Sunday, September 23, 2012

Food Crops News 122

FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 122 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực) 
Cassava variety KM419 in Vietnam. http://cayluongthuc.blogspot.com 
 
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Draft Agenda | FARMD Annual Conference 2012: Risk & Rice in Asia
Pre-Day, Tuesday October 16
Pre-Conference Registration and Evening Drinks Reception
18:00 - 20:00
·        Early conference registration open for delegates
·        Networking Event – “Getting to Know Each Other” 
·        Drinks and canape provided
·        Location: Level 23 Nightspot, Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers

Day 1 - Wednesday October 17
Registration and Coffee
08:00 - 09:00
·        Conference registration open
·        Location: Foyer of the Grand Ballroom, Sheraton Saigon Hotel & Towers 
Introductions and Welcomes
09:00 - 09:55
Welcome Address
Welcome from MDTF Donors
Introduction to Conference & The Role of FARMD
Regional Rice Overview: Regional and Global Trends
Introduction to Supply Chain Risk Assessment Framework
Session 1A: Production Risk in Rice: Pest & Disease and Weather Risks
9:55 - 10:00
Introduction to Production Risk in Rice
10:00 - 11:30
Introductions about production risks from leading experts including an overview of how they can tackle such risk.
11:30-12:00 - Morning Coffee Break
Session 1B: Production Risk in Rice: Stakeholders
12:00 - 13:15
Introductions from panelists relating to the challenges and risks that production risk creates for them and the mechanisms they utilize for risk management of these risks.
13:15 - 14:30 - Lunch and Discussion of “The Big Picture”
  • 30 minute lunchtime talk on "Climate Change and Rice"
Session 2: Enabling Environment Risk
14:30 - 16:30
Brief Introduction to Enabling Environment Risk
Presentation: “The role of policy in enhanced risk management. Governments role in improving risk management.”
A consideration of beneficial government policies that can benefit producers and consumers in Asian countries.
16:30 - 17:00 Afternoon Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
Summary of key messages from Day One.
17:30 - 19:30 Cocktail Reception

Day 2 - Thursday October 18
08:00 -09:00 Breakfast / Coffee
Summary of Day 1 and Introduction to Day 2
09:00 - 09:15
Restatement of Day 1 and format for Day 2
Session 3A: Market Risk – Price Risk for Rice Exports
09:15 - 09:20
Introduction to Price Risk
09:20 -0 9:50
Presentation on drivers in rice export price volatility
09:40 - 11:00
Panel discussion presentation focused on what can be done, what is being done and what might work.
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
Session 3B – Market Risk: More than Just Price
11:30 - 13:30
Presentation on non-price market risks.  Focusing on non-rice price related market risks including input prices, changing consumer patterns, infrastructure, contract default, etc.  The session will consider the transition that is taking place from state management of the rice sector in Asian countries to more market oriented operations. 
13:30 - 14:45 – Lunch and Discussion of “The Big Picture 2”
  • 30 minute lunchtime talk on "Changing Consumer Preferences and the Impact on the Industry"
Session 5: Moving Forward – Next Steps in Risk Management in Asian Rice Organizations
14:45 - 16:45
Moderated session where a panel of International Organizations, Regional Organizations, National Bodies and Private Sector discuss what needs to be done going forward to improve risk management for Asia’s rice sector.
 16:45- 17:00 Closing
Day Two Wrap-Up
 
France to Review Cancer Findings on Monsanto Corn
Wall Street Journal

... its food-safety agency to quickly review a study suggesting that a
genetically modified corn made by Monsanto Co. might cause cancer, adding
that it would seek an immediate ban on European Union imports of the crop
if the study's findings were ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443890304578008450846085508.html>
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Feed the Soil, Feed the Crops
Voice of America

It mixes food crops with trees and perennial plants. Soil scientist John
Reganold co-wrote an article about it in the journal Nature. “This system
that we call perenniation is one of those systems where you actually plant
perennials and it increases ...
<http://www.voanews.com/content/africa-soil-20sept12/1511642.html>
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EU U-turn spells doom for food-based biofuels boom
Reuters

