The latest international reports show that global agricultural practices must change if we are to reduce hunger, poverty and environmental degredation, writes Wendy Pyper.
... His team suggests their "bio-geoengineering" approach as a more immediately practical option. Indeed, global agriculture already produces a cooling of climate because crop plants tend to reflect more ...
... instrumental in the breeding of new varieties responsible for the remarkable productivity gains made in global agriculture in recent decades, and in averting food crises when farm production has been ...
Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land. For many years, scientists ...
Aluminum toxicity, a global agricultural problem, halts root growth in plants, severely limiting agricultural productivity for more than half of the world's arable land. Now biochemists have ...
... world.
"The fact that, while pollinators are declining in various parts of the world, global agricultural systems are becoming more dependent on pollinators, could create serious problems in the ...
... To take a more sober look, Johnston turned to a global agricultural database, developed at SAGE, which provides actual ... table values, he then computed a global average yield for each of the 20 fuels, ...
... forming particles less acidic, and in turn impact cloud formation that is critical to global agriculture and water supplies.
The researchers also found that the abundance of alkaloids depends on how ...
... costs, can lead to sensors more than 500 miles apart.
Under a new NASA-USDA collaboration known as the Global Agriculture Monitoring Project, Bolten and colleagues from the USDA's ...
... best.
The Deutsche Bank report, however, identifies a number of strategies to increase global agricultural productions in sustainable ways, including: Improvements in irrigation, fertilization and ...
