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Australian crops with or without genetic modification
Steve Marsh is a Western Australian farmer who sued his neighbour Michael Baxter for ‘reckless’ harvesting of GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered) canola (oilseed rape, rapeseed, Brassica napus). Some GM canola seeds ended up on Mr Marsh’s land. Mr Marsh … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, money and trade
Tagged arthropod, Asia, biotechnology, brassica, Bt crop, canola, cotton, crop, disease, escaping transgene, farmer, fire, foot and mouth disease, genetic modification, glyphosate, herbicide, insect, insecticide, law, Marsh_Steve, Monsanto, oilseed, organic, pest, plant_dicot, potato blight, rapeseed, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, seed, weed
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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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Bushfire forces exit from ObserverTree Miranda’s epic tree sit
Originally posted on T h e O b s e r v e r T r e e:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RCGnUnG9Ak&feature=youtu.be Miranda Gibson has today reluctantly left her perch high up in the Observer Tree, after 449 days, as a bushfire burned…
Posted in ecology, weather and climate
Tagged Asia, ecosystem, fire, forest, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, plant_monocot, politics, tree, weather, woodland
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