use a suite of techniques to build soil's natural capacity to retain moisture discourage weeds and pests and nurture crops.
No-till farming means that instead of plowing-under that rich soil ecosystem every planting season Brown plants directly onto the stubble of last year's crops.
Cover crops aren't grown for market. They're chosen for their ability to protect and enhance soil health.
Planting a mix of cover crops like winter wheat and hairy vetch increases soil nutrients and water retention and prepares the soil for the next planting rather than depleting it.
A recent USDA survey found that farmers who used cover crops in 2012 averaged higher yields than farmers who did not.
Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Using techniques that protect and improve soil health provides a built-in buffer against weather extremes
or growing crops on marginal land that requires heavy use of chemical fertilizers that depletes soil health.
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Unfortunately about half of the world's food is consumed never due to inefficiencies in the harvesting storage and delivery of crops.
While collecting real-time data on weather soil health of crops and air quality is important as is the availability of equipment
Those and other smarter farming methods including techniques used early in the growing cycle are reducing weather-related crop damage by as much as 25 percent in some areas ensuring that fewer crops are wasted
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All of the above-mentioned crops can grow hydroponically to conserve space and resources. Some experiments growing plants in simulated Martian soil have met also with success.
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hydroponics or aeroponics and environmental controls that regulate temperature humidity and light to produce vegetables fruits and other crops year-round.
Chungui Lu receives funding from the UK Technology Strategy Board to work on developing LED lighting for horticultural crops.
Erik Murchie receives funding from the UK Technology Strategy Board to work on developing LED lighting for horticultural crops.
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and the creation of genetically engineered crops, observers say. The technique relies on enzymes called zinc-finger nucleases,
and costs could be higher for other labs. The technique could also assuage a common concern about transgenic crops.
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and will monitor the experimental crops closely before considering requests from agribusiness for full-scale GM maize planting.
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Nature Newsresearch Policy Events People Business Trend watch Research Crop catalogue A global search to gather the wild relatives of essential food crops such as wheat,
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and conventional crops and a public register for the location of GM plantings, was justified because the long-term consequences of GM technology are still unclear.
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With changing technologies, the department says that it lacks the authority to regulate newly created transgenic crops.
The technique is established well for many crops, and particle bombardment is less predictable, often yielding multiple, fragmented insertions of the new gene.
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Biofuels are falling from grace around the world as critics charge that devoting millions of hectares of agricultural land to fuel crops is driving up food prices
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when it patented a method for engineering transgenic crops to produce sterile seed, forcing farmers to buy new seed for each planting.
Organic farmers want ways to keep genetically engineered crops from contaminating their fields, and food safety groups are concerned about contamination of food crops with products from a new generation of crops engineered to produce chemicals or pharmaceuticals.
By ensuring that genetically modified plants survive for only one planting""that technology would have alleviated a lot of environmental concerns,
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planting crops under fertilizer trees, such as Faidherbia albida, which provide nutrients to the soil below.
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and small companies to pursue speciality crops, such as apples, that have so far been ignored by biotechnology giants."
"There are any number of companies exploring new techniques to produce crops that don t trigger regulatory oversight,
or niche crops that can t support the escalating costs of regulatory approval. The regulation of GM CROPS in the United states is based on laws that were not tailor-made for the technology.
a consumer advocacy group in Washington  DC, the news highlighted the shortcomings of the US regulatory system for GM  crops."
and who want to encourage corporate development of niche crops. Dennis Gray, a developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Apopka
He says that the lack of regulation is encouraging researchers like him to pursue such small-market crops."
but is working with outside researchers to develop other crops using similar technology. Jennifer Kuzma, a policy analyst at North carolina State university in Raleigh, says that a lack of regulation for the latest approaches could fuel public suspicions about GM CROPS."
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which boosted crop yields in other parts of the world. Farmers in some areas of Africa have begun to adopt fertilizers only in the past decade.
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grasses and the non-edible parts of crops, are hard to break down. Producers of cellulosic ethanol currently spend 15-20%of their fuel costs on acids
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The London Company was a joint stock enterprise that established the Jamestown Settlement in 1607providing transportation to pioneers in return for seven years of labor in America where they cultivated tobacco and other crops for the company's profit.
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and targeted way to come up with new crops but the FAO/IAEA Joint Programme doesn't use it because the IAEA focuses on radiation technologies.
After their first plantings they may keep some of the grains to plant as next year's crops.