Biofuels made from food crops such as grains, sugar and vegetable oils,
often called first generation biofuels, had been expected to provide the
bulk of a target that 10 percent of all transport fuel should come from
renewable sources by 2020. The ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/us-biofuels-europe-idUSBRE88J0R820120920>
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Innovation Critical in Fight to Save Food
Sacramento Bee

Against a backdrop of food-price spikes and calls for action on global food
security, an assessment of the economic importance of a key class of crop
protection chemicals has confirmed the value of hi-tech solutions for
sustainable productive ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/20/4837382/innovation-critical-in-fight-to.html>
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GE Foods Shorten Life, Cause Tumors, Says First-Ever Long-Term Study
Huffington Post

Back at home, the findings take on particular relevance as California
voters consider the Proposition 37 Right to Know initiative to label GE
foods and U.S. Department of Agriculture considers approving a new wave of
GE crops, starting with 2,4-D corn.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/ge-foods-shorten-life-cau_b_1900170.html>
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Agriculture: Food produce speculation remains niche area
Financial Times

Crop speculation by traders is back in the spotlight after food prices rose
by an average of 6 per cent globally in July and critics argue speculation
heaps further pressure on the world's poorest people. A number of European
banks have bowed to ...
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/db0ba360-f8d4-11e1-8d92-00144feabdc0.html>
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Malawi shifts focus to nutrition and new crops to tackle food crisis

The Guardian

A nutrition act and new crops are at the centre of the Malawi government's
latest attempts to overcome the effects of annual food shortages that
affect more than 10% of the population. From October, President Joyce
Banda's government says it will give ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/sep/20/malawi-focus-nutrition-crops-food-crisis?newsfeed=true>
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Study raises health concerns over GM crops

ABC Online

The second study this month to link genetically modified crops with serious
health problems has prompted calls for the WA government to ensure the
State's GM crops are safe. The latest study, Published in the journal of
Food and Chemical Toxicology ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-20/gm-crops-in-wa-questioned-feature/4272748>
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Global 2012 Corn Crop To Be Second Largest in History: OECD Official's ...

KTIC

Today the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance (GRFA) criticized OECD senior
counsellor, Carmel Cahill, for making unsubstantiated comments targeting
the role of biofuels mandates in food price inflation. Evidence from a
recent World Agricultural Supply and ...
<http://kticradio.com/news/agricultural/index.php?more=ieu3xsg8>
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>

See-Through Soil Could Improve Crops

Inside Science News Service

(ISNS) -- Newly developed transparent soil could help shed light on the
secret world of plant roots. The new material, developed by biologists,
chemists and physicists, could improve crops and identify new ways of
preventing outbreaks of food poisoning.
<http://www.insidescience.org/?q=content/see-through-soil-could-improve-crops/788>
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=== Web - 3 new results for [food crops] ===


National Non-Food Crops Centre | EnAlgae

National Non-Food Crops Centre (United Kingdom) Work packages one, two and
three. Market development. National Non-Food Crops Centre (NNFCC) is the
... <http://www.enalgae.eu/national-non-food-crops-centre-.htm>

EU Commission to cap food-based biofuels in major shift - AlertNet

Europe plans to limit crop-based biofuels to 5 percent of transport fuel,
after ... not from crops but agricultural waste and leftovers instead of
from food crops," he ...
<http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/eu-commission-to-cap-food-based-biofuels-in-major-shift/>

Malawi shifts focus to nutrition and new crops to tackle food crisis ...

