Saturday, December 27, 2014

Food Crops News 263

Update of Food Crops News from 22 Dec. to 27 Dec., 2014.

food crops
Daily update December 27, 2014

NEWS

Experiencing how Tanzanian farmers produce their crops
There is some 5.1 million hectares (12.6m acres) of land cultivated annually, of which 85 per cent is producing food crops. Women are the main source ...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Debate over genetically engineered crops continues
Gardeners typically are alert to the quality of food they consume, even when they don't grow edible crops. Accordingly, many gardeners are interested ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY IN ASIA
Climate change, too, is putting a lot of strain on our food supply. ... account changes in rainfall patterns, production of major food crops would decline.
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Aflatoxin threat in Nepal, Bangladesh
KATHMANDU: Aflatoxin produced by the fungus aspergillus flavus — a toxic contaminant in food crops and known to cause liver cancer — prevails at ...
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food crops
Daily update December 26, 2014

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INFORUM
Hoeven tours new crop genotyping center at NDSU
The scientists will be housed in leased space at USDA's Agricultural ... Other tests could be developed for other crops and even animals, with food ...
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spyghana.com
Crops Research Institute schools farmers on tubers
It was sponsored by the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Project ... in farming and patronize the use of organic compost on food crops production to ...
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Columbus Dispatch
A Long History of Exploitation in the Cotton Industry
... States, British and other European capitalists turned to countries like India and Egypt that were already growing the plant along with food crops.
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Farmland shrinking
The south-western coastal belt produced food crops traditionally, but shrimp farming by retaining salt water on cropland has increased salinity and ...
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The Year in Sustainable Food: Much Progress, and More Work to Be Done
Whole Foods' system was influenced in part by the Sustainability Index for Specialty Crops, a benchmarking system recently developed by an NRDC ...
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Winter grain crops in Ukraine sprout on 96% of sowed areas
Winter grain crops in Ukraine as of 24, 2014, sprouted on 7.6 million hectares, or 96% of sowed areas, according to the Agrarian Policy and Food ...
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SW Farmers to Increase Agriculture Production
... participation of agricultural research institutions, universities, agro-industries and over 1,000 farmers who displayed both food crops and cash crops, ...
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Dilemma of climate change and food security in Asia
Climate change, on the other hand, is putting a lot of strain on our food ... changes in rainfall patterns), production of major food crops would decline.
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FarmersWeekly
Government Funded Spider Venom Project to Provide Lifeline for Bees
These projects will help to provide some really innovative solutions to agricultural challenges in crops and livestock. They will enable the UK to really ...
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SCCC/ATS welcomes new ag instructor David Coltrain
He rose to the challenge, selling the food directly to customers at Farmer's ... And I tell them, 'This is what your grandpa did,'” growing food crops that ...
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food crops
Daily update December 25, 2014

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Busia Farmers Urged to Grow Adaptive Crops for Food Security
Farmers therefore have no alternative but to adapt to the situation by planting food crops that withstand adverse weather conditions and floods," he ...
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Grand Forks Herald
Hoeven tours new crop genotyping center on NDSU campus
Hoeven said it's important to develop the tests for food safety reasons. ... Other tests could be developed for other crops and even animals, with food ...
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Jamaica Gleaner
Produce galore - St Catherine farmers experiencing an oversupply of crops; prices fall
CONSUMERS OF agricultural produce in St Catherine will have an abundance of food items to choose from this festive season and beyond, ...
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Michigan State University Extension
Floriculture to food production: Food safety first
... for growing plants, although you may need to be aware of different pests and diseases and what controls are available to treat them on food crops.
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TODAYonline
China's GM crops fail to bear fruit
... speech a year ago, President Xi Jinping backed China's development of genetically modified (GM) crops as a means of strengthening food security.
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Times-Enterprise
UGA entomologist focused on reducing plant viruses in crops
By understanding the interactions between vectors and viruses, Srinivasan aims to break the transmission cycle and reduce agricultural crop loss.
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GM crops cop organic ban
A WESTERN Australian Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) ... for compensation due to contamination by a neighbour growing GM crops.
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Bird food market providing support to sunflower prices
"Sunflower prices had another good week with the bird food market still giving support to old and new crop prices," said John Sandbakken, executive ...
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The Guardian
Global warming will cut wheat yields, research shows
A fall of 6% in yield may not sound dramatic, but as the world's population grows the pressure on staple crops will increase. Food price riots have been ...
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Eat. Drink. Better.
5 Ways We're Reducing Food Waste by Using it Again
The problem with turning food crops into alternative energy or packaging is that causes spikes in food prices. When we use land to grow food for cars ...
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food crops
Daily update December 24, 2014

