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Compost as a soil conditioner
03 07 2008 This 69-page document from the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) is a series of slides presenting the benefits of using compost to improve soil quality. It describes compost uses, and gives baseline specifications for compost using BSI-PAS requirements. It gives details of compost quality protocols, NVZ rules and food industry issues in relation to compost use, and concludes with brief statistics from a series of on-farm compost trials.

Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: A Compendium
01 07 2008 This compendium, which is a Forest Management Working Paper, first published by the FAO Forestry Department in 2001, aims to summarise and briefly describe the ten different forestry criteria and indicators processes that are currently used throughout 150 countries. The home page is the table of contents, which links into each separate chapter.

Sustainable Forest Management Indicator Knowledge Base
01 07 2008 The Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Indicator Database sets out to facilitate communication between people who work with indicators in SFM and create a useful information tool for indicator research and indicator selection processes. It is hosted by the Forestry Faculty of the University of British Columbia. The database can be browsed by subject or searched by keyword. International collaboration is encouraged by the use of blogs and forums. Registerd members of the site can add and edit their own indicators. The site also offers an image gallery.

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FAO Newsroom

UN Rome-based Agencies call on G8 for decisive blow on hunger
08 07 2008 8 July 2008 - The heads of the three Rome-based UN agencies call on G8 leaders to help feed the world by contributing to a new green revolution through much-increased public financing to agricultural development.

High food prices put World Food Day 2008 in the spotlight
08 07 2008 7 July 2008 - Rarely has World Food Day assumed greater meaning than at the present time, as rapidly rising food prices risk increasing the number of hungry people, notes FAO’s Chief of World Food Day events, Sidaty Aidara.

Sichuan quake: $6bn damage to agriculture
04 07 2008 30 June 2008 - The agricultural sector in China's Sichuan province has suffered enormous damage estimated at around $US6 billion as a result of last month’s devastating earthquake.

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All Africa / Food and Agriculture / Latest News


AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over 125 African news organizations, plus more than 200 other sources, who are responsible for their own reporting and views. Articles and commentaries that identify allAfrica.com as the publisher are produced or commissioned by AllAfrica.

Uganda: Museveni Reveals National Oil Plan
09 07 2008 PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said revenue from Uganda's oil will be used to develop infrastructure and other sectors of the economy such as agriculture.

Swaziland: A Better Maize Crop, But Not Enough
09 07 2008 Swaziland's anticipated maize harvest this year will be double the size it was in 2007, when drought devastated the crop, but still not enough. According to UN estimates, over 20 percent of the country's one million people face the possibility of going hungry.

Zimbabwe: No Foreign Currency, No Food
09 07 2008 A R100 (US$13) remittance from a relative living in South Africa was a lifeline to food for Lydia Nxumalo, 36, and her family in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city.

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Environmental News Network / Agriculture

EU Considers Dumping Biofuels While U.S. Continues to Bully Global South to Adopt Gene-Altered Crops
08 07 2008 European Union energy ministers said at an informal meeting Saturday they had been labouring for 18 months under the false impression that an EU plan to fight global warming included an obligation to develop controversial biofuels.What seems to be a stunning misreading on the part of policymakers in Brussels comes at a time when the image of biofuels has shifted over a matter of a months from climate saviour to climate pariah.

China Olympic city battles "invading" algae
07 07 2008 In China's Olympic co-host city Qingdao, sea breezes that usually bring relief from baking summer temperatures now bring a cloying stench from a massive algae bloom that locals fear will harm the city's bucolic image during the Games. "If we don't clean this up, we're done for," said local businessman Zhang Longfei, pointing at a blanket of green weed stretching far out to sea at Qingdao's No. 3 Bathing Beach.

Where's the global food crisis taking us?
03 07 2008 In five years' time, we could be living in a world where millions are dying in famines with no food aid to hand, regular storms and droughts wipe out acres of crops, and skyrocketing food prices have created global political panic, food experts say.

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Ben Reynolds of London Food Link on encouraging urban agriculture
Moreover Technologies | Agriculture | News 30 06 2008 Growing food in city parks and gardens

Guardian Daily podcast: Davis attacks 'scared' Labour; plus EU-US deal on personal data
The Guardian | World news 30 06 2008 In our daily audio show, Jon Dennis and guests discuss David Davis’s byelection campaign; an EU-US deal on personal data; and urban agriculture

Nibbles: Maize, Climate change, Erosion (not), Bees squared, Cordyceps, Apples, City gardens
Agricultural Biodiversity | Weblog 28 06 2008 Maize origins investigated.Plants climb mountains.Rice endures, too.“How would our federal government respond if 1 out of every 3 cows was dying?“Bees in trouble in India too, but maybe not for same reason.We’ve blogged about 冬虫夏草 before, but I personally can never get enough of the stuff.Apple breeding bears fruit in India.Videos of urban agriculture in Washington DC. [...]

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The New Agriculturalist


An update on the latest news and developments in tropical agriculture for a global audience.

News brief
07 07 2008 The impact on agriculture of the earthquake in China, growing tension over a new biofuel site in Kenya, drought in Ethiopia and an update on the plight of GM potato trials in the UK. 07/07/08

Book reviews
07 07 2008 Reviews of some of the latest publications related to agriculture and rural development. The lead book, 'Starved for science' by Robert Paarlberg, adds to the growing body of work on the biotechnology debate. It is a hard-hitting indictment of the international community and its scepticism of scientific solutions to hunger. 04/07/08

Bahati Tweve: The honest 'middleman' brokering deals
07 07 2008 The First Mile Project in rural Tanzania has promoted the use of 'spies', mobile phones and the internet to help farmers gain better access to markets. 04/07/08

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ScienceDaily / Agriculture and Food / News


Agricultural research news. From fertilizers and organic farming to maximizing crops and hybridization

Ethanol Byproduct Can Help Control Weeds For Flower And Plant Growers
08 07 2008 Commercial flower and plant growers know all too well that invasive, ubiquitous weeds cause trouble by lowering the value and deterring healthy growth of potted ornamental plants. To control weeds, many commercial nursery owners apply herbicides or pay workers to hand-weed containers. A new study investigated using "dried distillers grains with solubles" or DDGS as a weed deterrent on potted ornamentals.

Review Of Tools For Genomics Community Studying Rosaceae (Apple, Peach, Pear, Strawberry)
07 07 2008 A comprehensive overview of the genomics tools and resources available for the rapidly growing Rosaceae scientific community has been published. Rosaceae is an economically important group of plants that comprises more than 3,000 species, including strawberry, apple, peach and pear.

Carbon Dioxide Increase In Atmosphere Augments Tolerance Of Barley To Salinity
07 07 2008 In future, climate change will bring an increase in salty surfaces on the Earth and in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. However, this higher carbon dioxide has some positive effects on the physiology of barley plants and increases its tolerance to salinity.

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Eldis / Agriculture

Potato farming in a changing climate
02 07 2008 As the fourth most important food crop after rice, wheat and maize, potatoes are of invaluable importance for the diets and livelihoods of millions ...

What can be done to combat rising food prices?
02 07 2008 The sharp increase in food prices over the past couple of years has led to increasingly serious concerns about the situation of people around ...

Relaxing WTO fisheries subsidies rules for small boats: a dangerous loophole?
02 07 2008 This paper argues that small boats can cause as much damage in fisheries around the world as big trawlers. While most governments say they want to ...

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