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Communicating climate-smart agriculture, prospects, challenges

2016-07-10 21:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

News Day: THE majority of farmers in Zimbabwe are small-scale based, poverty stricken and vulnerable to climate shocks, stresses and impacts. The small-scale farmers have no access to bank loans, crop insurance and other public interventions. This leaves them highly exposed, neglected and defenceless to climatic threats. The national input scheme, otherwise known as the Presidential Input Scheme, has its shortcomings and a few merits. As such, it is mirrored in political suspicions and controversy. The...

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Film portrays, betrays modern animal agriculture

2016-07-08 22:37:00| National Hog Farmer

The film, "At the Fork" is a tilted look at food animal production with a growing crescendo that encourages consumers to eat less meat. read more

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Gauging the impact of climate change on US agriculture

2016-07-07 23:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

MIT News: To assess the likely impact of climate change on U.S. agriculture, researchers typically run a combination of climate and crop models that project how yields of maize, wheat, and other key crops will change over time. But the suite of models commonly used in these simulations, which account for a wide range of uncertainty, produces outcomes that can range from substantial crop losses to bountiful harvests. These mixed results often leave farmers and other agricultural stakeholders perplexed as to...

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Dark earth could herald a bright future for agriculture and climate

2016-07-06 00:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Revel Stoke Mountaineer: Dark earths benefit to climate is just one of its many exciting possibilities. It also enhances soils so they produce higher yields, helps retain water and prevents erosion. Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat. That parts of the world are plagued by obesity while starvation is rampant elsewhere shows part of the problem revolves around distribution and social equity. But agricultural methods pose some of the biggest challenges....

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ASC Launches Six-DOF Miniature IMU for Industrial, Agriculture and Automotive Applications

2016-07-05 11:25:00| Railway Technology

Advanced Sensors & Calibration (ASC) has announced the introduction of a new range of industrial-grade micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) inertial measurement units (IMU), ASC IMU 7.X.Y.

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