What can Madagascar teach us about rice and water? | Guardian Sustainable Business | Gu... - 0 views
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"To meet the food needs of growing population, managing water resources used in rice farming has become a central focus"
Wild crop seeds could provide £128bn boost to economy, study shows | Environm... - 3 views
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"Research strengthens case for storing wild relatives of potato and apple crops to help humans adapt to climate change"
BioLite HomeStove Overview - BioLite Stove - 2 views
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"Half the planet cooks on smoky open fires, causing over 4 million premature deaths each year and contributing to climate change. Your purchase of the BioLite CampStove helps us fund the initial costs to build and support the HomeStove market abroad."
Will smart meters really help homeowners save energy? | Katherine Portilla | Environmen... - 2 views
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"Smart meters being fitted in UK homes will make energy use more visible, but it is not clear if technology alone will be enough to reduce energy consumption"
GM crops: the British public still need convincing | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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"Owen Paterson's speech is the latest in a long line of attempts by the government to persuade us to accept GM food"
GM crops won't help African farmers | Million Belay and Ruth Nyambura | Global developm... - 12 views
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"The UK's environment minister says GM crops will help combat hunger in developing countries. But Owen Paterson is wrong"
GM crops are safe, says Owen Paterson - video | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
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"Owen Paterson, the environment minister, says the UK should lead the way in Europe by growing genetically-modified crops that reduce the use of fertilisers and chemicals and are more efficient. But anti-GM campaigners say there is not enough evidence that GM techniques are not harmful on food and farming"
Google to launch blimps to carry wireless networks across Africa and Asia | memeburn - 4 views
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"Google has made it public knowledge for some time that it wants to connect the world to the internet. The challenge of facilitating this in remote areas has seen the search giant come up with some seemingly unorthodox methods, such as its TV white space project in South Africa. Now it's extending the use of existing technologies to provide wireless networks across Africa and Asia with blimps."
The inconvenient truth about GM - Telegraph - 2 views
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"Genetic modification has so far mainly been confined to developing crops that tolerate herbicides and resist pests. It has done little to increase yields"
New grass could help tackle flooding, say scientists | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 3 views
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"A new grass that cuts the water running off from fields by half could help stem the rising floods that global warming is bringing to the UK. The roots of the grass, a natural hybrid of rye and fescue grasses, produce more pores in the soil than traditional types, meaning more water can be stored."
Malawi warms to sustainable stoves - in pictures | Global development | guardian.co.uk - 5 views
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Is cloud seeding preventing further flooding in Indonesia? | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 2 views
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"Indonesia is banking on an unusual strategy to prevent further flooding in its inundated capital Jakarta, and officials claim that they are already seeing positive results. They are using 'cloud seeding' - a weather modification technology often resorted to during drought. The method involves injecting clouds with substances that encourage the formation of ice crystals heavy enough to fall, thereby speeding up the production of rain."
India's rice revolution - audio slideshow | Global development | Observer Food Monthly - 5 views
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"Farmers in parts of India are breaking growing records, using less seed, less water, and compost as fertiliser. This ground-breaking method of cultivation, developed in Madagascar, is boosting yields and changing lives for the farmers. Norman Uphoff, professor at Cornell University, explains how it is done For more on this subject, see John Vidal's report in the Observer Food Monthly on Sunday"
India's rice revolution | Global development | The Observer - 3 views
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In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice - with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages? * India's rice revolution - audio slideshow
After 30 years, is a GM food breakthrough finally here? | Environment | The Observer - 6 views
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"Golden rice, a new strain that boosts vitamin A levels and reduces blindness in developing countries, is about to be sown in the Philippines - and is the new battleground crop"
India named least green country for electric cars | Environment | guardian.co.uk - 1 views
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Paraguay is the greenest place on earth to make and drive an electric car, according to analysis by independent research group, Shrink That Footprint, which has assessed the impact of grid-powered electric vehicles (EV) in twenty of the world's leading countries.
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