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Tag Archives: cassava
The homogenisation and globalisation of diets
Originally posted on One Billion Hungry: Can We Feed the World?:
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that some 75% of the diversity of cultivated crops was lost during the 20th Century and, by 2050, we could lose…
Posted in agriculture, food, horticulture, human health, money and trade
Tagged Africa, America, Asia, cassava, city, climate, conservation, crop, crop diversity, crop variety, development, disease, Europe, Food and Agriculture Organization, food safety, genetic diversity, grain, human, iodine, iron, law, micronutrient, millet, neglected crop, nutrition, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, potato, prosperity, research, rice, rye, seedbank, staple food, sugar beet, sugar cane, sweet potato, trade, tuber, Vitamin A, wheat
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GMO breakthroughs and fakethroughs
It can be difficult to know who to believe about genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The scientific peer review system is no guarantee of truth, nor are the news media, nor are blogs like this one. Jonathan Latham of the US-based … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer
Tagged academia, bacterial rice leaf blight, bacterium, banana, biofortification, biotechnology, cassava, development, disease resistance, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, International Rice Research Institute, knowledge, Monsanto, nutrition, oral vaccination, pathogen, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, research, rice, staple food, sustainable, sweet potato, tuber, vaccine, virus
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Solutions for micronutrient deficiency
argylesock says… Here are thoughtful words about malnutrition. My fellow blogger Anastasia Bodnar at Genetic Maize talks a lot of sense here but I’ll clarify some of her remarks about biofortification (the last section in her article). Golden Rice is … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer
Tagged African Biofortified Sorghum, biofortification, biotechnology, breeding, cassava, child, corn, crop, crop variety, development, food, garden, genetic modification, Golden Rice, human, International Rice Research Institute, maize, nutrition, Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato, Orange Maize, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poverty, rice, selective breeding, sorghum, staple food, sweet potato, Syngenta, Vitamin A, woman, Yellow Cassava
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The repentant environmentalist in his own words
In January this year, here in Britain, author and activist Mark Lynas made a speech to our National Farmers Union (NFU). He caused quite a stir. He said that he wanted ‘to put science back at the centre of the … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer
Tagged Africa, biotechnology, cassava, crop, development, Europe, farmer, food, genetic modification, history, knowledge, Lynas_Mark, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, root, staple food, starch, Yellow Cassava
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Biofortified crops steal the spotlight
Originally posted on The FARA Social Reporters Blog:
AASW participants viewing vitamin A cassava at the CGIAR booth during AASW6. Two biofortified crops both conventionally bred to contain more vitamin A, have attracted strong interest at the Africa Agriculture Science Week (AASW)…
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Tagged biofortification, breeding, cassava, corn, crop, crop variety, food, human, knowledge, maize, nutrition, Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato, Orange Maize, selective breeding, staple food, sweet potato, vegetable variety, Vitamin A, Yellow Cassava
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Agricultural biotech against poverty and hunger
Too many people are hungry. Many of the hungry people are African. Biotechnology might help. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) tells us how biotech can help to feed people. ‘A successful strategy should have MULTIPLE … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, biotechnology, breeding, cassava, corn, crop variety, development, feed, food, fruit, fuel, genetic modification, grain, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, knowledge, legume, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, millet, pearl millet, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, seed, selective breeding, sorghum, soya, staple food, sugar cane, sweet potato, textile, tissue culture, tomato, trade, transport, tuber, wheat
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