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CAP reform and negotiations can be broadly categorized as falling under two sets of conditions
In addition, interviews with members of national legislators across countries, including the UK, Netherlands, and France, reveal that, when making agricultural policy, little effort is made to reach out to and incorporate other groups who may be interested in reform outcomes such as environmental or consumer groups . Instead, they consult agricultural interests almost exclusively.…
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The Nobelists boldly used the approach to rethink how to fight global poverty
This result could indicate that having other managed systems nearby results in fewer source populations of pests in the immediate surrounding, whereas having widespread cropland in the landscape leads to a concentration of pests [i.e., resource concentration hypothesis ] or a lack of natural enemies [enemies hypothesis ] within the broader agricultural region. If so,…
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Many fruit and nut trees have a dormancy phase during winter
With leading climate change scientists concluding that “It is very likely that heat waves will occur with a higher frequency and duration” as the global mean temperatures increases , it seems likely that tightening bottlenecks, rather than changes in mean temperatures, will be responsible for temperature related damages in agriculture for the next few decades.…
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Using food as a marker of distinction or identity is not a new phenomenon
Understanding how trade-offs, genetic costs, or relaxed selection impact symbiosis will inform efforts to engineer crops with novel symbiotic capabilities. Microbial symbionts provide foundational services to agricultural crops. Rhizobia alone fix 70 million metric tons of N annually, valued at US $23–$59 billion worth of fertilizer application. Resolving the impact of domestication processes on symbiosis…
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Agricultural pesticides are often detected in rural homes
For the first weigh-in of the day, I use time elapsed since morning check-in to calculate this measure. As reported in table 1.1, average productivity pooled across both farms is just over nineteen pounds picked per hour. This number, however, masks significant heterogeneity across farm, day, and worker. At the San Diego farm, which grows…
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The low levels of GS1 expression found in fields with clear N deficiency supports this idea
Root RNA was extracted using Trizol reagent according to the manufacturer’s guidelines followed by DNase digestion using RQ1 RNase-free DNase . Total RNA was purified using the RNeasy Plant Mini Kit . RNA concentrations and quality were assessed using the Agilent Nanodrop and the RNA 6000 Nano Assay . Only RNA samples with RNA integrity numbers of at…
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Land use or cover in the watershed varies greatly by location
The Salinas is a losing stream with naturally transient flow and no surface water passing through the lower reaches for much of the summer. The aquifers in the alluvial valley are over drafted for agricultural production, causing saltwater intrusion. During the spring and summer, the Nacimiento and San Antonio reservoirs are operated by Monterey County Water…
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Trees use environmental signals to trigger bud breaking and bloom
We exclude the potential of CIMIS values on non-drip acreage, noting that our estimates would therefore be conservative in that sense.The monetary cost of water saved can be viewed as savings on the intensive margin. One can also consider gains on an extensive margin. The water saved by use of CIMIS is likely to be…
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This literature is based on the agricultural practices and available data of that time
Changing the University goals of sustainability and food options would require cooperation of members of the administrative authority, of whom should recognize the extreme destructions of animal agriculture and should seek to do their part to eliminate the unsustainable methods. With the approval of these individuals, the food preparers would attend a class or a…
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Fewer details of metabolism and ecology are available for non-pathogenic fungal indicators
The potential for adaptive plant-microbe feed backs is especially relevant for acquisition of nitrogen , an essential nutrient whose availability in agroecosystems is controlled by interactions between fertility management practices and microbial metabolic processes. Microbial communities supply plant-available N through biological N fixation and mineralization of organic forms, and limit N losses by immobilizing it in…