Sentence examples for growing food needs from inspiring English sources

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] agricultureSIR – Your briefing paints a cheery picture of the potential for Brazil to meet the world's growing food needs ("The miracle of the cerrado", August 28th).

Cresud, an agricultural company that is involved in crop production including wheat and soybeans, cattle raising, and real estate investment, both rural and urban, is a direct bet on growing food needs in a part of the world where populations are rapidly expanding.

Because of the tremendously important role indigenous fermented fruits and vegetables play in food preservation and their potential to contribute to the growing food needs of the world, it is essential that the knowledge of their production is not lost.

Given that agriculture accounts for almost 70 percent of global water use, it will be critical to increase "crop per drop" through improved irrigation techniques and by growing food that needs less water.

Little peer-reviewed research to date has analyzed the economic benefits of water storage capacity expansions as a mechanism to sustain food security over long periods of variable climate and growing food demands needed to feed growing populations.

They've held contests to visualize data from such complex global topics as water footprinting, growing food consumption and food needs, even the future of Facebook.

This interviewee explained that because, for decades, most Fijians lived by growing food only for their own needs, there was no need for rural Fijians to develop a more commercially oriented agriculture sector.

To support its own growing food demands, Africa would need to expand its cropland by 345 million acres (140 million hectares), releasing 33 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

This wastes precious time and energy he needs for growing food.

This can allow for lower-cost solutions to aggregate more information about the environment and to help to reduce the resources needed for growing food.

In view of growing food production demands, there is a need to manage insect damage in an environmentally friendly manner as an alternative to synthetic pesticides.