Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Food Crops News 279

Food Crops News
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food crops
Daily update January 13, 2016


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Clay Center Dispatch



I am in dna of India
Edible oil & even baby food in India can have Genetically Modified (GM) crops. Here's how you can ...
Apart from that, after Bt cotton crop was allowed 13 years ago, the Bt cotton seed oil has begun entering our food chain that Indians are consuming.”.
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Corporate Crime Reporter
Consumer Group Says USDA Avoids Analyzing Glyphosate Residues on Food
“Consumers want to know how much glyphosate is in our food. ... Many key food crops are sprayed directly with glyphosate, including corn, soybeans, ...
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BBC News
Arctic seed vault 'key to future global crops'
Arctic seed vault 'key to future global crops' ... change and prolonged conflicts could have devastating consequences on food crops around the world.
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Father of green revolution MS Swaminathan pitches for field trials of GM crops
As a result, trials of many of the transgenic varieties of the food crops got stuck. After the GEAC's decision, many anti-GM groups including the ...
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La prensa
Genetically modified crops spark controversy in Bolivia
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of GMO crops for human food, Bolivian Environment and Water Minister Alexandra Moreira said, adding ...
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Western Producer (subscription)
Video: Perennial grain crops good for soil
Perennial grain crops will reduce the inputs needed for food production, said Tim Crews during his presentation on the opening day of The Western ...
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Healthy Living cooking series begins for 2016
Mast incorporates research-based information about food crops studied at the Plants for Human Health Institute and the health-related findings of her ...
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Fostering local agriculture: More Alaska food production helps economy, promotes food security
But a new awareness of the importance of food security and the ... produced food helps, and every dollar spent on Alaska crops is a dollar that stays in ...
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Forbes
How Biotech Will Help Achieve Zero Hunger
Population growth is one of the greatest threats to global food security. ... Many do not know that engineered crops can actually help support nutritious ...
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food crops
Daily update January 12, 2016


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Washington Post
Why a food you have never heard of could be key to feeding the world
The category of pulse crops actually is a United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization definition. There are 11 types, but in the United States the ...
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Circle of Blue WaterNews
California Water Board to Investigate Use of Oilfield Wastewater to Irrigate Crops
On January 12, in an office building east of Sacramento, an expert panel on food safety will gather for its first public meeting. The panel's task: ...
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Fijivillage
Fiji's Lau group sent food rations post-cyclone
The Director of Disaster Management, Akapusi Tuifagalele, says the supplies should last a month for the nearly 3,000 people whose food crops were ...
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Stuff.co.nz
Crop damage and flooding as category 4 Cyclone Ula passes Vanuatu's south
... International in Vanuatu received regular updates overnight from her staff on the ground and says the major issue will be damage to food crops.
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Centre Daily Times
Yardsmart: Get your heirloom seed catalogs now
It's also a great way to explore all the amazing food crops from around the world. After all, why grow varieties made for cold storage or early picking ...
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Phys.Org
Grasses are economic, low-emission biofuel crops, but not a fit for the West
... the country and could allow second-generation biofuels to eclipse corn ethanol and reduce the amount of food-growing land used for biofuel crops.
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Western Producer (subscription)
VIDEO: Canaryseed approved for human consumption. You can now eat like a bird!
It took 10 years, millions of dollars and reams of documentation to achieve novel food approval for the crop from Health Canada and Generally ...
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InterAksyon
SC verdict stunts research for food security, says savant
8), series of 2002, which pertains to field release and commercialization of GM crops for direct use as food, feed and for processing, they had ruled, ...
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Oxford Mail
Climate change will hike up food prices
“You can get crops two weeks ahead but this is unprecedented. ... December is predicted to lead to earlier harvesting and subsequent food shortages.
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What will be memorable about 2016?
Most years one or two crops are priced more attractively than others. ... Cotton is also a food crop, and they've asked Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack ...
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food crops
Daily update January 9, 2016


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FoodNavigator.com
Wheat genome sequencing approach aims to revolutionise crop research
Wheat is the staple food for more than 35% of the global human population and accounts for 20% of all calories consumed throughout the world.
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CBS News
Campbell announces plans to label GMOs in food products
"The overwhelming weight of scientific evidence indicates that GMOs are safe and that foods derived from crops using genetically modified seeds are ...
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Huffington Post (blog)
Planting Food Justice From Hawai'i to Mexico
And while that effort has been largely successful, it hasn't stopped pesticide corporations and the University from pushing for more GE food crops on ...
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ThePigSite.com
Can Feeding Fewer Food-competing Feedstuffs to Livestock Improve Sustainability?
However, it says that sustainable livestock production can be achieved by reducing feed components that compete with direct human food crop ...
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Bryan-College Station Eagle
The time to plant cool-seasonal vegetable crops is now
Some cool-season vegetable crops should be started now or soon. ... the reason many gardeners know heat is a problem for growing food crops here.
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Monterey County Weekly
Letter: Cannabis crops
Now that we are talking whole food and medicine crops, does it change your view of the economic impact? CANORML states the cannabis crops in ...
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NBCNews.com
Hawaii's Last Sugar Plantation to Close
The company will then move toward more diversified agriculture, such as energy crops, agroforestry, livestock, diversified food crops, and orchard ...
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food crops
Daily update January 8, 2016


