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Update of Food Crops News from 10 September to 20 Sep., 2014.
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How to save the world's crops
The Birmingham scientists have compiled a global database of wild species related to priority crops for use by the United Nations Food and ...
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Nevermind Drought -- The Biggest Threat to Our Food Supply Is Fungus
Within 30 years, it's likely that farmers will be battling deadly crop pests that they've never seen before. Pests are evolving and entering new regions in ...
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FDA Revises Food Safety Rules Due Next Year
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday revised sweeping food safety rules ... allow farmers to harvest crops sooner after using raw manure as fertilizer. ... Food manufacturers would also have to submit food safety plans to the ...
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Scientists Are Reinventing Photosynthesis To Grow More Food
Plants are not, it turns out, perfectly efficient at making food out of thin air (turning carbon dioxide into sugars, to be more technical). And the vast ...
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Festival in memory of gardener killed in car accident
Each spring, Temple University Food Crop students plant the seeds and design the garden plots as part of their course requirements. Then our ...
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Borrowed genes raise hopes for fixing "slow and confused" plant enzyme
EFFICIENTLY GREEN These tobacco plants' photosynthesis relies on a borrowed ... The idea might someday make food crops more efficient.
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Organic foods make a healthy body for college students
Organic
produce is healthier because farmers do not use the synthetic
fertilizers or harmful pesticides that contaminate conventionally grown crops.
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India Plans $131 Billion Credit To Farmers During 2014-15
The credit for increased level of food grains production goes to the hard ... Food Security Mission (NFSM) (Commercial Crops) by following Cropping ...
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Plant Engineered for Better Photosynthesis
... or cyanobacteria, holds promise for improving the yields of many food crops. Plants photosynthesize – convert carbon dioxide, water and light into ...
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Why GM Crops Will Not Feed the World
Many in the biotechnology industry seem to believe there's a simple solution to the global food crisis: genetically modified (GM or biotech) crops.
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Approval of 2,4-D Tolerant Crops Speeds up Agrichemical Treadmill
The USDA, EPA and FDA make up the team of regulatory agencies that oversee the safety of genetically engineered crops and ultimately, food.
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The Debate About GMO Safety Is Over, Thanks To A New Trillion-Meal Study
Animal feeding studies are the basis for evaluating the safety of GMO crops. ... After all, globally, food-producing animals consume 70% to 90% of ...
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Turbo Tobacco Borrows Bacteria Genes for Faster Photosynthesis
If agricultural plants
could perform photosynthesis at the bacteria's pace, scientists say, it
would cut fertilizer needs and increase crop production by 35 ...
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B is for biodiversity
It also predicts that almost a quarter of the non-domesticated or wild relatives of our main food crops – potatoes, beans, peanuts – will be lost by the ...
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Impact of labeling law on farmers debated
Opponents of mandatory labeling for foods containing genetically modified ... Growers who don't cultivate genetically engineered crops themselves ...
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Growers, scientists tout GMOs in Calif. media tour
They assert biotech crops have a role in advancing environmental ... and water conservation in agriculture as well as increasing the food supply and ...
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Food manufacturers seek GMO labeling injuction
Even though the plaintiff's plan to present evidence that food produced from genetically engineered crops is safe, "vehement opposition to genetic ...
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Russia Is Seen Gaining Farmland With Climate Change
The researchers, led by Wolfram Mauser, modeled future agricultural suitability for 16 crops including wheat, corn, potatoes and cassava, using the ...
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With $550M in agricultural losses, Gazans are going hungry
Her seven-member family can no longer obtain food due to its scarcity and ... while the losses in stored agricultural crops amounted to $1.16 million.
