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Then, a small dam is constructed around the field, and then crops are planted across the surface area.
Our farms drain the equivalent of 3.3 billion Olympic-sized swimming pools every year, all of it swallowed up by crops and livestock to feed Earth’s growing population.
Farmers are already finding ingenious ways to reduce their impact, like using special irrigation techniques to grow “more crop per drop”, and breeding new crops that are less thirsty.
And while I'm sure many of you enjoy that suntan that you get from the remaining 10 percent, it causes a lot of problems: cataracts, damage to crops, damage to immune systems and also skin cancer.
They can engineer drought-resistant crops and create apples that don’t brown.
The beautiful sunbirds we see in our environments are part of nature's pollination crew, and they help our plants to form fruits. Together with other pollinators like insects, they have actually helped us to get most of the food crops that we depend on for many years.
No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is, but remarkably, it draws on fact: For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.
Those then serve as lasting reserves of water that farmers can use to irrigate their crops.
That ensures that the mini-glacier melts slowly and provides a reliable supply of water to feed the farmers’ crops.
In plants, base editors have been used to introduce individual single DNA letter changes that could lead to better crops.
And Jackson knows that the way that most crops are grown around the world today is stripping the earth of the fertile topsoil we need to feed future generations.
He got together with a group of scientists, and they bred perennial grain crops which have deep roots that anchor the fertile topsoil of a farm, preventing erosion and protecting future harvests.
But they also knew that in order to get farmers to grow these crops in the short run, they needed to boost the annual yields of the crops and find companies willing to make cereal and beer using the grains so that farmers could reap profits today by doing what's good for tomorrow.
Organic material is useful for the agricultural crops, for the people, but also helps the trees.
We lost all the crops.
You don't need to harvest [unclear] or any other of the crops.
That you can go from this zero situation, by planting the vegetables and the trees, or directly, the trees in the lines in that grass there, putting up the buffer zone, producing your compost, and then making sure that at every stage of that up growing forest there are crops that can be used.
We plant in the seedlings mixed with the bananas, the papayas, all the crops for the local people, but the trees are growing up fast in between as well.
They also get free land in between the trees, where they can grow their crops.
While these policies produced high-yield crops that staved off famine, they also forced people from lower castes off their land and caused widespread environmental damage.
Many worked in camp facilities or taught in poorly equipped classrooms, while others raised crops and animals.
So when a new disease arrived with the potato blight, it had a very easy game, and it destroyed the crops in consecutive years.
To be honest, seed saving is quite difficult with most crops, but some are rather easy.
And I want to use the energy that comes from those greenhouses and from the fermentation of crops to heat our residential areas.
Because yeasts will ferment basically any plant sugars, ancient peoples made alcohol from whatever crops and plants grew where they lived.
It's been around since pretty much the beginning of time, many cultures thought that women could spoil crops or milk, or wilt flowers.
And if we all had this secret menotoxin, we could be laying waste to crops and spoiling milk.
These elephants also trample and eat crops, and this is traditionally eroding away that tolerance that people used to have for elephants.
So we're having a great reduction both in elephant crop raids and a boost in yield through the pollination services that the bees are giving to the crops themselves.
So we're trying to help farmers grow pollinator-friendly crops to boost their hives, boost the strength of their bees and, of course, produce the most amazing honey.
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