Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits. Varieties that are tolerant to drought and flood can not only increase productivity, but also can prevent soil erosion and desertification.

Crop diversity can also deliver important ecosystem benefits.

Cotton ranks among the world's most important crops.

Certain crops can be grown in their own homes.

Meanwhile, vertical farm experiments which aim to augment urban food supplies by cultivating crops in skyscraper greenhouses are proliferating from the American Midwest to Osaka, Japan.

In addition, crop diversification has reduced the need for costly and environmentally damaging pesticides.

Easy US monetary policy, followed by monetary easing in countries that formally pegged their exchange rates to the US dollar (as in the Gulf) or that maintain undervalued currencies to achieve export led growth (China and other informal members of the so called Bretton Woods 2 dollar zone) has fueled a new asset bubble in commodities and overheating of their economies.

The diversion of land to bio fuels production has reduced the land available to produce agricultural commodities.

Justru sebaliknya, upaya upaya perlindungan tanah secara berkelanjutan dapat menaikkan hasil pertanian khususnya bagi petani kecil.

(j) To provide assistance, at the request of States and respecting fully their sovereignty and territorial integrity, in monitoring illicit crop cultivation and in detecting on time its emergence or relocation

Success will also require more funds for reconstruction, development, and alternatives to opium poppy cultivation.

These trees have a long history in the diets of many cultures, but they have grown in the wild and not been viewed as a crop for trade, giving farmers little incentive to grow them.

New crops that had come to Asia from the Americas via the Spanish colonizers in the 16th century contributed to the Asia's population growth.

Our culture, our cultures?

Water lies at the heart of life, whether for drinking and washing, irrigating crops, watering cattle, or generating power. Those of us who live with wet weather tend to curse it, but if we faced week after week of blistering sun with no prospect of clouds in sight, we would be in real trouble.

The Minister recalled that this year sowing of agricultural crops for the 2013 harvest made up 3.1 million hectares, including acreage of grain crops of 1.7 million hectares, which is 3.3 higher than last year.

There is a disintegration of cultures.

Continuous cropping (in which there is no fallow season) is gradually becoming a more common mode of production because of increased profits and a reduction of soil erosion.

Herbicide tolerant plants have decreased herbicide use and encouraged the widespread adoption of no till farming, markedly reducing topsoil loss and promoting soil fertility.

The area of the district is .

Sementara itu, kenaikan suhu meningkatkan kemungkinan terjadinya hama dan penyakit pada tumbuhan, membahayakan produktivitas pertanian dan menjadikan penduduk semakin sering menderita gelombang panas.

(c) To increase its technical assistance, within the available voluntary resources, to countries that are deploying efforts to reduce illicit crop cultivation by, in particular, adopting alternative development programmes

We need to abandon cotton cultivation in Uzbekistan completely.

Can I use this area to raise vegetables?

Under traditional agricultural conditions, the yields of grain rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, or millet are usually around one ton per hectare, for one planting season per year.

In Europe and beyond, GMOs became emblematic of the powerful economic fears that globalization inspires. In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

In country after country France, Britain, Germany, New Zealand, and elsewhere farmers and ecologists jointly oppose, and sometimes sabotage, trials of GM crops.

In southern Ghana, for example, farmers have managed to reduce crop failures arising from rainfall variability and unpredictability by cultivating several drought tolerant types of the same crop species.

In this third post, we will focus on the monocultures of the Nanay river and the problem this is causing between those who support this type of crop and those who advise against it.

Those peasants badly need land to grow rice.

According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri biotech Applications (ISAAA), GM crop adoption is growing at double digit rates, reaching 114.3 million hectares in 23 countries in 2007.

Even agricultural lands could no longer suffice.

We are the main drivers of rural community conservation.

Lenin Academy of Agricultural Sciences Всесоюзная академия сельскохозяйственных наук имени В. И. Ленина ).

But your agricultural subsidy programs block us from establishing any sort of comparative advantage in most agricultural products.

They don't follow us when we deliver their children.

There are many countries and many cultures on Earth.

(c) To encourage international cooperation, including, as appropriate, preventive alternative development, to prevent illicit crop cultivation from emerging in or being relocated to other areas

(c) To encourage international cooperation, including, as appropriate, preventive alternative development, to prevent illicit crop cultivation from emerging in or being relocated to other areas

Fundamentalism is thus not a protest by original cultures under threat it reflects these cultures' disappearance.

62 190. Agricultural technology for development

Economy Agricultural lands comprise 38.4 of the district's territory.

Governments lose their legitimacy when they cannot guarantee their populations most basic needs safe drinking water, staple food crops, and fodder and water for the animal herds on which communities depend for their meager livelihoods.

Intercropping. Intercropping really increases income.

Sometimes being strategic with crop selection isn t enough.