For instance, though Potash Corp. is tied to the global agriculture market, it has a limited number of potential buyers.
"For the best part of a century, Pwllpeiran has played an important role in the development of agriculture in Wales and in terms of global agriculture, " said Mr Jones.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, POT makes up 8.08% of the Global Agriculture Portfolio ETF ( NASD: PAGG )which is trading relatively unchanged on the day Friday.
That led, after yet another summit, of the G20 (the world's largest economies) in Pittsburgh, to something called the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP), formally set up in April 2010.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CF makes up 3.83% of the Global Agriculture Portfolio ETF ( NASD: PAGG )which is trading lower by about 0.5% on the day Wednesday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, CF makes up 4.17% of the Global Agriculture Portfolio ETF ( NASD: PAGG )which is trading lower by about 0.1% on the day Monday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, MOS makes up 7.91% of the Global Agriculture Portfolio ETF ( NASD: PAGG )which is trading up by about 0.2% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, DE makes up 7.73% of the iShares MSCI Global Agriculture Producers Fund ETF ( AMEX: VEGI )which is trading relatively unchanged on the day Friday.
Alongside the World Food Prize ceremony, we also hold the Borlaug Dialogue, an internationally renowned three-day conference on global agriculture and a day-long Iowa Hunger Summit focusing on grassroots solutions to hunger at home and abroad.
And global warming attacks agriculture more than anything else.
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Evidence of tightening global food supplies grew as the U.S. Agriculture Department cut its estimates for global harvests of key crops and raised some demand forecasts, adding to worries about rising food prices.
"Given that global and U.S. grain inventories remain very tight, grain prices will continue to reflect growing conditions and yield potential for both U.S. and global crop production, " Agrium said, citing a June report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which anticipates global grain and oilseed stockpiles to scrape 35-year lows through 2009.
As a result of this superabundance of capital, numerous bubbles will form around asset prices from global real estate to metals and agriculture.
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In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.
In Africa, Aslan Global Management has focused its investment in agriculture, after getting started in Ukraine.
Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung says the current crisis proves that the global trade practices do not necessarily apply to agriculture products.
Japanese policymakers insist that a breakthrough on agriculture in the Doha round of global trade talks would compel Japanese leaders to confront the farmers (whose average age is over 60) once and for all.
Agenda 21 envisions a global scheme for healthcare, education, nutrition, agriculture, labor, production, and consumption.
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And agriculture experts say there is not enough global growing capacity to bring prices down any time soon.
According to a recent article from Scientific American, agriculture is responsible for one third of global greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
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Most tropical deforestation is the result of expanding commercial ranching and agriculture, driven by rocketing domestic and global demand for food, fibre and biofuel.
With global oil prices near all-time highs and tight cereal markets according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, companies in the agricultural sector face interesting opportunities, despite a frail global economy.
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The company also competes with other global seed giants such as Monsanto and Syngenta in its agriculture and nutrition-based products.
Agriculture now accounts for roughly 70 percent of global water use, but as dietary changes in developing countries raise demand for water-intensive foods such as meat and dairy, this proportion will grow yet higher.
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Best estimates of future global agricultural water consumption (including both rainfed and irrigated agriculture), are of an increase of about 19% by 2050, but this could be much higher if crop yields and the efficiency of agricultural production do not improve dramatically.
"We're seeing the impacts of global warming in many areas of our own lives, like agriculture, " Zwally said.
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The agriculture industry accounts for over 36% of the global workforce, yet most startups ignores the need of the market.
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The boom in commodities of all kinds, agriculture, metals, energy is like a global freight train hurtling in see-saw motions across our consciousness.
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"On a per capita basis, China has half the arable land and a third to a quarter of the water than the global average, " says Merritt Cluff of the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome.
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