Food for thought as campaign plants seeds for future Yorkshire Post
Aquaponics is a food production system that combines the rearing of fish with hydroponics – a method of growing crops using mineral rich water without soil.
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Oregon Re-Learns Truth about Genetically Improved Crops Consumer Freedom
With a ballot initiative that would mandate scientifically irrelevant labels on foods produced using genetically improved crops heading to defeat in Washington ...
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Discussion centers in genetically modifying crops Dearborn Press and Guide
DEARBORN — Two speakers tried to argue Michigan's food supply is safe while a third raised concerns about genetically modified crops during a League of ...
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Winter crops in Ukraine sprout on 95% of fields Interfax
Winter grain crops in Ukraine as of November 18 had sprouted on 7.3 million hectares, or 95% of the fields sowed with the crops, the Ministry of Agricultural ...
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Acorn Crop Very Light This Year WSLS
DGIF officials are concerned about a light crop because acorns are a preferred food for many wildlife species, including white-tailed deer, black bear and wild ...
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Food for all Daily Star Online
Boosting yields of locally grown staple foods (rather than cash crops) would increase self-sufficiency and strengthen resilience when international food prices ...
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Council in Kaua'i Mandates Pesticide, GMO Reports Food Poisoning Bulletin
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) reports that the Kaua'i County Council overturned a ... from pesticide use and the cultivation of genetically engineered crops.
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Insight: climate change would benefit energy crop production in China environmentalresearchweb
Rotating between food and perennial energy crops would give rise to a new agricultural structure that sustains and balances food and energy crop production in ...
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(Neb.)-Deadline Approaching For Livestock Conference Registration KCSR
The theme for this year's conference is “Using cover crops in western Nebraska,” and speakers with experience in sustainable, organic and holistic agricultural ...
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Biofuels and Climate Change: Pulpwood to the Rescue? Huffington Post
More specifically, the argument goes something like this: When we take crops normally used for food, and use them as feedstock for biofuels instead (e.g., corn ...
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GM crop Luddism Stock Journal (blog)
And the insistence that SA's food sector has a world reputation for producing clean, green premium food that is enhanced by preventing GM crop cultivation in ...
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China and US can use biotechnology to end scourge of global hunger HispanicBusiness.com
Most US families, including my own, safely consume food made from biotech crops on a daily basis. The challenges we face are too extensive to reject the ...
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Call for diversified investment in agriculture Pakistan Observer
Unfortunately, she added, most investment in agriculture is for crops such as wheat, rice, and maize, rather than more nutritious foods—and this focus has had ...
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Farm City Week essay contest winner, high school division Bradenton Herald
Without the production and cultivation of food and products, civilizations crumble ... of Florida's people, in growing a vast amount of different crops and livestock.
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Crop experiments needed for food security DhakaTribune
A number of different genetically modified crop varieties are being tested as part of the country's efforts to modernise our agriculture. The jury is still out on the ...
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Veto override will limit pesticide use, GMO crops on Hawaiian island Reuters
The Kauai County Council's 5-2 vote means agricultural companies will be unable to plant crops inside buffer zones created around schools, homes and ...
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Biotech aiming to be $100 bn sector by 2025: Biocon chief Kiran ... Financial Express
The government should allow the genetically modified crops. Without that the country cannot be food sufficient, she added. "Moreover this would also lead to ...
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Breeding mutant crops widespread Vancouver Sun
The United Nations' Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture program has ... The group in Vienna promotes developing more "sustainable" crops by ...
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BC's scattered agricultural land Vancouver Sun
Crops under cultivation are mainly cereal grains such as wheat, oats and barley ... significant fertile valleys and was, a century ago, nearly food self-sufficient.
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Indonesia must adopt GMO to achieve self-sufficiency in food Business Recorder
Indonesia must adopt genetically modified crops if the world's fourth-most-populous nation wants to achieve self-sufficiency in food staples like corn, a senior ...
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Food for thought as farm commodity prices fall Winnipeg Free Press
Unlike tweets, food is tangible. ... Basse said historically high crop commodity prices have drawn an additional 72 million hectares of land worldwide into ...
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State adds 700 new beekeepers Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
"In fact, they pollinate about a third of all food-producing plants." In recent years, the honeybee population has dwindled as pests and diseases have taken a toll ...
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