Report supports sustainable food production
... practices, and discusses the emerging sustainable agriculture movement that offers a viable alternative to the d...an explains that todays conventional or industrial agriculture is considered unsustainable because it erodes natural resources faster than the environment can rege...Does a vegan diet have a moral basis?
...ind stable habitat in untilled fields. And no-till agriculture also helps stabilize soil and reduce run-off into streams. "Pasture-forage production, with herbivores harvesting the forage, would be the ultimate in 'no-till' agriculture," Davis said. Davis proposes a ruminant-pasture model of food production, w...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...h expertise in the appropriate technical fields in agriculture and engineering. Purdue selected not one, but two minority universities as partners one with exceptional engineering researchers and the other with world-class agricultural scientists, Mitchell said. "Purdue conducted a nationwide search for minorit......plant-eating mammals has already been converted to agriculture and has lost its diversity. Another 25 percent of the prime regions may be converted to agriculture over the next 25 years. The researchers predict that by 2025, less than 1.2 percent of the earths su...Agri-tech innovations promise better food security
...at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, joined agriculture experts and agronomists at a AAAS session entitled, "Sustainable Agriculture in the Developing World: Innovative Examples." Koma Yang Siang, Executive Director of the Centre d'Etude et de Developpement Agricole, discussed recent innovations in Cambo...AAAS awards the Philip Abelson Prize to 'Green Revolution' champion Norman Borlaug
...echniques. Borlaug works on improving traditional agriculture techniques as well, to optimize crop production with lower production cost. In what some call a new agricultural revolution, transformation to "low-till" farming, which leaves more mulch on the ground, as opposed to thorough and repeated plowing, can...Corporations and environmentalists can be allies to reduce industrys ecological footprint
...wide range of fields, including energy and mining, agriculture and fisheries, travel and leisure, climate change, water and forestry. Bowles oversaw CIs work in the areas of policy research, natural resource economics, finance and law. Footprints illustrates the strategic thinking behind the creation of The ...Poorer farmers benefit most from organic practices
...n and enhance the environmental resources on which agriculture in the South depends. It argues for an increase in...:This exciting new report makes clear that organic agriculture and agroecology can meet the requirements of the worlds population but it should be embedded in the ...Comparing ag and industrial runoff between estuaries
...us levels -- indicating runoff from industry and agriculture -- in the world's waters will be discussed today (Feb. 13) at the American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences meeting, at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. "There have been many studies around the globe of the world's estuaries and coastal wate...Mating molds provide new insights into speciation and human reproduction
...mber of industries - including pharmaceuticals and agriculture - are particularly interested in using PTGS to screen for disease resistance, flavor enhancement and other commercially valuable traits by turning off several genes simultaneously. "MSUD could provide a quick and dirty way of testing how genes functi...US ecology dramatically altered by fertilizers and acid rain
...he impact of nitrogen pollution from acid rain and agriculture may be more dramatic in years to come than previously thought. That's because North American forests are still young, after recovering from past logging and agricultural clear-cutting. Young trees use nitrogen from the soil for growth, but as they ma...South American forests offer glimpse of U.S. ecosystems before industrial revolution
...he impact of nitrogen pollution from acid rain and agriculture may be more dramatic in years to come than previously thought. The nation's forests, which are currently recovering from past logging and agriculture, serve as a buffer that lessens the impact of nitrogen pollution. For every ton of nitrogen deposite...Genetic marker tells squash domestication story
...have pushed to fill in many gaps in the history of agriculture in the humid tropics where archaeological evidence is extremely hard to come by. Last year, Dolores Piperno, archaeologist and staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and colleagues reported the first use of Cucurbita...UNC botanist spearheads ongoing effort to curtail movement of pest plant species
...alter their new environments and eventually damage agriculture and other economic and aesthetic interests. No matter where you are in the world -- Japan, Australia, South America, North America, Hawaii -- pest plant invaders are coming from other places to compete with and sometimes wipe out native species, sai...Institute to counter agricultural terrorism formalized
...id Ed Hiler, Texas A&M vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences. "This issue is of utmost import...he entire United States," Hiler noted. "Our food, agriculture and water are at risk, and we need to be prepared. We want to formalize this institute to solidify o...Scientists developing strategies for upcoming phosphorus mandates
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A reality of Illinois agriculture is phosphorus, a consequence of keeping soils fertile to produce food, feed and fiber. University of Illinois researchers say that around the state, levels of soil-test phosphorus range from a low five pounds per acre to an excessively high 1,000 po...Earth's 'last edens' receive $20 million boost
...ks and reserves to areas where logging, mining and agriculture predominate. The Living Landscapes approach specifically targets these areas beyond park boundaries. Through analysis of resident human population requirements, coupled with a thorough understanding of the needs of landscape species, the Wildlife Co...Studying plant adaptation to arctic helps understand the 'steps of wisdom of life'
...e opposite scenario, the deforestation of land for agriculture or sale of wood or creation of living space. At the same time, many farms are being abandoned and vegetation and trees are re-growing, but they are deforesting faster than the land is replenishing. I predict that carbon dioxide will go closer to it...Lilly Endowment grants almost $26 million to Purdue Discovery Park
...arning the gene sequences of insects important for agriculture and identifying critical proteins involved in aggressive stinging behavior in bees. New tools in genomics and proteomics will help Purdue researchers improve the quality and production of hardwood trees that are important for the furniture industry. ......ist of diseases posing the greatest threat to U.S. agriculture and forestry. We have always been vulnerable to diseases from other countries, states Dr. Larry Madden, a plant pathologist at Ohio State University But with increasing world trade and more people traveling, the threat has increased substantially in ...