Saturday, July 26, 2014

Food Crops News 237


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Update of Food Crops News from  22 July to 26 July, 2014.


Center for Research on Globalization
GMO Food Crops in India: BJP Government Grants the “Green Light” to Monsanto and the Biotech ...
“SJM has received the news reports of approval of field trials of GM food crops by Genetically Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC), under the ...
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Science Codex
Climate Change May Reduce Corn, Wheat Crop Yields
Rising temperatures caused by climate change increase the odds that corn and wheat yields will slow even as global demand for the crops for food ...
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SaharaReporters.com
Genetically Modified Food Promoters Promote Poverty And Dependency In Africa
In 2013 India's Supreme Court declared an indefinite moratorium on all GM food crops, citing major gaps in the country's regulatory system, while ...
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BBC News
Africa 'missing out on biotech green revolution'
Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of ... is to attract funding for biotechnology projects on staple crops, such as cassava, ... Africa missed out on the previous green revolution that boosted food output in ...
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Volunteers harvest healthy options for Lusby food pantry
Volunteers harvest healthy options for Lusby food pantry ... The annual crops were worth an estimated $4,300 at market value but were donated at no ...
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$34.4 million spent on Afghan soy crops doomed to fail
In a humanitarian effort to improve food security and stymie Afghanistan's dependence on food imports, the United States Department of Agriculture ...
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The Hindu
Decision on field trials for GM crops in Mysore region draws flak
Introducing GM crops would destroy the very culture, which had sought sustenance from traditional agricultural practices in rural societies.
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Treehugger
5 ways to improve global food security
But it's not simple to change the types of crops grown since farmers make decisions of what to grow based on market values, International Food Policy ...
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Beet virus hits ES crops
WA growers have voiced their concerns about the ability for the virus to reach west coast crops but last week Department of Agriculture and Food ...
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'Monsoon rains likely to boost major Kharif crop production'
Agriculture experts and officials Ministry of National Food Security and ... very beneficial for the Kharif crops and at that stage most of the Kharif crops ...
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Voice of America
Ugandan Promotes 'Slow Food' Ideals to Feed Africa
As the new vice president of Slow Food International, his mission is to ... Slow Food's gardeners are encouraged to grow traditional crops that are ...
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Global Initiative for Agricultural Education Formed
It will bring various disciplines in agricultural education such as crop, livestock, fisheries, natural resource management, etc. under one roof by ...
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Mukstar farmers' group to market organic products
... native place of Union food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, have formed a group to produce food items from crops grown without the use ...
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5 ways to deliver nutrition through cash crop standards
Cash crops in themselves have relatively low nutritional value, but the agricultural system around them can serve as a perfect delivery channel for ...
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BBC News
Africa 'missing out on biotech green revolution'
Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of ... Africa missed out on the previous green revolution that boosted food output in many ... The report, On Trial: GM Crops in Africa, published by think tank Chatham ...
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Renewing the global commitment to crop breeding
In fact, without significantly changing consumption patterns or expanding agricultural lands, crop yields will need to grow 33 percent more in the next ...
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Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc. & the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Announce Signing of ...
"The need to bio-fortify the world's food crops in the face of massive population growth, global climate change and the depletion of nutrients in soil is of ...
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Trinidad Guardian
Ministry battles locusts in Chatham
Intense spraying and defogging has begun in Chatham as the Food Production Ministry battles swarms of locusts that have been ravaging crops, fruit ...
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Protect honeybees, nature's migrant workers
It's estimated that one in every three bites of food we eat depends on ... the millions in tractor trailers across the country to pollinate crops and orchards.
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KATU
Oregon GMO labeling measure certified for November ballot
(Reuters) - An Oregon citizens' initiative that would require labeling of foods made with ... Those crops are used in a vast array of food products.
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GM food crops – Why India must say noniticentral
The latest attempt is to claim that India needs GM food crops to feed its growing population and that without GM crops we will never be able to feed ...
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Study sheds light on the nutritional, food safety benefits of organic farming
The largest study of its kind has found that organic foods and crops have a suite of advantages over their conventional counterparts, including more ...
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Business Standard
Excess rainfall in July speeds up crop sowing in state
According to the data of the directorate of Agriculture and Food Production, kharif crops coverage, till July 19, stood at about 2.69 million hectares ...
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The Providence Journal
Movement to preserve seeds is growing
The nonprofit organization, based in Decorah, Iowa, is dedicated to saving and sharing heirloom seeds of garden and agricultural crops. It hosted a ...
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Home Opinion Lessons in food gardening: in Britain, cities feed...
In many cases, we are integrating our food plants with the ornamentals and in other cases we are planting in containers to make them much more ...
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Businessweek
Scientists' Cheat Sheet for Improving Global Food Production
Scientists and policymakers are concerned about future food security. ... The report focuses on 17 key crops that provide 86 percent of the world's ...
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HotnHitNews
Food security can be achieved without damaging global environment
They focused on cotton and the 16 food crops that produce 86% of the world's calories from 58% of the global cropland area. They identified a series ...
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Manila Bulletin
Crop losses force gov't to increase rice imports
“We have agreed that we will import an additional 500,000 metric tons of rice,” Francis N. Pangilinan, who took over as food security chief in May, told ...
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Martha's Vineyard Times
Garden Notes: Keeping food and flowers coming
As the season wears on and plants grow taller, thunderstorms producing drenching rain such as that of July 16 (not to mention tropical storms) test ...
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The Hindu
Better farming could feed 3 billion
Cutting waste even by modest amounts would also feed millions, the authors found: between one-third and a half of the viable crops and food ...
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Crops of the Past and Future
A concept widely celebrated in permaculture, food forests maximize vertical space by planting layers of trees and bush crops. For example, less than ...
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Census Of Ag & Crop Assistance
Census Of Ag & Crop Assistance plus Food Forethought. I'm Greg Martin with today's Northwest Report. USDA has announced Noninsured Crop ...
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Global agricultural prices 'projected to decline' over next decade
Prices for crops and animal products are projected to decline over the medium term globally, according to a report by the OECD and the UN Food and ...
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Southport Visiter
Southport farmer is pick of the crop after scooping top food award
Cath Clayton, who supplies strawberries to Marks & Spencer, was commended by the supermarket giant at their Farming for the Future awards where ...
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Automated greenhouse system to save farming costs and food security
Many farmers have been following the conventional routine of tending to their crops in the green house at specific times they were advised by maybe ...
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CNBC.com
Farmland: a market ripe for tilling?
Steve Fessler, left, vice president at Prudential Agricultural Investments, ... Farmland and also often includes a share of the revenue from the crops.
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Why the Buzz About a Bee-pocalypse Is a Honey Trap
Bee populations in the U.S. and Europe remain at healthy levels for reproduction and the critical pollination of food crops and trees. But during much of ...
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Western Farm Press
Planting bee forage cover crops in San Joaquin Valley
This year, several proactive farmers planted a mix of cover crops to meet this need. ... bee and pollinator health through plantings (cover crops, hedgerows). ... seasonal employment and run low on food as forage is sparse in the SJV.
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Food bloggers tour California strawberries
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Right in the field and in catered dishes, 10 food bloggers got up close and personal with strawberry flavors and saw some of ...
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SBS
Organic foods are more nutritious, new research shows
SBS
After reviewing 343 studies on the topic, researchers in Europe and the United States concluded that organic crops and organic-crop-based foods ...
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BLOGS

