Agric4profits

MAY 21, 2024

Maize/Corn kernels are the seeds of the maize plant and are rich in carbohydrates, providing a significant source of energy for human consumption, livestock fee

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Maize Livestock Seeding Production 59

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Maybe he’d like to have a look at the the Crop Trust’s endowment fund for SDG 2.5 ? Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. Those farming project don’t have to involve orphan crops , but it wouldn’t hurt. Ok, do Genesys next.

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Agri-tech

AUGUST 24, 2023

Research has brought clarity to the longstanding question of how starch granules form in the seeds of Triticeae crops – wheat, barley, and rye – unlocking diverse potential benefits for numerous industries and for human health.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Public–private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa. Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms. Efforts to improve crop adaptation and resilience to climate change need to take gender into account if they are to work.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Here, we look at some crops that might fare well as UK temperatures increase, and consider how these might fit into a more sustainable farming system. On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Here, we look at four potential candidates.

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Crop Food Maize Production 52

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 114

Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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Maize Food Agroecology Seeding 142

Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season.

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Seeding Food Agriculture Agriculture 60

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Its 2,800 acres—the first protected habitat for the wild relatives of crops in the United States—now shelter not just a single pepper but at least 45 different species. Forest Service to identify and collect other wild relatives of crops in this area. In the U.S. Arizona is the third driest state in the U.S.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 118

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Everything from the number of farms, to the types of crops, to how they get to market, have all become more consolidated in recent decades. Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The organization introduces beneficial plants called green manure/cover crops which fertilize the soil, control weeds, and respond to periods of drought. Crop Trust , International Crop Trust is dedicated to conserving plant genetic resources to promote sustainable agriculture and support global food security. food culture.

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