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New York Times
Study Finds That Weather Disasters Took a Heavy Toll on Crops
Dr. Ramankutty and his team combined data from a disaster database with food production information from the United Nations Food and Agriculture ...
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CBC.ca
Pulses: food trend of the year says chef Michael Smith
Pulses: food trend of the year says chef Michael Smith ... than they take out. A lot of farmers plant pulse crops as that sort of rotating alternative crop." ...
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AgWeb
Food crisis looming in Ethiopia after worst drought in 50 years
"Because of the drought there is crop failure, so we don't have any food," Tekle, 30, said in an interview at a packed clinic in the Hintalo Wejerat district ...
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LubbockOnline.com
Peffley: Test your knowledge of specialty crops in the US
All farmers are not required to comply the Food Safety Modernization Act. Farms that do not grow, pack, harvest or hold produce are not covered by the ...
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The Advocate
Di Natale's GMO food views won't affect Greens
GREENS leader Richard Di Natale's openness to the use of genetically modified food and crops will not cause ructions inside the party, according to ...
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Crop Protection News
Study shows reducing food production could trim greenhouse gas emissions
Study shows reducing food production could trim greenhouse gas ... gases if it is used to farm fertilizer-hungry crops or methane-producing cattle, or it ...
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WTAJ
Mystery crop discovered along I-99
Along I-99 going through Centre County, an unusual sight of tall crops ... source of biomass, in place of corn ethanol, a food crop used for energy.
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Reuters
Pesticide is threat to bees, EPA says
Those bees pollinate crucial food crops and contribute about $14 billion in value ... California's almond crop, valued at about $7 billion, is completely ...
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WEB

Uptake and Accumulation of Nephrotoxic and Carcinogenic Aristolochic Acids in Food Crops ...
Emerging evidence has suggested aristolochic acids (AAs) are linked to the development of Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), a chronic renal ...
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food crops
Daily update January 7, 2016


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The Globe and Mail



ThinkProgress
With Twice The Protein As Quinoa, The Pulse Might Be The Year's New Hot 'Superfood'
“I don't know if I could be any more excited about this category of food,” Tim McGreevy, CEO of the USA ... We have to have more focus on these crops.
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Column: Honeybees make local crops possible
Honeybees are undoubtedly the most important pollinators of food crops for humans and probably of food for wildlife in the state and the entire nation.
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The Australian
Greens leader Richard Di Natale questions party's GM food ban
Greens leader Richard Di Natale questions party's GM food ban ... to soften the Greens' hardline opposition to genetically modified food and crops.
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Syria Direct
Frost destroys crops for 250000 blockaded northern Homs residents
Unable to import food from surrounding areas, northern Homs residents depend ... Q: What is the extent of frost damage to crops in the countryside?
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Battle Creek Enquirer
Sprout sends local crops to school cafeterias
Sprout offers assistance to residents who want to grow their own food, operates fresh food mobile markets and buys local wholesale produce to ...
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Peoria Journal Star



ABC News
Hawaii's Last Sugar Plantation to Stop Growing Sugar
Its 36,000 acre-Maui plantation will be divided into smaller farms to grow biofuels and food crops. Some of the land will be irrigated to supply pasture ...
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Coconuts Jakarta
Indonesia prepares rural flood defenses to protect crops
Sulaiman said discussions with state food procurement agency Bulog were underway over domestic rice buying but declined to comment on imports, ...
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SUSTAINABLE AND HEALTHY FOOD.
Commendable as long as it is healthy food, and for the most part it is. ... such as sulfoxaflor, to keep them safe to pollinate food crops we depend on; ...
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Crop Biotech Update
January 6, 2016


