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...more than 1.2 billion people in more than 110 countries. Stemming from a variety of factors - including climactic variations, overgrazing of livestock, tilling land unsuitable for agriculture and chopping trees for firewood - desertification has made its greatest impact in Africa. The continent is two-thirds desert or fragile dryland, and nearly three-quarters of its extensive agricultural drylands are degraded to some degree...
...views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...
...views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...
...ERGOMETER Rower machine/torture device used for training and testing of rowers on dryland...
Training for the squad means 70 to 100 dives a day, six days a week. In addition to practicing each dive three times on both boards, the divers do trampoline and a dryland board work...