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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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#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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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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#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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Future Agriculture When people think of farming they typically conjure up images of a tractor cresting a hill billowing large plumes of exhaust into the air.
As with all industries, there are many micro-forces driving the changes in future agriculture. But there are three dominant trend lines precision, relevance,
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A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
Fueling better farming is a practice known as precision agriculture which uses extensive data from a farmer's field
Precision agriculture can help farmers from Brunei to Brazil pinpoint the best time for harvesting to mitigate crop damage and loss;
Precision agriculture helps address that problem by improving weather forecasting and modeling and localizing it even within a particular farm.
At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.
With 70 percent of the world's freshwater supply already going to agriculture every drop counts.
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It could also answer the problem of methane emissions from agriculture. In 2011 Modern Meadow took up the challenge setting out to make ecological and economical leather and meat from bioprinters.
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if we're able to save water today it will result in a substantial increase in the number of years that we will have irrigated agriculture in Kansas Steward said.
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While the exact forms that agriculture would take on Mars are still very much an unknown at least one thing is clear:
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Asgar Ali receives funding from the Ministry of Agriculture Malaysia. This article was published originally on The Conversation.
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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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Celsius) and nutrient-poor sandy soil it's easy to see why agriculture hasn't taken off for the nations of the Persian gulf.
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and agriculture ministries coordinated their efforts poorly before they ordered a cull of more than 50,000 dairy goats in 2009,
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and former head of the USDA's National Institute for Food and Agriculture. The Kentucky bluegrass decision drives this point home,
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and deforested  lumping agriculture, towns and mining areas together, and making it difficult to track the impact of the gold rush.
including mining, agriculture and five different classes of forestry. Scullion says that there is a misconception among locals that researchers are against mining.
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Natasha Gilbertafrican agriculture African farmers must use sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies to reverse rising hunger levels across the continent,
a group of agriculture and development experts based in London. One recommended practice is pictured in Malawi:
It says that sustainable intensification of African agriculture will produce higher yields and more nutritious foods while reducing reliance on fertilizers and pesticides,
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has stuck so far to a strict interpretation of a 1957 law designed to protect agriculture against plant pests that was coopted in 1986 to regulate GM CROPS.
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compared with more than 200 Â kilograms used in high-intensity agriculture, such as in Germany. Yields are typically 30-80%lower as a result.
says Johannes  Kotschi, a soil scientist at the Association for Agriculture and Ecology in Marburg, Germany,
"Conservation agriculture is excessively time-consuming, and organic fertilizer produced on-farm does not replenish soils with nutrients,
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But most of the biomass produced in agriculture and forestry lies unused in more-complex chains of sugars, for example lignin and cellulose.
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Most of the current planetary output still occurs outside of the realm of man's agriculture.
3) It does not take into account current or future advancements in agriculture. Again assuming a sub-optimized Earth potential.
Natarajan Ganesanoak there's more than enough CO2 in the atmosphere for the limited agriculture potential. Beyond that is being absorbed into the oceans and raising the ppm of the atmosphere.
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âÂ# A report published by the National Academy of Sciences Board on Agriculture
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These papers touch on issues as diverse as climate policy land use and agriculture and non-CO2 greenhouse gases among others.
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The FTU services centre which cost RM14 million to develop is now serving a horde of local companies like Malaysia Agriculture Hightech Stella Gen Johor Biomicrobe Pascal Biotech MVP One
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The environmental scientists experts in air quality atmospheric chemistry and ecology have been studying the fate of nitrogen-based compounds that are blown into natural areas from power plants automobile exhaust and--increasingly--industrial agriculture.
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The implications for agriculture are enormous as this new technology can provide much of the plant's nitrogen needs.
The University of Nottingham's Plant and Crop sciences Division is acclaimed internationally as a centre for fundamental and applied research underpinning its understanding of agriculture food production and quality and the natural environment.
Dr Susan Huxtable Director of Intellectual Property Commercialisation at The University of Nottingham believes that the N-Fix technology has significant implications for agriculture she said:
N-Fix has the power to transform agriculture while at the same time offering a significant cost benefit to the grower through the savings that they will make in the reduced costs of fertilisers.
Agriculture has to change and N-Fix can make a real and positive contribution to that change.
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Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture
Additional resources were contributed by the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center the Shell Gamechanger Program and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
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An expert on that problem#the infamous Gulf of mexico#oedead Zone##today called for greater awareness of the connections between rainfall and agriculture in the Midwest and the increasingly severe water quality problems in the gulf.
#oeshortages in availability of water suitable for drinking agriculture and industry are the common denominator in some of the great global challenges facing society in the 21st century#Shakhashiri said.#
which is stressed increasingly by multiple demands for water supply agriculture industry recreation and ecosystem needs. Changes in water supply and demands for water are driven by population growth climate
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Our new process could help end our dependence on fossil fuels said Y. H. Percival Zhang an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the College of Engineering.