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Financial Times
China's GM crops fail to bear fruit
In a speech a year ago, Xi Jinping backed China's development of genetically modified crops as a means of strengthening food security. But even he ...
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Risk Science Center
GMO food for Christmas – what has Nigeria learnt from the West?
According to the U.S Food and drug Administration (FDA), foods from ... say Monsanto's Agent Orange was also used in targeting food crops as part of ...
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The Hindu
Kerala biodiversity board to revive tuber crop farming
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Cultivation of tuber crops in Kerala, which once enjoyed a significant position among food crops in the state, is all set to ...
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S3P Set to Improve Food Security in Rural Areas
S3P, an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) funded project, ... To ensure food security, these crops will be promoted thereafter; the ...
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Agricultural official seeks funding for Fargo lab
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Thanks to genetic modifications, crops such as corn and soybeans have been planted in areas of the state where they weren't ...
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Co.Exist
This Clever Device Keeps Food Fresh Without A Refrigerator
In countries like India or Uganda, where farmers struggle to grow enough food to supply booming populations, around 40% of the crops that are ...
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Dr. Bronner's Year-End Report from the Front Lines of the Fight for Cannabis Reform and GMO ...
Adam has also effectively helped build the national movement to label genetically engineered food crops. We are fighting the chemical industry ...
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GhanaWeb
Birim Central is self-sufficient in food – Ahiamatah
He indicated that, food production for the year was better than last year, ... “Prices of food crops have not risen for the past three years, with cassava ...
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EU moves to let member states block GM crops
EU moves to let member states block GM crops ... of genetically modified crops even if those crops have been approved by the food safety authority of ...
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food crops
Daily update December 23, 2014

NEWS

Why the next world war will be fought over food
Fueling the problem are worldwide diets that rely on an ever smaller group of crops, leaving global food supplies at the mercy of inflation, insects, ...
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GhanaWeb
Mepom to get new food market
The market would be the first of its kind in the district, reputed to be a major food crop growing area in the Eastern Region. When it is completed ...
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“Bermuda Dunes In 2030″
Another solar technology will not only create renewable and safe power, but help Bermuda Dunes and its neighbors become less reliant on food crops ...
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Resurgence of genetically modified organisms issue hit
He said HAD and other groups like the Kilusang Magsasaka ng Pilipinas (KMP) worry on the adverse effect of GM crops on the food production of the ...
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Sudan Vision
TAKING ROOT: The Cash Crop Trade in Darfur (11)
Darfur is a potentially rich agricultural area that has long been an important source of supply of many of Sudan's major cash crops. For some of those ...
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RTCC
Tropical deforestation leads to rise in temperature, erratic rainfall affecting crops far away
Tropical deforestation is going to have a significant impact on global warming and rainfall patterns which could cause agricultural distress, according ...
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Europe set to allow individual nations to ban GM crops
They will imply that nations that want to ban GM crops are no longer obliged to supply scientific evidence to the European Food Security Authority that ...
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Rwanda services sector tops
Murangwa said, “This sector was boosted by the food crops that grew at 7%. The high increase in production, farmers taking a lead in expanding their ...
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“Move to sustainable agriculture”: FAO to cereal-based farming systems
The meeting focussed on maize, rice and wheat because those three crops are fundamental to world food security, providing 50 per cent of humanity's ...
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food crops
Daily update December 22, 2014

