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The tricky task of protecting plants in a globalized age

(FAO) Odds are, today you ate something that came from another hemisphere. A mind-boggling $1.1 trillion worth of agricultural products are traded internationally each year, with food items accounting for 82 percent of the total. And where fruit or plants can travel, so too can less-savory characters. Fruit fly eggs hidden in the skins of  Read More »

The tricky task of protecting plants in a globalized age

The governing body of the International Plant Protection Treaty today wraps up its annual meeting in Rome, having approved two modified phytosanitary measures aimed at preventing plant pests and diseases from spreading via international trade. Every year global crop yields are reduced by somewhere between 20 and 40 percent due to plant pests and diseases,  Read More »

Biosecurity must improve to combat bird flu

(FarmersWeekly) An outbreak of a new strain of avian influenza in China has prompted calls for people to change how poultry is sold, kept and slaughtered in the country. A H7N9 strain of avian influenza has been identified for the first time in humans in China, causing six deaths and prompting the Food and Agricultural  Read More »

Subsidies and GM crops back

(IRINNews) Food has become expensive and seems set to stay that way, so growing more of it has become both a necessity and an attractive investment. But the trend has also put contentious issues like agricultural subsidies and genetically modified (GM) crops on the menu once again. IRIN talked to some of the leading food  Read More »

Subsidies and GM crops back – IRINnews.org

Subsidies and GM crops backIRINnews.orgNone of this is to say that we don't need sound biosafety regulation, but that should be based on science and national priorities, not driven by the misinformed anti-science views of a few international NGOs." A new measure of productivity …

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