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  • ...supposed to contribute to sustainable improvements in the productivity of agriculture and in particular, as we have noted, to help low income people. But IRRI pr ...on of IRRI's HYVs has created excellent opportunities for costly intensive agriculture inputs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, IRRI's annual reports from 1963-1982 sh
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  • ...Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development; United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.</ref> The majority of this was from the conversion of maize i ...y-framework&catid=21:food-sovereignty-and-trade&Itemid=38 Towards a Common Agriculture and Food Policy 2013 within a food sovereignty framework], Via Campesina, 1
    16 KB (2,375 words) - 20:55, 6 September 2010
  • ...on Agency]], the [[European Food Safety Authority]] ([[EFSA]]), [[Food and Agriculture Organisation]] of the [[United Nations]] (FAO), and the [[World Health Orga
    27 KB (3,759 words) - 09:52, 31 August 2015
  • ...loping export markets for U.S. grains as part of an effort to promote U.S. agriculture's profitability. Its membership funds trigger matching market development f
    4 KB (615 words) - 14:31, 4 September 2009
  • ..., publicly expressed his concern at the 'polarisation of discussion about agriculture', and declared it part of the JIC's vision to seek to foster balanced debat ...s can contribute substantially to minimizing environmental consequences of agriculture for future generations.
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  • ...ref> This is a miniscule number for a country of almost 1 billion in which agriculture provides the most common source of employment. New Delhi-based Food and Tra
    6 KB (923 words) - 14:44, 19 April 2009
  • ...de will continue to dig and ferret out information on these and other anti-agriculture groups. We intend to shine a very bright light on these groups and hold the .... In 1968 Representative Joseph Resnick of New York, a member of the House Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Rural Development, [http://ww
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  • ...fety or farming issues. However, he had, at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture Food and Fisheries (MAFF), designed the so-called 'Krebs experiments' to i ...ms that organic farming is more environmentally friendly than conventional agriculture.
    9 KB (1,469 words) - 14:49, 30 March 2015
  • ...in the public's mind because of its similarity to the government-appointed Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission.<ref>Andy Rowell, "[http://society
    64 KB (7,145 words) - 05:44, 6 March 2018
  • ...he director of John Innes Bioprospects Ltd, and the director of John Innes Agriculture. The JIC's biggest commercial investor has been biotechnology giant [[Synge ...hey benefit from the pesticides sprayed onto neighbouring fields. 'Organic agriculture thrives because it has a cordon sanitaire of conventional crops around it,'
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  • [[Limagrain]] also owns the United States-based company [[Biotechnica Agriculture]]. Limagrain Canada is owned by Monsanto. ([http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2 [[Category: Food and Agriculture Industry]][[Category:GM]]
    3 KB (376 words) - 21:56, 17 March 2009
  • ...er measure of realism and better balance in the UK's public discussions on agriculture and food.<ref>"[http://www.cropgen.org/ Home Page]", CropGen website, acces
    3 KB (376 words) - 20:29, 18 March 2009
  • ...ls, from those in rubber duckies and plastic bottles to pesticides used in agriculture, are completely bogus, while most of the others represent only negligible r
    8 KB (1,196 words) - 18:13, 17 March 2010
  • Murphy, like Smetacek, also targets support for organic agriculture: 'Organic agriculture is lower yielding and thus more expensive; it uses dangerous chemicals... a
    5 KB (856 words) - 20:56, 19 May 2009
  • Kimball Nill also works for the [[Agriculture Commodity Coalition]] which is a group of 14 farm commodity organizations,
    2 KB (242 words) - 14:41, 7 March 2009
  • ...o and the regulators]). Resources For the Future turned their attention to agriculture in 1984 with funding from the Kellogg Foundation. ...onth every year. There just isn't a future for a vast expansion of organic agriculture,' says Gianessi. ([http://westernfarmpress.com/ar/farming_ncfap_study_touts
    12 KB (1,776 words) - 13:11, 9 September 2009
  • ...k]], a leading US agronomist and former Executive Director of the Board on Agriculture for the US National Academy of Sciences, has contradicted the claims made b
    6 KB (993 words) - 17:50, 3 February 2009
  • ...llab Ghosh]] reported, 'GM crops can contribute substantially to improving agriculture in developing countries, an independent scientific think-tank has concluded ...of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world.'
    15 KB (2,409 words) - 14:55, 4 September 2009
  • ..., is an expert on plant pathology who is the foundation&#39;s director for agriculture as well as its president.
    3 KB (533 words) - 16:49, 4 March 2006
  • ...blished in 1993, to facilitate internal co-ordination among the sectors of agriculture; science, technology, and industry; environment; and trade{{ref|3}}.
    4 KB (523 words) - 16:59, 12 December 2008

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