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World food security at risk as crop yields plateau
2013-11-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: For the last decade and a half, a mysterious and worrisome trend has emerged in the farming world that has sent farmers, scientists and policy makers looking for answers. Crop yields -- how much of a crop is harvested per hectare -- for some of the world's major grains like rice, wheat and corn have gone from increasing year after year to plateauing in many of the world's biggest grain producers. Until about the middle of the 20th century, the only way farmers knew to increase production...
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China's 'Bacon Buy': National Security Risk, or Just Business as Usual?
2013-07-16 10:11:18| Food - Topix.net
The transition from delicious domestic product to topic of a Congressional hearing last week began in May when China's largest meat producer purchased the United States' biggest pork company, Smithfield Foods .
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Supply Chain Security Service streamlines risk assessment.
2013-06-20 14:29:16| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Encompassing threat and risk assessment of supply chain security as well as customized supplier verification audits, Supply Chain Verification (VerifEye) helps conserve time and company resources by ensuring organizational policies – business continuity plans, corporate social responsibility, and sustainable business practices – are adhered to. After verification, detailed report highlights areas of non-compliance or under-performance to support effective risk mitigation. This story is related to the following:Supply Chain Management Services
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security
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Canada to introduce security risk assessment system at airports
2013-04-30 01:00:00| Airport Technology
The Canadian Government is planning to introduce a security risk assessment system at airports in the country, which would assist in identifying, analysing and prioritising risks based on threat.
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canada
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Internal-use SSL certificates pose security risk for upcoming domain extensions
2013-03-18 15:11:57| InfoWorld: Top News
The practice of issuing SSL certificates for internal domain names with unqualified extensions could endanger the privacy and integrity of HTTPS communications for upcoming generic top-level domains (gTLDs), according to a security advisory from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
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