Saturday, August 16, 2014

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Update of Food Crops News from  11 Aug to 16 Aug, 2014.


BBC News
Mathematics helps find food crops' climate-proof genes
Researchers are developing mathematical models to identify genetic material that could help improve food crops' resilience to climate change.
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People deserve to know when food has been altered
It would help Oregonians tell the difference between locally grown real food and genetically engineered crops developed in labs and patented by ...
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Asian Scientist Magazine
Climate Change Could Undermine Food Security
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, ... Growing more heat-tolerant varieties of crops in regions harder hit by ...
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Farm Futures
Washington Meeting Pushes Biotech Value
... approval process for biotech seed for soybeans and other crops. ... by farmers in poorer countries who are growing food crops such as wheat, rice ...
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Toledo Blade
Garden gives food to those in need
What causes the perpetual sprouting of healthy crops? It's not some ... “We take for granted that we can walk into a store and purchase food. A lot of ...
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Daily Mail
Let them eat lizard: Nicaragua recommends eating iguanas as food crisis looms due to worst ...
As the worst drought in 32 years threatens to cause a food crisis across ... Honduras and Nicaragua, damaging crops and pushing up food prices.
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Microcrusher finds home at The Carthage Mill
We began with two acres of flax and barley in 2007, and now produce food crops in 55 acres. When we studied the process of growing, cleaning, ...
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Center for Research on Globalization
GMO Food in Namibia?
WE READ the article 'The problems with arguments against GM crops' (The ... The use of GMO seeds actually increased hunger and food insecurity.
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CF Industries – A Play On Global Food Scarcity: Morgan Stanley
But a number of factors are inhibiting growth of food production. ... Though these crops come with the added advantage of being more disease ...
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Yahoo!7 News
'Uranium dust' from Yorke Peninsula Hillside mine could contaminate crops, campaigners say
... up by crops and pasture and then, of course, they enter the food chain. ... He said many people lived within kilometres of Hillside and many crops ...
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Daily Mail



The Independent
Price of Nutella could rise after bad weather devastated hazelnut crops
Around 70 per cent of the world's hazelnut crop is grown near Turkey's Black Sea coast, but this year's ... Read more: What fast food does to your body
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Improved food grain production figures bring hope in rain deficit year
NEW DELHI: Backed by good Monsoon last year, India improved its record of highest ever food-grain production for the crop year 2013-14 a bit further ...
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Gaesser touts benefits of ag biotechnology
... state of worldwide regulation deprives people of food by preventing use of biotechnology by farmers in poorer countries who are growing food crops ...
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Central America braces for drought-linked food crisis
... parts of Central America, causing widespread damage to crops, shortages and rising prices of food, and worsening hunger among the region's poor.
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The Guardian
Five imported foods we can source locally in the UK
While this presents massive problems both to the global food system and here in the UK, it may also mean that we can grow crops that thrive in ...
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Michigan State University Extension
Flint, Michigan Area Urban Agriculture Report – August 13, 2014
Crops are a bit delayed in their development due to our cool summer. ... According to a Michigan State University Extension food systems educator, ...
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Get More Crop for the Drop of Water
Europe, for example, largely prohibits GE crops; India has approved insect-resistant cotton but has failed to sanction any food crops. Even where GE ...
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Nature World News


The Perilous Life Of A Professional Honeybee
Across the country, beekeepers have reported losing 30 percent of their colonies on average since 2006. About a third of the nation's food crops rely ...
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La Porte County Row Croppers Host Ag Tour and Barbecue
The La Porte County Row Crop Food Producers, along with La Porte County Farm Bureau Young Farmers, conducted its annual ag tour and barbecue ...
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Hindu Business Line
UF scientist develops new drought index
Scientists at the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural ... ARID, which researchers showed could predict drought levels for crops on ...
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Crop Biotech Update
August 13, 2014

Important issues in the current debate on biotech crops were discussed in the SEARCA Agriculture and Development Seminar Series (ADSS) "Critical Legal Issues Surrounding Biotechnology and Biosafety" by Atty. Gregory Jaffe, Director of the Biotechnology Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in Washington DC, USA, on 25 July 2014.
Genetic engineering, he said, "allows scientists to move beneficial traits from one organism to another in a precise way." He also said that the safety and benefits of the technology is well-documented, and that in terms of food safety, conclusions from renowned international organizations show that food products of biotech are generally safe.

Atty. Jaffe cited the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, stating that the said international agreement is a good starting point in establishing a national biosafety regulatory system because "it has a precautionary approach but its goal is to effectuate trade among countries of safe LMOs (living modified organisms)." He said that the "hot topics" critical in the development of biotech crops are: liability and redress; socio-economic considerations; labeling; and development of resistant weeds.

