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Tag Archives: palm oil
Cocoa prices are surging, but cocoa farmers are still making a pittance
argylesock says… Chocolate tastes so good, but it’s not so sweet for the smallholders who grow it. You can scroll down for info about other tropical commodity crops.
Posted in agriculture, money and trade
Tagged cacao, cash crop, coffee, commodity crop, farmer, palm oil, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, rubber, shrub, smallholder, sugar cane, trade, tree
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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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Developing advanced biofuels
In the United States, the Agriculture Secretary is Tom Vilsack. He’s offering money to develop commercial-scale biorefineries or retrofit existing facilities with appropriate technology to develop advanced biofuels. ‘Advanced biofuels’ means that these fuels are to come from non-food sources. … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture, money and trade
Tagged algaculture, algae, biobased industry, biofuel, biotechnology, conservation, corn, finance, food waste, forest, fuel, land use, maize, palm oil, plant_monocot, tree, waste, woodland
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Looking at oil palm’s genome for keys to productivity
argylesock says… This is interesting science which could be enormous. The papers in the journal Nature are descriptive. They don’t offer a design for genetic modification (GM, also called genetic engineering). But the data published there opens that possibility for … Continue reading
Where are we going with biofuels?
The word ‘sustainable’ can ring hollow. Like ‘the environment’ and ‘the people’, ‘sustainable’ is an easy thing to say without meaning much. One of my most loyal blog followers, eqfe, has commented a few times about my ‘sustainable’ tag here. … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged algaculture, algae, arboriculture, arthropod, biofuel, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, canola, corn, crop, energy, entomoculture, food, fuel, grain, insect, land use, law, maize, oilseed, palm, palm oil, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, rapeseed, renewable, sustainable, technology, trade, transport, tree, waste
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Palm oil
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“I know I have just recently done a post on palm oil, but the following web site gives so much more information…stuff I had no idea about! So please, protect the environment & save…
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Tagged arboriculture, biofuel, conservation, food, fuel, palm, palm oil, plant_monocot, sustainable, tree
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