Talk of climate change and energy security led to a surge in crops grown to fill fuel tanks rather than stomachs, bringing food price hikes and changes in land use.

气候变化和能源安全的话题导致了作物种植激增以填满燃料箱，而不是为了填肚子，使得食品价格上涨和土地利用变化。

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It is this that must change if the full potential of biomass crops is to be realised.

如果能够真正实现充分发挥生物质农作物潜能的目标就必需改变这种状况。

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"These trials were organized for completely different purposes than studying the effect of climate change on the crops," Lobell said.

“这些试验的初始目的完全不是为了研究不同作物受气候变化的影响效应，”罗贝尔说明。

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He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.

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In particular, Green candidates will highlight control of GM food and GM crops planted against local will, the failure of energy policy to get to grips with climate change, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

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Certainly the warm period increased the productivity of crops which led to an increase in population, the subsequent cooling (and more importantly, change in rainfall patterns) reduced agricultural productivity and led to hunger and starvation.

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