Thursday, June 26, 2014

Food Crops News 228


Food Crops News, Hoàng Kim, Tin Nông nghiệp Việt Nam
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Update of Food Crops News from 23 June to 26 June, 2014.


BBC News
Growing pains of China's agricultural water needs
China's scarce water supply is being wasted as crops grown in water-stressed provinces are exported to wet, rainfall-rich areas, a study reports.
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The Food Safety Movement Grows Tall
Let us celebrate today the latest initiatives of our nation's growing food ... of genetically engineered crops to induce allergic reactions is “a major food ...
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IPPmedia
GMO Research, Technology 'Confined to Labs'
He said the government had allowed GMO research on major food and cash crops including banana, coffee, rice, cotton and cassava. He said the ...
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AllAfrica.com
Liberians Flee Caterpillar Invasion
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says these attacks are ... Farmers say some of their crops have been destroyed.
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How Overlooked Plants Like the Potato Bean Can Be Tamed to Feed the World
They collected seeds from wild plants, buried them near their homes, and .... What domesticated food crops do look like, however, is each other.
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Agri News
Adams County people, place nurture local food production, consumption
QUINCY, Ill. — When Mike Roegge, local food and small farm systems educator ... Later, he clarifies exactly where some of the best land for crops is.
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The Hindu
Pest sprays poisoning world food supply: study
He said the chemicals imperilled food supplies by harming bees and other pollinators, which fertilise about three-quarters of the world's crops, and the ...
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 GM Foods and Crops in Zimbabwe - a Rebuttal
FOOD, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...
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[WATCH] Fish and crops on a porch
Forget GMOs or chemically spurred plant growth: the food revolution is starting on a porch in front of a suburban house in Kappara, where an ...
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Lombok farmers brace for crop failure following
Drought has adversely affected the agriculture sector in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) over the past month, as the horticulture and food crops ...
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Setting the standards: who regulates Australian GM food?
Field testing genetically modified crops is a necessary step of the process, ... In the past, new crops were introduced into the food supply without any ...
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Kenya: Laikipia MCA's Plea for Food for 40000 Locals
She attributed the situation to crop failure due to harsh weather. Waithera distributed relief food to the residents at Solio Settlement Scheme yesterday.
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Ralph Nader falls for organic propaganda
Consumers have been eating foods from genetically modified crops for that long and there is not a single verified case of any reaction to such foods.
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International Business Times
Olive crops thriving in California drought.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture blog picked up a ... farmers are swapping out their thirsty almond and rice crops for olive trees, ...
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Nigerian Tribune
FG releases 11 new high-yielding crop varieties
... and Release of Crop Varieties, Livestock Breeds and Fisheries, last week Thursday, released 11 new high-yielding crop varieties to boost local food ...
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New crop research could open the door to better performing feed barley
“Regulators should focus on the outcome and the resulting benefits in terms of crop quality these techniques can generate for food and feed, rather ...
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Thorny Issues Revealed in US-EU Trade Talks
However, grounds for disagreement on agricultural issues are numerous including issues regarding genetically modified (GM) crops and food ...
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KGA assists with food crops recovery
“Communities must be trained as certain food crops need special care and techniques to look after. “In a gesture of appreciation, community leaders ...
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As crops struggle, tumbleweeds thrive
As crops struggle, tumbleweeds thrive ... sheer variety of its abundant food crops — Colorado increasingly has a reputation for something else: weeds.
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National Geographic article addresses global food needs in 2050
He notes that “only 55 percent of food-crop calories directly nourish people. Meat, dairy, and eggs from animals raised on feed supply another 4 ...
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New Zimbabwe.com
GM foods and crops in Zim: A rebuttal
FOOD, politics and health have once again come together in a ... Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically Modified Crops were ...
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Govt expects bumper cereals harvest, overflowing godowns
The government has projected a bumper harvest of food crops this year, allaying fears of the possibility of food shortages in many parts of the country.
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Hedge Funds Bet on Sugar as Dryness Threatens Crops: Commodities
The S&P GSCI Agricultural Index rose 0.9 percent. The wider GSCI gauge of 24 commodities advanced 1.3 percent, and the MSCI All-Country World ...
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ISRAEL21c
Massive malnutrition may come with climate change
Israeli researchers were part of a Harvard study showing that crops of the ... But this recent study on food crops and nutrition suggests that climate ...
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Manila Standard Today
Hope for vicious occupation
SAN FERNANDO, La Union—Growing tobacco, the world's most widely cultivated non-food crop, is a vicious occupation that forever consigns families ...
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NEWS

Global
• Report Forecasts Biotech Contribution in Food Production

Africa
• AfriCenter Launches ISAAA Report in Ivory Coast and Mozambique
• Biotech Advancement Slow in Tanzania Says Government Official
• Stakeholders Contribute to Swaziland's Draft Biosafety Awareness Strategy

Americas
• Scientists Discover Gene Function that Helps Wheat See Light
• New York Legislature Fails to Pass Biotech Labeling Bill
• Soybean 'Big Data' Online

Asia and the Pacific
• Journalists Teach Biotech Experts the Art of Being Interviewed
• Vietnamese Nat'l Assembly Members and Provincial Agriculture Officers Briefed on Biotech Benefits
• Biotechnology in Pakistan: Status and Prospects

Europe
• EFSA Releases Scientific Opinion on Biotech Oilseed Rape
• BIO-TIC Project Aims to Make Industrial Biotechnology Bloom in Europe

Research
• Bacterial Gene Expressed in Alfalfa Leads to Glyphosate Resistance
• Overexpression of OsSAP1 Gene in Tobacco Results in Bacterial Pathogen Resistance
• CsCCD7 and CsCCD8 Genes Control Axillary Bud Growth in Saffron Corm

Beyond Crop Biotech
• GM Fungi Helps Convert Ordinary Straw to Sweetener
• NC State Scientists Develop Genetic Control Mechanism for Major Livestock Pest
• Virus Kills An Aggressive Type of Breast Cancer Cell

Document Reminders
• Scientific American Names High Impact Biotech Products and Processes
• Transgene flow: Facts, Speculations and Possible Counter Measures
  Research and Development
• Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002 Can Produce Glycogen for Biofuels in an Oceanic Environment
• Flowering Gene in Jatropha curcas Identified
• Metabolic Engineering of Synechocystis sp. Leads to Improved Fatty Alcohol Production

News and Trends
• Obama Approves EPA-Proposed Carbon Rules for Fossil-fueled Power Plants
• Commercial Production of Renewable Oils Begins in Brazil

Energy Crops and Feedstocks for Biofuels Production
• Straw of Oilseed Rape Joins the Biofuel Sources Team
• Australia Reports on the Feasibility of Jet Fuels from Mallee Trees
• Improved Metal Tolerance and Seed Productivity in Camelina sativa by Overexpression of CsHMA3

Biofuels Processing
• Thermoanaerobacterium thermosaccharolyticum M18 Shows Potential for Hydrogen Gas Production via Consolidated Bioprocessing
• Double Fermentation of Cassava Starch Leads to Higher Bioethanol Yield

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