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Innovation Of The Week: Giving Farmers A Reason To StayWashington DC (SPX) Feb 02, 2011 While the coast of The Gambia is a popular-and economically thriving- tourist destination for European vacationers, the inland portion of the country provides little means for young men to make a living. Many leave their villages for the coast or even other countries, in hopes of making more money in urban areas. This economic disparity within The Gambia, coupled with its agricultural potential, is what inspired Sandy Martin to found the Home Farm Project in 2004. The Home Farm Project works with ... read more |
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  China's drought could have serious global impact Wide swathes of northern China are suffering through their worst drought in 60 years - a dry spell that could have a serious economic impact worldwide if it continues much longer, experts say. ... more | .. |
 Study: Bees can follow sun on cloudy days Bees can navigate using the sun even on cloudy days using clues from polarized light to determine the hidden sun's position, Australian researchers say. ... more | .. |
Japan researchers collect wild eel eggs for first time Japanese researchers have collected eel eggs from the wild for the first time ever, shedding light on the mystery surrounding the spawning habits of the fish. ... more |
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 Toward Controlling Fungus That Caused Irish Potato Famine Scientists are reporting a key advance toward development of a way to combat the terrible plant diseases that caused the Irish potato famine and still inflict billions of dollars of damage to crops ... more | .. |
  China earmarks $303 bn for safe water: report China plans to invest $303 billion in water infrastructure projects over the next five years that would give millions of rural residents access to safe drinking water, state media reported. ... more | .. |
China farmers to get $15 bn subsidies amid drought China says it had earmarked about $15 billion in subsidies for millions of farmers who have been hit by a severe drought that has driven prices as the government tries to battle inflation. ... more | .. |
 Philippines rice 2010 farm output hit by weather Rice output in the Philippines, the world's largest importer of the grain, fell last year as the country's farms were hit by a drought and typhoons, the agriculture ministry said Friday. ... more |
  
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Plant gene work could benefit food crops New findings on how plants adapt to unfavorable conditions could one day be used to help food crops survive changing environments, a U.S. researcher says. ... more | .. |
More Africa droughts as global temps rise The increased frequency of drought conditions in Eastern Africa for the last 20 years is likely to continue while global temperatures rise, researchers say. ... more | .. |
Slowly but surely, Bordeaux vineyards go organic Two historical Bordeaux wine estates have gone green, breaking a long resistance to organic viticulture amongst the region's elite producers. ... more | .. |
 Smaller Rows Contribute To More Soybean Yields In Colder Climates Soybean production has continued to increase in the Northeast United States with more and more first time growers planting the crop and many experienced growers planting alongside corn crops. To sav ... more |
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China goes rabbit-crazy for Lunar New Year In stews, as pets or adorning shop windows, rabbits are ubiquitous as millions of Chinese mark the Lunar New Year, hoping for a more tranquil time ahead as the old Year of the Tiger roars its last. ... more | .. |
 Notre Dame Biologists Call For Regulation Of Rare Plant Sales People are increasingly obtaining endangered or threatened plants, often illegally, and moving them outside their native range, according to an article in the journal Nature by Patrick Shirey and Ga ... more | .. |
Iraq water shortages raise ethnic tensions A worsening water shortage in Iraq is raising tensions in the multi-ethnic Kirkuk province, where Arab farmers accuse the Kurdistan region of ruining them by closing the valves to a dam in winter. ... more |
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 Bulgaria sets first annual bear hunting quota Bulgaria's environment ministry set an annual brown bear hunting quota for the first time on Thursday, following a decades-long ban on killing the protected animals. ... more | .. |
  UN says Pakistan still in emergency after floods The United Nations Thursday said Pakistan is still in emergency mode six months after monsoon flooding ravaged the country and that $1 billion was still needed to help the 20 million people affected. ... more | .. |
 Call for halt to pesticides in bee deaths Pesticides implicated in widespread bee deaths should be discontinued in Britain pending scientific evidence about their effects, U.K. politicians were told. ... more | .. |
 First-Ever Global Map Of Surface Permeability Informs Water Supply University of British Columbia researchers have produced the first map of the world outlining the ease of fluid flow through the planet's porous surface rocks and sediments. The maps and data, ... more |
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 Immersive Data Collection And Peer Networks Key To Effective Watershed Councils Community watershed councils can establish a social infrastructure that facilitates successful science-based management by participating in data collection and forming neighborhood peer networks, ac ... more | .. |
 Wheat Resistance Genes Failing, New Approach Needed To Stop Flies Many of the genes that allow wheat to ward off Hessian flies are no longer effective in the southeastern United States, and care should be taken to ensure that resistance genes that so far haven't b ... more | .. |
 Australians face flood recovery tax Australia unveiled a flood tax on higher earners Thursday as Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the deluge would shave 0.5 points off GDP in fiscal 2010 and cost Aus$5.6 billion for recovery. ... more | .. |
 Battling Superweeds With Less Chemicals They pop up in farm fields across 22 states, and they've been called the single largest threat to production agriculture that farmers have ever seen. They are "superweeds" - undesirable plants ... more |
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 China's demand for desalination lags China's major desalination project in Tianjin, while seen as necessary to ease water shortages, hasn't generated the expected demand for the desalinated water since operations started there last April, The Guardian newspaper reports. ... more | .. |
 Nailing Down A Crucial Plant Signaling System Plant biologists have discovered the last major element of the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cel ... more | .. |
Farmland seizures spark sharp divide in Venezuela Farmers whose land is being taken away by the government of Hugo Chavez are gearing up for a struggle to keep their properties in fertile western Venezuela, a stronghold for the opposition. ... more | .. |
Japan culls chickens in key poultry farming area Japan began slaughtering thousands of chickens on Wednesday in the country's largest poultry farming area to fight an outbreak of bird flu, a local official said. ... more |
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 New Anglo-Swiss Research Questions Impact Of GM Wheat On Insects An Anglo-Swiss research project has found that the impact of disease-resistant genetically-modified wheat plants on insects may be negligible. Many studies have looked at the effects of geneti ... more | .. |
 New Crop Of Plant Scientists Emerges At CSIRO Some of Australia's top science and engineering students have begun a ten-week, hands-on work experience program at CSIRO Plant Industry's research facilities in Canberra, Brisbane, Adelaide and Nar ... more | .. |
 World needs global food system overhaul: report The world needs fundamental changes to the global food system to feed the expanding population, according to a British government report out Monday on how to feed the planet until 2050. ... more | .. |
 China drought threatens water supplies: state media A months-long dry spell across northern China is threatening drinking water supplies and crops, and more bone-dry conditions are expected, state media said Monday. ... more |
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