Monday, August 27, 2012

Food Crops News 89

FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 89 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
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Crop Damage Sparks Fuel Versus Food Debate
National Geographic

Dry conditions that continue to grip Midwestern states, damaging crops and
threatening to push up food prices, stirred new debate this week after the
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released crop yield projections
capturing the severity of the ...
<http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/16/crop-damage-sparks-fuel-versus-food-debate/>
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Insight: Big Food girds for California GMO fight
Reuters

Unbeknownst to many Americans, some of the most popular U.S. GMO crops --
corn, soybeans and canola -- have been staple ingredients for years in
virtually every type of packaged food, from soup and tofu to breakfast
cereals and chips. Supporters of the ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/16/us-california-gmo-idUSBRE87F15X20120816>
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Crops wither away as food prices soar
Deutsche Welle

Banks generally do not get much in the way of praise from development aid
workers and environmentalists, but Germany's Commerzbank has seen itself
showered in positive acclaim for its decision to stop food-related
speculation. "Other banks should ...
<http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16170954,00.html>
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Morning MarketBeat: Could Food Inflation Sink QE3?
Wall Street Journal (blog)

If crop prices aren't heading for a major fall soon, that underscores the
risk of higher food inflation. Costlier corn and soybeans increase the
pressure on livestock producers who feed those crops to their animals, and
can influence the price of meat ...
<http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/08/16/morning-marketbeat-could-food-inflation-sink-qe3/>
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Precursor to food crisis?: Power cuts bode bad news for crops, farmers
The Express Tribune

“Nearly all tube wells are out-of-order and our tomato and wheat crops
are being destroyed. This can lead to a food crisis,” warned Altaf
Hussain, a farmer from Taza Gram locality of Lower Dir. Hussain said that a
majority of the 45 tube wells ...
<http://tribune.com.pk/story/423005/precursor-to-food-crisis-power-cuts-bode-bad-news-for-crops-farmers/>
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Why GE Labeling Is Monsanto's Worst Nightmare
Huffington Post

Recent media coverage of Prop 37, the California Right to Know Genetically
Engineered Food Act, which would permit companies to label foods made with
genetically engineered (GE) crops, highlights the gulf between citizens
demanding the right to know ...
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/why-ge-labeling-is-monsan_b_1788897.html>
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Negative Report on GM Crops Shakes Government's Food Agenda
Science Now

Sounding what some regard as the death knell for the development of
genetically modified food crops in India, a high-profile parliamentary
panel last week recommended that GM crop "field trials under any garb
should be discontinued forthwith," and that ...
<http://www.sciencemag.org/content/337/6096/789.summary>
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Canada ready to unveil plan to ease trade of genetically modified foods
Canada.com

The biotechnology industry says these common traits of GM crops mean they
generally have higher yields. Opponents, wary of even trace amounts in
foods, raise health and environmental concerns they feel warrant mandatory
food-labelling rules to let ...
<http://www.canada.com/Canada+ready+unveil+plan+ease+trade+genetically+modified+foods/7101432/story.html>
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FOOD: How bad is the crisis?
IRINnews.org

He pointed out that “yellow maize - the sort grown in the US, and for
which prices have recently jumped - is less prominent as a food crop than
as livestock feed or as a source of ethanol for liquid fuel supplies. So
yellow maize price increases have ...
<http://www.irinnews.org/Report/96121/FOOD-How-bad-is-the-crisis>
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=== Web - 1 new result for [food crops] ===


| GM food crops | The Echo of India
Editorial n Reflex Action | GM food crops | | The report of the
Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture which has just been tabled in the
Lok Sabha has asked the ...
<http://echoofindia.com/editorial/gm-food-crops-8379>

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