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Suba Seeds acquires pea and bean seed producer Brotherton Seed
2016-07-18 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Suba Seeds USA, a completely owned unit of Suba Seeds Group and a portfolio company of Paine & Partners, has acquired Brotherton Seed Company.
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Seeds for Supper as Drought Intensifies in South Madagascar
2016-06-14 13:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Havasoa Philomene did not have any maize when the harvesting season kicked off at the end of May since like many in the Greater South of Madagascar, she had already boiled and eaten all her seeds due to the ongoing drought. Here, thousands of children are living on wild cactus fruits in spite of the severe constipation that they cause, but in the face of the most severe drought witnessed yet, Malagasy people have resorted to desperate measures just to survive. "We received maize seeds in January...
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Climate change and 'smart seeds' in Africa
2016-06-03 12:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Southern Africa is undergoing the worst drought in more than three decades. More than 30 million people in South Africa, Malawi, and my home country Zimbabwe are facing hunger. While this year's drought is largely attributed to the El Nino effect, rains have been increasingly erratic over the past two decades. This could be the new normal as climate change models forecast less rainfall and more extreme weather for much of East and Southern Africa. Moreover, experts project that we may be...
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Seeds saved birds from mass extinction 66 million years ago
2016-04-23 03:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: The fossil record holds evidence to support both scenarios, depending on which dinosaurs are being examined. The researchers used data from over 3000 fossilized teeth from four different Maniraptora families to study variations in the teeth. Scientists investigating this question have often looked at the diversity of dinosaurs leading up to 66 million years ago. "There were bird-like dinosaurs with teeth up until the end of the Cretaceous, where they all died off very abruptly". While...
Climate change adds urgency to push to save world seeds
2016-04-22 14:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: During the 872-day German siege of Leningrad in World War II, in which an estimated 1.1 million civilians died, a small band of workers devoted themselves to safeguarding a priceless trove of 200,000 seeds at the Institute of Plant Industry. Then the worlds largest seed bank, the collection had been amassed, in large part, by famed Soviet botanist Nikolai Vavilov during expeditions to 64 countries. As the siege wore on and starvation became epidemic, workers at the institute refused to eat the...
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