Sharing the Ascension Experience
This time of year, most of the Western world is focusing on holiday indulgences: how many presents to buy, how many lights and candles to festoon the home, and how many sweets and feasts to offer family and friends. However, for many people in drought-stricken Africa, food and water will be in perilously short supply … Read more
The government of Pakistan is getting ready to lift the ban on Indian wheat import as the country faces a shortfall of one million tons this year. “Islamabad will allow purchase of 0.1 million tons wheat from India to meet the country’s requirements and offset the adverse impact of anticipated crisis due to less than … Read more
During the last 32 years since Bangladesh became an independent nation in 1971 production of rice, the main staple food, has exceeded 19 million tons per year, whereas it was only about 8 million tons in 1971. In spite of the fact that population has increased steadily, the availability of rice today for every man, … Read more
“I think that if a product on the supermarket shelf has a label, ‘Proudly brought to you by the international pirates plundering the toothfish of the Southern Ocean’, it wouldn’t sell terribly well. Conversely, if the label said, ‘This comes from a sustainable fishery’, that does have an impact.”More than a decade ago Dr Keith … Read more
Land cleared for planting as world demand rocketsThe dry, yellowing fields stretch out to the horizon, past shiny new silos, their polished tin gleaming in the noon sunshine. Beside freshly hoed fields stand new tractors and ploughs. This is the Amazon, a vast lung producing 20% of the earth’s oxygen, and home to 30% of … Read more
Dickson Despommier’s hydroponic metropolis would squeeze sprawling farmland into skyscrapers, feed millions, and cool the Earth. Nearly 41 percent of Earth’s land is now used for agriculture, yet we’re on the brink of vast population growth, from 6.7 billion people today to an estimated 9.2 billion by 2050, with the majority living in cities. The … Read more
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday said that malnutrition and famine were one of the most serious problems of the current era that should be urgently addressed.The world has enough food for everyone but despite this, inadequate nourishment and famine still continue to affect one out of seven people in the world, Erdoğan said at … Read more
Beijing will start a daily report mechanism on food safety during the “Good Luck Beijing” International tournaments officially to kick off on Aug 8, a test run for a food safety monitoring system designed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.Sources with the Beijing Municipal Food Safety Office said that Beijing is going to share this system … Read more
Norway’s revived electric carmaker, now called “Think Global,” is raising more capital with the goal of producing 10,000 cars a year by 2009. Now Jan-Olaf Willums, chief executive of Think Global, appears to have some solid investors behind him. The firm started rolling again earlier this year, with a line-up including retailing tycoon Stein-Erik Hagen, … Read more
Phenolics or Polyphenols are the structural ‘backbone’ for most of the antioxidants found in plants. Plants construct complex phenolic compounds that serve a variety of functions as defense mechanisms and through interactions with other organisms. They may function to protect the plant from insects, diseases, and environmental stress. Phenolics also determine certain desirable plant properties … Read more