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The biggest crops are cotton and tobacco, and we're very proud of our Bertie County peanut.
They remove dung, they pollinate our crops.
And finally, in the shade under the mirrors, it's possible to grow all sorts of crops that would not grow in direct sunlight.
So all the grasses, which means all of the cereal crops, and most of the trees have wind-borne pollen.
And I'm very excited about this, because one thing we're working on is transforming the technologies that are very available in the food industry to be available for traditional crops.
So we're in the process of helping them design deep-well, low-cost manual pumps in order for these people who have a quarter acre of land to be able to grow crops in the off-season.
What they do now is: they can grow crops in the rainy season but they can't grow them in the off-season.
So it turns out that the very same technology is also being used to grow new lines of corn, wheat, soybean and other crops that are highly tolerant of drought, of flood, of pests and pesticides.
Now light and temperature vary with each window's microclimate, so a window farm requires a farmer, and she must decide what kind of crops she is going to put in her window farm, and whether she is going to feed her food organically.
If we were to take the model here, the diagram of that particular garden, and sort of transpose it onto our federal agriculture policy, we'd get this: billions of billions of dollars going to support just a handful of commodity crops with just that tiny little bit at the top for fruits and vegetables.
Fungi are the most destructive pathogens of plants, including crops of major economic importance.
Fungal infections have devastated agriculture crops.
Because crops are already growing on that land that's very scarce around the world.
Number two: Don't compete with food crops.
It's extreme green, it's sustainable, alternative and renewable and it meets the big three at GRC: Don't use arable land, don't compete with food crops, and most of all, don't use fresh water.
Well, again and again, what we find as we look around the world in our little tour of the world is that landscape after landscape after landscape have been cleared and altered for growing food and other crops.
The green areas are the areas we use to grow crops, like wheat or soybeans or corn or rice or whatever.
This is an analysis we've done, where on the left is where the crops are today, on the right is where they could be based on soils and climate, assuming climate change doesn't disrupt too much of this, which is not a good assumption.
We use 2,800 cubic kilometers of water on crops every year.
Energy crops deliver half a watt per square meter in European climates.
What this means is, even if you covered the whole of the United Kingdom with energy crops, you couldn't match today's energy consumption.
And when they produce their crops, they sell the surplus on marketplaces.
Researchers around the globe still do not know what's causing it, but what we do know is that, with the declining numbers of bees, the costs of over 130 fruit and vegetable crops that we rely on for food is going up in price.
What about in 100 years, if we have green rooftops everywhere, and gardening, and we create our own crops right in the cities?
I mean, locally in Boston, there is a terrific company called Green City Growers, and they are going and pollinating their squash crops by hand with Q-Tips, and if they miss that three day window, there's no fruit.
Here you see a graph showing you the different types of crops that are being considered for making biofuels, so you can see some things like soybean, which makes 50 gallons per acre per year, or sunflower or canola or jatropha or palm, and that tall graph there shows what microalgae can contribute.
Well, it has been calculated that if we were to remove bats from the equation, we're going to have to then use insecticides to remove all those pest insects that feed on our agricultural crops.
We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food.
What would happen to our crops?
We have G.M. crops, we have pharmaceuticals, we have new vaccines, all using roughly the same technology, but with very different outcomes.
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