Surely each new innovation brings higher crop yields, right?
It also promotes leaner and healthier diets, along with higher crop yields and a move towards accepting genetically modified crops.
And when farmers were suffering through the 1980 agricultural crisis, union members rolled up their sleeves to help raise pressure for higher crop prices.
Besides concluding that the damage from further warming could be somewhat offset by higher crop yields in some countries, the new report contained one other hint of optimism.
Investors typically promise to create local jobs and say that better farming technologies will produce higher crop yields and improve food security.
Once you get that first core going and their neighbours and competitors see their higher crop yields, fuller streams, better looking farms and happier workers, they will soon want a piece of the action.
In use the polymer has shown the potential for 25% higher crop yields due to decreased stress on plants, 25% reduced water use overall, and 15% savings on water-related energy utilities, Hartmeier said.
Feeding all those people will mean increasing food production by 70%, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, through a combination of higher crop yields and an expansion of the area under cultivation.
Get the dose and timing right and you can have a higher crop yield and a higher weed yield at the same time and also use less herbicide.In this section Games people play Moon river?
But the commissioners are apparently not satisfied that this ability to lend is being matched by a willingness to lend and are trying to head off a credit crisis that could wipe out farmers and grain elevators before they can profit from higher crop prices at harvest.
Images from space predicted the spread of dengue fever caused by the floods that followed the Haiti earthquake; land use data — the amount of moisture in the soil, for example — can help farmers generate higher crop yields using less energy; satellite information allows for safer navigation in uncharted waters, to gain access to untapped energy reserves.