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Joe GMO crops don't produce their own pesticide rather they are resistant to (i e. they don't die from) pest
since the pesticides make it onto the crops anyway. Regardless I'm neither for or against GMO crops what
I'm against is stated what you in the latter part of your post; namely the bullying of small farmers by large agro companies like monsanto.
I head somewhere that recently they prohibited agro companies from suing farmers that accidentally grow GMO crops that got there by cross pollinationalso the article says that theres nothing thats been published to support the notion of any health detriments (or benefits) from GMO crops...
Not saying this is the case with GMO crops but large agro can't make a claim of safety until independent studies have been conducted.
and can be used on many crops until the day of harvest. Bt-corn is a type of genetically modified organism termed GMO.
Examples of GMO field crops include Bt-potatoes Bt-corn Bt-sweet corn Roundup Ready soybeans Roundup Ready Corn
It is telling that so many anti-GMO acolytes focus on the money trail that they imagine leads to promoters or defenders of GMO crops.
The author of the study is Gilles-Eric SÃ Â ralini a notable critic of GMO crops. http://www. sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/S0278691512005637here is a summary
if any would be appropriate to address economic losses by farmers in which the value of their crops is reduced by unintended presence of genetically engineered (GE) material (s)?
http://thinkprogress. org/health/2012/11/21/1224761/farmers-insurance-sued-by-corporations/Monsanto claims not to sue farmers who have been cross pollinated by their neighbor's crops
Monsanto s GMO corn is engineered to be immune to glyphosate-based weed-killers such as Monsanto s trademarked Roundupãherbicide used on crops and fields nationwide.
and de-weed their fields first allowing them to bathe their lands with abundant amounts of glyphosate herbicides in the presence of corn without concern that their corn crops will be killed.
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or pollinate crops. And then there s Dickinson who initiated the project to build the robotic fly.
or the environment and help pollinate crops. Research scientists could use them to gather data in the field.
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#Defending food crops: Whitefly experimentation to prevent contamination of agricultureon November 8th Jove the Journal of Visualized Experiments will introduce a new technique to aid in the development of defenses against diseases threatening food crops worldwide.
The method published under the title Transmitting Plant viruses Using Whiteflies is applicable to such at-risk crops as tomatoes and common bean plants.
The whitefly method provides a means of interfering with the plant-contamination process as well as the cultivation of plants that are altogether resistant to infection.
and fiber crops. The technique includes reliably rearing whiteflies with a specific virus while omitting the possibility of cross-contamination to other viruses--an easily encountered problem because of the sheer number of whiteflies used in testing.
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#World-changing technology enables crops to take nitrogen from the aira major new technology has been developed by The University of Nottingham
which enables all of the world's crops to take nitrogen from the air rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilisers.
and for most crops currently being grown across the world this also means a reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
and can be applied to all crops. Over the last 10 years The University of Nottingham has conducted a series of extensive research programmes
There is a substantial global market for the N-Fix technology as it can be applied globally to all crops.
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Among oilseed crops sunflowers are one of the most important sources of edible vegetable oil for human consumption worldwide.
Sunflower and other oilseed crops are the source of the vast majority of vegetable oil used for cooking and food processing.
Also known as elephant grass miscanthus is one of a new generation of renewable energy crops that can be converted into renewable energy by being burned in biomass power stations.
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Potential food source derived from non-food plantsa team of Virginia Tech researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as food crops.
This new development opens the door to the potential that food could be created from any plant reducing the need for crops to be grown on valuable land that requires fertilizers pesticides and large amounts of water.
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Genetically modifying crops so that they produce some of their own fertilizer could also help with the problem.
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Synthesized from the sugars in the cellulosic biomass of grasses other non-food crops and agricultural waste advanced biofuels represent a sustainable nonpolluting source of transportation fuel that would also generate domestic jobs and revenue.
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The research could greatly affect Kansas and other agricultural states that produce crops such as wheat and corn.
After harvesting these crops the leftover wheat straw and corn stover can be used for making cellulosic ethanol.
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or crops grown on abandoned land that has reverted not to forest. On the other hand biochar production that relies on forest ecosystems may result in a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions they cautioned.
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#Automated imaging system looks underground to help improve cropsplant scientists are working to improve important food crops such as rice maize
Beyond improving food crops the technique could also help improve plants grown for energy production materials and other purposes.
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One of the biggest moves in agriculture Vierstra says is to be able to grow plants at higher density allowing producers to plant more crops in a given area thus saving space and other resources.
