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A new kind of photovoltaic solar system has been recently introduced, marking a collaboration between ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center, providing clean green power and favoring crops at the same time.The system exploits temperature oscillation and it is considered an ideal asset for every ... |
14 January 2012
11:31 GMT |
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A new solar and battery powered device is expected to improve the lives of financially-challenged farmers from India. David Raja Beleau, the assistant director of Horticulture Kadayam, has decided to revolutionize agriculture by implementing a few beneficial changes.
Farmers from developing countries often rely on ... |
4 January 2012
10:02 GMT |
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American consumers are much more exposed to threats popping out of their cans, since only a few people who truly care about their health are fully aware of what they are eating.
In an attempt to annihilate unnecessary risks, Green America and its partners are trying to convince the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... |
13 December 2011
07:45 GMT |
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Poverty, lack of resources and technology correlated with climate change effects like prolonged drought or extreme weather is lowering the quality of already low-value crops obtained by local communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stanford's Center on Food Security and Environment Works in partnership with Solar E... |
8 December 2011
10:45 GMT |
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We couldn't imagine a proper Halloween party without the presence of bats, and we could apply this statement to most of the horror movies which showcase vampires, castles, coffins and sharp teeth.
Our nocturnal friends seem to be threatened by a mysterious, deadly disease, manifested throughout the “white... |
31 October 2011
08:46 GMT |
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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) has recently launched a new campaign, that seeks to improve the amounts and quality of rice being harvested on the Old Continent. Eight countries have signed to join the initiative thus far, and others may do the same too. The main goal of this one-of-a-kind project is to enhance t... |
20 June 2011
02:59 GMT |
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In 2013, the European Space Agency will launch its Sentinel-1 spacecraft, a satellite destined to enhance the agency's worldwide crop-monitoring abilities. The instrument will aid farmers improve their yields based on the terrains they have available, and will provide progress monitoring. The end goal of this in... |
25 May 2011
17:01 GMT |
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In spite of being constantly overlooked by any type of conservation or domestication programs, bats are critically important to agriculture, performing a service that would otherwise cost the US federal government an estimated $3 billion per year.These creatures provide a tremendously-efficient pest-control service, ... |
1 April 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Recent investigations conducted at the site of the worst nuclear disaster ever discovered the existence of living plants blossoming in the tremendously radioactive soil. The findings brings new hope that future space explorers will be able to grow crops on other moons or planets. Experts visited the site of the Chern... |
17 March 2011
07:00 GMT |
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In 2004, scientists inaugurated a new research facility near the South Pole. One year later, it was operating at full capacity. Now, the South Pole Station Food Growth Chamber is providing new hopes that future space exploration expedition will be able to feed themselves. Off-world exploration is a very energy-intens... |
7 March 2011
11:10 GMT |
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Climate scientists warn that the new parameters of the La Nina atmospheric pattern could have significant repercussions on the world's crops, including corn, coffee, wheat and rice. Crops in the American Midwest could decline significantly this summer, due to the phenomenon, and the state of Illinois could be pl... |
30 January 2011
06:37 GMT |
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The Australian “Wheatbelt,” an area of the country that, as the name implies, is responsible for producing the majority of the country's grains, has just turned green from yellow, after being drenched by powerful rains. This change in fortune for farmers in the area came in late 2010, and was so inte... |
23 December 2010
06:57 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States recently made a breakthrough in the field of genetics, when they identified a gene that, once acted upon, allows specific plants to grow incredibly fast. The new discovery can be applied to switchgrass, Miscanthus species and other biofuel crops, which means that one of the ... |
7 December 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Renowned scientists speaking at the 2010 World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue, in De Moines, Iowa, have teamed up to promote a brand new solution to improve crops and store carbon dioxide at the same time.Our world today needs a radical transformation in the agricultural sector, so that it can deal with climate change, ... |
15 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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A new genetic research seems to indicate the wheat yields have reached a stall, after years of being improved consistently via selective breeding. In other words, it would now appear that genetic improvement methods are failing to yield even better results than those currently available. This means that the plant has... |
26 August 2010
10:56 GMT |
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If you really stop to think about it, setting up a colony on Mars would suffer most from lack of food, as everything would have to be hauled there from Earth. But this obstacle would disappear if crops were to be grown on the Red Planet directly.The idea may seem farfetched at first, but it's really not. Natural... |
18 August 2010
11:11 GMT |
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The industrial production of algae biofuel would be feasible within the next 15 years, say two researchers from Wageningen UR (University & Research center) in their article published today in Science.Professor René Wijffels and Dr Maria Barbosa of Wageningen UR say in their article An Outlook on Microalgal Bi... |
13 August 2010
07:04 GMT |
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Millions of people around the world will be at risk of losing access to even basic crops such as rice in the near future, if the planet's warming trend is not immediately curved. The conclusion belongs to a report drawn out by a team of international experts. Rice is the most important food source in the world a... |