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Section: News from Around the World
 The 7th meeting of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
COP12/COP-MOP 7/COP-MOP 1 will be held in Pyeongchang, Gangwon Province
in the Republic of Korea from 29 September to 17 October 2014.Representatives from 194 governments, heads of relevant organizations and NGOs will come together to discuss, plan and take decisions during three distinct meetings for the overall implementation of the Convention and its Protocols: the 7th Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP-7) from 29 September to 3 October, the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-12) from 6 to 17 October, and the first Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Nagoya Protocol on Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization (COP-MOP-1) from 13 to 17 October. In addition, the side meeting events about agricultural biotechnology will take place along with CropLife Korea on September 30, at Hall F, Room 1 - Business Meeting Room, the Alpensia Resort. Dr. Hyo Guen Park, an advisor to CropLife Korea, will present the role of biotechnology in addressing food security. Dr. Soo Chul Park, Director, The National Center for GM Crops, Rural Development Administration, will provide an overview of the domestic status of biotech crop research and development in Korea, including a summary of the government-sponsored National Program for the GM Crops under the Grant Project of the 2nd Generation of Korea BioGreen and the future plant biotech pipeline in Korea. For more information, contact Sumin Kim of the Korea Biotechnology Information Center at szkoo27@korea.kr. |
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 Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified candidate genes and cellular processes believed to control hypersensitive defense response (HR) in corn.
Hypersensitive defense is a response by corn plants when they are under
pathogen attack, where they sometimes respond by killing their own
cells near the site of the attack to thwart further damage from the
attacker. This cell sacrifice can cause very small, often microscopic,
spots or lesions on the plant. The NC State researchers worked with their colleagues from Purdue University and examined more than 3,300 corn plants that had exaggerated HR because one particular resistance gene, Rp1-D21, won't turn off. They examined the entire corn gene blueprint to find the genes most closely associated with HR. They found 44 candidate genes that seem to be involved in defense response, programmed cell death, cell wall modification and a few other responses linked to resisting attack, says Dr. Peter Balint-Kurti, a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) professor who works in NC State's plant pathology and crop science departments. "It's similar to a human having an auto-immune response that never stops," Balint-Kurti says. "This mutation causes a corn plant to inappropriately trigger this hypersensitive defense response, causing spots on the corn plant as well as stunted growth." The research findings are available as an open access paper in PLOS Genetics. For details, read the NC State news release at: http://news.ncsu.edu/2014/09/ |
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Section: News from Around the World
 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of the United States is embarking on a comprehensive study on genetically engineered
(GE) crops. The study aims to examine the history of the development
and introduction of GE crops in the United States and internationally,
including GE crops that were not commercialized, and the experiences of
developers and producers of GE crops in different countries. A committee
was formed to review available information on GE crops. The first public meeting was held on September 15-16, 2014 in Washington, DC. Twenty speakers were invited to present at the meeting, including Ian Baldwin of Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jon Entine of Genetic Literacy Project, Doug Gurian-Sherman of Center for Food Safety, and Gregory Jaffe of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Comments from the general public were also solicited during the meeting. The committee will also review the scientific foundation of current environmental and food safety assessments for GE crops and foods and their accompanying technologies, as well as evidence of the need for and potential value of additional tests. As appropriate, the study will examine how such assessments are handled for non-GE crops and foods. For more details, visit http://www. |
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 Washington State University (WSU) researchers have discovered "the most famous wheat gene" that can be used to transfer valuable genes
from other plants to wheat. The gene, which WSU Professor Kulvinder
Gill called Ph1, makes wheat fertile and controls the orderly pairing of
wheat chromosomes during reproduction. However, the gene also prevents wheat from breeding with related ancestors. Gill said "Now that we have the gene, we can actually use that gene sequence to temporarily silence the gene and make rye and other chromosomes pair with wheat." Their first effort involves transferring a gene from jointed goatgrass, a wild relative of wheat, to confer resistance to stripe rust. For more information, read the WSU news release at: https://news.wsu.edu/2014/09/ |
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Crop Biotech Update
September 18, 2014
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Panama Turns to Biofortification of Crops to Build Food Security
Vicente Castrellón proudly shows his biofortified rice crop. The 69-year-old farmer provides technical advice to other farmers participating in the Agro ...
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Turbocharging Photosynthesis to Feed the World
Maureen Hansen, a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell, says the advances won't be seen in commercially grown food crops for at ...
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Is "Food Sovereignty" a New Banner for Oregon Farmers?
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system may be churning out a lot of food, but Chris Hardy, a farmer
from ... in Oregon using genetically modified seeds, from food crops to flowers.
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To Your Health: Eat healthy, but also eat safely
Unless the manure is composted to a minimum of 165 degrees to sterilize it, those pathogens can easily contaminate food crops. This is especially ...
