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New market study, "Oil Crops in Brazil", has been published
2013-09-10 02:52:36| Agriculture - Topix.net
Oil Crops in Brazil industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size .
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With Climate Change, Brazil Faces Drop in Crops
2013-09-09 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: So Paulo − Higher temperatures, drastic changes in rainfall, lower productivity, more blight and disease − these are just some of the expected consequences of climate change in Brazil if the projections of 345 scientists who make up the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (PBMC) prove true. They predict that if present trends in greenhouse gas emissions continue, average temperatures in Brazil will be 3º-6ºC higher by 2100 than they were at the end of the 20
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Could More Efficient Crops Feed a Growing, Warmer World?
2013-09-04 01:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In the shadow of a boisterous debate about the safety of growing crops that have been genetically modified, otherwise known as GMOs, the potential of good old-fashioned crossbreeding has been making quite a stir in the agricultural community. A group of researchers recently took a closer look at the genome of sorghum, a drought-tolerant grass crop that feeds half a billion people in Asia and parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike its super-cultivated cousins--corn, rice and soy--sorghum still grows...
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A Warmer World Will Mean More Pests and Pathogens for Crops
2013-09-02 11:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: When we talk about the challenge of ending hunger and feeding a growing global population, most of the focus is put on increasing production. That`s not surprising -- "more" is our solution to most social problems. But some of the hunger gap could be closed by making better use of the crops we do produce now. Take plant pests and diseases, which have historically laid waste to whole harvests. The Irish potato famine of the 1840s -- caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans -- led to the deaths...
Biofuel crops: food security must come first
2013-08-29 19:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Since 2003, the UK and other EU countries have effectively poured billions of euros into biofuels, on the premise that they reduce emissions from transport. But it has been an expensive case of the Emperor's new clothes: we now know that many biofuel crops actually increase overall emissions. At the same time, they damage biodiversity, hurt some of the world's poorest people by pushing up food prices, and cost us an estimated 460m each year. Early in September, the European Parliament will have...
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