Resultados de búsqueda - "world population"

Drivers of change in global agriculture por Hazell, Peter B. R., Wood, Stanley

“…As a result of agricultural intensification, more food is produced today than needed to feed the entire world population and at prices that have never been so low. …”
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Threats to urban health por Stephens, Carolyn

“…"By 2030, three-fifths of the world's population will live in urban areas... And poverty in the poorest countries appears to have become more urbanized. …”
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The potential of technology to meet world food needs in 2020 por Oram, Peter

“…World population was about 2.5 billion in 1950; by 1988 it had doubled. …”
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World trends in fertilizer use and projections to 2020 por Bumb, Balu L., Baanante, Carlos A.

“…Fertilizers have played an important role in increased crop production, especially in cereal yields, and will continue to be a cornerstone of the science-based agriculture required to feed the expanding world population. Fertilizers replenish the nutrients removed from soils by harvested crops, encourage adoption of high-yielding varieties, and increase biomass in the nutrient-poor soils of the tropics. …”
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Projecting wheat demand in China and India for 2030 and 2050: Implications for food security por Abdul Mottaleb, Khondoker, Kruseman, Gideon, Frija, Aymen, Sonder, Kai, Lopez-Ridaura, Santiago

“…The combined populations of China and India were 2.78 billion in 2020, representing 36% of the world population (7.75 billion). Wheat is the second most important staple grain in both China and India. …”
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Leveraging edge artificial intelligence for sustainable agriculture por El Jarroudi, M., Kouadio, L., Delfosse, P., Bock, C. H., Mahlein, A. K., Fettweis, X., Mercatoris, B., Adams, F., Lenné, J. M., Hamdioui, S.

“…Effectively feeding a burgeoning world population is one of the main goals of sustainable agricultural practices. …”
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Biofortified crops to alleviate micronutrient malnutrition por Mayer, Jorge Edgard, Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H., Beyer, Peter

“…Micronutrient malnutrition affects more than half of the world population, particularly in developing countries. …”
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Role of biotechnology in medicinal plants por Tripathi, L., Tripathi, J.N.

“…Medicinal plants are the most important source of life saving drugs for the majority of the world's population. The biotechnological tools are important to select, multiply and conserve the critical genotypes of medicinal plants. …”
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Integrated approaches to tackling health issues related to agri-food systems por Hung Nguyen-Viet, Grace, Delia, McDermott, J.

“…Hunger, malnutrition, and poor health are declining but stubborn development challenges, even in countries where other aspects of development are moving forward. The world population has reached 7.6 billion people in 2018 but 815 million people suffer from chronic undernourishment. …”
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Rice to Sustainability: A systems thinking approach to advance sustainable rice por Edwards, Glory I.

“…Rice is important for global food security, serving as a staple food for over half of the world's population. Rice production needs to increase to meet increasing global demands. …”
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Biofortification of staple food crops por Nestel, Penelope, Bouis, Howarth E., Meenakshi, J.V., Pfeiffer, Wolfgang H.

“…Deficiencies of vitamin A, iron, and zinc affect over one-half of the world's population. Progress has been made to control micronutrient deficiencies through supplementation and food fortification, but new approaches are needed, especially to reach the rural poor. …”
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Mobilizing Science to Break Yield Barriers por Phillips, Ronald L.

“…The diminished stock of staple foods, higher grain prices, and increases in production failing to keep up with demand, coupled with 80 million people being added to the world population every year, suggests that we are on a collision course with famine unless greater investments are made in research and development, as well as education. …”
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Genome-edited foods por Tuncel, A., Pan, C., Sprink, T., Wilhelm, R., Barrangou, R., Li, L., Shih, P. M., Varshney, Rajeev K., Tripathi, L., Eck, J. van, Mandadi, K., Qi, Y.

“…Genome editing can transform agriculture and shape the future of food by improving crop yields and animal productivity, which in turn can help to achieve food security for the growing world population. CRISPR–Cas-based technologies are powerful gene editing tools that are applied to various food products. …”
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Supply chain from production areas to Addis Ababa por Minten, Bart, Tamru, Seneshaw, Legesse, Ermias Engida, Kuma, Tadesse

“…It is estimated that more than half of the world population was living in cities in 2010; this is up from 30 percent in the 1950s (UN Population Division 2010). …”
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Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest por Fuglie, Keith O., Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

“…A half century later, the world population had doubled to 7 billion while land under cultivation increased by only 12 percent to 1.53 billion hectares. …”
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Food security and climate change: Challenges to 2050 and beyond por Nelson, Gerald C., Rosegrant, Mark W., Palazzo, Amanda, Gray, Ian, Ingersoll, Christina, Robertson, Richard D., Tokgoz, Simla, Zhu, Tingju, Sulser, Timothy B., Ringler, Claudia, Msangi, Siwa, You, Liangzhi

“…In 2010, the excessive heat and drought in Russia that led to wildfires and a grain embargo, as well as the unprecedented floods in Pakistan, signal more trouble ahead. A world population approaching 9 billion by 2050 and higher incomes in hitherto poor countries will lead to increased food demand, which means significant challenges to sustainable agricultural production.…”
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World supply and demand projections for cereals, 2020 por Agcaoili-Sombilla, Mercedita C., Rosegrant, Mark W.

“…Higher prices would also have a profound impact on effective demand and the ability of the world's poor, the bottom 20 percent of the world's population, to obtain adequate food supplies.…”
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Impacts of agricultural research on poverty: findings of an integrated economic and social analysis por Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Adato, Michelle, Haddad, Lawrence J., Hazell, Peter B. R.

“…This has been the case particularly in Asia and Latin America, where the vast majority of the developing world population and the world’s poor live.3 However, the paths of causality are complex and highly contingent. …”
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Nondegrading land use strategies for tropical hillsides por Jackson, Lee Ann, Scherr, Sara J.

“…By 2020, current food production methods will be unable to meet the food demands of the growing world population. As high-productivity lands become more scarce and food demand increases, people will increase the cultivation of lands that were once considered too fragile for intensive use. …”
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Setting the stage for improved drying: A stepping stone to solar dryer por Olanipekun, Caleb Ibukun, Salaudeen, Kamaldeen Oladimeji, Totin, Edmond, Yamauchi, Futoshi, Balana, Bedru, Popoola, Olufemi

“…The world population is growing fast, heralding the challenge of feeding over 9.1 billion people with safe food by the year 2050. …”
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