Sowing the seeds of commodities growth
Money Management - Mike Taylor - Mar 30, 2011
At the same time, growth in global crop yields is decreasing and the ability to increase yields is being affected by factors like climate change and water scarcity. There is no short-term solution to overcoming this shifting dynamic. ...
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Key Players: Advanced Biofuels
RenewableEnergyWorld.com - David Beattie - Mar 22, 2011
The company claims its enzymes enable higher yields, faster throughput, and lower processing costs. In October 2010, Brazil's Petrobras and Novozymes entered an agreement to develop a new route to produce second generation biofuel from sugarcane ...
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Bioenergy Crop Company Plants Its Flag in India
San Diego Business Journal - Marty Graham - Mar 28, 2011
“We've harnessed crop science to improve Jatropha through breeding and bioscience so we can get better and consistently higher yields.” SG Biofuels claims it has the largest and most comprehensive library for the fast-growing shrub, developed in ...
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Future Forecasts of Food, Feed and Fuel Needs
CO2 Science Magazine - Mar 15, 2011
And they say that "the rapidly growing demand for food, feed and fuel will require a combination of further increases in crop yields (ca. 2% per annum) and a doubling or tripling of resource-use efficiencies, especially of nitrogen-use efficiency and ...
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Diet Hard: With a Vengeance
In These Times - David Moberg - Mar 24, 2011
But even if natural phenomena like La Nina in the Pacific played a role in weather that depressed crop yields, global warming has intensified weather extremes and disrupted regional weather patterns. No one event can be blamed on climate change, ...
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