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Though seed analysis diagnoses past problems, it can help identify field sites where future crops will respond to micronutrient applications and regional trends in micronutrient status of crops.

Preliminary reports following the most recent rainy season indicate that yields on local staple foods have been low and that competition has increased for available water resources and grazing areas.

[...] technology to smallholder farming should take into account these characteristics and be based on farmer knowledge [...] [...]

In a massive international study of 41 major crops on six continents, Lucas Garibaldi and colleagues found that wild insects pollinate these crops more effectively than managed honeybees, leading to twice as much fruit set (flowers that develop into mature fruits or seeds) than the bees.

The contributions of US $59,839 and euros 2650 outstanding, have not been paid due to conditions beyond the control of The Gambia as follows: Crop failure; late and erratic rains; the impact of large inflow of refugees from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau, etc.

[...] [...] local non-farm activities, on the other.

[...] provide them with compensation and alternative locations for agriculture.

[...] [...] crops; reviving agricultural extension services to [...] [...]

[...] contribution of farmers to conservation [...]

Stresses that improving access to productive resources and investment in rural development is essential for eradicating hunger and poverty, in particular in developing countries, including through the promotion of investments in appropriate, smallscale irrigation and water management technologies in order to reduce vulnerability to droughts as well as in programmes, practices and policies to scale up agroecological approaches, and encourages States and donors, both public and private, to examine and consider ways to integrate, where applicable and according to national contexts, the recommendations contained in the latest report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to food44 in policies and programmes

As we have witnessed in the current food crisis in the Horn of Africa, threats to water management, animal health and crop production are magnified by political instability and insecurity.

[...] impact of micronutrient use in many other crops (like potato) and fruits (like citrus, apple, lemon, pomegranate) was also gained, and the progressive growers have adopted the use of Zn, B and Fe in specific crops/fruits.

[...] practices on land on which agricultural crops are grown and [...] [...]

In Mongolia, food security is subject to the Law on Food, Land Law, Water Law, Law on the Protection of Health and Genetic Resources of Livestock, Law on Sanitary Inspection on Products of Animal or Plant Origins at State Borders, Law on Crops and Law on Sanitation.

[...] [...] by Vanu Gopala Menon, Permanent Representative [...] [...]

Wildlife managers need to design and implement increasingly sophisticated methods for conflict management through compensation payments for crops and livestock damage.

Traditional small-scale farming is also an essential [...]

They are affected mainly by problems that include coastal flooding, the disappearance of some islands into the sea, a reduction in freshwater resources, severe drought, crop losses and an increased incidence of disease, as well as threats to fish stocks, which represent the main food source for many communities in those States.

[...] rainfall levels and agricultural subsidies in industrialized [...] [...]

Level 2 Certified HACCP Based Food Safety Plans: Incorporates all Level 1 system requirements and indicates that a food safety risk analysis of the crop, its production and harvest has been completed to identify the hazards and the action taken to eliminate, prevent or reduce their occurrence.

The most important crops are grains, like wheat, rye, and maize (corn).

For instance, the CGIAR centres played a crucial role in the Green Revolution and now act as the guardian of the world’s largest collection of genetic resources of relevance to developing countries, which is the major source of crop improvements for the future.

By punctually cooling the barley and/or seed to a protective temperature of around 10–12 °C, the possible storage period is extended considerably, thus shortening the germinating time.

Major droughts, an increase in extreme weather events and a rising number of large-scale inundations causing a decrease in crop production may degrade the social-economic fabric of these and other countries and may be detrimental to peacebuilding.

[...] profound shifts in agricultural yields and crop losses, [...] [...]

Strengthen research on the physiological features and water demand of crops. Actively research the relations between the crop growth and soil water content, nutrition, air moisture, atmosphere temperature and other environmental factors.

However, the measure used, aerial spraying of the crops, is not consistent with the proportionality principle anchored in the limitation clause in the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, since it violates the right to human dignity of the Bedouin population as not in all of the aerial spraying incidents, they received proper notice in advance of the intention to spray their crops, and as it might have caused actual damage to their health and physical integrity.

[...] [...] the cultivation of unsuitable crops.