This shift gave people an incentive to improve productivity by enhancing agricultural technology.
In December 2011, we helped to secure the passage of Israeli-sponsored technical resolutions on Agricultural technology, a similar resolution with our assistance also passed in 2007 and 2009.
The share performance of Syngenta, a new agricultural technology company spun out of Novartis and AstraZeneca, which comes to market later this month, will be an important test.
As host, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon wants the summit to concentrate on how to reduce food price volatility, promote green growth, and boost investment in scientific and agricultural technology.
Of course, a major global economic catastrophe, or some new breakthrough in energy or agricultural technology, could bring prices down precipitously, but for the most part demographic trends seem likely to favor commodity producers over the coming decade or two.
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Support for agricultural development in Iran, including possible access to United States and European agricultural products, technology and farm equipment.
The medium- and long-term measures outlined in the draft document call for investment in agriculture and agricultural science and technology.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
For example, late last fall, Stonyfield Farm, a division of Dannon that makes organic diary products and is actively engaged in a range of anti-technology agricultural campaigns, ran a blog post demonizing the provision that its opponents now claim was written in the dead of night and slipped into the measure.
Archer Daniels Midland Company is a world leader in agricultural processing and fermentation technology.
Orion Genomics hopes to start pulling in revenues next year from its proprietary method of sequencing, mapping and cloning agricultural genes--technology that can be used to improve crop yield, develop pest resistance or help plants survive drought, flooding and cold.
Exelixis and Maxygen, two firms applying their technology to agricultural ends, had successful stockmarket flotations in the past year, largely because they also have human-health research programmes that allow them to be seen more as medical biotechnology firms than as agricultural ones.
Expect cutbacks in the energy sector, in technology, and agricultural and industrial equipment.
But Europe's farms cost taxpayers billions of euros in subsidies each year, and EU agricultural inspectors are turning to technology to improve their patchy record on preventing fraud and waste.
Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, and agricultural products (fruits and vegetables) are the leading exports.
The company makes more than 5, 000 products, which are used by virtually all major industries and markets including transportation, technology, medical, agricultural, energy, telecommunications, packaging, consumer, commercial construction, home building, industrial manufacturing and marine.
Monsanto is a global provider of technology-based solutions and agricultural products for growers and downstream customers, such as grain processors and consumers, in the agricultural markets.
But the risk is all on their balance sheet, and the 230, 000-employee Foxconn facility in China could be the next River Rouge if entrepreneurs in Vietnam, with the assistance of their nominally Communist government leaders, are willing to risk billions on the next generation of industrial technology to employ their former agricultural workers and avoid their own civil unrest.
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We will then visit Wenchi, in Western Ghana, to see how SAP and the African Cashew initiative (ACi) are supporting small-scale farmers with innovative technology that benefits actors along the entire agricultural value chain.
To understand why, we need a little background about another subject that eluded the Clinton administration's technology czar: The relationship between progress in agricultural practices and products and the release of greenhouse gases.
Wen Mengjie, a 50-year-old, former director of the information technology department of the Beijing branch of the Agricultural Bank of China, was executed in Sept. 2007 for accepting bribes totaling 10.73 million yuan.
Shaya is a developer with no agricultural background, but recognizes the immense opportunity to use information technology to address the challenges farmers face managing their fields.
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Quite the opposite: The technology used to produce these seeds is a paragon of agricultural progress and benefits the environment, so those who oppose it must face some inconvenient truths.
Usess of the Airware technology, which started shipping last November, so far include agricultural drones that use image analysis to decrease waste of water and increase crop yields.
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At the same time, the demand for educated labour is being reconfigured by technology, in much the same way that the demand for agricultural labour was reconfigured in the 19th century and that for factory labour in the 20th.
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Equivalent to the pasteurization of milk, irradiation is a completely safe technology that kills poisonous bacteria, mold, fungus and parasites on agricultural products.
America is not only the most competitive country in information technology, biotechnology, and nanotechnology, but is also a frontrunner in agricultural innovation.
Technology is now doing for the American energy and fuel sectors what it previously did for the agricultural sector.
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