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Rather than merely altering the crops that farmers bring to harvest, biotechnology corporations will now try to control the genetic makeup of every component in the agricultural ecosystem, from the pollinators to the weeds and pests.
Indeed, the international community’s methods of fighting the insurgency and eradicating poppy crops have actually helped the insurgents gain power.
In fact, the eradication of poppy crops not only damage local communities and undermines the international community’s goals, but it is also failing: opium production last year was at an all-time high.
Millions of people face shortages of food or water, leading to the loss of lives, livelihoods, crops, and livestock.
Farmers and food retailers can connect directly through mobile phones and distribution hubs, enabling farmers to sell their crops at higher “farm-gate” prices and without delay, while buyers can move those crops to markets with minimum spoilage and lower prices for final consumers.
They have lived fruitful lives together, cultivating crops and grazing cattle in a remote village in the hills of southwest Uganda.
These improvements raise farm productivity and facilitate diversification into non-traditional crops with higher returns.
And farmers throughout the Global South are turning to SMS-based services for technical support that allows them more easily to adopt new crops and growing techniques, with benefits for both natural resources and household income and nutrition.Connectivity also improves the functioning of markets by allowing farmers and herders to access accurate price information, coordinate transport and other logistics, and facilitate easier exchange of perishable but nutritious foods such as animal products and vegetables.
And farmers throughout the Global South are turning to SMS-based services for technical support that allows them more easily to adopt new crops and growing techniques, with benefits for both natural resources and household income and nutrition.
Because men are more likely to perform wage labor or farm cash crops, a climate-driven event like drought may cost them their wages and force them to move to cities to find employment.
Women, who are often responsible for growing local subsistence crops and taking care of their families, do not have that option.
For starters, countries should phase out the production of water-intensive crops.
For the crops that Arab countries continue to produce, the introduction of more advanced technologies and best practices from around the world could help to reduce water use.
Most of the investments are aimed at producing food or other crops for export from the countries in which the land is acquired, for the obvious reason that richer countries can pay more for the output.
Indeed, the FARC’s proposal – centered on protecting the rural farmers who make their living cultivating illicit crops, including by establishing a legal market for such crops – is relatively moderate.
Indeed, African governments might wish to look selectively at other crops.
Subsistence farming of traditional food grains, fruits, and vegetables is giving way to cash crops and monocultures dependent on high-priced inputs that small farmers cannot afford and water that they can’t provide.
Your crops are withering as weather patterns become more volatile, your well water is too salty to drink, and rice is too expensive to buy at the market.
Why, instead of bumper crops, does Africa have an annual food-import bill of $35 billion?
As if that were not enough, farmers are facing increasingly volatile climate conditions that increase the likelihood that their crops will fail.
And, when the crops are ready, farmers face major obstacles – including inadequate rural road systems and a lack of cold storage facilities – in delivering them to the market.
For example, banks could devise specific loan programs for crops that are traditionally grown by female farmers – such as groundnuts or sunflowers.
We must be able to end the freedom of European citizens to come to the UK to staff our hospitals, pick our crops, fill gaps in our professional services, and increase our prosperity.
Ethiopian village life has long depended on two crops, one during a short rain in March and April, and the main crop during the long rain in the summer months.
Rice crops in Southeast Asia, for example, can now be flood-resistant.
For example, by planting scientifically engineered crops that grow faster, farmers can harvest them before, say, cyclone season, which will become increasingly violent as global temperatures rise.
Coca crops in Latin America need to be replaced with agricultural crops, and cocaine use in affluent Europe must be reduced.
Scientific and technological advances – from new vaccines and hardier crops to much cheaper smartphones and tablets – are among the greatest drivers of poverty reduction.
Kenya’s Perfect StormNAIROBI – It’s the end of the rainy season in Kenya, and this year’s storms have been almost biblical, washing away not only people’s sunny disposition, but also their bridges, buses, livestock, and crops.
In Denmark, a group of researchers estimated by how much various energy crops would reduce CO2 emissions.
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