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... special report on innovation—an important topic for food security Lucy Hurst, associate director of custom research for the Americas, was the research director for this project Katherine Stewart, research ... Limited 2015 Global food security index 2015 An annual measure of the state of global food security Preface The Global Food Security Index 2015: An annual measure of the state of global food security ... every quarter following the launch of the yearly baseline model This provides three comparative quarterly models that track the effects of food price changes over the year The first quarterly

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... contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) 222 Rosewood Drive, iii Preface Anthropogenic perturbation of the global carbon cycle has increased the atmospheric concentration of carbon ... materials or for the consequences of their use. No part of this book may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or ... David Kuykendall Handbook of Soil Conditioners: Substances That Enhance the Physical Properties of Soil, edited by Arthur Wallace and Richard E. Terry Environmental Chemistry of Selenium, edited

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... point of water transfer or storage (reservoir) in a stream network. Hydrologic information consists of his- torical stream flows, water diversion amounts, reservoir stor- age, hydropower generation, ... INTRODUCTION While the Green Revolution during the latter part of the 20th century may have been facilitated by higher-yield grain vari- eties, the impact of increased water harvesting techniques ... large basin (Brazos with drainage area 118,000 2 Although the focus of this chapter is on evaluation of water resources, the potential of irrigated crops to sequester carbon, © 2005 by Taylor

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... month having a run of several consecutive days of extreme high temperatures (higher autocorrelation of the time series) has much more impact on crops than a month with a day or two of extreme high ... radiation is reflected by the Earth and the atmosphere Solar radiation passes through the clear atmosphere Some of the infrared radiation passes through the atmosphere, and some is absorbed ane re-emitted ... counterintuitive, negative effect that warming has on crops is the shortening of their growing period (not their overall growing season) Warmer temperatures speed crops through their growing

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... above, which results in propagation of prediction errors over space and time. Measurements of carbon also are uncertain and costly; errors may be much larger than annual changes in SOC. Thus, by ... made regarding how much SOC will increase under RT, nor how long it might take to achieve that increase. Our hypothesis was that RT, coupled with other soil management practices, could increase ... Conditions The Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT), with its suite of CERES- and CROPGRO-based crop models, was developed to help researchers understand crop responses to various

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... nonfarm sector. That makes the exit of labor from agriculture a measure of policy success, assuming that such movement results from the “pull” of urban opportunity rather than the “push” of rural immis- ... wide range, and if there are costs and benefits in going from one average temperature to another, then there must be an optimal temperature for the Earth — something that C. Rosenzweig referred ... standard for the international trade and financial system. An alternative approach is what Kindleberger referred to as the “realist” solution, where groups of countries agree to come together to form

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... global food security, especially in tropical and subtropical regions that are character-ized by soils prone to degradation, large numbers of resource-poor farmers, and high demographic pressures Climate ... Climate shifts have occurred almost constantly during the Earth’s history However, the rate of projected change during the 21st century may be unprecedented Interacting factors involved in this process ... process are complex However, it is Trang 5important to assess whether global agricultural production will increase or decrease, whether the quality of soil and water resources will improve or decline,

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... support offered by Prof Roland Norer, Prof Bernhard Rütsche and Prof Alexander Morawa at the University of Lucerne I am especially thankful to Prof Alberto Alemanno at HEC Paris and New York University, ... Some chapters of this work were researched and drafted at the Food Law Department of the Swiss Federal Ministry of Public Health in Berne, during the 2010 revision period of most acts and ordinances ... Marco Ferrari, Marc Suter, Gerhard Hauser-Schönbächler and Antoinette Blaser, for showing me the ropes in Swiss legal practice The daily challenges, as well as the immense satisfaction, of practicing

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... present author) In proffering such arguments, this article reframes PREVENT through theoretical means Readers are therefore encouraged to interpret the arguments in I am following Rose’s description ... Qaeda-related terrorism (HM Government, 2011b: 59, 6) The latest version of CONTEST (CONTEST3 hereafter) further highlights the increased threat from the rise of Daesh, 11 as well as growing threat ... Sadeq Rahimi (University of Saskatchewan, Harvard Medical School), Dr Omar Ashour (University of Exeter), Prof Neil Ferguson (Liverpool Hope University), Prof Sarah Marsden (Lancaster University),

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... and the new Land Law of 2003, farmers have been granted long-term land use rights, and rights of land transfer, exchange, lease, inheritance, and mortgage. These reforms have raised farmers’ ... impacts of rice-related policy changes”. Acknowledgements This paper emerged from the work we undertook for the project “Vietnam Rice, Farmers and Rural Development: From Successful Growth ... specify the areas for rice land and for other crops (National Assembly 2006). This introduces effective restrictions on rice land conversion to other uses, although the degree of enforcement varies

