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Heat, Drought Draw Farmers Back To Sorghum, The 'Camel Of Crops'
2013-10-31 21:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Much of the world is turning hotter and dryer these days, and it's opening new doors for a water-saving cereal that's been called "the camel of crops": sorghum. In an odd twist, this old-fashioned crop even seems to be catching on among consumers who are looking for "ancient grains" that have been relatively untouched by modern agriculture. Sorghum isn't nearly as famous as the big three of global agriculture: corn, rice and wheat. But maybe it should be. It's a plant for tough times, and tough...
The GM Backlash: debate over the adoption of GM crops in Europe
2013-10-28 16:35:00| Food Processing Technology
The UK environment secretary recently urged for a widespread adoption of GM crops in Europe, opening the gates to more controversial debates over GM foods. Stephanie Phillips asks what is the future of GM?
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Hope duels with doubt over biotech crops
2013-10-26 23:59:29| Biotech - Topix.net
After almost two decades of rapid growth, technology used to produce corn, soybeans, cotton and other crops from genetically tweaked seeds is at a crossroads.
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Hawaii's Kauai Island moves to curb gene-altered crops, pesticide testing
2013-10-16 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Lawmakers on the tropical island of Kauai, Hawaii, on Wednesday approved a hotly contested measure aimed at reining in widespread pesticide use by companies testing new genetically modified crops on the island. The Kauai County Council passed the bill by a vote of six to one after months of protests by islanders and mainland U.S. groups who wanted to see a range of broad controls on the global agrichemical companies that have found the island's tropical climate ideal for year-round testing of new...
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Nepal shifting rains and changing crops
2013-10-16 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: With weather becoming more erratic every year as a result of climate change, Nepali farmers are progressively shifting their approach, turning vast areas of rice paddies into small-scale vegetable farming. Vegetables are more resilient as they can be hand watered in case of drought. Farmers say that with rains that used to come in April now shifting as late as mid-June, vegetables that can be sown at the time the rains finally fall are now a better investment. But large parts of their fields now...
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