... of world food production is from irrigated land, but inefficiencies and overuse have built up... challenges facing modern irrigated agriculture. Examples include the Aral Sea, the Ogallala aquif...
... and feeds two-thirds of the country's irrigated farmland. But with both rivers depleted from droug... the Darling worry that irrigated agriculture will take second place in the plan to billabongs (...
... before water shortages for agriculture, industry and domestic use become acute. At some p... not distinguish between rain-fed and irrigated agriculture. . In general, the best way to save wa...
They'll say, 'We paid out US$500-$600 million in claims on hail damage, and the forecast is for more hail storms, so we want you to come in for a couple million dollars and take care of the hail,"' [Bruce Boe] said. "The practicality of whether you can actually get enough of the iodide in the air is a really big question," says [Terry Kastens]. "A lot of time we joke it's like shooting a pea shooter at the clouds. "If you've got corn and you've already irrigated it three times and you get it hailed out, that water is lost," [David Brenn] says. "And so one way to look at this as it ties back to production agriculture, is that by reducing hail, we're not producing (crops) and then Mother Nature takes them away."
... 2009, overall productivity growth in agriculture is simply too low to cope with the increase in dem... of Africa's agricultural land that is irrigated is one-twentieth that of other developing countrie...
Aboriginal people had a lot of leisure time. They did not have to spend all their time searching for food," adds [Jarvis Brownlie]. "The Hobbesian image has been remarkably powerful and durable, but it's based on nothing. "If there were all these bison out there, you would think there would be tons of bones in the archeological mix," [Charles C. Mann] says. "It just doesn't seem like they ate much bison." "They did not decimate any of the animals," says Dennis White Bird, Manitoba's treaty commissioner and a former grand chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. "There was a respect for the animals. They only took what they needed."
... is more than two centuries before agriculture appears widespread in the archeological record muc... tracts of arid Chile and Bolivia were irrigated and burned on an even more massive scale. And the ...
...Agriculture is the big problem -- irrigation of cropland is re..., reduced over-irrigation, and irrigated drainage all can have a dramatic impact. And a num...
... water used for homes, industry and agriculture. And these withdrawals are in addition to the vast... by ethanol produced from corn grown on irrigated fields is actually consuming about 26 litres of wa...
.... The Agricultural Sector . Agriculture, Ontario's second largest economic sector, account..., without reducing the amount of land irrigated, a water soft path would result in total water use...
... and natural resource extraction (agriculture excluded). . One of the goals of preserving the gr...* In 1950, Alberta irrigated 180,000 hectares of land. In 2000, 520,00 hectares...
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