Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Food Crops News 249

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Update of Food Crops News from  21 September to 30 Sep., 2014.

food crops
Daily update September 30, 2014


NEWS

Aqua Vita Farms Finds New Life Through Training
So if we can take that, leverage that, and then convert it into food crops, ... Since those advances can be applied to any crop Doherty said that makes ...
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The People's Voice
Pesticide Corp Gluttony Trumps Bee Health
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that out of 100 crop species, which provide 90% of food worldwide, ...
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New Security Beat
High Poverty: Medicinal Plants Offer Way Forward for Nepal's Mountain Communities
The switch from a traditional wood roof to metal has reduced pressure on nearby bamboo stocks, critical food for endangered species. And the ...
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Agriculture and Cooperatives Min conducts strategic plans for 4 crops
In addition, the government should apply cultivation zoning to make a balance between food plants and energy plants. Crop varieties should be ...
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TheCropSite
Help for Farmers Selecting New Farm Bill Programs
The Web tool was developed with a $3 million USDA grant to the Food and ... If market conditions warrant, payments for the 2014 crop will be issued ...
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food crops
Daily update September 28, 2014


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Gainesville Times
Earth Sense: Protecting topsoil important key to plants, food production
Soil that's capable of growing food plants is a nonrenewable resource, and Georgia is heavily burdened by mistakes made when cotton was king ...
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Yahoo News UK
Crop diversity fundamental: Report
Protecting the diversity of the world's crops is "fundamental" for ensuring food security in the face of climate change, experts have warned.
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Three Girls Won Google Science Fair With A Bacteria-Based Plan To Solve The Food Crisis
The three teenage girls, who live in Ireland, were simultaneously learning about plants and world hunger. Their project "Combating the global food ...
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The Epoch Times
China Stumbles Into Future of Genetically Modified Food
Much of the GMO food consumed in China is imported. ... Party imports large quantities of GMO crops to alleviate food shortages, since GMO foods are ...
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food crops
Daily update September 27, 2014


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Science 2.0
Genetic Engineering Helps Food Crops Tolerate Drought
Outside the developed world, global population continues to rise but all of the best agricultural locations are in use. If we want people to be ...
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The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Berea Community Learning Farm yields crops, healthy recreation and knowledge
She estimates the crops so far at 700 pounds of fruits and vegetables and ... It gives youths a place for healthy recreation and teach themes that food ...
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Environment - Climate Change Threatens Food Security, Affects Crop Productivity
Agriculture-based livelihood systems that are already vulnerable to food insecurity face immediate risk of increased crop failure, new patterns of pests ...
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The Denver Post
Should Colorado voters approve Proposition 105 (GMO food labeling measure)? No
Proposition 105 is a complex and poorly written food-labeling proposal that ... Under Proposition 105, foods derived from GE crops would need to be ...
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South Sudan: 'We Harvested Some Crops, But It Is Not Enough'
"I don't think the food will be enough for us, and now I even have to sell the little that I harvested or my children will not drink milk," she added.
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GhanaWeb
Rainfall pattern affects food production in Upper West
He said despite the region's endowment with arable land suitable for the production of various food crops, many farmers were unable to produce more ...
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IBNLive
Ludhiana to get its own food processing unit
LUDHIANA: The Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology (IICPT) will open its center of food processing unit in Ludhiana on the campus of ...
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HC tells Punjab, Haryana to have mechanism for smooth lifting of crops
During the resumed hearing of a petition seeking the implementation of the minimum support price (MSP) policy for agricultural produce, the Punjab ...
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swissinfo.ch
Syngenta aims to win support for ʻresponsible growthʼ
More controversial for a crop company are the remaining four goals; ... or other standardised crops, multinational companies impair food sovereignty, ...
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food crops
Daily update September 26, 2014


