Increases in crop production and productivity, together with virtual-water trade, will mitigate the regional inequities of availability.
Collectively, CGIAR centres maintain 600, 000 plant varieties in crop genebanks in a global effort to conserve agricultural biodiversity.
Worse still would be a combination of a return to higher levels of interest rates combined with a decline in crop prices.
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Thanks to considerable improvements in crop productivity, U.S. planted land has decreased roughly 39 million acres since 1980 (an 11 percent decrease).
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He had a strong interest in crop circles, paranormal activity, and UFOs.
Moreover, he says farmers are less concerned about a drop in crop prices at the top of the market, than about similar declines at the bottom.
Large areas of North and South America, Australia, Asia and Europe have experienced a serious decline in crop productivity this century as a result of this problem.
While he admits that the worsening Midwest drought will cause a sharp hike in crop prices, he maintains there is yet no need to seek a reduction in corn-based ethanol production.
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According to Philip Stott, emeritus professor of biogeography at the University of London, these days there are somewhere between 100 and 130 transgenic scientists working in crop research institutes in Britain.
"Anything that reduces food miles and other carbon emissions linked to food production is normally a positive thing, " said Dr Nicola Canon, lecturer in crop sciences at the UK's Royal Agricultural College.
The interest in crop-dusters in Florida is particularly acute because law enforcement sources said one man now accused by U.S. investigators of being a hijacker on board a jet that slammed into the World Trade Center September 11 had wanted to buy a crop-dusting plane there.
We would normally say you should hide a hare in a crop of wheat in March.
In fact the crop in 1982 was very large, and the grapes were almost certainly less concentrated.
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Watchdog groups warn the savings may not last because the crop insurance has no caps, and in bad crop years, the cost to taxpayers could explode.
This paper, by researchers at the University of Georgia, was published in the journal Crop Science back in 2009.
But a farmer involved in GM crop trials claimed some of Mr Meacher's comments were "inaccurate".
The Environmental Working Group is a Washington organization that's pushing for changes in the crop subsidy programs.
It will not increase tornado outbreaks in the Southeast, crop failures in Midwest, or superstorms in the Northeast.
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The increasing trend in world crop yields from 1960 to 1980 is exactly the same as from 1980 to 2010.
And because the pesticide will be everywhere in the crop, it is predicted that the pests will rapidly acquire resistance to it.
Virtually no one in the upper reaches of this administration has been tested by running a private company, manufacturing a product or bringing in a crop.
Knowing what the comparable gene in Arabidopsis is, and what it does, gives Ceres and its competitors a short cut to help them decide how their own genes might work in a crop species.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
According to Makerbot, the most well known in a crop of companies developing low cost 3D printers, the technology is being used by NASA engineers to develop parts for models, including for the Mars Rover, Curiosity.
The 2009 and 2010 vintages saw relatively flat production volume amidst the economic crisis and in the wake of a massive bumper crop in 2008.
World output of arabica coffee will shrink 4.3% to 79.6 million bags in the current crop year, which began in October, according to the London-based International Coffee Organization.
Although they occur in most cells, they crop up in particularly large numbers in cells of three kinds: those that move a lot, those that transport molecules in and out a lot, and tumour cells that are resistant to many different drugs (which are usually cells that are able to get rid of lots of foreign toxins).
In fact, raisins are the most labor intensive crop in North America.
Fairfield Horeshoe, a 11-mile day-hike across several fells north of the town of Ambleside, takes in a bumper crop of Wainwrights, the 214 hills written about in his Pictorial Guides.
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