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.

It had therefore been necessary to increase the productivity of resources.

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.

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.

35. The manufacturing sector consists of small scale production units, including electronic assembly, textile, furniture, leather and agro processing plants.

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.

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.

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

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.

Noting that efforts are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

Incorporating technological development and innovation into productive processes in order to increase the productivity and competitiveness required by the national productive apparatus.

Improving carbon productivity requires improving land productivity.

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

As populations grow, biotechnology can help raise the productivity of major food crops.

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.

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

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

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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.

In addition, Zambia continues to pursue a Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) aimed at increasing the productivity and competitiveness of local industry.

Intercropping. Intercropping really increases income.

Given the importance of these small enterprises in economic growth and job creation, it is essential to increase the productivity of small firms and small scale activities.

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

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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.

This has been possible by an expansion in the area of land farmed and especially through increased yields following improvements in technology, together with a dramatic increase in the use of external inputs.

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.

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

The objective of the project is to help the Government in its effort to assist populations affected by the war and support the increase of food crop production.

Noting that efforts in American Samoa are currently aimed at increasing the production of food crops for local consumption,

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