Friday, September 21, 2012

Food Crops News 119


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 119 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
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India needs GM food crops to boost farm productivity
Livemint

Last month, Basudev Acharia, CPM Leader in Lok Sabha and chairman of the
Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, submitted a 500-page report to
Parliament supporting an outright ban on field trials of
genetically-modified (GM) food crops in India.
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EU to Limit Use of Food-Based Biofuels
Wall Street Journal

LONDON—The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union,
said Monday it plans to limit the use of biofuels derived from food crops
to 5% of transport fuel, in a radical change to its biofuel policy. The
EU's climate-change Commissioner ...
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EU Commission to cap food-based biofuels in major shift
Reuters

BRUSSELS/NICOSIA (Reuters) - The European Commission announced a major
shift in biofuel policy on Monday, saying it plans to limit crop-based
biofuels to 5 percent of transport fuel, after campaigners said existing
rules take food out of people's mouths.
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GM rice is more than food for thought
China Daily

The Ministry of Health's investigation into a controversial US-backed
genetically modified rice research project in Hunan province raises a wider
set of questions than just the use of GM seeds to increase crop yields,
because the researchers are ...
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Food Situation in West Africa Worsens Due to Floods
Food World News

Good rainfalls were being expected in the region and hopes of good crops
have been on the rise. However, the heavy downpour is likely to destroy
food crops, bringing down the already flagging food crop harvests. "In
Niger ... most of the rainy season ...
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Winner of leadership award stands up for GM crops
ABC Online

Dr Peacock says one of his big disappointments is the way GM food crops
have been represented as harmful to human health when they can boost
yields, nutrition and increase world food security. "What I do see wrong is
where people manage to make ...
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Inmates harvesting crops for Idaho Foodbank
Northwest Cable News

"This partnership has allowed us to set up a sustainable, predictable
supply of food that's coming from this farm into the Idaho Foodbank
network," said Karen Vauk, CEO, Idaho Foodbank. "It's great food. It's the
healthy food that we want more and more of.
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The environmental footprint of organic vs. conventional food
Washington Post

Overall, they found that organic methods produce 25 percent less food than
conventional farming on the same land area. That headline number, however,
tells only part of the story, and the details can help guide your decisions
as a consumer. For some ...
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Pushing the corn numbers
Ethanol Producer Magazine (blog)

Ten years later in 2011, 12.4 billion bushels of corn were harvested from
84 million acres, resulting in a 147 bushels-per-acre yield. This increased
corn output has allowed U.S. ethanol production to grow from 1.77 billion
gallons in 2001 to 13.9 ...
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Canadian Crops May Help Backfill US Demand
Wisconsin Ag Connection

"We're hoping more go down to the U.S.," said John Pauch, coarse grains
analyst at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in Winnipeg, adding that more
than usual Canadian corn may end up feeding livestock in New York state,
Michigan and Pennsylvania, and ...
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India needs GM food crops to boost farm productivity - Livemint

It is short-sighted and immature to attribute the issue of farmer suicides
to any higher priced GM seeds.
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