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... crops per year: in order to that, we have to change the structural rice varieties and crop structure Specifically, the short-term hybrid rice will be promoted instead of the long-term pure rice ... other hand, researches in the future need to present food security which consist other food items 62 , REFERENCES Bingxin Yu, Tingju Zhu, Clemens Breisinger & Nguyen Manh Hai 2010 "Impacts of ... TEMPERATURE_LA, TEMPERATURE_DT, TEMPERATURE_AG, TEMPERATURE_TG, TEMPERATURE_VL, TEMPERATURE_BT, TEMPERATURE_KG,TEMPERATURE_CT,TEMPERATURE_HG, TEMPERATURE_TV, TEMPERATURE_ST, TEMPERATURE_BL, TEMPERATURE_CM

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... household food security in the mountainous region of northern Vietnam Due to the remoteness of these areas and the high cost of transporting foodgrains from the productive deltas, the northern mountainous ... Vietnam and IRRI: a Partnership in Rice Research International Rice Research Institute MARD 1998 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Report on Development Plan for Northern Mountain Region ... under orchard/home garden which is higher in areas with better access to markets The fallow area is correspondingly lower Thus, in percentage terms, land use intensity in areas with better access

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... District Lack of access to health Ethnic minority culture services Regular food shortages and language High rates of poverty Lack of agricultural land Adversely impacted by Poor infrastructure Remote ... Centre Facilities Care Results Greater diversity of Improved mother and nutritious food child health care Increased agricultural Access to clean water yields Improved food security and nutrition ... Exchange visits Supporti ng village enterpris es Diversified Agriculture Improved Access to Health Services Mobile Water Health and Outreac Sanitatio n h Mother Child Health Improve d Health Centre

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2018, 10:40

... crops per year: in order to that, we have to change the structural rice varieties and crop structure Specifically, the short-term hybrid rice will be promoted instead of the long-term pure rice ... relationship with rice yield These are suitable for Mekong Delta region in reality However, the value of R-square and adjusted R- 61 square are low for the model Therefore, the relevance of the model ... the other hand, researches in the future need to present food security which consist other food items 62 REFERENCES Bingxin Yu, Tingju Zhu, Clemens Breisinger & Nguyen Manh Hai 2010 “Impacts of

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... Xylulose 5-phosphate H C O HO C H H C OH H C OH H C C O OH C Transketolase H OH CH2 OPO3 Erythrose 4-phosphate H C + OH CH2 OPO3 Glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate CH2 OPO3 Fructose 6-phosphate (b) C-2 of glucose ... both reaction centers (4 hn for PHI and hn for PHII) (b) Six NADPH are required for the RPP synthesis of one triose phosphate (Equation 15.5) Therefore 12 electrons must be transferred through ... The electron transfer is occurring without the synthesis of ATP The compound destroys the proton gradient that is produced through electron transfer 12 (a) The synthesis of one triose phosphate

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... from the British Library All work contributed to this book is new, previously-unpublished material The views expressed in this book are those of the authors, but not necessarily of the publisher ... technologies to enhance food production and food security that is much more comprehensive than what has already been introduced as systems of agricultural diversification to achieve food security ... production and food insecurity requires much further enhancements with a model to achieve agricultural diversification and food security Nevertheless, none of these systems can accommodate the

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... pulsed-Doppler radar front-end has three 3-degree-horizontal by 3-degree-vertical phase-coherent beams arranged horizontally such that a 7-degree-horizontal by 3-degree-vertical FOV is achieved with a ... The vision system sensor and radar system sensor are bore-sited such that the central axis of their respective FOVs are co-aligned. The radar is then commanded to measure the target characteristics ... Edde, Byron, Radar Principles, Technology, Applications, Prentice Hall PTR, 1993. 7. Scheer & Kurtz, Coherent Radar Performance Estimation, Artech House, Inc., 1993. Further author information: P....

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... policy reform, and transfer of technology such as water harvesting will therefore require stronger partnerships between agricultural researchers and other agents of change, including local organizations, ... for the use of higher technology inputs such as high-yielding varieties, herbicides and fertilizers (Oweis, Hachum and Kijne 1999). Research at the ICARDA research station in northern Syria has ... than 2.5 percent per year between 1979 and 1995, far higher than the rates of increase for irrigated areas. A change in breeding strategy to directly target rainfed areas, rather than relying...

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