The world possesses the technologies to significantly step up farm productivity, including through "climate smart" methods and technologies designed to help adapt farming processes to environmental changes.
The manner in which farming responds to urban pressures, socio-economic changes and development opportunities has been the main focus of examination, with urban demand for rural goods and services representing a driving factor to adapt farming activities in a multifunctional way.
Climate change, says Tolentino, needs a new green revolution: "The challenge now is to rapidly adapt farming with modern varieties to climate change and feed a fast-growing global population, half of which depends on rice as a staple food.
The dependent variable in the selection equation is binary indicating whether or not a farmer perceives climate change; the dependent variable in the outcome equation is also binary indicating whether or not a farmer responded to the perceived changes by adapting farming practices.
Discussions on farming, while a bit more open than under President Jacques Chirac, will quickly turn into a dispute with liberal free-marketeers over how best to adapt farm support at a time of soaring food prices.So much for the official agenda.
These values include a one-time contribution of 20,000 euro per farm to cover part of the investment required to adapt farm buildings for use as kindergarten facilities and, the annual contribution of 15,000 euro for management costs.
These flat, low prairies extend inland to form a fertile crescent that is well adapted to farming and cattle raising.
Perhaps owing to the limitations imposed by natural phenomena, these inhabitants of high mountains have adapted their farming skills and raised cattle in the transhumant pastoral tradition, using natural pastures and forests for grazing.
For crossbreeding it is better adapted to farms than to range conditions.
After adapting to intensive farming processes, avian influenza viruses can be spread intercontinentally among domestic bird populations by human activities.
