10A - agriculture Flashcards

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The world population is now over seven billion people, resulting in an intense need for additional food.

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La población mundial ahora supera los siete mil millones de personas, lo que resulta en una necesidad intensa de alimentos adicionales.”

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Instead of using conventional farming methods, many large farms now only plant one type of crop.”

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En lugar de usar métodos de agricultura convencionales, muchas granjas grandes ahora solo plantan un tipo de cultivo.”

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Experts say that the benefit of monoculture is offset by its negative effects.

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“Los expertos dicen que el beneficio de la monocultura es compensado por sus efectos negativos.”

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The number of vegetable varieties has greatly diminished since 1903.”

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El número de variedades de vegetales ha disminuido considerablemente desde 1903.

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“In the future, if one of the plants farmers rely on is destroyed via disease or climate change, this could cause major problems.”

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En el futuro, si una de las plantas de las que dependen los agricultores se destruye a través de enfermedades o cambio climático, esto podría causar problemas mayores.”

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Some scientists are now trying to modify the genes of other vegetables to recreate the lost vegetable varieties.

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Algunos científicos ahora están intentando modificar los genes de otros vegetales para recrear las variedades perdidas de vegetales.

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It’s important to monitor and save the vegetable varieties that remain

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Es importante monitorear y salvar las variedades de vegetales que quedan

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Many experts advocate setting up ‘seed banks’ to collect and keep the seeds of plants that are no longer planted by farmers.

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Muchos expertos abogan por establecer ‘bancos de semillas’ para colectar y guardar las semillas de plantas que ya no son plantadas por los agricultores.

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Many farmers and scientists devote themselves to the important work of setting up these seed banks.

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“Muchos agricultores y científicos se dedican al importante trabajo de establecer estos bancos de semillas.”

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“The vegetable seeds inside these seed banks could be extremely important to the welfare of the people on earth.”

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“Las semillas de vegetales dentro de estos bancos de semillas podrían ser extremadamente importantes para el bienestar de las personas en la tierra.”

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