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Argentina to export corn to drought-hit RussiaBuenos Aires (AFP) Nov 27, 2010 Argentina will start selling corn to Russia for the first time in three decades, officials here said Saturday, in a move that could open up a market for three million tons of the crop. Russian government officials "expressed their interest" in purchasing the corn for animal consumption for the first time since the 1980s, Argentina's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "The first batch of 300,000 tons (of corn) will be ready in January 2011," Argentine officials said, adding that negotiators ar ... read more |
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 Shrubby Crops Can Help Fuel Africa's Green Revolution Crop diversification with shrubby legumes mixed with soybean and peanuts could be the key to sustaining the green revolution in Africa, according to a Michigan State University study. The stud ... more | .. |
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  Should We Stay Or Should We Go Back in the late 1960s, the environmental movement was in a tizzy over predictions that overpopulation would soon cause mass human starvation and eventually kill the planet. But the Malthusian visio ... more | .. |
 NASA Study Finds Earth's Lakes Are Warming In the first comprehensive global survey of temperature trends in major lakes, NASA researchers determined Earth's largest lakes have warmed during the past 25 years in response to climate change. ... more | .. |
 Imaging Science Offers New Opportunities For Interdisciplinary Collaboration More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's topic, imaging science, a field of stu ... more | .. |
  Kuwait official says new border deal struck with Iraq Iraq and Kuwait have agreed to create a 500-metre (yard) no-man's land on each side of the border and move Iraqi farmers to new homes, a Kuwaiti official said in comments published Wednesday. ... more |
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  Mauritania's dry capital opens water supply from Senegal Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on Wednesday opened a hydraulic facility which will pump water from the Senegal River over 200 kilometers (120 miles) south to the parched capital Nouakchott. ... more | .. |
 Germany's top court upholds restrictive GM crops law Germany's top court on Wednesday upheld a two-year-old law placing sharp restrictions on the use of genetically modified crops, saying it protected the public from the risks of the technology. ... more | .. |
 Hyperion Hyperspectral Imager Marks Tenth Anniversary On-Orbit NASA's first hyperspectral imager in space, built by Northrop Grumman for the Goddard Space Flight Center, is observing its tenth anniversary on-orbit, outliving its design life by 1000 percent. Ori ... more | .. |
 ESA's Ice Mission Goes Live With the commissioning of ESA's CryoSat now complete, the mission has been officially transferred to the operations team. This milestone marks the beginning of the satellite's operational life deliv ... more |
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Jailed China milk campaigner seeks medical parole: report A Chinese father jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal missed an appeal deadline but has applied for medical parole, state-run media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Gene Find Could Lead To Healthier Food And Better Biofuel Purdue University scientists have found the last undiscovered gene responsible for the production of the amino acid phenylalanine, a discovery that could lead to processes to control the amino acid ... more | .. |
Hong Kong to host eye-watering 900 US dollar meal Famously relaxed with conspicuous consumption, Hong Kong is set to host a dinner costing nearly 7,000 Hong Kong dollars (902 US dollars) per head, according to one of the city's hotels. ... more | .. |
Chinese dairy raises the bar for cow-pat power A Chinese dairy farm is installing the world's largest system to turn steaming cow pats into enough electricity to power thousands of homes, it was reported Tuesday. ... more |
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Rice production withers as Egypt diverts vital water supply In Kafr el-Sheikh, rice farmers once looked forward to harvest time, but work has dried up in the large Nile Delta town since water shortages prompted heavy restrictions on production. ... more | .. |
 Redrawing Our Borders What are borders these days? When travel was local, borders and communities were easy to define, but now our connectivity is more complex. It's time to think of borders differently, according to Nor ... more | .. |
 Art on planetary scale shines spotlight on climate change The first global art show on climate change kicked off this weekend, launching several symbolic performances seen from space that bring people and planet together to highlight the hazards of global warming. ... more | .. |
 Climate Change On The Go GeoOptics has just released a new Climate Mobile app that is free to all. The app allows users to access worldwide climate information, from space satellites and surface instruments (which provide v ... more |
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 More Efficient Use Of Farm Inputs Key To Growth More efficient use of farm inputs is critical to ensuring continued productivity growth in Australia and New Zealand agriculture, according to CSIRO scientist Dr Michael Robertson. In an addre ... more | .. |
 New Disease-Resistant Food Crops In Prospect Researchers have uncovered the genetic basis of remarkable broad-spectrum resistance to a viral infection that, in some parts of the world, is the most important pathogen affecting leafy and arable ... more | .. |
China to boost grain supplies to combat inflation: Xinhua China will increase grain supplies, open up more land for planting vegetables and crack down on hoarding as the government steps up efforts to combat rising inflation, state media said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 China milk campaigner 'forced to sack lawyers': rights group A Chinese father jailed for "inciting social disorder" after campaigning for victims of melamine-tainted milk may have been forced to sack his lawyers, a rights group said Monday. ... more |
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