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Tag Archives: technology
Owen Paterson wants Roundup Ready crops in England
Helen Wallace at GeneWatch UK tells us that a committee within our UK Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA, headed by Owen Paterson), hopes to see Roundup Ready crops on English farms. Those are genetically modified (GM, genetically … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food
Tagged biotechnology, corn, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, Europe, feed, food loss, food security, fruit, genetic modification, glyphosate, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, law, livestock, local food, maize, maize GA21, maize NK603, Paterson_Owen, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, precision farming, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, soya, supermarket, sustainable, technology, trade, vegetable, weather, yield
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Online by drone
Facebook is harnessing satellite, drone and other technology to beam Internet connectivity to people in underdeveloped parts of the world. Facebook drones are just a plan, now, but it might come true. A fleet of drones might rival Google’s blimps … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer
Tagged development, farmer, fisher, internet, knowledge, technology
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Smartphone Apps in Agriculture
Originally posted on Rakshit Agrawal:
Original post at e-Agriculture – http://www.e-agriculture.org/content/smartphone-apps-agriculture Technology has always been an important factor behind development. Even in areas where there is hardly any development, technology seems to have changed some part of it. Telecom has spread…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged development, farmer, gardener, knowledge, phone, technology
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Farming in Africa: Time to Debunk Some Myths
Originally posted on OJO Olawale :
New technologies and ideas – from mobile phone information systems to new crop varieties – are rapidly transforming agriculture across Africa. Yet the sector continues to be stereotyped as one synonymous with poverty and subsistence.…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Africa, crop, crop variety, development, farmer, finance, gardener, knowledge, myth, poverty, prosperity, technology, woman, young person
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Using Algae to Control Industrial Emissions
argylesock says… Algae have great potential to bring us to a cleaner world. argylesock says… Algae have great potential to bring us to a cleaner world.View original post
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged algaculture, algae, biobased industry, bioremediation, development, pollution, research, technology
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Why not feed insects to other livestock?
Here in Britain, our Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) coordinates PROteINSECT. This is about farming insects (entomoculture) as a source of protein for animal feed. FERA is part of our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). I’m … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, miniculture
Tagged aquaculture, arthropod, bird, black soldier fly, chicken, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, development, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, egg, entomoculture, entomophagy, feed, food, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food and Environment Research Agency, food safety, food waste, housefly, insect, International Livestock Research Institute, invertebrate, larva, law, livestock, manure, meat, microlivestock, milk, poultry, research, technology, vertebrate, waste, welfare
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More corn grown in U.S. this year than ever before. Thanks, biofuels.
argylesock says… We can hope for more ‘advanced biofuels’ but just now, biofuels in the USA are mostly from corn (maize, Zea mays).
Posted in agriculture, money and trade
Tagged biofuel, conservation, corn, crop, cropland, eutrophic, fertiliser, fuel, grain, herbicide, land use, maize, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, pollution, research, soya, sustainable, technology, trade, waterway
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Monsanto completes acquisition of The Climate Corporation
Monsanto announced this week that it has acquired The Climate Corporation. Here’s Monsanto’s press release. Both of these companies are based in the United States but operate worldwide. Monsanto is about seeds, traits (genes and characteristics) and herbicides (weedkillers). You … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, money and trade, weather and climate
Tagged biotechnology, corn, crop, crop variety, data, farmer, finance, gene, grain, herbicide, legume, maize, Monsanto, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, seed, soya, sustainable, technology, trade, weather, wheat
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Facebook game Fraxinus targeted at beating ash dieback
If you use Facebook you could help with research into ash dieback disease. Yes really, anybody online can do this. Crowdsourcing is a new way of doing science, to me, but here are people who believe it can work. Here … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged ash, ash dieback disease, Chalara fraxinea, data, disease, DNA, emerging disease, Europe, fungus, genome, pathogen, plant_dicot, research, technology, tree
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It’s agricultural, but is it art?
Jeremy Cherfas at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog shows us two art projects about grains. I love the one about high fructose corn syrup. The one about printed landscapes is harder to understand, but as Jeremy says, art is supposed to make … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, knowledge transfer
Tagged art, biodiversity, biofuel, corn, crop, ecosystem, finance, food, food processing, grain, habitat fragmentation, knowledge, landscape, maize, oats, plant_monocot, technology, wild flower, wildlife
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