A nutrition act and new crops are at the centre of the Malawi government's
latest attempts to overcome the effects of annual food shortages that
affect more than ...
<http://reliefweb.int/report/malawi/malawi-shifts-focus-nutrition-and-new-crops-tackle-food-crisis>

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Food Crops News 121


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 121 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
Green Super Rice Trials in Long Phu, Soc Trang, Vietnam. Photo Hoang Kim

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Harsh weather dims hopes of bountiful rice harvest in N. Korea
Houston Chronicle (blog)

Now, with North Korean farmers preparing to head out into autumn fields to
cut and thresh the nation's most important crop, rice, there are renewed
concerns that continued harsh weather will mean another shortfall of food
in this chronically hungry land.
<http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Harsh-weather-dims-hopes-of-bountiful-rice-3878719.php>
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Crop growers in S. Idaho donate food leftover from harvest, help feed the hungry

The Republic

CASTLEFORD, Idaho — The golden tassels of cornstalks begin to shake as
Lance Phillips makes his way to the edge of the field. Phillips emerges,
parting a row of 7-foot stalks, the bottom half of his shirt bulging. He
unfolds his shirt and dumps eight ...
<http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/22ea53535c974ab8934e102f40595df9/ID--Gleaning-for-the-Hungry>
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Study on Monsanto GM corn concerns draws scepticism

Reuters

In France, where opposition to GMOs has led to a ban on growing such crops,
the government said it had asked its health and safety agency to assess the
study and had also sent it to the European Union's food safety agency
(EFSA). "Based on the ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/gmcrops-safety-idUSL5E8KJC1220120919>
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GMO foods cause tumors and early death according to new studies

Examiner.com

The study found consuming even the smallest amounts (reported as "safe" by
Monsanto scientists) of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller (sprayed on GMO food
plants), or the NK603 Roundup-resistant GM maize (corn) also developed by
Monsanto, resulted in ...
<http://www.examiner.com/article/gmo-foods-cause-tumors-and-early-death-according-to-new-studies>
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S. Idaho fields gleaned to help feed the hungry

Sacramento Bee

CASTLEFORD, Idaho -- Crop growers in southern Idaho are donating food
gleaned from their fields to help feed the hungry. The Times-News reports (
http://bit.ly/Rtb3A5
) Lance Phillips was among members of a Kimberly church
who recently gleaned a ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/2012/09/19/4835455/s-idaho-fields-gleaned-to-help.html>
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Study proposes new way to save Africa's beleaguered soils

Phys.Org

Their system, which they call "perenniation," mixes food crops with trees
and perennial plants, which live for two years or more. Thousands of
farmers are already trying variations of perenniation, which reduces the
need for artificial inputs while ...
<http://phys.org/news/2012-09-africa-beleaguered-soils.html>
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Donated Garden Plot + Donated Plants + Donated Time = Food Pantry Harvest

Patch.com

The club is now busy harvesting their crops, all of which are donated to
the Rochester Food Pantry. Several other groups have cultivated their
entire Rochester Community garden plot in order to raise food to donate to
local food pantries. These groups ...
<http://rochester.patch.com/articles/donated-garden-plot-donated-plants-donated-time-food-pantry-harvest>
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Guest commentary: California food-labeling proposition has fatal flaws

STLtoday.com

California is poised to pass Proposition 37 in November, forcing food
processors to apply "may contain genetically engineered" warning labels for
any trace of biotech crops (also called "genetically modified"). This law
will disrupt existing chains of ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/guest-commentary-california-food-labeling-proposition-has-fatal-flaws/article_c07edda2-8d6a-515d-beb8-c255a2b79b38.html>
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The Future Of Cereal Depends On How We Adapt To A Warming Climate

Business Insider

Food is one of society's key sensitivities to climate. A year of not enough
or too much rainfall, a hot spell or cold snap at the wrong time, or
extremes, like flooding and storms, can have a significant effect on local
crop yields and livestock ...
<http://www.businessinsider.com/how-will-climate-change-affect-food-production-2012-9>
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A battle for food

The Advocate

New Englanders had also already created a fledgling canning industry, and
it mushroomed with the Union military's wartime demands for processed food.
The Confederacy, on the other hand, had little mechanization for either
crops or food processing ...
<http://theadvocate.com/features/food/3728016-123/a-battle-for-food>
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=== Web - 1 new result for [food crops] ===


Mars ISRU for food crops and consumables. - NASASpaceFlight.com Forum

Glucose is a food by itself, of course (though you wouldn't want people
eating just glucose except in emergencies). Most calories could be produced
chemically ...
<http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=29820.105>

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