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And although the techniques are similar, the outcomes are very, very different, and if you take our approach, for example, and you compare it to, say, G.M. crops, both techniques are trying to produce a massive benefit.
My mother worked hard in the farm to grow crops so that we can eat.
I never got that, because anyone knows if you farm, you don't plant crops in July and August.
Surya takes the waste out of the biogas chamber when it's shed the gas, he puts it on his crops.
For one thing, it strikes hardest during harvest season, so exactly when farmers need to be out in the fields collecting their crops, they're home sick with a fever.
Bees are the most important pollinators of our fruits and vegetables and flowers and crops like alfalfa hay that feed our farm animals.
We stopped planting cover crops.
And these monocultures extend even to crops that are good for bees, like almonds.
Bees have been dying over the last 50 years, and we're planting more crops that need them.
And we need to think carefully about putting back in cover crops to nourish our soil and nourish our bees.
Speaking of risk, we have seen that price volatility of food crops in Africa is the highest in the world.
Oh, I forgot the other crops as well.
So as terrestrial beings, we're very familiar with the plants on land: the trees, the grasses, the pastures, the crops.
And collectively, they weigh more than the human population and they photosynthesize as much as all of the crops on land.
We'll see crops as they grow in all the fields in every farmer's field around the planet every day.
The next thing I believe is that we need to create technologies for poor farmers to add value to their own crops.
For the next three weeks, there wasn't a single drop of rain, and the crops that had germinated so well shriveled and died.
Then you can thank the honeybee, that's the one, because if crops aren't pollinated, we can't grow food, and then we're all going to die.
On his farm, he plants a variety of different crops.
After 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists, every major scientific organization in the world has concluded that the crops currently on the market are safe to eat and that the process of genetic engineering is no more risky than older methods of genetic modification.
And as you may know, bees pollinate one third of our food crops, and lately they've been having a really hard time.
First, think of your daily rituals, whatever they may be: making your coffee, driving to work, harvesting your crops, saying your prayers.
And in this particular case, you can essentially see there are some crops that are not doing as well as other crops.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
And as they learned to farm crops and domesticate animals there, attitudes changed, rippling outwards towards Europe and the rest of the Western world.
As farming took off, people might have spurned bugs as mere pests that destroyed their crops.
We farm bees for their honey, but they also pollinate our crops on an industrial scale, generating over 1/3 of America's food production this way.
Pesticides used both on commercial beehives and agricultural crops to ward off parasites could be getting into the food and water that honeybees consume.
I believe that the secret to producing extremely drought-tolerant crops, which should go some way to providing food security in the world, lies in resurrection plants, pictured here, in an extremely droughted state.
Now, why would I suggest that producing drought-tolerant crops will go towards providing food security?
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