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Study: Turmoil in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Security
CWR are the species most closely related to crops necessary for future crop variety development. With industrial monoculture farming all but ...
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Creating 480 varieties of wheat is deserving of the World Food Prize
Growing demand and limited agricultural land means that the only way to increase the amount of food we can produce is more crops per unit area of ...
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So you want to be a farmer, eating crickets, growing crops on the moon and Mars: Food for Thought
Prajitr,
57, feeds crickets at a farm in Thanon Nang Klarn village in Nakhon
Ratchasima province, northeastern Thailand. Chalong's family is one of
30 ...
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Without honey bees food supply & economy would take big hit - Spokane, North Idaho News ...
Globally, 87 of the leading 115 food crops evaluated are dependent on ... Pollinators don't only help with the global food source, they also directly ...
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WSDA asks to enforce federal food law
To go onto farms and into food processing plants, WSDA inspectors will ... a veterinarian, said the law goes too far in trying to keep crops germ-free, ...
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Africa's Dividing Farmlands a Threat to Food Security
Africa's
Dividing Farmlands a Threat to Food Security ... high-value crops,
particularly in horticulture, limiting available land for food crops,” Moshi says.
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Uganda Floods Destroy Crops
The torrential rains follow a dry spell experienced earlier this year, which decimated most food crops in the region, threatening food security for at least ...
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Herbicide and Insecticide Use on GMO Crops Skyrocketing While Pro-GMO Media Run Interference
Michael Specter's recent articles bashing Vandana Shiva and the labeling of genetically engineered foods (Seeds of Doubt and The Problem with ...
Dr. Bronner's Ramps Up Support for Ballot Initiatives to Label Genetically Engineered Foods in ... - Nassau News Live
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Cover Crops and Compost Crops
On the other hand, I have seen gardens (mine) that are green and vibrant all winter, planted to cover crops that will provide food for the soil and for the ...
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Governor signs bills supporting farmers, food banks
A second bill designed to support landowner rights in protecting their crops and livestock from nuisance wildlife also has beneficial impacts for food ...
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Coca Cola, Heinz And Other Major Food Companies Warn Climate Change Threatens Business
Here are seven other big food companies that disclose to investors that ... It's long been known that both coffee and tea crops are threatened by ...
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Hedge Funds Lower Crop Bets to Lowest Since January
Hedge funds cut bullish wagers on agricultural commodities to the lowest since January before the U.S. forecast rising grain supplies and sent wheat, ...
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GM politics stifling good policy: Edwards
Senator Edwards said some growers have lost between 10 and 15 per cent of their canola crops, with a significant reduction anticipated next year if ...
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Protecting Cuban Soil from Big Ag Influence
Food crops
produced in excess of these quotas could be freely sold at farmers
markets, thereby providing a price incentive for farmers to
effectively ...
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In a warming world we can't keep depending on the same few crops
As the climate changes, our increasing reliance on a few major crops such as wheat, maize, and rice will jeopardise food security, says Sayed ...
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Koskei announces release of 87 new seed varieties of superior crops to boost food security
Addressing agricultural stakeholders and farmers at a field day in Kilibwoni, Nandi County, the CS revealed that the release of the new crop varieties ...
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Bee studies give Nicholls student new insights
Hoover recalled growing produce for the local food bank and outings to ... Bee pollination is responsible for more than $15 billion in crop value each ...
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Earth Talk for Sept 15, 2014: Ethanol's Unrealized Promise
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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Monarch butterflies in decline; genetically engineered crops blamed
Last month, the biodiversity center, the Center for Food Safety, the Xerces ... Genetically modified crops and the corn ethanol mandate have all but ...
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Agricultural commodities decline on steady recovery in sowing area
A Rabobank report said that bumper crop in the United States this season ... "Food prices continue to remain high and are likely to pressure inflation ...
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Ethanol's Unrealized Promise
"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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Big crops have big consequences
From a crop farmer's perspective, record yields are a mixed blessing. .... Higher meat and dairy prices have pushed up consumer food price inflation in ...
