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Study: Africa capable of feeding itselfDar Es Salaam, Tanzania (UPI) Dec 2, 2010 If African leaders demonstrate political leadership the continent could both feed itself and become a major agricultural exporter, a study says. The study, described in a book titled "The New Harvest" by Harvard University professor Calestous Juma, urges African leaders to make agricultural expansion central to all political and economic decision-making, the BBC reported. The findings are being presented at an informal summit in Tanzania discussing African food security and climate chang ... read more |
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  Mapping Mangroves By Satellite Mangroves are among the most biologically important ecosystems on the planet, and a common feature of tropical and sub-tropical coastlines. But ground-based evidence suggests these vital coastal for ... more | .. |
 Climate change to worsen food security, UN talks told Surging prices for staple foods in 2008 and 2010 may be just a foretaste of the future as the impacts of climate change and population growth combine, a report issued at the UN talks in Cancun said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  India loans S.Leone 30 million dollars for water supply Sierra Leone will receive a loan of 30 million dollars (23 million euros) from India to revamp its aging water system in the capital and a town in the east of the country, the government said Wednesday, ... more | .. |
 Freshwater Mussels Discovered In Urban Delaware River Scientists working with the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and The Academy of Natural Sciences have made an important discovery in the Delaware River between Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton ... more |
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 Predatory Bugs Can Save Cornfields One of the worst pests of corn in the world, the corn rootworm, may owe its worldwide success partly to its larvae's nasty, sticky blood. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist Jon ... more | .. |
 Gene Transfer From Transgenic Crops: A More Realistic Picture A new data-driven statistical model that incorporates the surrounding landscape in unprecedented detail describes the transfer of an inserted bacterial gene via pollen and seed dispersal in cotton p ... more | .. |
 Water Resources Played Important Role In Patterns Of Human Settlement Once lost in the mists of time, the colonial hydrology of the northeastern United States has been reconstructed by a team of geoscientists, biological scientists and social scientists, including Uni ... more | .. |
 Novel Services For Tropical Forest Monitoring With Satellite A consortium led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing methods for monitoring tropical forests using satellite data in a project funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the Euro ... more |
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 Australia admits defeat on 90-year NZealand apple ban Australia Tuesday agreed to allow the import of New Zealand apples for the first time in almost 90 years, but said it would first review quarantine to make sure they were free of pests. ... more | .. |
 Japan culls 23,000 chickens to contain bird flu Japan began slaughtering about 23,000 chickens Tuesday at a poultry farm in western Shimane prefecture where an outbreak of bird flu was discovered, the local government said. ... more | .. |
UN food expert urges "Green Marshall Plan" from Cancun A UN human rights expert on Monday called on the climate change conference in Mexico to launch a "Green Marshall Plan" for agriculture to counter the impact of global warming on hunger and poverty. ... more | .. |
 Argentina, China sign 'historic' farm trade deals Argentina and China inked five farm product agreements during a visit to Beijing by Agriculture Minister Julian Dominguez to boost trade, officials here reported Tuesday. ... more |
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 Soil Microbes Define Dangerous Rates Of Climate Change The rate of global warming could lead to a rapid release of carbon from peatlands that would further accelerate global warming. Two recent studies published by the Mathematics Research Institu ... more | .. |
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 Two New Earth Observation Missions Chosen For Further Study As part of the procedure to realise ESA's series of Earth Explorers, two new mission proposals have been selected for further development. The missions, called FLEX and CarbonSat, now vying to be th ... more |
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 Argentina to export corn to drought-hit Russia 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. ... more | .. |
  Jordan calls on people to pray for rain Jordan's ministry of religious affairs on Saturday urged citizens to gather next week and hold special prayers for rain across the parched kingdom. ... more | .. |
 Mildew-Resistant And Infertile Mildew infections not only cause unsightly vegetable patches, they can also result in extensive crop failure. Interestingly, the processes involved in infections with this garden pest are similar to ... more | .. |
 Express Map Delivery From Space Meeting the environmental needs of an ever-expanding Europe requires consistent and regularly updated information on its land cover and use. As part of ESA's GlobCorine project, a pan-European land ... 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 | .. |
 U.K.: Food from cloned animals safe U.K. scientists say meat and milk from cloned cattle are safe to eat, after reports that meat from the offspring of a cloned cow was sold to U.K. consumers. ... more | .. |
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Africa to fall short on water Millennium Goals: UN Most African countries will fail to attain the United Nation's Millennium Goals on access to water and sanitation, the world body's environment agency said on Friday. ... more |
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