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Agriculture Dispute Stalling EU-Canada Trade Deal
2013-02-08 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU & CANADA - A dispute over how far to open agricultural markets to imports is holding up a free trade agreement between Canada and the European Union, officials familiar with the negotiations said.
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Climate Change Set to Batter U.S. Agriculture, Forests
2013-02-07 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate change is likely to transform U.S. agriculture by mid-century, reducing yields of many staple crops and the productivity of livestock operations, according to a new government analysis. Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will also harm the nation's forests, increasing their vulnerability to fires, insect infestations and disease. Those are some of the dramatic projections outlined in a pair of analyses released Tuesday by the Agriculture Department. The documents,...
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Food security: Agriculture groups shore up financing for seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate change
2013-02-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: The DNA of the world's food crops just got a little more secure. Two leading agricultural organizations, the Global Crop Diversity Trust and CGIAR (formerly known as the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) Consortium, have agreed to invest $109 million over the next five years in the world's seed banks, which maintain 706,000 samples of seeds and vegetative material. Most of the funds will go into maintenance and regular operations in the seed banks at 11 CGIAR research...
Companies Urged to Help Boost Agriculture
2013-02-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - China will encourage industrial and commercial enterprises to be active in the agricultural sector to accelerate its development, senior officials said.
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Mining - not agriculture - is the major worry for the Great Barrier Reef
2013-02-06 16:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Great Barrier Reef (GBR) is both a national marine park and a World Heritage Area. But next to the reef, a catchment of 400,000km2 is almost completely developed for agriculture, predominantly beef grazing and sugarcane, horticulture, cotton and grains cropping. How does this development affect the integrity of the reef? It is well recognised that pollutant runoff (particularly sediment, nutrients and pesticides) from agriculture to the GBR is causing serious widespread damage to the reef's...
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