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FAO Food Price Index Drops to Four-year Low
GLOBAL - FAO's monthly food price index registered another drop in ... from stockpiles by Thailand, and unfavorable weather affecting some crops in ...
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Clinton to talk nutrition Environmentalists: USDA should reject dicamba crops
ENVIRONMENTALISTS: USDA SHOULD REJECT DICAMBA CROPS: Food and Water Watch, Pesticide Action Network and the Save Our Crops ...
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Christopher Chiza, Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives
The government doesn't have actual statistics indicating the amount of food crops harvested countrywide, despite announcing that it has enough food ...
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Syngenta Stands Firm On Neonicotinoids
... controversial neonicotinoid product thiamethoxam on certain crops. ... residues of thiamethoxam and clothianidin on various food crops until Oct. 6.
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Plant Pollination Primer for Backyard Gardeners
Like most plants, food crops have sophisticated reproductive systems in place, ready to take on the pollination gamble. Delicate female parts are ...
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Investing in a sustainable food and farm future
Consumer interest and understanding about how food is produced is ... Cover crops reduce pollution by capturing nutrients in the soil, while also ...
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CILSS wants crop production estimates by November 2014
The CILSS regional consultation convened in Banjul, from 8 to 10 September 2014, on the 2014-2015 agricultural and crops prospects in the Sahel ...
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Food fears after Bangladesh floods
While the waters have started to recede, fears are growing that there will not be enough food for the population after crops were severely damaged ...
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Flood aftermath: no fear of food grain shortage
ISLAMABAD: Despite floods that swept away crops over vast swathes of farmland in Punjab, there are no immediate fears of food grain shortage in the ...
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Middle East conflicts threaten crop ancestors key to food security, scientists warn
Plant scientists are planning to conserve the wild relatives of important food crops in their natural habitats, but face a barrier because a significant ...
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Wal-Mart joins US crop-tour fever seeking food chain edge
Retail
giant Wal-Mart joined a group of volunteers counting corn ears and
soybean pods in fields in the United States recently in a clear sign
traditional ...
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Fungus Could Be the Key to Avoiding a Global Food Crisis
The Seattle startup, founded in 2008, has developed an organic seed treatment it calls BioEnsure that allows agricultural crops like rice and corn to ...
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Abundant mast crop good news for bears, people
It's the most important crop in the fall.” Plentiful food in the forest is good news after a lean year last year, he said. The amount of natural forage ...
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In a warming world we can't keep depending on the same few crops
As the climate changes, our increasing reliance on a few major crops will jeopardise food security. The recent IPCC (2014) report predicts that, without ...
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Scientists Named to Agricultural Research Service Science Hall of Fame
His discoveries illustrated the importance of using plant breeding and fertilization to bolster micronutrient levels in staple food crops, especially in ...
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Crop improvement and resistance to pathogens benefits from non-coding RNA studies
As a consequence, worldwide demand for agricultural products is also growing. Crops now provide food and the other important resources for seven ...
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hazelnut project invites gardeners to grow food for a greater cause
It's fun to be able to participate in this research project to promote and develop food crops such as these hazelnuts. I love growing food crops, and it is ...
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Cocaine wars to climate crisis: can fortified crops save Colombia?
Now it's climate change – but biofortified crops offer hope ... We want also to mitigate the effects from mining and enhance food security,” said Tofiño.
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Organic, non-GMO labels already inform consumers
While the Food and Drug Administration and the USDA say food produced with GMO crops is just as safe and wholesome as food produced with ...
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Importation of food crops unacceptable - Extension Officer
Mr
Prosper Klu, Birim Central Municipal Extension Officer, has expressed
worry about the importation of grains, vegetables and other food crops, into.
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Wal-Mart joins US crop-tour fever seeking food chain edge
These annual trips to gather detailed on-the-ground information on crops in ... The Pro Farmer crop tour last month involved 120 people, double the ...
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Importation of food crops unacceptable - Extension Officer
Mr
Prosper Klu, Birim Central Municipal Extension Officer, has expressed
worry about the importation of grains, vegetables and other food crops, into ...
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Feds invest $3M in firm testing non-food crops for industrial use
LEAMINGTON,
Ont.—The federal government is investing as much as $3 million in an
Ontario firm as it continues pilot-scale testing of non-food crops ...
