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The Doubly Green Revolution: Food for All in the 21st Century
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The year 2020 a doubly green revolution past successes food production and poor food production trends and pollution trends and priorities designer plants and animals sustainable agriculture partnerships controlling pests replacing nutrients managing soil and water conserving natural resources achieving food security after the World Food Summit.Abstract:
Hunger and poverty the year 2020 a doubly green revolution past successes food production and the poor food production and pollution trends and priorities designer plants and animals sustainable agriculture partnerships controlling pests replacing nutrients managing soil and water conserving natural resources achieving food security after the World Food Summit. Appendix: International Agricultural Research Centres.read more
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‘Green revolution’ genes encode mutant gibberellin response modulators
Jinrong Peng,Donald Ernest Richards,Nigel M. Hartley,George Murphy,Katrien M. Devos,John E. Flintham,James Beales,L. J. Fish,A. J. Worland,Fatima Pelica,Duraialagaraja Sudhakar,Paul Christou,John W. Snape,Michael D. Gale,Nicholas P. Harberd +14 more
TL;DR: It is shown that Rht-B1/Rht-D1 and maize dwarf-8 (d8), are orthologues of the Arabidopsis Gibberellin Insensitive (GAI) gene, which encode proteins that resemble nuclear transcription factors and contain an SH2-like domain, indicating that phosphotyrosine may participate in gibberelli signalling.
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World Agriculture: Towards 2015/2030: An Fao Perspective
TL;DR: The FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture is presented in this paper, where the projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry.
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The New Blue and Green Water Paradigm: Breaking New Ground for Water Resources Planning and Management
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a triply green revolution to achieve a green-green revolution, which compared with the first green revolution that lifted large parts of Asia out of an imminent hunger crisis in the 1960s and 1970s, will have to be founded on principles of environmental sustainability.
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Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change
TL;DR: In this article, three aspects of the vulnerability of food crop systems to climate change in Africa are discussed: the assessment of the sensitivity of crops to variability in climate, the adaptive capacity of farmers, and the role of institutions in adapting to climate changes.
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A downward spiral? Research evidence on the relationship between poverty and natural resource degradation.
TL;DR: In this article, the main strategies to jointly address poverty and environmental improvement are to increase poor people access to natural resources, enhance the productivity of poor people's natural resource assets and involve local people in resolving public natural resource management concerns.