Ecology today (Экология сегодня). Макеева М.Н - 17 стр.

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A short story, a large garden, a beautiful flower, a big table, a high building, a difficult exercise, a new
dress, an old book, late news, a comfortable flat, an easy question, clean water, thin ice, a thick dictionary, a
good friend, much snow, bad weather, little time, many cars, few mistakes.
In Conclusion:
Work in groups of three or four. You’ll need a die. Throw it in turn. When you land on a superlative
square, you have to talk on the topic for at least one minute without stopping. If you cannot say anything or stop
before thirty seconds are up, you have to move back to the previous square. The student who reaches the Finish
square first is the winner.
LESSON 3
Grammar: 1. Местоимение (The Pronoun). Личные местоимения (The Personal Pronouns).
2. Притяжательные местоимения (The Possessive Pronouns). Указательные местоимения (The De-
monstrative Pronouns).
3. Вопросительные местоимения (The Interrogative Pronouns). Неопределенные местоимения (The
Indefinite Pronouns). Отрицательное местоимение (The Negative Pronoun).
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Food’s Frontier: the Next Green Revolution
Over the past half century, the United States has sent billions of tons of food to famine-stricken countries
and that is one reason many remain in a dire struggle to feed themselves.
Dumping our surplus grain depressed the prices of locally grown grain, pushing farmers in those countries
out of business explains environmental writer Richard Manning, author of "Food's Frontier: the Next Green
Revolution", a new book on efforts to establish sustainable agriculture in developing countries around the
globe.
The situation is critical. Industrial agriculture, mostly developed in the 1960s "Green Revolution", has
reached its production limit. In some areas, the combination of monocropping and heavy fertilizer and pesticide
use has actually reduced the land's capacity to produce. Meanwhile, the population of developing countries is
expected to double by 2020.
The second green revolution is a revolution not only in biological science, but also in information distribu-
tion among scientists, farmers, and consumers. "Food's Frontier" documents the Minneapolis-based McKnight
Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program, which has funded research and training in agricultural sci-
ence in nine developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Each project is headed by scientists from
the developing country, who identify the agricultural problem they want to tackle and put together interdiscipli-
nary teams of scientists such as biologists, economists, and anthropologists. Each team collaborates with coun-
terparts in U.S. universities.
"We're realizing that economic and cultural factors are as important as biology, soil and climate in develop-
ing a secure global food supply", – Manning said. "Certainly, you have to understand the biology behind the
interaction of, say, a chickpea and a pod borer if you want to reduce the damage the pest does to the plant. But
you also need to figure out how to help Ugandan farmers learn about a method of planting that protects sweet
potato from weevils, or how to convince Mexican wholesalers that there's a potentially strong market in the
United States for blue corn".
McKnight-funded research in areas like polyculture – the planting of several crops amongst each other –
and the discovery of natural protections against pests in disease in wild relatives of common crops, also stand to
benefit U.S. farmers.

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