Here, wheat rust is moving through international trade....
In NSW, a recent consignment of wheat seed from Ethiopia was found to have fungal spores growi...
Black cross leaf spot: an emerging threat to banana industry ----------------------------------...
Dec 04, 2008
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More news about virus-free cassava cuttings, this one from Burundi
Just five years ago, Mr. Nduwiman was not so pleased with his crops. At that time, an aggressive...
Lots of issues here. Free speech. National security. Also, the concept from McLuhan, the medium ...
Dec 02, 2008
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FAO efforts in pest and disease monitoring....
http://www.fao.org/ag/portal/archive/detail/en/item/8746/icode/?no_cache=1
Dec 01, 2008
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We often hear that one of the biggest constraints to cassava farmers is marketing and post harve...
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=129605
Dec 01, 2008
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move from Banana chips to cassava chips for a Jamaican company....
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20081130/business/business2.html
Dec 01, 2008
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CIAT' newsletter piece on our drought study.
http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/e_newsletter/newsletter_02/enews02_story4.htm
Nov 28, 2008
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About Rattan Lal's work on soil carbon. Interesting stuff here: 5 to 15% of emissions could be r...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040614080953.htm
Nov 26, 2008
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Good piece about US efforts to account for carbon storage in the soil. It is quite a large propo...
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/feb01/bank0201.htm
Nov 26, 2008
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Nice description of carbon in the soil. Clay binds carbon. No-till agriculture is a good way to ...
http://www.geotimes.org/jan02/feature_carbon.html
Nov 26, 2008
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I have not fully checked out the entire page, but this looks like a very useful site.....They ha...
Lots of interesting stuff in this news report on cassava brown streak disease: * threatens a...
Cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) is spreading at an alarming rate in almost all districts o...
Looks like this will be a good new journal. Could be good for anything on impact assessment rela...
http://www.springer.com/life sci/agriculture/journal/12571
Nov 25, 2008
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You need a subscription to see the full article (which I don't have)....but, note, for the first...
http://www.automotiveworld.com/AEA/content.asp?contentid=72631
Nov 24, 2008
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Not much information about this. But adding more shelf life to cassava could potentially make a ...
RESEARCH is on to prolong the life of cassava tubers after harvest. Dr. Yona Baguma, a resear...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200811190062.html
Nov 24, 2008
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In the UK, scientists from Rothamsted Research and Diamond Light Source have devised a technique...
http://www.lightsources.org/cms/?pid=1003129
Nov 24, 2008
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After years of massive crop losses caused by a devastating virus, farmers are harvesting healthy...
http://biopact.com/2008/11/fao-reports-major-success-healthy.html
Nov 23, 2008
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See the final paragraph on cassava in Uganda and how it is coming back, doing well, despite the ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katine/2008/nov/19/africa-news
Nov 21, 2008
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Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but the...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/health/research/20happy.html?em
Nov 21, 2008
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Cassava is the staple food for most people in the Republic of Congo, but this main source of nou...
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Nice to have some good news about harvests coming out of Africa, in this case surpluses in North...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200811120923.html
Nov 17, 2008
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Economics of biofortification from authors who have been working on this for some time....