Atty. Jaffe also emphasized the importance of assessing products or technologies on a case-by-case basis and highlighted the critical role of functional biosafety regulatory systems in allowing safe products to be marketed.
The seminar was co-organized by SEARCA Biotechnology Information Center, the Program for Biosafety Systems and the National Institute of Molecular Biology and,Biotechnology-UPLB. For more information about developments in biotechnology in the Philippines or in Southeast Asia, visit SEARCA BIC's website at http://www.bic.searca.org/ or send an e-mail to bic@agri.searca.org.
Scientists are now developing a glow-in-the-dark plant using synthetic biology. The Glowing Plant project aims to develop functional plants for homes that could repel insects or work as air fresheners. The inspiration behind the original glowing plant was to rethink street or nighttime lighting.
The developers of the bioluminescent plant said that they do not focus on developing GM foods, which has enough controversies. "We really see our plants as a tool for changing that debate. With food, the risk of unintended consequences is much larger. We just want to build fun, cool products," said Antony Evans, founder and CEO of Glowing Plant. The company is now getting pre-orders of the Glowing Plant which is expected to be released later this year.
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The Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization has been ratified by 51 Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and thus will be implemented on October 12, 2014.
The Nagoya Protocol aims to create new incentives to conserve biodiversity, sustainable use of its components, and improve the role of biodiversity in sustainable development and human well-being.
The last 12 countries that have ratified the ... [READ MORE]
The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released the final environmental impact statement (EIS) for corn and soybean plant resistant to herbicide 2,4-D. The draft EIS was released for comments in January and has received 10,140 responses. APHIS meticulously reviewed and analyzed the submitted comments and addressed them in the final EIS which affirms APHIS' preferred alternative to fully deregulate these new GE crops. This is also consistent with APHIS' final plant pest risk assessment (PPRA) that found 2,4-D resistant corn and soybeans are unlikely to pose a plant pest risk to agricultural crops or other plants in the U.S. ...[READ MORE]
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The Daily Star
Biofortified crops can help tackle malnutrition
Biofortification is a process where food crops rich in bioavailable micronutrients, such as vitamin A and zinc, are bred. Crop varieties developed ...
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WNAX
Wheat Safari educates food pros on the crop
Wheat Safari educates food pros on the crop. PORTLAND, N.D. — Farmers and ranchers often lament that people outside agriculture don't seem to ...
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Could co-existence work?
THERE'S been a moratorium on genetically modified crops in Tasmania since 2001, but could co-existence between non-GM food crops and GM food ...
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Daily Mail
Frankenflies that can protect crops: GM version of the pest could wipe out species that damage ...
Oxitec has promoted the technology as an alternative to the use of harsh chemical pesticides to protect food crops and so boost yields and has held ...
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Good Food
Best time to start tomato crop is winter
All of these new plantings will take time to produce their first crop. ... With food, you want to know if the meat, fruit or vegetable was raised or grown in ...
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The Guardian
New energy-rich sorghum offers ethanol without the corn
“We don't view using food crops for fuel as a generally good idea,” says Heather Youngs, a senior fellow at the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI), ...
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Business Standard
Umbrella agri scheme to improve supply of agri-commodities at grassroot level
To ensure food security, the consistency in major crops production has become imperative. Otherwise, any big shortfall of any crop in a country in India ...
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Big soybean crops to favor big traders in Brazil, Cargill says
Brazil's center-west grain belt has a storage deficit, which big food companies and trading houses, such as Cargill Ltd or Bunge Ltd, have tried to ...
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New rice cultivation methodology can help crops tolerate drought: Norman Uphoff
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently challenged agricultural scientists and farmers to produce “per drop more crop”—a call to promote ...
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Boone County fair season ready for harvest
Educational departments include flowers, floral arrangements, field crops, food preservation, handicrafts, household arts, quilts, clothing, food ...
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Bloomberg
California Drought Transforms Global Food Market
Such crop switching is one sign of a sweeping transformation going on in California -- the nation's biggest agricultural state by value -- driven by a ...
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North Dakota food producers, processors host delegation of Chinese buyers
"Our delegation has come to North Dakota in search of high-quality food grade soybeans and small grain crops to be used as ingredients in food ...
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The GM crops conundrum
Detractors see GM as an intervention in nature that can lead to unintended consequences like creation of toxic plants and raise questions on food ...
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BDlive
"Climate-smart" policies for Africa are stupid, and immoral
Adequate food and nutrition require modern agriculture. ... It's carbon dioxide, which makes food crops, trees and other plants grow faster and better, ...
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TheCropSite
Australia Counts the Cost of Russian Food Import Ban
Australia Counts the Cost of Russian Food Import Ban ... According to the Department of Agriculture, total agricultural trade with Russia was ... dairy (A$78.1 million); seafood (A$0.5 million) and cereals, crops & pulses (A$0.2 million).
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Today's ag slanted toward crops
The reality of today's agriculture is that it is heavily slanted toward crop ... process needed inputs into appropriately salable products, including food.
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What Are Pesticides, and Why Do We Use Them on the Farm?
We also have a choice when it comes to what we put on our crops. .... We are all passionate about the food we eat and how it ends up on our tables.
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Caledonia Prison Inmates Grow Their Own Food
Halifax County's Caledonia Correctional Institution continues to produce thousands of pounds of crops as the years go by. Lee Jenkins has more on ...
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Ars Technica
Feeding everyone with a minimum of carbon emissions
To understand the tradeoff between agricultural land and carbon storage, the authors devised a very simple measure that they called "crop advantage ...
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