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Their discovery should help biologists better understand how the steadily increasing levels of CO2 in our atmosphere (which last spring for the first time in recorded history remained above 400 parts per million) are affecting the ability of plants and economically important crops to deal with heat stress and drought.
and crops that can deal with droughts and high temperatures like those now affecting the Southwestern United states. â#oefor each carbon dioxide molecule that is incorporated into plants through photosynthesis plants lose about 200 hundred molecules of water
and shares many of the same genes as other plants and crops he and his team of biologists discovered that the proteins encoded by the four genes they discovered repress the development of stomata at elevated CO2 levels.
and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future including the limited availability of water for crops the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops
and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures
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#Reorganization of crop production, trade could save Chinas water supplychina's rapid socioeconomic growth continues to tax national water resources--especially in the agricultural sector--due to increasing demands for food.
One solution to these growing problems however might be to reorganize the country's crop production
These provinces all use large volumes of water to produce crops that are exported later to wetter regions.
Crops like corn rice and wheat thrive best in these drier regions but rainfall is limited
Water used during crop production is referred to as virtual water. Through food trade these water resources are transferred across borders in
While growing crops in the wetter regions would be more water efficient land in those places is either urban or industrial or difficult geographically (mountainous terrain etc.
The researchers found that irrigation accounts for about 25 percent of water used to produce crops
However those numbers skyrocket in Xinjiang Ningxia and Inner Mongolia where irrigation water is used predominantly for crop production (85 percent 69 percent and 49 percent respectively.
Our work highlights opportunities for addressing water scarcity in China by adjusting where water intensive crops are grown
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crops known for their durability versatility and healthful attributes. Both grains have high levels of protein fiber and beta-glucan.
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But such simple steps as leaving slash--the plant waste left over after crop production--on fields after harvests so it could be incorporated into the soil could reintroduce between 0. 4 and 1. 1 gigatons of carbon annually to soil the study says.
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It also allows users to obtain crops equivalent to an area of â#0 hectares in just 500 square meters says the researcher.
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The biochar has a one-two punch in that it can be used to both increase crop yields
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Vertimass anticipates that the ORNL technology will be in demand by existing corn-based ethanol production plants as well as new refineries coming online that aim to convert non-food crops such as switchgrass
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and mechanical systems for people who are looking to grow crops hydroponically, that is, an artificially-controlled indoor environment that provides lighting, mineral nutrients and water--but not much else.
and environmentally friendly way to grow crops in general, the one product that's garnered the most attention (not to mention controversy),
and buried the crops in the ground before they eventually switched to using trailers. This is pretty rudimentary,
And by going vertical you can grow a lot more crops without having to take up so many acres of land.
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Pepsico has improved potato crop yields while decreasing the amount of water needed for irrigation. That's just one of the high-level takeaways shared by Ian Hope-Johnstone, director of agricultural sustainability for Pepsico global operations, with whom
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focusing first on the crops that yield the best return. This insight has helped cut labor and distribution costs by 10 percent to 15 percent in the past year
which helps provide information on crop yields, farm labor costs, water usage trends and growing patterns.
Before, we didn't know until 30 days after the month how our harvest crops were trending.
because the crops had already been harvested. We've turned raw data into business insight, improved our order fill rates
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and part of it is growing crops in the right places. Israel has been very proactive in this area--in the areas of olives and dates,
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using it to irrigate our crops and then letting it run off into the ocean. And then it goes into the cycle
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Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics, computer vision, robotic hardware and algorithms,
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instead go to thirsty populations rather than irrigating freshwater dependent crops. Even better algae require only a fraction of the land area of many other crops.
Read Bushnell op-ed for THE FUTURIST. 3. Ocean-current power. Tidal-current turbines and tidal-stream turbines tapping the power of sea systems like the Gulf stream could provide energy for power-hungry states such as Florida.
and simple pumps for irrigating crops during the dry season these are just a few simple technologies that deal with the everyday problems of the 90%of humanity usually neglected by the world top designers and the subject of a recent exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution
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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,
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agreed. oemeeting those needs with the same land area would require global crop yields to increase nearly 25%faster than historically.
Timothy Wise recently cited biofuel production as a oedemand shock that consumes crop production and yields price increases.
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engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation: restoration, monitoring, detection, etc. â consumer products:
genetically modified seeds and crops at $110 billion; and industrial biotechnology (e g.,, fuels, materials, and enzymes) at $115 billion.
rather than the monoculture crops that the big corporations prefer. Designing genomes will be a personal thing a new art form,
the ability to raise crops using fewer pesticides; an offer of greater food security; improved nutrition;
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