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2013/05/17 23:59
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N. Korea should open up and ask for food aid . MAY 18, 2013 05:30. . North Korea is releasing its rice reserves to feed its residents. For the past three months, the North has been using its military...
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2013/05/17 11:45
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With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, downward sloping dock line bouncing 20 feet above the lapping...
2013/05/15 18:59
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Value of insects . MAY 16, 2013 03:11. . In 1990, malnutrition was rampant among children in Vietnam. However, some children from destitute families were quite healthy. A U.S. research team discovered...
2013/05/14 13:31
2013/05/14 13:31
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Geneva — The three conventions that govern chemicals and hazardous waste safety at the global level concluded their first ever jointly held meetings of the parties late Friday night in Geneva. The...
2013/05/13 22:01
2013/05/13 22:01
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Billions of bite-sized snacks are about to appear in backyards across the Northeast. After nearly two decades living under the earth, cicadas are about to shake off the dirt and invade our great...
2013/05/13 13:39
2013/05/13 13:39
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A team of translation scholars from the Department for Translation Studies at the University of Vienna, in collaboration with terminologists from the Austrian Parliamentary Administration, the...
2013/05/06 22:05
2013/05/06 22:05
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May 6 - Ron Cao, a federal agriculture department researcher working on the campus of the University of Guelph, is studying pigweed as a potential crop and food for Ontario. Cao is assessing how the...
2013/05/01 15:17
2013/05/01 15:17
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Deep inside a high-security laboratory an hour from Melbourne, scientists working behind air-locked doors inject six-week-old chickens with a virus that has killed one in five...
2013/05/01 08:57
2013/05/01 08:57
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By ERIKA GRAY SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) declared that 2013 be recognized as “The International Year of the Quinoa.” Quin-what...
2013/04/29 04:30
2013/04/29 04:30
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Kenya and Uganda last week agreed on strategies to help end vulnerability due to uncontrolled cross-border movement of pastoralists and transmission of animal diseases. A memorandum of understanding,...
2013/04/27 04:13
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Consumer advocacy groups say if your baby formula contains, soy, corn or dairy, there is a good chance it also contains genetically modified ingredients. Unlike 60 other countries, the United States...
2013/04/26 13:29
2013/04/26 13:29
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Lilongwe — Each night Esnart Phiri, a widow with five children, sleeps outside the gates of the state-run maize trader or Admarc market, in Malawi's capital Lilongwe, as she waits for days on end to...
2013/04/23 05:32
2013/04/23 05:32
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Rome — The three Rome-based UN agencies - the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the World Food Programme...
2013/04/22 17:31
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Today we celebrate Earth Day, an international holiday designed to keep environmental issues on everyone's minds. Though Omaha has already had its official Earth Day festival, that doesn't mean the...
2013/04/19 22:33
2013/04/19 22:33
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As Earth Day approaches, many of us will be thinking of ways we can lighten our footprint on the planet. Sometimes the task seems daunting. But New York Times columnist Mark Bittman has a powerful...
2013/04/19 09:29
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Nairobi — A 24-year-old doctor and environmentalist from Nigeria has won the 2013 World Environment Day blogging competition after picking up almost half of close to 70,000 votes cast in an online...
2013/04/18 21:46
2013/04/18 21:46
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The Southern African Feed Manufacturers’ Association (SAFMA) was officially launched following an agreement at the 4th Global Feed & Food Congress in Sun City, South Africa, under the auspices of...