Agadir Conference: Food
Worldwide, whether in developing or developed contextx, food security is a paramount issue. It relates to issue areas from food availability to food safety to traditional and innovative agricultural genetic technologies.
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Food and Asian Irrigation
Asian irrigation must be revitalised Reporting on SciDev.Net on 18 August 2009, Katherine Nightingale notes: Asia's run-down irrigation systems need to be updated if the continent is to meet the...
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Gardening in Sacks
Sacks gardening in urban and rural areas A recent online issue of Scitizen contains an article that notes: In every developing country people are suffering from the high food prices. More than...
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Earth's Marine Fisheries
Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries Press release from PLoS Biology According to the most recent report on the status of the world's fisheries by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, fisheries supply at least...
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Avoiding Climate-Driven Food Crisis in Africa
Averting a climate-led food crisis in Africa Local crop varieties could provide solutions to temperature rises. Reporting in Nature, 19 June 2009, Natasha Gilbert writes: African farmers could find...
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African Scientists Ask G8+5 To Join Battle Against 'Brain Drain' Cate Jensen reports on the U.S. National Aca...
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The forgotten farm labourer Anil Gupta, writing 13 August 2009, on SciDev.Net addresses the myriad problems of...
News Articles
Scientists discover how to send insects off the scent of crops Research funded by the Biotechnology and Biolog...
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Fund Promotes African Adaptation to Climate Change David Njagi and Naomi Antony report on SciDev.Net 22 July 2...
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Science Academies Urge Faster Response to Climate Change In a joint statement, the science academies of the G8...
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Scheme Helps Polish Developing Country Science Papers 22 June 2009, on SciDev.Net, Naomi Antony reports on: ...
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