March 15, 2010, Norden
Nordisk Råd og Nordisk Ministerråd få...
De 100 ansatte i Nordisk Råd og Nordisk Ministerråd får nu ny personalechef. Det bliver den 55-årige Unni Vennemoe fra Norge, der inden sommer kommer til at stå i spidsen for sekretariatets...
March 15, 2010, Arab News
Scientists find new way to help crops...
LONDON: An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 15, 2010, Checkbiotech
The Pros and Cons of Genetically Modi...
Earlier this month, Monsanto, the world's largest seed company, admitted that its genetically engineered "Bt" (bacillus thuringiensis) cotton seed wasn't all that farmers in India had...
March 15, 2010, Zamibian Daily Mail
Govt to include rice on FISP
By NICHOLAS MWALE GOVERNMENT says it will include rice seed on the Farmer Input Support Programme (FISP) during the 2010/2011 farming season. The Zambia Agricultural Research Institute director Dr Watson Mwale and his counterpart from the Seed Control and Certification Institute (SCCI) Dr Catherine Mungoma.
March 15, 2010, The Post Chronicle
Scientists Find New Way To Help Crops...
An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 15, 2010, IOL
Gurus find new way to help crops figh...
By Kate Kelland London - An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 14, 2010, News Blaze
Developing Weed Resistance in Corn Hy...
Newswise - Millions of people in the savannas of west and central Africa rely on maize (corn) as a staple crop, and as an "insurance" food crop at the beginning of the rainy...
March 14, 2010, Business Recorder
Scientists find new way to help fight
): An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 14, 2010, The German Times Online
The big sell-off
European companies have joined the rush to buy land in Africa By Bartholomäus...
March 14, 2010, FANRPAN
Women hold keys to food security
United Nations: Any strategies to ensure food security must address womens access and right to land ownership, stress experts and activists meeting on the sidelines of the CSW in New...
March 14, 2010, FANRPAN
Agricultural reforms in Tanzania to k...
Dar es Salaam: The production of some important cash crops in the country is likely to collapse as farmers find it hard to adopt the proposed sector reforms, the new World Bank research...
March 14, 2010, ABC News
Scientists Find New Way to Help Crops...
LONDON (Reuters) - An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 14, 2010, Yahoo! India News
Scientists find new way to help crops...
Enlarge Photo Corn is harvested north of Manila, March 2, 2010. REUTERS/Cheryl Ravelo/Files An international team of scientists has managed to transfer disease resistance from one plant family to another, offering broader protection from potentially costly and destructive...
March 14, 2010, The New Vision
Kenyan farmers take to insurance
ELDORET Kenyan farmers can now insure some of the costs of growing crops against bad weather by using mobile phone technology that links solar-powered weather stations to an insurance...
March 14, 2010, Top News
Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd Buy Call:...
Company is one of the pioneer names in the plastic irrigation products industry sector in India. Company is in Technical alliance with many firms for the purpose to make their products to the international Quality...
March 14, 2010, University World News
NAMIBIA: Rice research blossoms into ...
What began as a small-scale experiment by a University of Namibia associate professor to grow rice in areas where it had not previously been possible, has metamorphosed into a thriving rice-growing venture that has been declared a national project by the...
March 14, 2010, Sunday Observer
On felicitation fiestas and felicitat...
Reviewed by Padma Edirisinghe Recently I attended a felicitation ceremony, that of Siriwimal Lakdusinghe. Sharing with him a town shot to fame through trains, I was compelled to honour his...
March 13, 2010, Inquirer.net
Filipina is first Asean winner of L O...
Biochemist Lourdes Jansuy Cruz s study on snail toxin has led to the development of non-addictive morphine PROF. LOURDES JANSUY Cruz was sleeping soundly when the call came at...
March 13, 2010, The Philippine Star
RP's Dar sets record in global agricu...
LOS BAÑOS, Laguna , Philippines A noted Filipino research administrator began this month his unprecedented third term as top official of an international research and development (R&D) institute, setting a record in global agriculture R&D...
March 13, 2010, Education Network Australia
Rice
Facts Background Australia's responses The global agenda Facts The International Year of Rice in 2004 aimed to promote improved production and access to this vital food crop, which feeds half of the worlds...