Additional resources were contributed by the Shell Gamechanger Program the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life sciences'Biodesign and Bioprocessing Research center and the U s. Department of energy Bioenergy Science Center along with the Division of Chemical sciences
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A lot has been converted to agriculture. Much of that area has been taken completely out of what has been habitat for them.
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A lot of the antibiotic-resistant bacteria originate in animal agriculture where there is overuse misuse and abuse of antibiotics.
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and Basic Research to Enable Agriculture Development (BREAD) the Howard Buffett Foundation the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Center for Data analytics at Georgia Tech.
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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.
He hopes the research team's findings become the scaffold for a toolkit others can use--one that might fundamentally alter agriculture.
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and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling. â#The discoveries of these proteins
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Of China's industries agriculture is the most water-intensive in terms of production and covers most of the country's northern provinces.
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and that they moderate blood glucose concentrations following a meal according to a presentation by Susan M. Toth Phd research scientist Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
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Since the dawn of agriculture tilling land has led to the loss of about half (55 to 78 gigatons) of the carbon ever sequestered in soil the team reports.
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Together with Neiker-Tecnalia the public body that reports to the Sub-Ministry for Agriculture Fisheries and Food Policy of the Government of the Basque Autonomous Community the following are part of this project:
Teagasc-The Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Ireland) IRSTEA (France) INTIA (Navarre) the University of Glasgow Caledonian (Scotland) and the Higher Institute for Agronomy (Portugal.
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Automatic control of microclimates has the potential to mitigate the total cost of water for agriculture which in Mexico amounts to almost 70 percent of the vital liquid.
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The research offers new perspective on evolutionary biology microbiology and the production of natural gas and may shed light on climate change agriculture and human health.
College of Agriculture and Life sciences and the senior author of the study. He is also a faculty member at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
Methanogens also play an important role in agriculture and human health They live in the digestive systems of cattle
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whether it be automated through an harvester in agriculture a six-foot-six swimmer or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
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and wait 10 years after municpialities to adopt technologies. 10 percent is in agriculture. On average, agriculture uses about 70 percent of the water in the world.
I'm talking to you from California. Eighty-five to ninety percent of the water in this state is used in agriculture.
Why would you conserve water in the urban environment when the farmers are flooding the fields?
 Then you start to see a baseline water need that is significant--and that's no fun, no agriculture, business, nothing.
You could make a world of difference if agriculture handled things better. But I just don't know how.
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Metaphorically speaking, he's betting the farm that the next revolution in agriculture will be more about software and machines than soil and irrigation.
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So-called precision agriculture of the type being embraced by Pepsico could help reduce water usage by up to 50 percent
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AGRICULTURE One major innovation: the development of nitrogen-based fertilizer at the close of the 19th century by chemists Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber.
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agriculture expertise and process engineering (not to mention marketing weight) to the table, while the latter brings its intellectual property around enzymes.
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70 goes to agriculture, and 10 goes to you. What we need to look at is those first two markets
With agriculture if you think about a farmer today, typically they're getting their water free or highly subsidized.
There exists a state-level policy that prohibits the reuse of wastewater for agriculture --but we didn't have the technology then to do so safely.
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Now, Picarro is working with agriculture and food products companies to apply the sensors to measuring the isotopes in foods.
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but primarily it is our agriculture. All the corn, rice and wheat we grow to feed ourselves.
Like slowing the monsoon which has a significant impact on agriculture. SP: Are there any such schemes that hold some promise?
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Some 68%of the freshwater that is now tied up in conventional agriculture could instead go to thirsty populations rather than irrigating freshwater dependent crops.
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Researchers say new agriculture methods and crops could halve food price inflationresource conservation technologies in agriculture could potentially halve the staggering increases in food prices in the face of climate change,
the International Food Policy Research Institute has found. IFPRI will release key findings on agriculture and soil degradation at this month's Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in Rio de janeiro.
The institute, one of the many centers affiliated with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research,
IFPRI researchers have found that drought tolerance technologies for rain-fed agriculture would increase maize output by 27 percent,
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and by 1, 000 BC, many of the practices that define agriculture today, such as using manure for fertilizer,
The world population of three billion that had arrived by 1960 gave way to the industrialized agriculture that defines food production today.
and the start of the animal agriculture business all saw dramatic increase in yields, and the use of technology to produce GMOS was born.
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What woes it mean for agriculture? Today post was prompted by an invitation from Andrew Revkin to join in on a discussion spawned by his recent post at NYTS oedot Earth titled,
synthetic fuels, biofuels, electricity, hydrogen, etc. â agriculture and food production: engineered crops, pest control, fertilizers, etc. â environmental protection and remediation:
So much of this discussion potentially relates to agriculture. The authors of the paper, Kent H. Redford, William Adams, Georgina Mace, Rob Carlson, Steve Sanderson,
A few things that synthetic biology might bring to us in agriculture are: the ability to raise crops using fewer pesticides;
This may well favor applications in existing industrial processes and commodity chains (energy, agriculture, aquaculture) and the operations of large business corporations.
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