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FAO Family Farming Platform to Help Food Security
2015-06-22 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
GLOBAL - Recognizing the contributions of family farmers to food security and poverty eradication worldwide, the FAO has launched a new digital platform that aims to become a "one-stop shop" for information, data and legislation on the sector that produces some 80 per cent of the world's food.
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Single Issue Policy Making Threatening UK Farming Potential
2015-06-18 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Single issue policy making at European and UK levels appears to be reducing the ability of British agriculture to achieve its objective of ‘producing more from less’, according to the Agricultural Industries Confederation – the trade body for Britain’s agriculture supply industry.
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U.S. Ag Leaders to Explore Papal Encyclicals Connection to Farming at International Symposium
2015-06-17 20:16:42| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 17, 2015 Contacts: Andrew Jerome, NFU, 202.314.3106 ajerome@nfudc.org Jonathan Liedl, Catholic Rural Life, 651.895.4439 jonathan@catholicrurallife.org The event, which will be held in Milan from June 27-28, is part of a larger project on how faith traditions can inform solutions to modern agricultural challenges. MILAN, ItalyWhat does Pope Francis have to do
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Journalism critical farming innovation takeup
2015-06-04 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Makida Mohammed is a farmer near Assela in Ethiopia's Oromia region, where grains such as wheat, barley and tef dominate the landscape. Wheat is Mohammed's main cash crop. In Ethiopia, wheat production by smallholder farmers such as Mohammed accounts for more than 70 per cent of domestic production. [1] The cash Mohammed makes from selling wheat goes to feed, clothe and educate her five children. I met Mohammed through my work with the Cornell Alliance for Science, an organisation based at Cornell...
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BASF sponsors space farming research project to foster innovation and entrepreneurship
2015-06-03 06:00:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
LUDWIGSHAFEN, GERMANY AND RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 26, 2015 – Is it possible to produce large quantities of high quality vegetables on a space station, about 320 kilometers away from earth? To answer this question, three twelfth-grade students from the agricultural program at the Edith Stein School in Ravensburg, Germany, set up a research project to examine how crops can be cultivated in the microgravity of space. read more
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