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Dramatic Changes In Agriculture Needed As World Warms And GrowsDavis CA (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 The looming threats of global climate change and population growth call for sweeping changes in how the world produces its food and fiber, warns a group of prestigious scientists, including an expert in plant genetics at the University of California, Davis. The research team, led by Nina Federoff, science and technology adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, suggests that there is a "critical need to get beyond popular biases against the use of agricultural biotechnology," as well as explo ... read more |
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 14, 2010Desperate Haitians began lining up well before dawn on Sunday for tarpaulins distributed to those left homeless by last month's earthquake, although many said they needed tents instead. With the coming rainy season threatening to worsen already squalid conditions in makeshift camps across the capital, aid organizations have been seeking to distribute tarps for up to 1,500 families per day. ... more  
Moscow (AFP) Feb 11, 2010Amid a huge bounty of contraband goods seized recently at a Russian airport, one far-out find floored customs officials: chunks of meteorite. "On the customs declaration, the smugglers identified it as granite for construction and decoration of office space," Larisa Ledovskikh, a spokeswoman for customs at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, told AFP on Thursday. "But our officials could see it ... more  
Rome (AFP) Feb 12, 2010The head of the UN food agency Friday voiced "alarm" over underfunding for the agricultural element of the United Nations' emergency appeal for earthquake-stricken Haiti. "At a time when Haiti is facing a major food crisis, we are alarmed at the lack of support to the agricultural component of the Flash Appeal," FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf told a conference on food security for Haiti. ... more |
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Genome Sequencing Speeds Ability To Improve SoybeansWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 10, 2010 Purdue University scientists led an effort to sequence the soybean genome, giving researchers a better understanding of the plant's genes and how to use them to improve its characteristics. Agronomy professor Scott Jackson said the U.S. departments of Energy and Agriculture study found that the soybean has about 46,000 genes, but many of those - 70 percent to 80 percent - are duplicates. This duplication may make it difficult to target the genes necessary to improve soybean characteristics such as ... read more |
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