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Climate Smart Agriculture: Key to Africa’s Development
2015-12-17 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AFRICA - “Collaboration by various stakeholders including governments, NGOs and research bodies is needed now to rapidly scale-up the African agricultural sector to improve food security and resilience to climate change,” said Mrs Estherine Fotabong, NEPAD Programmes Director, at the NEPAD Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) event
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United Kingdom: Ancient forms of agriculture could aid remote farming communities
2015-12-16 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Tossed up onto Scottish beaches by the tonne, seaweed is finding a place at the table thanks to the fashion for foraged food. But it could also play a vital role in returning acres of abandoned farmland in Scotland to production, according to new research presented at the British Ecological Society's annual meeting in Edinburgh this week. Ecologists from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the University of Edinburgh have been studying some of the UK's remotest farming communities -- the talamh...
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2015 Agriculture review, part 1: Crop production and weather
2015-12-14 20:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Crop growing conditions in much of the Upper Midwest were almost ideal throughout much of the growing season. Conditions were not nearly as favorable in the eastern and southern Corn Belt where farmers dealt with crop conditions in 2015 that were similar to the Upper Midwest during the 2014 growing season. Focus on Ag read more
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China to Help Africa Modernise Agriculture
2015-12-14 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
CHINA - The Chinese President, Xi Jinping, has announced that China is starting major operations to help people in Africa modernise agriculture, among other cooperation projects.
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Bunge Donates $1 Million To New St. Louis Science Center's Agriculture Exhibit
2015-12-10 10:54:00| Agriculture - Topix.net
BUNGE DONATES $1 MILLION TO NEW ST. LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER'S AGRICULTURE EXHIBIT Dec. 10, 2015 Source: Bunge news release Todd Bastean, CEO, Bunge North America and Geri Hayes, vice president, Human Resources, Bunge North America present a check to Donna Wilkinson, Saint Louis Science Center Board of Commissioner, President, Board of Trustees and Bert Vescolani, President and CEO, Saint Louis Science CenterA to support the Science Center's recently announced permanent exhibit on agriculture, "GROW."
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