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Tag Archives: export
Food security and biofuels
Biofuels are renewable because they’re made from plants or animals, which grow. But sometimes biofuels are produced in ways that are not sustainable. Hungry people sometimes pay the cost. Can food security and biofuels go hand in hand? Today Léna … Continue reading
Posted in food, knowledge transfer, money and trade, weather and climate
Tagged access to land, algae, biodiversity, biofuel, climate, development, export, farmer, fire, food security, knowledge, land grab, land use, law, livestock, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, politics, poverty, prosperity, tillage, trade, tradition, waste, water
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Green Rush to carve up Africa
‘There is a gold rush happening in Ethiopia, but it’s not a hunt for the yellow metal. It’s a quest for the green gold of fertile farmland.’ So says Richard Schiffman at Farmland Grab. ‘A nation more associated with periodic … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged access to food, access to land, agroecology, banana, biofuel, cacao, coffee, crop, development, export, farmer, food security, fruit, grain, history, knowledge, land grab, legume, palm, palm oil, pastoral, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, rice, smallholder, soya, staple food, sustainable, trade, wheat
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Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?
One of my favourite sources of information about bovine tuberculosis (bTB, caused by Mycobacterium bovis) is bovinetb.co.uk. Its unnamed author is ‘looking for the reform of a costly and misguided system.’ When I talk to farmers, I often hear support … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged alpaca, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease testing, disease transmission, endemic disease, export, farmer, finance, food, food processing, food safety, history, human, knowledge, law, livestock, mammal, meat, milk, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, politics, ruminant, shooting, slaughter, trade, tuberculosis, vaccine, vertebrate, veterinary, welfare, wildlife, zoonosis
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Monsanto is a ticking time bomb for US agriculture
Mike Adams at the not-for-profit Centre for Research on Globalization tells us that Monsanto is a ticking time bomb for US agriculture. In the article I’ve just linked to, Mr Adams says that he’s not impressed. After unapproved genetically modified … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, money and trade
Tagged America, Asia, biotechnology, escaping transgene, export, farmer, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, herbicide, herbicide resistance, Monsanto, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_monocot, politics, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, trade, weed, wheat
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New vaccine against foot and mouth disease
Here’s an article from Understanding Animal Research (UAR) about a new vaccine against foot and mouth disease (FMD). FMD is a highly infectious disease of cloven-hoofed animals, caused by the virus Aphthae epizooticae. It’s not to be confused with hand, … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture
Tagged cattle, disease, export, foot and mouth disease, hand foot and mouth disease, history, human, law, livestock, mammal, notifiable disease, pig, research, ruminant, sheep, trade, vaccine, vertebrate, virus
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Small-scale buffalo-keeping in India goes big time–With exports a quarter of world’s beef market
Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Buffalo in a village homestead in the Himalayan foothills of northern India (photo credit: ILRI/Susan MacMillan). ‘Alas for the sacred cow: Beef exports from India are expected to surge 30 per cent this year, giving this…
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Tagged access to land, Asia, buffalo, development, disease, export, farm, farmer, livestock, mammal, meat, prosperity, ruminant, smallholder, trade, vertebrate, welfare
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