The Kenya National Biosafety Authority is expected to release their decision on the application of the Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and African Agricultural Technology Foundation to release biotech maize seeds. According to NBA chief executive Willy Tonui, the decision will be made this month about biotech maize, while the second ruling in February will touch on biotech cotton.
Kenya prohibited the planting and importation of biotech maize, locking out major exporters including South Africa from the local market which faces frequent grain shortage. Thus, the scientists are pressing for the release of biotech seeds to farmers to increase production of crops.
Read more from AllAfrica.
Researchers from Florida International University (FIU) are part of an international team of scientists that has discovered how arsenic builds up in the seeds of plants similar to rice.
Professor Barry P. Rosen's team at FIU discovered that Arabidopsis thaliana uses transport systems for inositol, a type of sugar, to load arsenite, the toxic form of arsenic, into seeds. This is the first identification of transporters responsible for arsenic accumulation in seeds. Rosen predicts that the same pathway could be present in rice grains and these discoveries will enable the development of new rice cultivars with less arsenic in the grain.
Arsenic, both a toxin and a carcinogen, comes from minerals and is used in some herbicides, animal growth promoters, and semiconductors. It is a pervasive environmental contaminant of food and water that threatens the health of tens of millions people worldwide.
For more details, read the FIU news release.
The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service release the Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report on the agricultural biotechnology updates in China in 2015.
According to the report, China is one of the largest producers and importers of biotech crops globally. It produces biotech cotton, but has not yet approved any major biotech crop recently. The Chinese government is currently revising its biotechnology regulatory system. In May 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) released a draft revision to its biotech regulations that would remove timelines for approvals and add economic and social factors to the approval process for the first time. It was also reported that the government is preparing to commercialize biotech corn.
Get a copy of the report from USDA FAS.
A team of researchers led by University of California Davis scientists have sequenced the genome of California's legendary sugar pine, called "king of conifers" by naturalist John Muir.
The sugar pine genome is the largest ever sequenced for any organism, at 10 times the size of the human genome. It is expected to provide valuable information that may help preserve the iconic but imperiled tree.
The sugar pine, one of the tallest tree species in the world, is endemic to California. Its survival is threatened by white pine blister rust, damage from bark beetles, and drought. The newly sequenced sugar pine has a genome 1.5 times larger than the loblolly pine, which itself was considered large when it was sequenced. These two new reference sequences serve as foundations for future studies and applications in pine trees.
The genome for the sugar pine has been publicly released and is available through open access at the Pine Reference Sequences website.
For more information, read the UC Davis news release.
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food crops
Daily update January 6, 2016


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Alaska Dispatch News
Hydroponic farm in a box offers portable, year-round crop growing
He said he thinks they can be part of a rising trend toward locally produced foods in Alaska, a movement that includes greenhouses and crop tunnels ...
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EcoWatch
Venezuela Bans GMO Crops, Passes One of World's Most Progressive Seed Laws
The Seed Law seeks to consolidate national food sovereignty, regulate the production of hybrid seed, and rejects the production, distribution and ...
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Yahoo News UK
Zimbabwe to step up maize imports as poor rain affects crops: state paper
"It is the government's responsibility to be the main supplier of food," Made was ... Made said the number of people in need of food aid was rising in the ...
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Global Voices Online
Starving to Death: Images from Madaya, Syria, You Don't Want to See
Crops and food supplies have dwindled, leaving nothing but desperation behind. The remaining food in the town has become so expensive that most ...
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Food Tank (blog)
#LovePulses: 10 Ways to Celebrate the International Year of Pulses
“Pulses are important food crops for the food security of large proportions of populations, particularly in Latin America, Africa and Asia, where pulses ...
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McClatchy Washington Bureau
Organic farmers reap broader exemption from crop fees
The new rule, formally published last Thursday, expands this exemption to growers that produce both organic and non-organic crops. Research and ...
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Namibia: Need to Promote Communal Areas Crop Farming
Namibia: Need to Promote Communal Areas Crop Farming ... On the conservation of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, the document ...
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food crops
Daily update January 5, 2016


