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Rising food prices spell trouble for ArabsCairo (UPI) Jan 20, 2011 Rising food prices, which triggered the downfall of the Tunisian regime and rioting in Algeria, threaten further trouble across the Middle East and North Africa, a region heavily dependent on food imports. The food crisis along with mushrooming populations, expanding desertification, dwindling water resources and growing unemployment create an explosive mix across the volatile region at a time when many fear new wars may soon erupt. The surprise downfall of President Zine al-Abidine Ben ... read more |
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 Gene maps could yield new grape varieties U.S. researchers say the future of wine-making hinges on developing news varieties of grapes and maps of the grape genome can help. ... more | .. |
 Climate change could boost crops in US, China A global population explosion combined with the steady effects of climate change are forecast to create a worldwide food shortage in the next 10 years, but the news isn't all bad for some countries. ... more | .. |
 Food Prices Insulate Agriculture Sector From Wider Economy Woes Much of the U.S. economy has been slow to recover from the recession. That hasn't been true of farmland markets, which have continued to climb, a group of Purdue University agricultural economists s ... more |
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 Walker's World: The U.S., China and food Of all the geopolitical and geoeconomic issues that the Chinese and American presidents will discuss in their Washington summit this week, the looming world food crisis isn't on the agenda. It should be because, each in its own way, these two countries share a massive responsibility. ... more | .. |
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 New Farming Method To Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Increase Farm Yields U.S. agricultural practices create 58 percent of nitrous oxide in the world, which is the third most prevalent greenhouse gas in the atmosphere. Scientists believe nitrous oxide contributes to globa ... more | .. |
 Lameness - A Common And Painful Disease In Calves At any given time between 10 and 20 percent of cattle in the United States are afflicted with lameness, making it one of the most common ailments affecting feedlot and stocker calves. That's w ... more | .. |
 Miscanthus Has A Fighting Chance Against Weeds University of Illinois research reports that several herbicides used on corn also have good selectivity to Miscanthus x giganteus (Giant Miscanthus), a potential bioenergy feedstock. "No herbi ... more | .. |
India to try growing salt-tolerant crops India says it will initiate a pilot project to see if salt-tolerant cash crops can be grown in the country's salty coastal areas. ... more |
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Argentina uneasy over La Nina hit on crops Argentina is feeling the effect of La Nina weather phenomenon on cash crops that are likely to have sharply lower yields because of low rainfall totals. ... more | .. |
States, cities to pursue Asian carp study Great Lakes cities and states are fast-tracking research on blocking the invasive Asian carp from invading Lake Michigan, a consortium of officials said. ... more | .. |
 NASA Satellites Capture A Stronger La Nina New NASA satellite data indicate the current La Nina event in the eastern Pacific has remained strong during November and December 2010. A new Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)/Jason-2 s ... more | .. |
World agriculture threatened by water gluttony: report World agriculture employs more than one billion people but is in trouble because it's the biggest consumer of ever scarcer water and a huge producer of greenhouse gas emissions, a new report said Wednesday. ... more |
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