More food can be grown, reducing dependency on other countries for food.

Some studies show that women are responsible for 25 of the production of major crops and 30 for food.

Production Olives are one of the most extensively cultivated fruit crops in the world.

Increased production of agricultural crops for non food purposes offers the opportunity to utilize land that would have otherwise been an unexploited resource.

The system was designed to empower farmers, increase the yield of crops and reduce costs and pollution.

For the fifth consecutive year, rain shortfalls resulted in crop failure and poor livestock production.

It is the key to the worldwide increase in food production since the 1960 s.

Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) is a software system that integrates crop growth models with crop, weather and soil data and estimates potential changes in crop yields and water use.

The number of farmers reached by such schemes in illicit crop production areas is still insufficient.

These are places where water is so scarce year after year that crop production is marginal at best.

These conditions render the rural population vulnerable to the influence of drug trafficking and increase dependence on illicit crop production.

They have no margin for error, so they need to increase their chances of producing a crop.

The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains. So, taking land for the production of bio fuels from forests means speeding up global warming, because bio fuel crops store much less carbon than trees.

The result of these advantages is that higher yields of high quality produce are obtained over an extended period of cropping.

Examples include technology for conservation and sustainable use such as resilience of ecosystems, and adaptive capacity and technology that makes use of genetic resources such as crops with higher resistance against extreme climate events.

Involving African women in decision making about crop production turns out to enable environmentally sustainable farming practices.

That said, many African countries are not self sufficient in food production, relying on income from cash crops to import food.

The threats to sustaining such systems, such as monoculture cash crop production, mineral extraction, environmental contamination and genetically modified seeds and technology, should be addressed.

Producing substantial crop yields without greenhouse gas generation from chemical inputs or intensive fossil fuel use is a challenge.

Foreign investors hope to use large mechanized farms to produce output for export, leaving little or nothing for the local populations.

Drylands include all terrestrial regions where water scarcity limits the production of crops, forage, wood and other ecosystem provisioning services.

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

The livelihood component includes learning processes concerning skills development involving existing alternative sources of income such as abaca fibre production, handicraft making and cash crop production.

Existing agricultural distribution facilities can also be utilized to convey increased oilseed production, which is not the case for any other sustainable transport fuel

That means greater investment in crop research to produce more robust and higher yielding varieties, as well as making more irrigation, pesticides, and fertilizer available.

A Sustainable Recovery

The crop prices used by Iran in calculating the value of lost crops are not appropriate for estimating the value of crops that were not, in fact, produced.

Iran estimates the alleged reduction in crop quality by comparing crop prices in the Southern Provinces in 1991 with national crop prices.

Harvest contaminated tobacco.

GIEWS has been providing regular bulletins on food crop production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a regional and country by country basis since 1975.

In terms of crop management, the options include the development and introduction of tolerant resistant crops, pest and soil studies, better cropping or farming systems, improved irrigation techniques and crop rotation, as well as changes in the timing of planting of crops.

Rio s Unsustainable Nonsense

Sustainable consumption and tourism

Rural Pakistani women are not only responsible for time and energy consuming household tasks but are also major contributors to the rural economy particularly in three sub sectors crop production, livestock production and cottage industry.

Ethiopia noted that the growth of its economy is highly influenced by climate variability, particularly drought, so one of its agricultural policies is to increase production (both quality and quantity) of food crops to ensure food self sufficiency.

Crop eradication and alternative development

Now one third of all arable land is used to grow crops to feed livestock, not to grow staple crops for people.

At the moment, people applaud sustainable growth, but they don t vote for what it means in practice.

18. Invites States to sustain and increase international cooperation and, where needed, technical assistance to countries implementing policies and programmes against drug production, including illicit crop eradication and alternative development programmes

Several factors contributed to the crisis, including high oil prices, high demand for crops from the bio fuel sector, falling global stockpiles of food commodities, and lower cereal production.

FAO, in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture, UNMIL and several international non governmental organizations, undertook a food monitoring and assessment exercise throughout the country to identify shortfalls in crop production and their implications for food security.

Women had succeeded in breaking into male dominated cash crop production, and had benefited from the opportunities brought by community radio stations and multimedia telecommunications centres in rural areas.

The Green Revolution of the mid 1960s, which brought increases in food production and rural incomes and the sustainable modernization of agriculture and rural transformation elsewhere in the world, largely missed Africa.

Crop Environment Resources Synthesis model.

A Sustainable Housing Recovery?