Agriculture

Future Food: Nigeria - 'Near or Far?'

Nigerian Minister for Agriculture, Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina believes it is his job to ensure Nigerians eat food grown in Nigeria – and he’s determined to overcome the obstacles to Nigerian self-sufficiency in food production. He has also provoked a debate - on a globalized planet should countries like Nigeria really try to grow all their own food?

Note: A series of 6 x 25-min films exploring key questions around global food security

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Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, Food Security, Nigeria, Imports, Farmers, Food Supply
Energy

The impacts of biofuel targets on land-use change and food supply

This study analyzes the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-use change, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using a global computable general equilibrium model, augmented by a land-use module and detailed representation of biofuel sectors.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2010
Govinda R. Timilsina, John C. Beghin, Dominique van der Mensbrugghe, & etal
The World Bank
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Biofuel, Ethanol, Biodiesel, Land Use, Food Supply, India, Developing Countries, Energy
Energy

Budget passed, fuel duty rollback pleas rejected

PARLIAMENT on Tuesday passed the budget 2010-11 with the finance minister Pranab Mukherjee remaining firm and turning down all pleas for a rollback of increase in duties on fuel.

Publication Date: 
05/05/2010
Economic Times (New Delhi)
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Food Supply, Fuel Efficiency, Energy, Parliament, India, Economic Times (New Delhi), Budget, Fuel Pricing
Pesticides And Toxins

Chemically treated fruits flood market in Narail

Sale of seasonal summer fruits ripened with harmful chemical carbide continues unabated in all the markets of Narail and Jessore towns posing a serious threat to public health.

Market sources said a section of traders are selling carbide- ripened summer fruits after treating those with formalin.

Publication Date: 
05/06/2009
New Nation (Bangladesh)
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Chemical Fertilisers, Pesticides, Food Supply, Health Effects, Mango, Bangladesh, Toxins
Agriculture

 Brief

land compensation Tikait arrested Bhartiya Kisan Union leader Mahendra Singh Tikait was arrested in Ghaziabad on August 18. He was on his way to lend support to a farmers

Publication Date: 
14/09/2008
Down to Earth
Tags:
Land Acquisition, Agriculture, Food Policy, Food Prices, Food Supply, Sugar Industry, Diesel, Farmers, Conflicts, Compensation, Energy, Exports, Venezuela, India, Uttar Pradesh, Noida, Reliance Petrochemicals, Fuel Pricing
Food Policy
Central Food Technological Research Institute
Agriculture, Agricultural Research, Food Policy, Food Supply, Food Process Industry, Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), Delhi
Food Policy
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution
Food Policy, Food Supply, Food Storage, Delhi
Food Policy
Ministry of Food Processing Industries
Food Policy, Food Supply, Processed Foods, Food Process Industry, Delhi
Biodiversity

UN Experts To Say 2010 Biodiversity Target Elusive

Nearly 200 governments will say next week they are unlikely to meet a target of slowing the rate of extinctions of living species by 2010, a failure which could threaten future food supplies. Up to 5,000 delegates and some heads of state, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, will try to agree at the Convention of Biological Diversity in the German city of Bonn on ways to save plant and animal species.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2008
Planet Ark (Australia)
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Pollution, Food Supply, Habitat, Biodiversity, UN, Germany
Energy

The drive for fuel

The production of clean energy for transportation makes demands on resources that are already scarce. Biofuels can contribute to a solution, but only to a limited extent. (Editorial)

Publication Date: 
30/04/2008
Nature Geoscience
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Land Use, Wasteland Development, Bio Fuel Crops, Food Prices, Food Supply, Alternative Fuels, Biofuel, Transport, Energy

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