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- UN FAO World Food Summit
Rome
Monday, November 16 at 2:05am - Soils, Crops and Agronomy Scie...
Pittsburgh, PA
Sunday, November 1 at 9:00am - #FoodChat
Twitter
Tuesday, October 20 at 8:00pm - World Food Prize Symposium
Des Moines, IA
Monday, October 12 at 8:15am
The Council for Biotechnology Information Dr. William H. Danforth, chairman of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, has an op-ed in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch that outlines the challenges the National Institute for Food and Agriculture (NIFA) must meet, and argues that first-rate science is critical to addressing these challenges.
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The Council for Biotechnology Information World’s Hungry to Pass 1 Billion as Wealth Increases: Bloomberg created a chart to demonstrate the increasing level of world hunger in the past two decades. Despite greater global wealth, investment in world food aid has declined 37% on an inflation-adjusted basis since 1988, contributing to the rise in the world’s undernourished. http://tinyurl.com/yg68fyp
The Council for Biotechnology Information Panel of experts at the British Crop Production Council: Ag Biotech is Key for Food Production Increase #ag #biotech http://ow.ly/DmxY
The Council for Biotechnology Information The Financial Times published an editorial in the run-up to the UNFAO World Summit on Food Security calling for greater investment in agricultural research to feed a growing population. You can read the full editorial here: (subscription required)
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Summit should target food production, not food aid
The Council for Biotechnology Information Are you interested in applying for a seat on the Sustainable Agriculture Standards Committee? The Leonardo Academy announced they are accepting applications for five vacant seats. Applications due 12/28/09! Learn more about the application process here:
Call for Applications: Five Open Seats on the National Sustainable Agriculture Standards Committee –
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Listen: Dennis Gonsalves discusses how GM & non-GM papaya growers co-exist in Hawaii: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat
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Today papaya is one of Hawaii's most widely available fruits but that almost wasn't the case. In the early 1950s much of the crop was destroyed by the devastating papaya ringspot virus and by 1997 the papaya industry had been completely wiped out. ...
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New study explores biotech's impact on yield & production: http://www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/focuson
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The Council for Biotechnology Information Professor Sir Gordon Conway argues new technologies must be part of Africa's solution to hunger and drought http://ow.ly/zVgd #biotech
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New Yorker Reporter Michael Specter promotes biotechnology and science in his new book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives.
Click below to watch his interviews on MSNBC and CNN.
Also, please share your thoughts on Denialism and how attitudes towards science and technology may be limiting progress.
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The Council for Biotechnology Information Dr. Kent Bradford Highlights Agricultural Biotechnology as Means to Improve Sustainability http://ow.ly/zGxu #ag #biotech
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SEED Magazine reporter, Maywa Montenegro, reports (Oct. 26, 2009): "Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture." Read more at http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/
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Organic foods are exploding in popularity. But fears of biotechnology—and a widespread mistrust of science—won’t help efforts to create a truly sustainable agriculture.
The Council for Biotechnology Information Wall Street Journal Reports on India’s Move Towards Approving BT Eggplant - http://ow.ly/xIXv #biotech,
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New video on sustainability and modern farming, produced by the National Corn Growers Association: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDlPtoTSe
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YALE 360: Dr. Jonathan Foley, Director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of the Minnesota, where he is also a professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, writes about the challenges regarding land use and agriculture. He writes about the need to in...vest in "revolutionary agricutlureal solutions....These might include the development of new hybrid crops, designed to use water and nitrogen more efficiently, or the invention of perennial crops that don't need to be planted every year. Don’t such ideas count as national priorities, too? Can’t we afford to launch a “Greener” Revolution?" http://e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp
The Council for Biotechnology Information "Can biotech cure world hunger?" This is the headline from an Oct. 26th, 2009 blog post on the NYT Blog: Room for Debate. Read the opinions of leading researchers who make arguments for both sides of the debate. Let us know what you think. http://tinyurl.com/yk8bg75
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What will drive the next Green Revolution?
