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According to a study from the United States, "Disputes about genetically engineered crops are linked to wider debates about the globalization of agro-food systems and its consequences for food security, social equity, and rural life. Biotechnology expert discourse rarely addresses these wider issues."
China's growing presence in Africa has led to arguments (especially common in the Western press) that the country is seeking to meet its growing requirements of primary products, including oil, by building a relationship reminiscent of a colonial past with many African countries. It is worth investigating this in more detail.
The chief of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, Supachai Panitchpakdi, urged Japan to exercise leadership in establishing an effective technology-sharing scheme at the upcoming Group of Eight summit that can draw cooperation from emerging economies in tackling global warming.
New protocols governing the trading of breeding cattle born after Jan. 1, 1999 are effective today, the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced.
Cargill said in a statement that it will provide Chinese government officials, academics and business leaders with a two week food safety training programme to expand their expertise and knowledge in food safety management.
Police say the solution is to move young men and their families - including recently arrived and new refugees - to country areas of Victoria such as Mildura (file photo) (ABC)
Much has been written about the problems faced by African refugees when it comes to settling into Australian life.
ABERDEEN - Agriculture officials say budgeting and wise use of capital will be important this year as farmers face higher production costs to plant and harvest a crop.
Fuel and fertilizer are big expenses - and they're costing more.
The on-farm cost of producing switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol averages about $60 per ton, according to a new study by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln agricultural economist and others.
wondering," he said. "If it works like (Mr. McKenzie) says it should, he'll be able to sell a lot of these, and that's what we're hoping for."
Silos not recommended
Silo-mounted turbines aren't recommended by the wind-power industry, said Mick Sagrillo, a Door County small-wind systems expert.
A group of British Columbian activists who have just completed a three-day "learning tour" of the Alberta tar sands are calling for an end to new approvals for tar sands expansion at a press conference today.
With oil prices surpassing $100 per barrel, talk of extracting the black gold wherever it can be found in Utah and elsewhere is raising red flags for environmental groups.
sdWhen the newly minted Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall arrived in Washington last week on his first official foreign trip, his first order of business was to clear up a small matter of geography. "We are not North Korea. We are not Iran," the energetic 42-year-old told anyone who would listen, including U.S.
A compound related to a common nutritional supplement has been identified as the contaminant in a blood-thinning drug imported from China that sickened hundreds of frail patients in the U.S. and is suspected in a number of deaths, federal officials said Wednesday.
BEIJING, March 22 -- It is the 16th World Water Day since it was initiated by the United Nations in 1992 to promote awareness of increasingly serious water problems and press for action by governments worldwide to save and protect water resources.
Benjamin Franklin once said: "When the well is dry, (then) we know the worth of water."
A former agricultural engineering, power and machinery lab at Cornell is being gutted to make way for a state-of-the art Biofuels Research Laboratory that will convert perennial grasses and woody biomass into cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels and will occupy the entire east wing of Riley Robb Hall by January 2009.
A tiny, exotic pest that is devastating forests of hemlock trees from the Carolinas to Maine has so far confounded scientists' efforts to check the destruction.
In Indonesia, tropical forests are being levelled and replaced with palm oil plantations to produce eco-friendly biofuel.
And in North America, research shows a forest that grows for 80 years to biologic maturity locks up less carbon than one harvested every 40 years on an economic rotation where the carbon is stored in building products.