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Whole Food Blues: Why Organic Agriculture May Not Be So Sustainable
Publication — Time.com / Ecocentric Blog Author — By Bryan Walsh Date — April 26, 2012 Website — http://ecocentricblogs.time.com When it comes to energy, everyone loves efficiency. Cutting energy waste is one of those goals that both sides of the political divide can agree on, even if they sometimes diverge on how best to get there. [...]
How to create resilient agriculture
Publication — SciDev.net Author — By Gordon Conway Date — March 21, 2012 Website — www.scidev.net Durable food security and agricultural growth depend on development strategies with resilience built in from the start, says Gordon Conway. Economic growth with resilience to environmental threats will be central to the agenda of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June this [...]
Bill Gates urges digital revolution against hunger
AFP (via Google News) February 24, 2012 By Dario Thuburn ROME — Microsoft founder Bill Gates on Thursday called for a “digital revolution” to alleviate world hunger by increasing agricultural productivity through satellites and genetically-engineered seed varieties. “We have to think hard about how to start taking advantage of the digital revolution that is driving [...]
ISAAA report sparks bunfight
The Land (Australia) February 24, 2012 By Gregor Heard THERE was all the predictable posturing and spin from both sides of the genetically modified (GM) crops debate as they attempted to use the recent International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) annual report as evidence to support their claims. Pro-biotech groups, including [...]
WWF’s new plan for beef
The Land (Australia) February 20, 2012 Brad Cooper INFLUENTIAL activist group WWF looks set to put on a new staff member to specifically target the beef industry. The group is advertising for a “sustainable beef project co-ordinator” to be based in its Brisbane office. It’s believed the appointment is part of a wider [...]
China to invest in agriculture innovation to boost food security
Reuters February 1, 2012 (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it would boost agriculture innovation in an effort to increase food output, signaling that the world’s most populous country is trying to tackle outdated farm and food infrastructure to feed its people. China accounts for a fifth of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of [...]
Food Crisis as Drought and Cold Hit Mexico
The New York Times January 30, 2012 By KARLA ZABLUDOVSKY MEXICO CITY — A drought that a government official called the most severe Mexico had ever faced has left two million people without access to water and, coupled with a cold snap, has devastated cropland in nearly half of the country. The government in the past week [...]
Anxiety in New Zealand as Chinese buy dairy farms
Miami Herald January 27, 2012 By Nick Perry WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Chinese investors are buying New Zealand farmland for the first time as economic ties with the Asian powerhouse grow ever deeper, sparking considerable anxiety in a country where livelihoods are heavily reliant on agriculture. New Zealand’s government Friday approved the sale of 16 [...]
GM barley trial ‘success’
The Land (Australia) January 27, 2012 By Gregor Heard WA-BASED researchers have heralded the first year of genetically modified barley trials a success. The trials, held at Corrigin in the state’s central wheat belt, are looking at potential salt-tolerant varieties, and are being conducted by the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) ACPFG researcher [...]
Gates is hungry for food research
The Washington Post January 26, 2012 By Howard Schneider After years that have seen riots over rice shortages in Asia and record low world reserves of staple crops such as wheat, software-billionaire-turned-philanthropist Bill Gates argues that there is a simple solution. Grow more food. In a new push for the Gates Foundation, the Microsoft chairman [...]
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