Rice is a major crop feeding the majority of the global population, and increasing its sink strength is one of the modes to alleviate the declining availability of food for the rapidly growing world population.
Urban agriculture is a valuable but limited niche, and I doubt its capacity to feed the majority of humanity in an affordable way.
"But many of the products and profits are being exported to developed countries, with the small-scale food producers who feed the majority of the African population losing out".
But there is a real risk of increased costs for the small-scale farmers who feed the majority of the continent's population, as an ever smaller number of multinational seed companies control both prices and the seed varieties available.
Somalia is enduring its worst drought in five years and aid agencies are unable to feed the majority of people in need, a senior United Nations humanitarian official said Friday.
Although a few birds landed directly at the Petri dish to feed, the majority landed at the boundary of the disc (i.e. in region B) and then walked to the food even though there was no food at the boundary.
Despite continuous feeding the majority of differentially expressed genes displayed a transient expression profile with a maximum transcript abundance level at 8 h after onset of feeding and were down to their initial transcript level after 24 h (clusters B and C, Figure 2).
This prediction is associated with the fact that nesting results from a core ectoparasite (Culex erraticus) that feeds on the majority of vertebrate hosts and a core host (White-tailed deer) that is fed upon by the majority of mosquitoes.
"Soybean meal can replace all or most animal meals in the feeds for the majority of cultured omnivorous freshwater fish" (Quick facts).
