Sunday, April 13, 2014

Food Crops News 212


Food Crops News 212
, Hoàng Kim, Tin Nông nghiệp Việt Nam
Chào ngày mớiCây Lương thựcHọc mỗi ngày,  Dạy và học 
Update of Food Crops News from 03 April to 13, April 2014.


Daily Mail
Astronauts will grow their own food (or weed?) for the first time ever
Outredgeous red romaine lettuce plants grow inside a prototype Vegetable Production System (Veggie). Veggie will grow safe, fresh plants for food ...
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Post-IPCC, we have missed the glimmers of hope on the ground
But what also emerged during the follow-up discussion at the event was a focus on small-scale food production, and how to assist smallholder crop ...
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American Live Wire

Letter: Know What's in Your Food
Aside from a concern over the health effects of GMO food, there are ... reasons that people want to avoid genetic modification of food crops. GMO crops ...
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GMO Crops Begat Super Weeds And More Highly Toxic Chemicals In Food
Wide use of herbicides along with GE crops has led to an epidemic of ... and more toxic chemicals leaching into our environment and food supply.
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USDA offers specialty crop block grants
The current funding for the program was established in the Food, ... fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to enhance the competitiveness of specialty crops.
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Guatemala: Poppy and marijuana crops to be replaced by potato and fruits
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food (MAGA), invested 30 million quetzals (3.8 dollars) to help growers in areas where poppy and ...
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FAO Food Price Index shows rise in global prices
These and other influences are reviewed in greater detail in theAMIS Market Monitor report, the monthly synopsis of the major food crops prepared by ...
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Windsor Star

Bath: April perfect time to practice organics in garden
In addition to these is an array of root crops: beets, carrots, radishes, ... energy necessary to steward Mother Nature into gifting us healing foods.
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Webinar to focus on climate change's impacts on regional food systems
“While yields for some crops may be adversely affected, new opportunities ... David Fleisher is an agricultural engineer in the Agricultural Research ...
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GMOs will kill Tanzania's traditional crops market in Europe'
Tanzania is likely to lose the European traditional crops market if it will ... EU they don't accept genetically modified food crops for human consumption.
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Sumitomo Corporation Acquires Agricultural Crop Protection Fungicide from Bayer Crop Science ...
TOKYO, April 10, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tokyo-based Sumitomo Corporation announced the acquisition of agricultural crop protection fungicide ...
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Jatropha Not Viable in Kenya - ICRAF Study
With rising food and energy costs, smallholder farmers are looking for alternative crops that can generate more income and provide a better livelihood.
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Ars Technica

IPCC report says climate change is bad news for crops
Many crops have problems with temperatures much above 30 degrees ... Climate change won't be the only thing affecting crop yields or food prices, ...
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'Lost Foods' celebrates Native Plant Week
For Monty Caid, founder and president of local nonprofit Lost Foods, native plants are the answer to many questions: What's the best way to provide ...
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Climate extremes inflate food prices
“Agricultural prices have entered a new age of volatility,” says Oliver ... that global warming is affecting two of the world's most important food crops.
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Bill seeks to block mandatory GMO food labeling by states
Mike Pompeo and is aimed at overriding bills in about two dozen states that would require foods made with genetically engineered crops to be labeled ...
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GM crops under the microscope at international debate
A panel of international food experts will argue the pros and cons or GM crops at a special debate as part of the Food Integrity and Traceability ...
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Local food sourcing popular but not simple
Not all of the land used to grow those products would be fit to grow food crops anyway. But, should some be converted to food crops? Would it even be ...
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Food quality suffering as CO2 level rises: Study
“Food quality is declining under the rising levels of atmospheric carbon ... It is crucial in case of food crops as plants use nitrogen to produce the ...
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Food shortage hits Tina river basin dwellers
The chiefs added that apart from their food crops, domesticated animals such as pigs, chickens and even their much highly valued commodity, cocoa ...
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Phys.Org

Scientists make ethanol without corn or other crops
They also say diverting corn and sugar to make biofuels pushes up food prices. The United States leads the world in ethanol production, with 13.3 ...
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LS contestants urged for vow to GM-free safe food
Citizens opposing GM-Food and Crops met the candidates of the three ... This will ensure the Indian voter access to safe food and sustainable farming.
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Withering California Fruit Seen Raising Food Costs More Than '12
The drought that is withering vegetable and fruit crops in California may push up food prices more than the dry spell that ravaged the Corn Belt in 2012 ...
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Nanowerk

Scientists model a win-win situation: growing crops on photovoltaic farms
But which crops to use? Many solar farms operate in sunny but arid regions that are inhospitable to most food crops. But there is one valuable plant ...
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The Malay Mail Online

Banana Supply Seen by UN's FAO at Risk After Disease Spreads (1)
A disease damaging banana crops in Southeast Asia has spread to the ... billion, according to the United Nations' Food & Agriculture Organization.
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BLOGS

Making ethanol without the need to waste food crops | Watts Up With That?
Watts Up With That? Anthony Watts
From Stanford University Stanford scientists discover a novel way to make ethanol without corn or other plants Stanford University scientists have ...
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The Sudbury Star

5 foods that will be harder to grow due to global warming; going bananas for bananas: Table Talk
By 2030, major food crops like corn, wheat, and rice are likely to start decreasing by up to 2 percent a decade, while other crops will experience ...
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Chatham Daily News

Branding C-K
For all of the agricultural crops that are grown in Chatham-Kent, it's disheartening to comprehend that only a fraction of that product is processed here.
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Phys.Org

