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Reliance on fewer crops increase climate change food security threat

2014-03-04 12:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: As people from all corners of the world are living off an increasingly similar diet, decreasing crop diversity is making the global food system more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, a new study has warned. The study, which is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, claims to be the first to quantify the effects of a trend towards a unified international diet over the last 50 years. "Over the past 50 years, we are...

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Seed companies urged on GM crops

2014-02-26 23:37:17| Biotech - Topix.net

As debate on using biotechnology to develop crop varieties goes on with a lot of controversies over the matter, scientists in the different research institutes under the National Research Organisation are continuing with sensitisation of different stakeholders.

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Late fall cover crops

2014-02-25 21:44:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

No-till farmer Dan Ley, Richmond, Minn., has planted 100 - 200 acres of cover crops for the past four years. Ley plants cereal rye, as well as a mix of oats, forage peas and hairy vetch in the fall.

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U.S. GMO crops show mix of benefits, concerns - USDA report

2014-02-25 16:44:21| Chemicals - Topix.net

After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, but the impacts on the environmental and on food production are mixed, and high farmer use of a popular herbicide on GMO crops is a cause for ongoing concern, according to a report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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