Sentence examples for crop technology from inspiring English sources
But they always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology.
Yet by 2011, herbicide-resistant crop technology had increased herbicide use in the United States by 527 million pounds, according to the paper.
Donations by the Gates Foundation, the United States Agency for International Development and a foundation run by Monsanto, the crop technology company, have totaled about $50 million thus far, but compared with the threat, "that's a droplet in the ocean," Dr. Fauquet said.
Consequently, describing crop technology as inherently scale-neutral is not helpful for understanding how crop technology works in Africa today and prevents important lessons being learned from the Asian Green Revolution.
Using a social shaping of technology (SST) perspective and the concept of biological embeddedness, this paper critically examines whether it is helpful to describe crop technology as scale neutral when drawing lessons from the Asian Green Revolution about how new crop technology can be of benefit to African smallholders.
Then, from 1994 to 2001, Christou worked at the John Innes Centre in the UK [18], which is heavily invested in GM crop technology [21].
The British environment secretary, Owen Paterson, who said last year that the UK would be acting immorally if it did not make GM crop technologies available to poor countries, pulled out of the conference in Addis Ababa, organised by the European Academies Science Advisory Council (Easac).
Britain would be acting immorally if it did not make GM crop technologies available to poor countries, Owen Paterson told international crop scientists in a major speech that was dismissed by his opponents as "agribusiness propaganda" but was welcomed by scientists as "overdue".
The purpose of this work was to develop an approach useful in identifying crop technologies for future climatic conditions.
This situation requires clarification, which may impact on the manner in which future development and use of GM crop technologies occurs.
The results from this study support this and suggest that in regions where food security remains a major developmental and health challenge, farmers and consumers believe the potential benefits of use of GM crop technologies outweigh any potential negative outcomes.
