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Tag Archives: transport
Revisiting the “eat local” Idea
Originally posted on Thought + Food:
I just came across this review of a book called “The Locavore’s Delusion”, and yes, it is a nod to that other book, in case you were wondering! The authors of the book tried to…
Posted in food, knowledge transfer
Tagged access to food, biotechnology, climate-ready crop, flood, food, food availability, food quality, food safety, food security, food sovereignty, genetic modification, grain, grocery, local breed, local community, local variety, marker assisted selection, plant_monocot, Scuba rice, selective breeding, staple food, sustainable, trade, transport
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Trade across the Pond
The World Development Movement (WDM) wants poverty to end. ‘WDM campaigns against the root causes of poverty and inequality. We are a democratically-governed movement made up of local campaign groups based in towns and cities around the UK. Our staff … Continue reading
Posted in food, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Africa, America, Asia, Cable_Vince, Department for Business Innovation and Skills, education, energy, Europe, food, housing, human, internet, knowledge, land, law, politics, poverty, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, transport, water
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Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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What’s infecting England’s cows with TB? Is it badgers, or farmers and climate change?
Originally posted on vetsbeyondreason:
Found at http://www.eenews.net/stories/1059991389. Erica Rex, E&E Europe correspondent ClimateWire: Friday, December 6, 2013 “There’s no security, or peace and tranquility, except underground.” — Badger, from “The Wind in the Willows” by Kenneth Grahame NEWENT, Gloucestershire, England…
Cuts to red tape in British agriculture
Here’s a press release about ‘cuts to red tape’ in British agriculture. This arose, no doubt, from the Red Tape Challenge. Apparently these cuts will help to monitor and control livestock diseases while also saving money. Moving sheep (Ovis aries) … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture
Tagged bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease transmission, law, livestock, mammal, notifiable disease, ruminant, sheep, transport, tuberculosis, vertebrate
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Regulated Pests and their Origins
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
The historic Silk Road system of trade routes across Asia would have been the origin of much of the early human initiated dispersal of many, now cosmopolitan, oriental pest species to Europe and the…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture
Tagged alien species, history, law, pest, quarantine, transport
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What the British government is doing about bovine tuberculosis
Did you think I’d stopped thinking about bovine tuberculosis (bTB)? I haven’t and nor has our Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Here are two announcements from DEFRA today. First announcement: There’s to be ‘zero tolerance’ of missed … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture
Tagged bacterium, biosecurity, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease testing, disease transmission, farmer, Heath_David, law, livestock, mammal, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, politics, ruminant, transport, tuberculosis, vertebrate, zoonosis
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Climate change ‘driving spread of crop pests’
Rebecca Morelle at the BBC tells us about evidence that climate change is affecting crop pests. Crop pests are moving North in the Northern Hemisphere, South in the Southern Hemisphere. Many crop pests are insects and other arthropods. They’re quite … Continue reading
Posted in food, money and trade, weather and climate
Tagged alien species, arthropod, bacterium, beetle, climate, coleopteran, Colorado beetle, crop, evolution, farm, food, fungus, garden, insect, law, nematode, notifiable pest, oomycete, pest, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, trade, transport, viroid
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Bovine TB in Ireland and how it compares to that in the UK
Here’s a website about bovine tuberculosis (bTB). The unnamed author says, ‘My motivation comes from wanting to create a web site which informs rather than one which tries to influence opinion. As such I try not to hold back any … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology
Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, farmer, foot and mouth disease, history, livestock, mammal, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, politics, ruminant, shooting, transport, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife
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Shoot badgers? Vaccinate badgers? How about not blaming badgers?
There’s supposed to be a badger (Meles meles) cull happening right now in parts of England. I say ‘supposed to be’ because there’s not a lot about it on the news. It’s about bovine tuberculosis (bTB). This disease is caused … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology
Tagged alien species, bacterium, badger, BCG vaccine, bovine tuberculosis, brushtail possum, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, farmer, livestock, mammal, marsupial, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, native species, notifiable disease, politics, research, ruminant, shooting, transport, tuberculosis, vaccine, vertebrate, wildlife
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