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Zee News
UN honours Peruvian project for improving crops
Vienna: The UN has honoured the National Agrarian University of Peru for a project that develops hardier, more resistant food crops using ...
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The Guardian
Grow more food with less water? There's an app for that
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that 40% of the ... About half the water on flood irrigated fields isn't absorbed by crops, ...
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Wired
New Generation of GM Crops Puts Agriculture in a 'Crisis Situation'
Food safety activists have promised to fight the crops—corn and soybeans designed to tolerate multiple herbicides—in court. They and many scientists ...
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Specialty Crop Committee to Host Public Meeting
25, 2014 – The Specialty Crop Committee will meet on Oct. 1 and 2 in Washington, DC, to provide consultation to the National Institute of Food and ...
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Want drought-resistant plants? Fungus is here to help.
Naturally, this approach extends to agricultural practices. Before crops are sown, it's not uncommon to steam the soil to clear away weeds, pests and ...
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Biomass Magazine
Plant variants point the way to improved biofuel production
Manufacturing biofuels from food crop by-products such as straw could be made quicker and cheaper thanks to the work of scientists in the U.K. and ...
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Food Safety News
FSMA Rule Revisions a 'Huge Win' for the Organic Sector
Organic food producers are very pleased with the Food and Drug ... origin” are applied and crops are harvested would interrupt organic farmers' ability ...
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Echonetdaily
Wasp SWAT teams to protect Indonesian cassava crops
Wasp SWAT teams to protect Indonesian cassava crops ... That makes the mealybug a serious threat to food security in Indonesia, which already has ...
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TheCropSite
How Do We Tackle Food Production 'Complacency'?
“Energy production through technologies such as bioenergy crops and solar has also become a political football, so the ECIU drive to ensure that such ...
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food crops
Daily update September 25, 2014


NEWS

In a Warming World We Can't Keep Depending on the Same Few Crops
We are in the middle of one of the biggest experiments in human history. At its core is the homogenisation of global food systems, which increasingly ...
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ABC News
Indonesia Enlists Wasps in War on Crop Killer
That makes the mealybug a serious threat to food security in Indonesia, ... the pests hit about three hectares of his five hectacre crop four years ago.
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Agriculture experts warn of lack of food security in Puerto Rico
Agriculture experts warn of lack of food security in Puerto Rico ... close to ensuring sufficient food production, sugarcane, rice, coffee and corn crops ...
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National Geographic


The Dreaded 'Green Blob' Is The Most Dire Threat To Bees
In other words, consumers who buy organic foods in order to avoid pesticide ... levels for reproduction and critical pollination of food crops and trees.
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Scientists Sit Out Genetic Engineering Debate
She informs me that she doesn't buy food made from GMOs. Even while she avoids GMOs in her family diet, she plants them in her corn field.
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Roads affects food production in UWR
He said despite the Region's endowment with arable land suitable for the production of various food crops, many farmers were unable to produce ...
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Presidential Scheme Predicts Agricultural Bumper Harvest
Zimbabwe is headed for yet another successful agricultural season ... Input Scheme for the 2014-15 summer cropping season will cover all food crops ...
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food crops
Daily update September 24, 2014


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Food Safety News
EPA Sued to Ban Neurotoxic Insecticide Use on Crops
... but EPA states that, “Dietary exposures from eating food crops treated with chlorpyrifos are below the level of concern for the entire U.S. population, ...
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Assessing Crops for Climate Change
SMALL-SCALE farmers in Zambezi, Omusati and Kavango East regions are losing some indigenous crop varieties that are key to achieving food ...
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indiatvnews.com
Crop by-products can make bio-fuel production cheaper
Many existing bio-fuels are produced from crops which can be used for food and therefore have a negative impact on global food security.
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China could hold up dual-resistant crops in U.S. Senate trio would double NARMS budget Food ...
Company officials expect EPA's decision with regard to the Duo herbicides for use on the crops in just months, putting at least one apparent solution to ...
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Kids sharing crops
“Tara Harmon graciously donated her crops to the Zionsville Food Pantry,” Campbell said. “We are so appreciative because fresh produce is difficult to ...
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NBCNews.com
Food or Fuel? The Rail Car Shortage Conundrum
Luken said that it costs $5,000 a day to keep his operations open and because the crops are not being shipped, he can't make room for new grains to ...
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Hoosier Ag Today
General Mills treads carefully in debate over genetically modified crops
Yet, the cross-currents of history and shifting consumer views toward genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food production led to a layered ...
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Agro business
Under such circumstances, small farmers have to decide whether to allocate their scarce resources (usually land and labor) to cash or food crop, and ...
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North Sydney students harvest crops, enjoy bountiful dinner
North Sydney students harvest crops, enjoy bountiful dinner ... Tuesday's meal was prepared by Thyme Savour Takeaway Food Shoppe, located at ...
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Indigenous people should return to producing their traditional foods
All the foods they consumed were produced naturally and were safe, nutritious and healthy for consumption. Mixed cropping has been our tradition, ...
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food crops
Daily update September 23, 2014