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Sorry Hipsters, That Organic Kale Is a Genetically Modified Food
Some 10,000 years ago, our ancestors picked tiny berries, collected bitter plants and hunted sinewy game, because these are the foods that occurred ...
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Emerging Ag Tech Companies Compete For Funding, Partnerships At Danforth Center Conference
That includes the St. Louis-based start-up Arvegenix. That company is working to commercialize a non-food crop called Field Pennycress, an oil seed ...
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Global food trade may not meet future demands, warn researchers
Modelling of global food trade networks has suggested thatpopulation ... to uncertainties in crop yields and food price volatility resulting from climate ...
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MidAtlantic Farm Credit Announces Fall Sales Closing Dates for Crop Insurance
Raising food and crops can be a very risky business, as drought, damaging weather, and other unforeseen disasters throughout the year can destroy ...
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Gluten Free Crops
Over the last few years, gluten free food soared in popularity. ... Pathology at MSU, Montana leads the nation in the production of gluten free crops.
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Africa’s Dividing Farmlands A Threat To Food Security
Africa’s Dividing Farmlands A Threat To Food Security ... crops, particularly in horticulture, limiting available land for food crops,†Moshi says.
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Gathering support: 'Naya Pakistan should be tobacco free'
“We have been convincing the farmers not to cultivate tobacco and instead go for alternative crops because replacement of tobacco with healthy food ...
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China's Rich Flora Could be Crucial for Future Food Security
Their adaptive traits can be transferred to crops to improve tolerance to ... food crops, its position as a provider of plant genetic resources for crop ...
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Weather adds anxiety ahead of crop report
based energy and agricultural weather consulting service. ... 11 U.S.D.A. Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates ...
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Africa Food Shortages Blamed on Poor Soils
Many countries in Africa often face food shortages, as farmers struggle to ... The analysis found many farmers have failed to rotate crops and apply ...
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Can Tiny Seeds Be the Answer to This Big Farming Dilemma?
“As we get a more chaotic climate, it's very important to have greater diversity in our food crops, so they are resilient enough to withstand unpredictable ...
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Indian government still 'flip flopping' on GM trials
While
India has been cultivating Monsanto's 'Bt cotton' since 2002, farmers
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Food sufficiency
Efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in food crops for the country have long been dreamed of by our government leaders. Even long after the end of World ...
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Harper Government Supporting Southwestern Ontario's Green Technology Sector
The company is currently focusing on compounding bio-composite resin with non-food and non-forest crops of biomass, such as switchgrass and oat ...
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Explore Global crop protection (pesticides) market, 2014
Rising demand for agricultural crops resulting from global population growth; increasing standard of living and increasing demand for biofuels are the ...
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Tax on land-use emissions would save forest
Currently biofuels tend to be made using starch- or sugar-rich food crops, and much of the plant goes to waste. However, scientists are working hard to ...
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Minnesota's sweet corn and green pea crops are looking good this year, ... Seneca Foods, North America's leading provider of packaged fruits and ...
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Humanity Could Face Global Famine by 2050 Due to Plague of Pests
... picture of crop producing countries saturated with pests by the middle of the century. The plague of pests pose a 'grave threat to global food security ...
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Bumper crops drop Uganda inflation
This is attributed to the reduction in the annual food crops inflation that decreased to 1.5%f or the year ending August 2014 as compared to the 12.9% ...
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Growing a green desert
Now, most of the seed Schrad plants on his 3,500 acres comes from ... for their businesses — or the $15 billion a year in food crops that rely on bees ...
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African Farmers Urged to Adopt 'Climate-Smart Approach'
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Keeping the SS Food Security afloat in hazardous seas
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Global food security challenges explored at Exeter Initiative for Science & Technology conference
Food security and how science and technology can help to meet the ... He said: “The yield of most crops are likely to increase, as long as heat and ...
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2014 Food Security on the Rise
Reports
from the agricultural sector indicate that this year's food security
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Drought Zaps One-Fourth of California's $5 Billion Rice Crop
The crop contributes $1.8 billion a year to the state's economy and helps generate 25,000 jobs. California is the country's number one agricultural ...
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