Three examples of problems with Gates Foundation grants
... deficiencies and malnutrition – namely the replacement of diverse vitamin-rich food crops by cash crops – and implementing a bandaid solution that ...
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WEB

Food security and sustainable production of horticultural crops
On Thursday 10 July 2014 the SCI Process Engineering Group hosted the evening lecture titled Food Security and Sustainable Production of ...
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The Independent
Beef farmers fear lifting of Tasmania's ban on genetically modified animal feed
... the bulls attract a high premium, thanks to Tasmania's status as the only Australian state that bans genetically modified food crops and animal feed.
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Sangh flays government genetically-modified crop call
SJM all-India co-convenor Ashwini Mahajan, in a statement, said that the outfit “received the news reports of approval of field trials of GM food crops by ...
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Showcasing crop potential in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
In order to stay true to the Center's research mission, many of the crops were chosen because of their potential benefits to the local food system.
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Tips to help garden live longer, produce more
Since the dawn of agriculture, humans feel the urge to plant flowers and food crops after a long, cold winter. But as the weeks pass into midsummer, ...
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Kisumu to invest in agriculture
Orot told the Star in his office that the county has favourable climate for farming and proper investment in agriculture will improve food security and ...
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Merced Sun-Star
Farm Beat: 5 percent ag loss figure doesn't tell whole story
California will maintain that much of its agricultural output this year, despite the severe drought, ... This year's near-normal output results also from fallowing some annual crops so the water can go to higher-value plantings such as ...
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Rudaw
Farm Project May Switch from Mosul to Kurdistan
In recent years, however, efforts to apply the food production method of ... USD $800 million per annum, not to mention other crops,” Loss explains.
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Alabama agriculture: Biotech vs. organic
And he doesn't have a beef with genetically modified crops. ... giant, mutant, unnatural food that comes along with the GMO label, a concept Hall said ...
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Farmland July 25 and 26 at Tryon Theater
This is a month to celebrate the bounty of produce and agricultural products available in the great state of N.C. Carolinians can grow crops year round ...
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Around the crop circles
Around the crop circles ... floods occurring in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh this week, but overall, Indian cropping areas are moisture deficient.
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