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Local, Diversified Food Production Needed To Curb Food Price CrisisWashington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2011 Food prices have soared to record highs and are projected to increase further in the coming decade, pushing millions of people into hunger and fueling political unrest around the world. The Worldwatch Institute's recently released report, State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, shows that diversifying food production to include local and indigenous vegetables can help communities boost their self-sufficiency and protect vulnerable populations from price shocks. "The sol ... read more |
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 Japan urges trading partners not to overreact on food safety Japan on Wednesday asked trading partners at the World Trade Organization not impose what it described as unjustifiable import restrictions on its exports. ... more | .. |
 Ants And Termites Boost Dryland Wheat Yields Ants and termites have a significant positive impact on crop yields in dryland agriculture, according to a paper published in the journal 'Nature Communications' by scientists at CSIRO and the Unive ... more | .. |
  RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami And Earthquake Damage In Japan Japan needs maps. Not just any kind-detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this bridge is out, this port is damaged, t ... more | .. |
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 Good wheat harvest expected in Pakistan, despite floods The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said Wednesday that Pakistan can expect a good wheat harvest despite severe flooding last year as seeds distributed to flood victims begin to ripen. ... more | .. |
  Virus in Chinese ducks could infect humans Ducks, an important item in Chinese cuisine, have been felled by a new virus threatening Chinese duck farms, agricultural officials in that country say. ... more | .. |
  ADB and OPEC Fund aid Sierra Leone water project The African Development Bank and the OPEC Fund for International Development are providing Sierra Leone $62 million for the reconstruction of three water stations, the head of the west African state's water company said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Managing Grazing Lands With Fire Improves Profitability Texas Agrilife Research fire and brush control studies in the Rolling Plains on a working ranch-scale showed the benefits and limitations of managed fires for reducing mesquite encroachment while su ... more |
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China's low-altitude economy takes flight across multiple industries
China's satellite network group advances Beidou-internet integration
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 How Do Plants Fight Disease? How exactly bacterial pathogens cause diseases in plants remains a mystery and continues to frustrate scientists working to solve this problem. Now Wenbo Ma, a young plant pathologist at the Univers ... more | .. |
 Study Predicts Large Regional Changes In Farmland Area The effects of climate change and population growth on agricultural land area vary from region to region, according to a new study by University of Illinois researchers. Regions with relative ... more | .. |
 Egypt seeks food and water security in Sudan Egypt will make the completion of a partially-built canal spanning an unnavigable section of the river Nile in south Sudan a top priority, a cabinet spokesman said on Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Russia aims to boost caviar exports with fish farms Once the world's top exporter of black caviar, Russia is building fish farms to harvest the gourmet delicacy as it aims to bring its sturgeon stocks back from the brink. ... more |
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 China 'to pull dairy licences in safety drive' More than one fifth of China's dairy producers will lose their licences after inspections aimed at preventing a repeat of a huge 2008 milk-contamination scandal, state media reported Monday. ... more | .. |
 Billion-plus people to lack water in 2050: study More than one billion urban residents will face serious water shortages by 2050 as climate change worsens effects of urbanization, with Indian cities among the worst hit, a study said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Sweden responds to EU criticism of wolf hunt Sweden's environment minister on Monday said the country's wolf hunt was necessary to boost acceptance of the animal, in a response to a European Commission reprimand for allowing the cull. ... more | .. |
Japan finds contaminated lettuce shipment Lettuce contaminated with radiation above the legal limit has been found at a wholesale market in central Japan, shipped from a farm north of Tokyo, officials said Saturday. ... more |
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U.S. deploys carrier strike group to the Caribbean
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 Measurements Of Winter Arctic Sea Ice Shows Continuing Ice Loss The 2011 Arctic sea ice extent maximum that marks the beginning of the melt season appears to be tied for the lowest ever measured by satellites, say scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder ... more | .. |
 Against The Tide: Currents Keep Dolphins Apart Conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and other conservation and research groups have discovered that groups of dolphins in the western Ind ... more | .. |
Taiwan bans food imports from five Japan areas Taiwan on Friday imposed a ban on food imports from five Japanese areas near a quake-damaged nuclear power plant due to radiation concerns. ... more | .. |
 Developing Strategies In A Desert Watershed That Sustain Regional Water Supplies U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are helping meet the water demands of a riparian desert region that is home to a national conservation area and a thriving military base. Agric ... more |
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 Tree Resin The Key Evidence Of Current And Historic Insect Invasions A University of Alberta-led research team has discovered that insects that bore into trees as long ago 90 million years, or as recently as last summer, leave a calling card that's rich with informat ... more | .. |
 Report Uncovers Key Trends In Water Resources Research The report "Confronting the Global Water Crisis through Research - 2010", carried out by Elsevier, reveals the increasingly international and strategic nature of water resources research. Exam ... more | .. |
 Putting Food Scares Under The Microscope As the increasing number food scares causes consumers to question the safety of everyday food items, researchers at Queen's University Belfast have completed the first ever analysis of all the food ... more | .. |
 Secretary Salazar Charts Future For Landsat Satellite Program The Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has announced plans to make the Department of the Interior the permanent manager of the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites. "Bringing the ... more |
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Flight Readiness Achieved for CarbSAR Mission With SSTL and Oxford Space Systems
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 Two Rivers Water Company Signs Agreement On 1000 Acres Of Farmland Two Rivers Water Company has announced that the Company has signed agreements to acquire an additional 1,000 acres of land adjacent to irrigated farmland it currently owns in Pueblo County, Colorado ... more | .. |
  Drought-Prone Pasts May Foretell New York's And Atlanta's Futures New York City and Atlanta have both experienced droughts in the past few decades that required them to implement water restrictions and conservation measures. However, a new study of tree-ring data ... more | .. |
 Carbon Tax Must Not Comprise Food And Fibre Production Despite the commitment to excluding agriculture's direct emissions from its carbon tax, the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) continues to be extremely concerned about the Government's emerging car ... more | .. |
 Scanner eyes Earth's coastlines from space Images of Earth's coastal regions from a space-borne scanner are helping scientists monitor events from oil spills to plankton blooms, U.S. researchers say. ... more |
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Global food scare widens from Japan nuclear plant Countries across the world have shunned Japanese food imports as radioactive steam leaked from a disaster-struck nuclear plant, straining nerves in Tokyo. ... more | .. |
 NASA Global Hawk Takes Earth's Temperature Over Pacific Ocean A Northrop Grumman-produced Global Hawk high altitude unmanned aircraft began a series of flights over the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 11 as part of a campaign to study atmospheric rivers. Known as Winter ... more | .. |
 NASA IR Satellite Imagery Shows Cyclone Cherono Dwindling Three days of NASA infrared satellite imagery provides a clear picture to forecasters of the effect wind shear has had on former Cyclone Cherono. Wind shear increased near Cyclone Cherono this weeke ... more | .. |
 Pakistan food prices too high: UN food relief agency Pakistan's government has pushed food prices too high for an impoverished population, as malnutrition levels rise despite the recovery of crops after devastating floods, a UN food relief official said Wednesday. ... more |
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