In general, farmers benefit from having an increase in crop yield and from being able to grow a variety of crops throughout the year.

Moreover, CO2 acts as a fertilizer, and its increase has probably raised global yields more than 3 over the past 30 years.

How can agricultural yields be raised? What is the best way to develop aquaculture?

Some Parties also identified as options for limiting emissions from agriculture the promotion of land use planning, encouragement of integrated farming, promotion of low tillage or no tillage agriculture, banning of sugar cane burning prior to harvest, post harvest management (including the avoidance of burning of farm waste), ploughing of vegetative waste into the soil, management and administration of grasslands and changes in the use and handling of crop residues.

The techniques are known, but Africa s farmers are too poor to get started. With increased help to African farmers to grow more food (as opposed to shipping food aid from the US), it would be possible to double or even triple crop yields.

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.

Research efforts are aimed not only at increasing the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring that agriculture is sustainable.

Yields of all major crops have been rising dramatically in recent decades, owing to higher yielding crop varieties and farmers greater use of fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation.

Not only would this reduce hunger by increasing food production and lowering food prices it would also protect biodiversity, because higher crop productivity would mean less deforestation.

In some African countries, for example, yields could decline by as much as 50 by 2020.

Africa needs to boost its yields, and that means enabling farmers to use modern crops, fertilizers, and pesticides.

Investments in agriculture, such as subsidized fertilizers and seeds, increases food harvest and reduces food prices.

Africa Increases in food and fertilizer prices have underlined the vulnerability of poor urban and rural households in many developing countries, especially in Africa, renewing policymakers' focus on the need to increase staple food crop productivity.

But many poor countries can grow more food themselves, because their farmers are producing far below what is technologically possible.

Without risk management, poor people will not experiment with new crops or more productive methods, because any mistake could be disastrous.

It looks at the possible impact that reduced crop productivity in vulnerable areas could have on increasing deforestation, as more land would need to be cultivated to produce the same amount of food.

The Soviet authorities claimed that the Stakhanovite movement had caused a significant increase in labor productivity.

Boosting yields of locally grown staple foods (rather than cash crops) would increase self sufficiency and strengthen resilience when international food prices are high.

Low productivity of licit agricultural crops, insufficient infrastructure and lack of access to technology, credits and markets all inhibit the generation of licit income beyond subsistence levels.

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

Research efforts are aimed not only at raising the productivity of cropping systems but also at ensuring the sustainability of agriculture.

The basis for this claim was a single report from the World Wildlife Fund that itself cited only one study, which didn t even look at climate change, but rather at the impact of human activities like logging and burning.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

The number and types of impacts in this sector included productivity yield of crops, effects on soil moisture, and incidence of pests and spread of infectious diseases, as well as effects on the length of the growing season, carbon fertilization and productivity of pastures and livestock.

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

The Productivity of Trust

5. Also stresses that the reform of the Department should be aimed equally at increasing the productivity of the Department in delivering all services in accordance with relevant resolutions

UNIDO integrated programmes in the region will progressively contribute towards building the productivity and capacity of these sectors to accelerate their competitiveness.

Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity improvements for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.

Their poverty causes low farm productivity, and low farm productivity reinforces their poverty.

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

The solution is to increase grain yields to at least two tons and in some places to three or more tons per hectare.

The scientific revolution was made possible by the printing press, the industrial revolution by the steam engine, and India s escape from famine by increased farm yields the so called Green Revolution.

Such sharing oriented businesses increase the productivity of existing capital, while creating new jobs for workers.

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.

The Best, Brightest, and Least Productive?

In an agricultural society, the difference between the richest and the poorest, the most productive and the least productive, was five to one. Why?

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

Crop yields are below one ton of cereal per hectare of farmland far less than half of what is readily achievable if farmers are helped to gain access to fertilizers, improved seeds, and basic infrastructure.

Harvest contaminated tobacco.

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.

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

30. We are committed to supporting and promoting increased aid to build productive and trade capacities of developing countries and to taking further steps in that regard, while welcoming the substantial support already provided.

Moreover, if unmanaged, risk destroys the prospect of economic growth. Without risk management, poor people will not experiment with new crops or more productive methods, because any mistake could be disastrous.

Imagine you own a patch of land and have made it valuable through careful farming practices good seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and bees to pollinate the crops.