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Challenges of Agriculture 357 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 1980 Year 2005 Developed countries Developing countries World Per ...

Solutions to Agricultural Problems 361 © Pierre Holtz/Reuters/Corbis NG Maps Global Locator SAHEL TANZANIA Sustainable agricultu ...

358 CHAPTER 14 Agriculture and Food Resources Industrialized agriculture has favored the replace- ment of traditional family far ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM Genetic engineering differs from traditional breeding methods in that desirable genes from any organism can be u ...

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360 CHAPTER 14 Agriculture and Food Resources Solutions to Agricultural Problems LEARNING OBJECTIVES Moving to Sustainable Agric ...

Mayela Lopez/AFP/Getty Images Controlling Agricultural Pests LEARNING OBJECTIVES Distinguish between narrow-spectrum and broad- ...

Solutions to Agricultural Problems 361 © Pierre Holtz/Reuters/Corbis NG Maps Global Locator SAHEL TANZANIA Sustainable agricultu ...

Controlling Agricultural Pests 365 George Grall/NGS Image Collection 0 Number of resistant insect and mite species 200 300 400 5 ...

PROCESS DIAGRAM Genetic engineering differs from traditional breeding methods in that desirable genes from any organism can be u ...

366 CHAPTER 14 Agriculture and Food Resources Lawrence Migdale/Photo Researchers, Inc. 1965 California red scale density 1400 13 ...

Solutions to Agricultural Problems 363 (^0) United States 15 30 45 60 Other countries Percentage of 2011 world production of gen ...

Controlling Agricultural Pests 367 !LTERNATIVEMETHODSOFCONTROLLINGAGRICULTURALPESTS sTable 14.1 Pest control method How it works ...

368 CHAPTER 14 Agriculture and Food Resources Million hectares 0 3 6 9 12 15 Australia (2009) Argentina United States (2008) Bra ...

Mayela Lopez/AFP/Getty Images Controlling Agricultural Pests LEARNING OBJECTIVES Distinguish between narrow-spectrum and broad- ...

Summary 369 3 Challenges of Agriculture 355 Prime farmland in the United States is being lost to urbanization and urban sprawl. ...

370 CHAPTER 14 Agriculture and Food Resources Pesticides can effectively control disease-carrying organisms and crop pests. Pes ...

Controlling Agricultural Pests 365 George Grall/NGS Image Collection 0 Number of resistant insect and mite species 200 300 400 5 ...

Soybeans 75% of 100 million hectares Corn 32% of 159 million hectares Cotton 82% of 30 million hectares Based on data from Inter ...