Search Result for 'crop'

...crop yields and higher land use, according to a recent report in the National Geographic.  Opponents maintain that a wholesale commitment to sustainable practices will mean inevitable food shortages for...

...of any scientific basis) that are currently preventing the production of this crop or making it far more complicated and undermining its profitability across the board. The introduction of appropriate...

...record (albeit incomplete) shows that in 1853, 10-15 farming families left the Brabant province in Belgium and arrived in northeastern Wisconsin. The emigrating settlers were motivated by crop failures and...

...Ireland. “If there was a huge disaster and the Northern Ireland potato crop failed, we would not be allowed to send in seed potatoes to help them. Even Asda and...

...rebuild its pork industry in the wake of a swine disease epidemic, among other reasons. At the same time, cereal crop harvests in the EU were lower this year and...

...strategy would be suspended to pursue the goal of “food security”. Essentially, the EU has already abandoned practices such as green cover, crop set-aside, and green area regeneration, in order...