Thursday, January 1, 2015

Food Crops News 264

Update of Food Crops News from 28 Dec. 2014 to 01 Jan., 2015.

food crops
Daily update January 1, 2015


NEWS

Taste of history: Heritage Food Project traces Santa Cruz County history through recipes, crops
“There's so much history between the different cultures who live in Santa Cruz, the food that we grow here, the crops we produce — it's such an ...
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Middle East Monitor
Israeli bulldozers continue to destroy Arab crops in the Negev
Israeli bulldozers of the Israel Land Administration (ILA) have destroyed large swathes of agricultural crops belonging to Arabs living in the Negev.
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TakePart
Why These Graduates Are Primed to Reduce World Hunger
International development agencies agree that breeding is crucial to ensuring food security, and crops that are grown must be high-yielding; resistant ...
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Greenville Daily Reflector
Kolasa: Resolve to be better stewards of food
What can we do to be better stewards of the food we have? ... Volunteers wanting to pick up donated, unharvested crops, the N.C. Deptartment of ...
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Farm Futures
How To Farm: USFRA Highlights Dairy, Egg, Hog and Crop Farming in New Videos
Americans have so many questions about food production and the first videos in this series can help address some of those by showing just how ...
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Jagran Post
GreenPHABLET to save crops, raise farm incomes in developing world
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ... of agricultural crops and inputs offered by both the traditional local agent and, ...
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
GIFS plays key role in food security
"In this area of discovery science and crop innovation and application towards food security, I think there is some great opportunities to build," he said.
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Paste Magazine
101 Global Food Organizations to Watch in 2015
Food Tank is excited to highlight their stories of success, hope, and .... They operate a seed bank, to provide regionally appropriate crops for ...
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food crops
Daily update December 31, 2014


NEWS

Taste of history: Heritage Food Project traces Santa Cruz County history through recipes, crops
“There's so much history between the different cultures who live in Santa Cruz, the food that we grow here, the crops we produce — it's such an ...
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Middle East Monitor
Israeli bulldozers continue to destroy Arab crops in the Negev
Israeli bulldozers of the Israel Land Administration (ILA) have destroyed large swathes of agricultural crops belonging to Arabs living in the Negev.
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TakePart
Why These Graduates Are Primed to Reduce World Hunger
International development agencies agree that breeding is crucial to ensuring food security, and crops that are grown must be high-yielding; resistant ...
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Farm Futures
How To Farm: USFRA Highlights Dairy, Egg, Hog and Crop Farming in New Videos
Americans have so many questions about food production and the first videos in this series can help address some of those by showing just how ...
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Jagran Post
GreenPHABLET to save crops, raise farm incomes in developing world
The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ... of agricultural crops and inputs offered by both the traditional local agent and, ...
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
GIFS plays key role in food security
"In this area of discovery science and crop innovation and application towards food security, I think there is some great opportunities to build," he said.
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Paste Magazine
101 Global Food Organizations to Watch in 2015
Food Tank is excited to highlight their stories of success, hope, and .... They operate a seed bank, to provide regionally appropriate crops for ...
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food crops
Daily update December 30, 2014


