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Walker's World: G8's thin food summit
Washington, April 20, 2009 The good news is that the world's key agricultural ministers convened this weekend for the first time under the auspices of the G8 summit process. The bad news is that they addressed everything except the three large elephants in the room. Two of these elephants are familiar; the massive and market-distorting $300 billion a year spent on food subsidies and protection by the United State ... more Palestinians face dire water shortage: World Bank 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 20, 2009Palestinians face dire water shortages because of both bad Palestinian management and Israeli restrictions, the World Bank said in a report on Monday. The report, the first of its kind, noted the "complete dependence" of the Israeli-occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip "on scarce water resources shared and largely controlled by Israel." It also underlined that "the joint gover ... more China's poor hope reforms will fix health care 
Siziwangqi, China (AFP) April 19, 2009Wang Jun's eyesight is slowly deteriorating from suspected glaucoma, but there is nothing hazy about his view of China's much-maligned health system. "It's really lacking, really inadequate," said the retired 56-year-old former dairy farm worker, reflecting a view widely held in this country as he awaits treatment in a grubby clinic in northern China. China this month announced plans to ... more Germany's RWE to boost Poland's wind-farm sector 
Warsaw (AFP) April 20, 2009German energy giant RWE said Monday it would invest 500 million euros (652 million dollars) in a series of wind farms in Poland, boosting its involvement in the country's power market. RWE's renewable energy chief, Kevin McCullough, told reporters the group wanted to play a major role in Poland's drive to ensure that 15 percent of its power came from clean sources by 2020. RWE is already ... more Venus Disappears During Meteor Shower 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 20, 2009April 17, 2009: Picture this: It's 4:30 in the morning. You're up and out before the sun. Steam rises from your coffee cup, floating up to the sky where a silent meteor streaks through a crowd of stars. A few minutes later it happens again, and again. A meteor shower is underway. One of the streaks leads to the eastern horizon. There, just above the tree line, Venus and the crescent Moon ... more |
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New Delhi (PTI) Apr 17, 2009The Biophysics section of the Department of Physics of the University of Pune (UoP) has tied up with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a satellite named Space Recovery Experiment II (SRE-II) into space to study the effects of micro gravity on the production of rice. The experiment is the brainchild of Pandit Vidyasagar, head of the biophysics section, and will be sent ... more Brazil largest consumer of pesticides: study 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) April 17, 2009Brazil has become the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides, and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study released Friday. The Brazilian pesticide market has boiled to more than 6.9 billion dollars, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association. In the analysis led by Anvisa (Brazil's National Health Surveillance ... more China hauls US to WTO over poultry 
Geneva (AFP) April 17, 2009China on Friday lodged filed a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over "discriminatory" US legislation against Chinese poultry imports. "China considers that the US ... through Section 727, is in breach of its obligations," according to a request for formal consultations filed by the Chinese at the WTO. Beijing had launched the action in the WTO in respon ... more China looks to farmers to boost economy 
Beijing (AFP) April 17, 2009With his sun-baked face and rough peasant hands, 47-year-old Chen Meiji does not look like the saviour of the Chinese economy, but that is the role his government wants people like him to fill. Like hundreds of millions of other farmers, Chen is being offered government subsidies to buy household goods, which is meant to boost rural consumption, and in turn reignite the world's third-largest ... more Germany Bans GM Maize: Monsanto Mulls Legal Action 
Berlin (AFP) April 14, 2009Germany became Tuesday the sixth European Union nation to ban a type of genetically-modified maize manufactured by US biotech giant Monsanto, the only GM crop permitted until now in the country. Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner told reporters she was outlawing the cultivation of MON 810 maize - modified to be super resistant against crop-destroying insects - on environmental grounds. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009The ostrich stood in the snow with a sign reading "bureaucrat" hung round its neck. A mostly young crowd surrounding the frightened bird guffawed. The ostrich, standing beside a bucket of sand, had been brought from a farm near Moscow and put on display in a cordoned-off area on a busy Moscow street by a pro-Kremlin youth group. The activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia) called on ... more Analysis: Wind up, but for how long? 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2009Despite the current economic climate, wind-farm construction and turbine manufacturing are blowing along at surprisingly high rates - at least for now. In 2008, the U.S. wind industry hit a new record, installing 8,358 megawatts of new wind-energy capacity at a price tag of $17 billion, according to the American Wind Energy Association, a national trade association. But the new ... more Nigeria fines Shell for oil spill: company 
Lagos (AFP) April 15, 2009Nigeria fined Anglo-Dutch petroleum giant Shell one million naira (6,800 dollars, 5,100 euros) for failing to clean up an oil spill within reasonable time, a company official said Wednesday. Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) had been fined over the September 2008 spill in the southern state of Bayelsa which resulted in a fire in adjoining farmland, said the official, who ... more Bangladesh experts to investigate India dam plan 
Dhaka (AFP) April 13, 2009Bangladesh said Monday it would send experts to India to investigate claims a proposed dam in northeastern Assam state would dry up downstream tributaries crucial for farmers. Bangladesh has for five years protested against the dam at Tipaimukh because of fears it would affect the flow of water in the Meghna, its third largest river and one of the main sources of water for the eastern part ... more The Impact Of Ethanol On Water Supplies 
St Paul MN (SPX) Apr 14, 2009At a time when water supplies are scarce in many areas of the United States, scientists in Minnesota are reporting that production of bioethanol - often regarded as the clean-burning energy source of the future - may consume up to three times more water than previously thought. Their study is scheduled for the April 15 issue of ACS' Environmental Science and Technology, a semi-monthly publ ... more
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