NEWS

Using fungi on crops may be a tool to adapt farming to climate change
Scientists are discovering that microscopic fungi can help make food crops more abundant, less thirsty and more tolerant of rising temperatures.
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New York Times
Testing Future Conditions for the Food Chain
Andrew Leakey is studying the effects of future climate change on crops by exposing test plants to conditions like elevated carbon dioxide levels on a ...
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The Guardian
Instant farmers' market: startup aims to renew food system with direct sales
Many had idle land, or had opted out of the local food market altogether. Still others turned to commodity crops because the food-distribution system ...
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Design & Trend
Genetically Modified Food: Is The Debate About Its Safety Over?
Estimates of the numbers of meals consumed by feed animals since the introduction of GM crops 18 years ago would number well into the trillions, ...
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Plant variants point the way to improved biofuel production
Manufacturing biofuels from food crop by-products such as straw could be made quicker and cheaper thanks to the work of scientists in the UK and ...
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PBS NewsHour
Scientists look to increase crop production by speeding up photosynthesis
... water into oxygen and the sugar sucrose — scientists hope that food yields from crops such as wheat and rice can be multiplied up to 60 percent.
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NMSU's Clovis Science Center explores winter canola as alternative crop
"Winter canola has good potential in the region," said Sangu Angadi, a crop stress physiologist at NMSU's Agricultural Science Center at Clovis.
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The Hill
Food security is in jeopardy
As the world's second biggest exporter of food and agriculture, crop losses at home mean less supply reaching global food markets. For countries ...
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Investing in the Future We Want
In the Sahel, a climate-smart agroforestry practice that integrates food crops with trees that draw nitrogen from the air and transfer it to the soil has ...
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Mintpress News (registration) (blog)
USDA's Greenlighting Of 'Agent Orange' Crops Sparks Condemnation
Food and environmental safety groups, however, say that it speaks to the failure of the genetically engineered crops strategy that fosters herbicide ...
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food crops
Daily update September 22, 2014


NEWS

Ethanol certainly not the answer
“In light of these emissions, many scientists now question the environmental benefit of so-called biofuels produced by converting food crops.”.
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EarthTalk: Ethanol
Ethanol and similar "biofuels" made from corn and other crops seem like a good ... benefit of so-called biofuels produced by converting food crops.".
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food crops
Daily update September 21, 2014


NEWS

Is Martian soil actually good for farming?
Vox
In it, researchers found that plants actually grew better in a simulated ... The food crops grew best, with more than 79 percent of each still alive after the ...
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A New Generation of GMOs Crops Up
Whereas many genetically modified crops today contain a single engineered ... Synthesized DNA can be harnessed for food production in a few ways.
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Zim Food Aid Seekers Decline
The Food Agricultural Organisation and the World Food Programme ... inputs packs to stimulate production of key food and nutrition security crops.".
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Storms cause P1.14B in crop damage
In a related development, the Philippines may be dodging a major blow to local food production as the threat of an El Niño still looms but is likely to be ...
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The Bradenton Times Polls
Ethanol and similar “biofuels” made from corn and other crops seem like a good ... benefit of so-called biofuels produced by converting food crops.”
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Live Trading News
Family Farmers Hold Keys To Agriculture
“These are the crops often referred to as 'poor people's food' or sometimes even 'weeds,'” Ms. Nierenberg says, “but these are foods that can be ...
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WEB


Debunking Popular Myths about GE Crops Portrayed in the Media
Such massive spending has effectively framed a favorable narrative about GE crops and foods in several major media outlets, including The New ...
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