NEWS


Livemint
Transforming the food chain byte by byte
According to estimates by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, ... Genetically modified (GM) crops—a product of advanced genomics—are ...
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ECNmag.com
Device saves crops, raises farm incomes in developing world
Credit ICRISATHyderabad, India - The International Crops Research ... of agricultural crops and inputs offered by both the traditional local agent and, ...
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San Angelo Standard Times
2014 a year of supply and demand in crops, livestock, rain
“Known as the Agriculture Act of 2014, the bill looks good for agriculture in Texas,” said Joe Outlaw, co-director of the Agricultural and Food Policy ...
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U.S. Imposes Sweeping Sanctions on Crimea
4 authorizes U.S. persons to export and reexport certain agricultural ... seeds for food crops; fertilizers or organic fertilizers; reproductive materials ...
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TheCropSite
Maize Scientist: Adopt Hybrid Tech to Improve Productivity in Agriculture
... improving agricultural productivity so as to meet increasing demand for food ... "Adopting crops to climate change is thus important and necessary ...
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Daily Times Nigeria
From Drumbeats to Gigabytes - Communicating Agricultural Technologies Effectively to Farmers (II)
Women play a major role in the production, processing and marketing of food crops (Nwachukwu, 2012). Rural infrastructure in Nigeria has long been ...
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Nature World News
EU Nations Set to Ban GMOs as They Please
Countries that want to ban GM crops will no longer be obliged to provide scientific evidence to the European Food Safety Authority that the crops will ...
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Amendments to be made in Essential Commodities Act
As per the new definition, food stuff will mean any substance, whether ... raw jute and jute textile, seeds of food crops, cattle fodder, jute and cotton.
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Climate Change Threatens Quechua and Their Crops in Peru’s Andes
“The families’ food security is definitely at risk,†agricultural ... a biocultural conservation unit created to safeguard native crops in the rural ...
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food crops
Daily update December 29, 2014


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Hartford Courant
Connecticut Studying Whether Hemp Can Be A New Cash Crop
"I think it's got to become part of our agricultural economy again," said Nevin ... The new federal law authorized universities and state agricultural ...
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Quest for food import-substitution
The average growth in per-acre yield of some food crops, e.g. wheat, is not fast enough to keep pace with population growth and rising per-capita ...
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UGA entomologist focused on reducing plant viruses in Georgia crops
University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences ... aims to better understand plant viruses in southeast Georgia's crops.
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Will The World War 3 Be Fought Over Food?
Crops like soy, corn, sugar are used to create fuels for gas tanks. It takes away food crops from people. Of course, Monsanto says genetically-modified ...
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teleSUR English
Bolivia Predicts It Will Achieve Food Sovereignty
According to the Vice Ministry of Rural Development, the total land area of crops under production grew this year from 2.5 to 3.5 million hectares, ...
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Trinidad Guardian
PLANTATION CHRISTMAS—PART III Tobago celebrates with food, drinks
This was their recompense for a season of brute labour in the crop time, clearing land and planting food crops in the communal system of lend-hand.
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Ghana's GM cowpea completes second year of trial
... science reporting, that after successful completion, the crop would contribute to food security and improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
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Pick of the crop at Hillview school
“It's a mini eco-system and it's simply growing food using hydroponics and it's ideal in a place like Vernon where we have water restrictions.”.
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Fungi helping farmers fight climate change
Scientists are discovering that microscopic fungi can help make food crops more abundant, less thirsty and more tolerant of rising temperatures.
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Is Genetically Modified Food Dangerous to Your Health?
But when it comes to food, that should in your mind be another question. ... There appears to be no question the modified crops are designed to ...
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food crops
Daily update December 28, 2014


NEWS


Victoria Advocate
Vanishing food biodiversity
Once they have a patent on any type of food crop, they can then prevent anyone else from exchanging or saving those seeds. Humans have saved ...
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Philippine Star
DA includes climate smart crops in its program
The DA, he said, is also developing planting materials for climate-resistant food crops. The DA is now testing the adaptability of green super rice, ...
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Colleges cultivate agricultural education with hands-on classes
What is being cultivated in the rows of rich soil inside the rattling gate is much more than the fall crops destined for the campus food service or ...
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Cocoa pods help female farmers
Expanding from traditional food crops such as rice and cassava into cash crops is a means to empowerment, he said. "Having a cocoa or coffee ...
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Home page > 2014 > Government Goes Ahead With GM Crop Trials: Warnings By Top Scientists ...
This controversy should be seen in the context of well-established scientific opinion against the many-sided hazards of GM crops and foods. Recently ...
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Agricultural producers can reap advantages from new technology
From a country which had to import food products we are now exporting them ... Genetically enhanced agricultural crops offer better resistance against ...
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Regulatory Proposals Dominate 2014
Genetically engineered food crops and ag technology also dominated headlines in 2014. In January, the American Farm Bureau Federation stepped ...
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