Category Archives: biotechnology

Pakistan : invest more in biotechnology research so that its poor could get food at an affordable price (Google / Dawn)

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/29/biotech-solution-to-meet-rising-population-needs.html `Biotech solution to meet rising population needs` According to the report prepared by the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA), biotech crops are the fastest adopted crop technology in … Continue reading →

Posted in biotechnology, food / food security

The debate over biotech crops has become predictable (African Agriculture)

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

Read at : http://www.africanagricultureblog.com/2012/02/are-biotech-crops-winning-over-farmers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+africanagricultureblog%2FNaEx+%28African+Agriculture%29 Are biotech crops winning over farmers? by Marc Gunther The debate over biotech crops has become predictable. In his 2012 annual letter from the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, who has a near-religious faith in technology and … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology

Alternatives for industrial agriculture and biotechnology do exist (Agriterra)

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.agriterra.org/en/news/57668/new-study-on-innovations-in-asia?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agriterranews-en+%28Agriterra+News%29 New study on innovations in Asia With support of Agriterra, the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Development together with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy published a report on successful and out-of-the-box approaches for feeding … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology, food / food security, hunger / famine, malnutrition

What an understanding of beneficial biology could do for the fruit and veggies (Facebook / Urban Garden Magazine)

Posted on June 18, 2011 by

Read at : Facebook – Sidmouth KAIETEUR http://urbangardenmagazine.com/2011/02/breeding-microbes-with-compost-tea/ Breeding Microbes with Compost Tea Unveiling the Microscopic Secrets of Connoisseur Organic Growers “We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than we do about the soil underfoot.” ~Leonardo da Vinci … Continue reading →

Posted in bacteria, biotechnology, Soil, soil fertility, Technologies

Disease-free planting material to improve the production and marketing of sweet potato (New Agriculturist)

Posted on June 6, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.new-ag.info/en/news/newsitem.php?a=2055 Biotechnology boosts sweet potato in Zimbabwe Scientists at the University of Zimbabwe have developed disease-free planting material to improve the production and marketing of sweet potato, an increasingly important food crop. Each year, smallholder farmers in … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology

The role of biotechnologies in the transformation of African economies (ATDForum)

Posted on February 14, 2011 by

Read at : http://www.atdforum.org/spip.php?article424 Conference in Addis Ababa: Preparing the African youth for innovation in agriculture By Webmaster This conference attempts to address the role of biotechnologies in the transformation of African economies. For the past two decades, biotechnology has … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology

Posted on December 11, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101209201940.htm Bioengineers Develop Bacterial Strain to Increase Ethanol Biofuel Production ScienceDaily (Dec. 10, 2010) — A team of bioengineers in the United States has modified a strain of bacteria to increase its ability to produce ethanol. The … Continue reading →

Posted in biotechnology, energy/bioenergy/biofuels

Save the wild relatives of essential food crops to protect global food supplies (ASNS News)

Posted on December 10, 2010 by

Read at : http://africasciencenews.org/asns/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2631&Itemid=1 Norway Pledges $50m To The Campaign To Collect, Use Endangered Wild Relatives Written by Henry Neondo Norway is providing US$50 million towards the search to systematically find, gather, catalogue, use, and save the wild relatives of … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology

Necessity to develop a new system of food production: urban biofarming (City Farmer News / SciDev)

Posted on December 6, 2010 by

Read at : http://www.cityfarmer.info/2010/12/05/farming-in-cities-could-help-feed-the-world/ Farming in cities could help feed the world Linked by Michael Levenston With traditional food production under threat from climate change, we should switch from agriculture to cell culture, says Lucía Atehortúa. Lucía Atehortúa Science and … Continue reading →

Posted in biotechnology, food / food security, GMO, Technologies

Hundreds of sweeping, multi-genome patents in a bid to control the world’s plant biomass (Food Freedom)

Posted on October 26, 2010 by

Read at : http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/gene-giants-stockpile-patents-on-climate-ready-crops-in-bid-to-become-biomassters/ Gene Giants Stockpile Patents on ‘Climate-Ready’ Crops in Bid to Become ‘Biomassters’ By ETC Group Nagoya, Japan — Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed and agrochemical corporations are filing hundreds of … Continue reading →

Posted in Agriculture, biotechnology, food / food security, GMO