Monsanto, other chemical, crop companies to fight Oregon county GMO measure
Genetically engineered crops have led to an increase in overall pesticide use ... However, over 90 percent of Americans would prefer GMO food to be ...
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Food prices jump
Global food prices rose to their highest in almost a year in March, led by unfavorable weather for crops and political tensions over Ukraine, the United ...
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Rwanda: US$34 Million Ifad Loan and Grants to Strengthen Post-Harvest Interventions and ...
With multiple cropping systems promoted under CIP, harvesting is now ... sustainability of food crops in the face of increasing climatic uncertainties.
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Daily Sun

Africa leads in bio-fortified food crops –Adesina
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has stated that of all the 1.5 million farming households now growing ...
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The Standard Digital News

Are Genetically Modified Crops Good for Sub-Saharan Africa? An Overview
USA RIVER, TANZANIA -- Sebastian Mushi, or "Seba," as he is known around here, owns an agricultural business in Usa River, Tanzania.
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Firstpost

BJP vows 50pc profits to farmers, careful release of GM crops
BJP today promised ensuring 50 per cent profits over the cost of production to farmers and committed not to allow cultivation of GM food crops in the ...
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UC Davis: Food quality will suffer with rising CO2
Elevated levels of carbon dioxide inhibit plants' assimilation of nitrate into proteins, indicating that the nutritional quality of food crops is at risk as ...
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True value of cover crops to farmers, environment
According to a team of from Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, benefits offered by cover crops cross more than 10 ecosystem services.
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Field study shows why food quality will suffer with rising CO2
In food crops, it is especially important because plants use nitrogen to produce the proteins that are vital for human nutrition. Wheat, in particular ...
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Labeling not necessary
Contrast that with the fact that “every single news-making food disaster on record has been attributed to non-GM crops.” No known genetic material ...
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Proving GM food is OK to eat
Proving GM food is OK to eat ... weeds or pests, public doubts remain regarding the safety of genetically modified crops and foods derived from them.
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Around the crop circles
A YOUNG plant molecular biologist has received national recognition for his research which has the potential to improve production in food crops not ...
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Washington Post

World Food Center seminar focuses on climate change and food
The new World Food Center at the University of California, Davis, ... The specialty crops consortium found that agriculture's preparedness for and ...
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Rising CO 2 causing nutritional content of crops to fall
The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, indicate that the nutritional quality of food crops such as wheat, barley, rice, and ...
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GM crops criticism unscientific
In meeting stringent food safety requirements and standards, biotech foods are among the most thoroughly tested foods available. No other food crops ...
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Inter Press Service

Biofortified Beans to Fight 'Hidden Hunger' in Rwanda
She is part of a select group of farmers producing biofortified crops on a ... I harvest 15 tonnes of food; I talk in terms of tonnes and not kilos,” she ...
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Are EPA approved levels of glyphosate residue in our foods too high?
The change in tolerance levels affects several other agricultural products, including animal feed, root crops and fruit trees. While the regulation is ...
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NEWS

Global
• New International Partnership Aims to Increase Wheat Yields

Africa
• ISAAA Report on GM Crops Launched in Burkina Faso, South Africa, and Kenya
• Uganda Launches 2013 Global Status Report
• UN Announces First Countries Set to Benefit from African-Led Food Security Fund
• FAO DG: Africa's Youth Key to Strengthening Agricultural Economy

Americas
• ACSH Releases New Publication on GM Food
• Engineered Bacteria Produce Biofuel Alternative for Rocket Fuel

Asia and the Pacific
• Philippine DA Regulators and Crop Researchers Train on Biotech Communication
• Vietnam's Regulatory Circular to Take Effect
• GEAC Allows Field Trials of 11 New Varieties of Biotech Crops in India
• BARI DG Faced the Media on Bt Brinjal Commercialization
• ISAAA Produces Infographic on "7 Wonders of Bt Cotton"

Europe
• Scientists Identify Sugar Transporter for Nectar Production

Research
• GOLDEN2-LIKE Transcription factors: Keys to Tomato Development
• Genetic Analysis of Verticillium Wilt Resistance in Biotech Cotton

Beyond Crop Biotech
• Study Finds Math Anxiety Can be Due to Genetic Factors
• OSU Scientists Discover Protein Linked to Spread of Breast Cancer Cells

Announcements
• Synthetic Biology Congress
• World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology

Document Reminders
• Top Ten Facts on Global Biotech/GM Crops 2013 in 52 Languages 


Research and Development
• Researchers Find Economical Way to Remove Lignin from Biomass
• Researchers Extract Oil from Algae Without Wasting Them
• Researchers Produce Sugars from Biomass Sans Enzyme

Production and Trade
• French Company Shows Viability of Biomass-based Ethanol with Bacterial Process
• New Biodiesel Plant Set in Switzerland
• Missouri Firm to Implement Enzymatic Biodiesel Processing Technology
• New Initiative to Develop Biofuel Supply Chain in UAE
• Australian and Indian Firms to Build Biofuel Facility in India

Policy and Regulation
• New Study Emphasizes Ecological Benefits from Biofuel Crops

Latest Communication Products

An Alert Farmer is an Affluent Farmer
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ISAAA's Norman Borlaug Centenary Emblem
ISAAA releases the Norman Borlaug Centenary emblem as part of the world-wide centenary (25 March 1914 to 25 March 2014) celebrations of the birth of the Nobel Peace Laureate, Norman Borlaug.
Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2013
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