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Genetic Literacy Project
GMO: We Want to Know What's in the Food
While pesticide-resistant crops allow farmers to grow more food on less acreage, we may be slowly poisoning ourselves when we eat foods made ...
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Commentary: Federal foot-dragging must end on dangerous pesticide
Until a ban is in place, the pesticide will continue to be used to control insects on a variety of food crops such as corn, soybeans, fruit trees and broccoli ...
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New York Times
We Need a New Green Revolution
California produces more of 66 different food crops than any other state, ... Our world is changing; the way we grow and produce food needs a much ...
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Ensia
Can genetic engineering help quench crops' thirst?
This would allow crops such as alfalfa to get by with less water. .... now unsuitable for growing food could become productive farmland using crops that ...
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DAWN.com
Outlook for wheat sowing
Official estimates for the sowing of the crop in Sindh are not based on ... Only influential farmers will be able to sell their crop to the food department or ...
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Kenyan Regulator to Decide On Fate of GMO Crops This Month
Kenyan Regulator to Decide On Fate of GMO Crops This Month ... to issue a special permit for the importation of life-saving food for a limited period.
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FreshPlaza
Colombia: Agreement to curb rising prices and speculation in food
Colombia: Agreement to curb rising prices and speculation in food ... of the last decades as the country lacks crops enabling it to ensure its food ...
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InterAksyon
Microscopic invertebrates show drought-resistant benefits
The proteins that produce the glass could be introduced to various food crops to arm them with the drought-resistant capability of the tardigrades, but ...
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Meatless diet is simple antidote to climate change
In this country, we take food crops — corn, oats, and soybeans, for example — that humans can eat and feed them to cows, pigs and chickens.
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Organic Food Is Achievable
GMO food or Biotech crops, on the other hand, are plants that are modified using genetic engineering techniques. New traits are introduced to the ...
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food crops
Daily update January 4, 2016


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teleSUR English
Peru Promotes New Varieties of Quinoa, Potatoes, and Guinea Pig
Peruvian farmers may be trying some new crops this year hoping to help increase food security as 13 new varieties of highly-produced crops have ...
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The Hindu
Organic farming gains momentum in Vellore district
We started this group to ensure food security and oppose genetically modified crops, and promote organic farming. For decades, the soil has lost its ...
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Irish Independent
Bumblebees buzzing as daffodils bloom
And if their numbers decline, these "peculiar years weather-wise" will have a knock-on effect for apple and food crops if there aren't enough bees ...
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'Millet cultivation can save farmers fighting drought'
"These crops could be cultivated in low irrigated and even non-irrigated ... crops have several positive points which need to be included in the food ...
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UN body lauds Kenya's progress in food security
... example of success story in boosting food security and production capacity ... institutions, targeted at small scale farmers of commercial food crops.
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food crops
Daily update January 3, 2016


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New Vision
Gov't to use drones to enhance food security
The drone can provide more accurate, up-to-date information on crops being ... to help farmers increase agricultural output and enhance food security.
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New Good Cheer farm aims to provide more food
Lissa Firor, produce manager at Good Cheer Food Bank, harvests the last carrot crop of ... She expects the first planting of crops to come in the spring.
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Capital FM Kenya
Kenya: Millions in Kenya Need Food Aid, FAO Warns
Maiga said the adaptation measures include making water available in drought hit areas and also providing short-circle crops and drought resistant ...
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food crops
Daily update January 2, 2016


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Food Tank (blog)
The Crop Trust Calls for Conservation of Genetic Crop Diversity
The Crop Trust works to conserve crop diversity and genetic variety for generations to ... Brian Lainoff (BL): Food security depends on crop diversity.
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Zambia Daily Mail
Govt commits to growing agro sector
Agricultural diversification also remains top on the agenda as demonstrated by the inclusion of other food crops seeds such as cassava, sorghum, ...
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food crops
Daily update January 1, 2016


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UGANDAN CULTURAL LEADER CALLS FOR THE PLANTING OF TRADITIONAL CROPS TO ...
Famine is imminent as most people tend to sell off the little food crops ... “People need to plant those traditional crops which our ancestors used to ...
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Huffington Post Canada
Reviving A Fractured Food System Through Organic Food
And during the transition, they suffer from crop depletion due to an influx of bugs and fungus attack. This results in a loss of revenue with food that ...
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Reuters
US grain prices soar as floods shut waterways, threaten crops
Even food manufacturers may be feeling the pain of the sudden flooding. Two Illinois flour mills near the Mississippi River operated by Ardent Mills, the ...
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ZimDaily
Zimbabwe: Govt Steps Up Food Imports
"It is the obligation of the State to ensure there is sufficient food for the ... The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) recently announced that crop ...
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Daily News & Analysis
Foodgrain output dips in 2015; Revival unlikely in 2016
The lower farm output also led to a sharp jump in prices of key kitchen food ... Agriculture Market and soon to be launched crop insurance scheme.
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BlogHer (blog)
What "Free Range" Really Means & Other Things You Should Know
Last month, as part of BlogHer University, I offered 12 food politics terms I ... Back in the day, farmers often rotated the crops they grew on their land, ...
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Fear of science
Should we should just let our farmers lose a good part of their crops because ... This has disastrous immediate consequences to our food security.
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PrameyaNews7
Millet farming can resolve prevailing agrarian crisis in Odisha: Experts
They opined that millets are highly nutritious food crops which are hardy and are resilient to climate change. “Between 1978 and 2013, in these 35 ...
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