Friday, September 21, 2012

Food Crops News 121


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 121 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
Green Super Rice Trials in Long Phu, Soc Trang, Vietnam. Photo Hoang Kim

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Harsh weather dims hopes of bountiful rice harvest in N. Korea
Houston Chronicle (blog)

Now, with North Korean farmers preparing to head out into autumn fields to
cut and thresh the nation's most important crop, rice, there are renewed
concerns that continued harsh weather will mean another shortfall of food
in this chronically hungry land.
<http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Harsh-weather-dims-hopes-of-bountiful-rice-3878719.php>
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Crop growers in S. Idaho donate food leftover from harvest, help feed the hungry

The Republic

CASTLEFORD, Idaho — The golden tassels of cornstalks begin to shake as
Lance Phillips makes his way to the edge of the field. Phillips emerges,
parting a row of 7-foot stalks, the bottom half of his shirt bulging. He
unfolds his shirt and dumps eight ...
<http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/22ea53535c974ab8934e102f40595df9/ID--Gleaning-for-the-Hungry>
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Study on Monsanto GM corn concerns draws scepticism

Reuters

In France, where opposition to GMOs has led to a ban on growing such crops,
the government said it had asked its health and safety agency to assess the
study and had also sent it to the European Union's food safety agency
(EFSA). "Based on the ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/gmcrops-safety-idUSL5E8KJC1220120919>
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GMO foods cause tumors and early death according to new studies

Examiner.com

The study found consuming even the smallest amounts (reported as "safe" by
Monsanto scientists) of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller (sprayed on GMO food
plants), or the NK603 Roundup-resistant GM maize (corn) also developed by
Monsanto, resulted in ...
<http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-foods-cause-tumors-and-early-death-according-to-new-studies>
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S. Idaho fields gleaned to help feed the hungry

Sacramento Bee

CASTLEFORD, Idaho -- Crop growers in southern Idaho are donating food
gleaned from their fields to help feed the hungry. The Times-News reports (
http://bit.ly/Rtb3A5
) Lance Phillips was among members of a Kimberly church
who recently gleaned a ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/19/4835455/s-idaho-fields-gleaned-to-help.html>
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Study proposes new way to save Africa's beleaguered soils

Phys.Org

Their system, which they call "perenniation," mixes food crops with trees
and perennial plants, which live for two years or more. Thousands of
farmers are already trying variations of perenniation, which reduces the
need for artificial inputs while ...
<http://phys.org/news/2012-09-africa-beleaguered-soils.html>
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Donated Garden Plot + Donated Plants + Donated Time = Food Pantry Harvest

Patch.com

The club is now busy harvesting their crops, all of which are donated to
the Rochester Food Pantry. Several other groups have cultivated their
entire Rochester Community garden plot in order to raise food to donate to
local food pantries. These groups ...
<http://rochester.patch.com/articles/donated-garden-plot-donated-plants-donated-time-food-pantry-harvest>
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Guest commentary: California food-labeling proposition has fatal flaws

STLtoday.com

California is poised to pass Proposition 37 in November, forcing food
processors to apply "may contain genetically engineered" warning labels for
any trace of biotech crops (also called "genetically modified"). This law
will disrupt existing chains of ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/guest-commentary-california-food-labeling-proposition-has-fatal-flaws/article_c07edda2-8d6a-515d-beb8-c255a2b79b38.html>
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The Future Of Cereal Depends On How We Adapt To A Warming Climate

Business Insider

Food is one of society's key sensitivities to climate. A year of not enough
or too much rainfall, a hot spell or cold snap at the wrong time, or
extremes, like flooding and storms, can have a significant effect on local
crop yields and livestock ...
<http://www.businessinsider.com/how-will-climate-change-affect-food-production-2012-9>
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A battle for food

The Advocate

New Englanders had also already created a fledgling canning industry, and
it mushroomed with the Union military's wartime demands for processed food.
The Confederacy, on the other hand, had little mechanization for either
crops or food processing ...
<http://theadvocate.com/features/food/3728016-123/a-battle-for-food>
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=== Web - 1 new result for [food crops] ===


Mars ISRU for food crops and consumables. - NASASpaceFlight.com Forum

Glucose is a food by itself, of course (though you wouldn't want people
eating just glucose except in emergencies). Most calories could be produced
chemically ...
<http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29820.105>

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