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Extreme heat and droughts -- a recipe for world food woes
CNN
The crop losses will have the most effect on the world's poorest
populations. About 2 billion people still live on $2 a day or less. Many of
them live in urban areas of developing countries. Often, they must spend
half or more of their income on food ...
<http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/13/opinion/roberts-crops-climate/index.html>
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US Drought Renews Debate on Biofuel
Voice of America
The situation has renewed the fight between food and fuel. About forty
percent of the nation's corn crop goes into making ethanol. The production
process leaves some of that in a form that can be fed to animals. Still, at
least one-fourth of the ...
<http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/drought-biofuel-corn-maize-soybean-ethanol/1485617.html>
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World powers eye emergency food meeting; action doubted
Reuters
The U.N.'s food agency stepped up pressure on the United States on Friday
to change its biofuel policies, arguing it was more important to grow crops
for food rather than fuel. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation's
food index jumped 6 percent in ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-food-g20-call-idUSBRE87C0EI20120813>
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GRAINS-Soy, corn slip, take breather from drought rally
Reuters
The aggressive stance of the USDA reflected the severity of the damage from
a drought centered in the U.S. Midwest farm belt, which grows 75 percent of
the country's corn and soy crops that are used for food, feed and biofuels.
The rally in grain ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/markets-grains-idUSL4E8JD2D720120813>
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Surinder Sud: Rehabilitating the tuber
Business Standard
Tuber crops are biologically highly efficient converters of energy into
consumable produce. Their yields on a per-day-per-unit-area basis are
higher than other food crops. Some of the tubers also score over key staple
cereals in terms of dietary ...
<http://business-standard.com/india/news/surinder-sud-rehabilitatingtuber-/483187/>
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Purdue experts: Crop report dismal, but not unexpected
LimaOhio.com
The USDA's August crop production report, the first projections of how much
corn, soybean and other crops are expected to produce this year, paints a
bleak picture as Indiana and other eastern Corn Belt states suffer through
the worst drought since at ...
<http://www.limaohio.com/news/business/article_2ee1b042-e55c-11e1-9d60-001a4bcf6878.html>
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Drought to push up US food prices
Gulf Times
“Based on the relationships between the consumer price index for food and
farm-level prices for crop and livestock, July's crop price increases and
declines in livestock prices could lead to a 4% increase in the CPI for
food from September 2011 to ...
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Turkey's Wheat Crop Seen Declining 11% After Dry April by UN
Businessweek
Turkey's wheat crop, the Middle East's biggest, is estimated to have slid
11 percent after a cold March and below-average rain in April, the United
Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization reported. Harvesting has just
finished, and production probably ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-13/turkey-s-wheat-crop-seen-declining-11-percent-after-dry-april-by-un>
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Severe drought hurts corn production, turns ethanol into election-year issue ...
Autoblog (blog)
The story changed a bit two days later, when the Department of Agriculture
stated that the terrible drought caused more damage than expected to corn
and soybean crops. Food prices jumped six percent last month and it looks
like they'll continue rising, ...
<http://green.autoblog.com/2012/08/13/severe-drought-hurts-corn-production-turns-ethanol-into-electio/>
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Food crops and healthy soil - YouTube
Scientific American. August 2012 Water for Crops. Sakhiwe Shongwe and
Bonkhe Mahlalela, two 14-year-old boys, winners of the Google Science
Fair's ...
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