10 August 2010
14:01 GMT |
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For many years, scientists have been trying to figure out what is it that drives locust swarms in their devastating migrations. When this happens, crops and other vegetation is at tremendous risk, as the insects appear to have an insatiable appetite. But, despite experts' best efforts, no clear solutions to the ... |
27 July 2010
05:24 GMT |
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According to a new report, it would appear that at least one tenth of the Mexican population will attempt to find shelter and refuge in the United States in the near future. Experts say that global warming is bound to have devastating effects in the country, in the sense that it will cause a large portion of all crop... |
27 July 2010
03:58 GMT |
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Scientists have finally managed to decipher the genome of maize, one of the most important plants in the world in terms of production and importance. Details of the high-quality sequence appear as a cover story in the November 20 issue of the top journal Science. The analysis also reveals the order in which the genes... |
20 November 2009
01:02 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently announced that it awarded an additional 32 new research grants to plant-genome research, totaling no less than $101.6 million. This year was the 12th of the Plant Genome Research Program (PGRP), and the federal agency awarded research money ranging from $500,000 t... |
21 October 2009
14:51 GMT |
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According to the latest statistics provided by the British Beekeepers' Association (BBKA), it would appear that one in five UK bees died over the past winter. While the number may seem manageable, the association draws attention to the fact that more than 30 percent of the total stock was lost the year before, w... |
24 August 2009
09:54 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that the earliest forms of agriculture may have had a significant impact on the overall climate and temperatures on a global scale, mostly on account of the fact that massive numbers of trees were burnt to give way to crop fields. As the trees burned, they also released ... |
17 August 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), in Teddington, the UK, have recently announced the creation of a new type of imaging technology, which would allow mechanized and autonomous harvesting equipment to produce the best yield possible from a given stretch of land. The innovation is very important when... |
12 August 2009
05:47 GMT |
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With the threat of global warming turning more into reality each single day, plant bioengineers everywhere are working around the clock on creating crop varieties able to withstand prolonged drought and still yield sufficient produce to sustain a booming human population. In a related line of research, Australian exp... |
8 July 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Experts have recently been horrified to learn that some pests have developed immunity to a lot of chemicals that genetically modified (GM) crops produce, for the specific purpose of keeping the former away. The find is potentially devastating because food supplies of a certain type could be in peril around the world,... |
8 July 2009
02:53 GMT |
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In a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers from the University of California in Davis (UCD), working together with colleagues from Denmark and the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), have discovered a group of proteins in plants that... |
29 June 2009
06:34 GMT |
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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), rice is the most important staple food in the world, and is the number-one source of food for billions of people. In countries in tropical Latin America, the West Indies, East, South and Southeast Asia, there is no other crop plant that o... |
25 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, the most defining moment for us as humans was when some of our ancestors decided to start domesticating wild animals, and settling down on a certain land. They started cultivating a relatively small variety of plants, but arguably what allowed them to remain put and survive in the then-inhospitable lands... |
23 June 2009
03:03 GMT |
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At a time when the world is facing growing food shortages, and droughts or floods have driven the price of basic food out of the reach of millions of people, the American space agency is working together with local authorities to supply governments with the most accurate estimates of soil traits. Based entirely on sa... |
27 May 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Researchers believe they might have discovered the element that triggers the formation of massive locust swarms that pose an incredible threat to crops and plantations worldwide. Upon analyzing what makes single grasshoppers come together to form an enormous group, a team of scientists identified serotonin, the hormo... |
30 January 2009
07:58 GMT |
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The Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) space system is a network of five satellites in sun-synchronous orbits around the Earth, which provide reliable photos in various light wavelengths of the same location once or twice per day. They are used for a variety of tasks, from monitoring drug production, deforestati... |
19 January 2009
08:52 GMT |
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In an experiment devised to see if human hair has the potential to become the next best fertilizer for various types of crops, researchers at the Mississippi State University (MSU) compared the effects that four types of treatments had on four types of plants, including lettuce, wormwood, yellow poppy and feverfew. T... |
7 January 2009
08:31 GMT |
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In the aftermath of three devastating hurricanes that swept Cuba and left the country with just 70 percent of its regular food supplies, worries have increased among the population that the Communist government might now have no more resources to feed its people. However, a tactic that was set in place when the Sovie... |
16 December 2008
04:50 GMT |
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Though the decline in bee populations has been well-documented worldwide, a recent study in the prestigious journal Current Biology says that the food supply is not yet in any immediate danger. Modern agricultural practices have constantly increased yields since the 1960s, when the food production finally surpassed d... |
11 November 2008
11:00 GMT |
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