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The Inquisitr
Comment: No need to fear genetically modified crops
Consuming foods containing GMOs is no riskier than consuming the same foods containing ingredients from crops modified by conventional plant ...
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Victoria Advocate
Thousands of edible plant species available
The biodiversity of our food crops has significantly diminished over the last century. This loss of genetic diversity goes against all that Mother nature ...
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South China Morning Post (subscription)
Short Science, December 21, 2014
Scientists should "re-wild" food crops by inserting lost genetic properties of ancient, edible plants to boost agricultural output for a growing population, ...
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CBC.ca
Hunger Is a Less Visible, but Real Side Effect of Ebola
Much of the food that is available now is available only to the relatively wealthy. Take cassava, one food crop harvested in the region. The root of this ...
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spyghana.com
Farming is lucrative - 2014 Best Farmer
Mr Crentsil 40, had been in active farming for the past 18 years, working on 312 acres of land and he is into cash crops farming, food crops, fruit trees, ...
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food crops
Daily update December 21, 2014

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FoodNavigator-USA.com
5 GMO food myths dispelled
In fact breeding, not genetic engineering, is how food scientists created ... Rather, he said, only eight crops in the U.S. are GMO: alfalfa, sugar beet, ...
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Ars Technica
GMO-free crop “refuges” limit bugs' ability to develop resistance
These crops have picked up the name "Bt," for Bacillus thuringiensis, the bacteria that originally made the toxins. There are Bt versions of food crops ...
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Bismarck Tribune
Farmers consider growing jet fuel
It is also not a food crop, such as canola. Rickertsen agreed, saying western North Dakota plants a wide variety of crops and is often open to trying ...
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Asia's graduating scientists urged to solve food security
Challenges of climate change, water scarcity and competing uses of land and water between growing food crops and bioenergy crops, increasing ...
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Europe set to allow individual nations to ban GM crops
They will mean that countries that want to ban GM crops are no longer obliged to provide scientific evidence to the European Food Safety Authority ...
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Food Hub Meeting Set For Wagner
The goal of the initial meeting is to find interested producers or potential producers of edible food crops such as vegetables, grains, fruits, herbs and ...
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Phys.Org
Securing future food supply for the developing world
It is the most important food source throughout much of the tropical belt of ... in plant science are major drivers of yield improvements in crops.
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Arizona Public Media
Tucson's Native Seeds/SEARCH Gets New Leader
Larrie Warren, an Arizona native who worked in agricultural programs in East Africa until recently, is running the food crop preservation program.
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...Guave Road farmers protest
... is in fact a screen to shield from the public the destruction of tens of acres of food crops that some of them have cultivated for upwards of fourty years.
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IPPmedia
Why some farmers embrace GE crops
According to a scientific research study made available by the department of research and development, Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and ...
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food crops
Daily update December 18, 2014

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Reuters Blogs (blog)
How record crops generate food inequality
Last week the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations announced that world cereal production was expected to hit a record ...
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Boing Boing
Only 55% of food-crop calories are consumed directly by humans. The rest: fuel and feed.
In this National Geographic feature on the future of food, a map that illustrates how much of the world's crops are grown for people to eat directly ...
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Laboratory Equipment
Back to the future: Scientists want 'rewilded' crops to boost agriculture
ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists should "re-wild" food crops by inserting lost genetic properties of ancient, edible plants in order to ...
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Back to the future: Scientists want 'rewilded' crops to boost agriculture - TRFN
ROME, Dec 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Scientists should "re-wild" food crops by inserting lost genetic properties of ancient, edible plants in ...
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South Dakota Soybean launches Hungry for Truth initiative
When the subject is food and how it's raised, who better to turn to than the ... are good environmentalists who grow crops in a sustainable manner.
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Montreal Gazette
Best Buys: Weather conspires against crops
Weather is upsetting holiday food systems. Florida has been socked with weather too cold for the new strawberry crop to ripen efficiently and ...
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The Surreal Sci-Fi Farms That Grow Most of Our Food
His landscapes are washed in colorful hues and and show crops growing in orderly, almost surreal, rows. Alternating between open terrain showing ...
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Treehugger
Kelp: like kale, plus ecosystem benefits
Researchers propose seaweed could be used to make better biofuel, because it wouldn't compete for land with food crops. It can also be used as ...
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Non-profit Hawi community food hub awarded $100,00 federal grant
The food hub will serve as an intermediary between North Kohala ... to raise awareness about growing, cooking, and supporting local food crops, and ...
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