About a third of the planet’s food goes to waste, often because of its looks. That’s enough to feed two billion people.
His10-year plan includes opening a farm-to-table restaurant that specializes in Mexican food.“Not having any infrastructure(基础设施) or money, I'll have to grow for four years to achieve the numbers and then ask for a loan (贷款) to buy my farm," he says. “I'm going to rent ...
Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Labaratory, says, because duckweed is a nonmainstream crop without much existing infrastructure.(为了将生产规模扩大到工业水平,科学家们将需要设计和制造大型容器来种植工程植物和提取石油——这是一个挑战,该研究的主要作者、美国能源部布鲁克海文国家实验室的生物化学...
Followers of a Buddhist boy meditating in Nepal claim that he has gone two years without food or water, but doctors have not been able to substantiate this [source: All Headline News]. When you don't get enough water, or lose too much water, you become dehydrated. Signs of mild ...
It also gave us the ability to cook food, forge metal tools, form pottery, harden bricks and drive power plants. There are few things that have done as much harm to humanity as fire, and few things that have done as much good. It is certainly one of the most important forces in...
“Because [Tannat] is so widely grown in Uruguay, you can basically find it in every single style you’d make a wine,” says Sedlins. “They haverosés; they havePort-style Tannats; they have big, chewyredswith tons ofoak; they have much more finessed, softer reds.” ...
we're seeing so much change happening so fast that it's urged a change in some of our research programs. No longer can we just sit and understand elephant societies or study just how to stop the ivory trade, which is horrific and still ...
Now much more sophisticated, digital tools are needed to deliver the next productivity leap. Some already exist to help farmers more efficiently and sustainably use resources, while more advanced ones are in development. These new technologies can upgrade decision making, allowing be...
In the produce section of the IGA grocery store in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, a TV monitor shows customers, in real time, the roof of the store and farmers harvesting cucumbers that within an hour will be on store shelves.When the Food Industry Association asked Americans to list reasons why th...
By repeating this process many times, you can see how much the ERF varies when taking different random samples of the observations. The variation of the resulting ERFs is what drives the creation of the confidence intervals. If a bootstrap sample does not achieve balance (as determined...