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  • Experts say those strategies include switching to more drought- and heat-tolerant crops, better water management techniques and insurance for crops and livestock to help farmers cope with the climate changes expected during the coming decades.

    Climate Change Threatens World Food Production 2011

  • Experts say those strategies include switching to more drought- and heat-tolerant crops, better water management techniques and insurance for crops and livestock to help farmers cope with the climate changes expected during the coming decades.

    Climate Change Threatens World Food Production 2011

  • "We will introduce more hybrid rice varieties and extreme climate-tolerant varieties, including heat-tolerant and saline-tolerant varieties, this season," Basu said, adding that a drought in 2009 had shaved off five million tons of rice output in the last crop year.

    Monsoon Progress Good Over India's Farms Biman Mukherji 2011

  • Experts say those strategies include switching to more drought- and heat-tolerant crops, better water management techniques and insurance for crops and livestock to help farmers cope with the climate changes expected during the coming decades.

    Climate Change Threatens World Food Production 2011

  • Park Seed Co. sells a zinnia called Profusion Double White that is billed as heat-tolerant and resistant to powdery mildew.

    New to planting flowers? Start simple, like zinnias 2011

  • Plants are winter-hardy and heat-tolerant throughout most of the United States.

    New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011

  • The rising competition around designing power-efficient, heat-tolerant servers is being driven by a need to lower electricity and cooling costs in a data center contrasted with the need to pack as much computing into a box as possible to run web-scale application increases.

    Rackable’s New Servers Like It Hot 2009

  • A flower whose name I learned in France is "pourpier," which is portulaca, a heat-tolerant plant with vividly colored blooms.

    vivace - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • "We will introduce more hybrid rice varieties and extreme climate-tolerant varieties, including heat-tolerant and saline-tolerant varieties, this season," Basu said, adding that a drought in 2009 had shaved off five million tons of rice output in the last crop year.

    Monsoon Progress Good Over India's Farms Biman Mukherji 2011

  • Experts say those strategies include switching to more drought- and heat-tolerant crops, better water management techniques and insurance for crops and livestock to help farmers cope with the climate changes expected during the coming decades.

    Climate Change Threatens World Food Production 2011

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