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Opportunities and Barriers to Feeding the World’s Growing Population
2015-02-17 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - "Feeding the World 2015” is an excellent vehicle for promoting critical dialogue about the implications of the tremendous increase in food demand and changing food patterns, a topic that deserves increased public attention in the US and abroad, said Roger Johnson, National Farmers Union (NFU) president.
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Feeding the World Summit Puts A Spotlight on Opportunities and Barriers to Feeding the Worlds Growing Population
2015-02-13 03:08:26| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 12, 2015 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (Feb. 12, 2015) Feeding the World 2015 is an excellent vehicle for promoting critical dialogue about the implications of the tremendous increase in food demand and changing food patterns, a topic that deserves increased public attention here in the U.S. and abroad,
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Chinas Toxic Air Could Kill a Population the Size of Orlando
2015-02-06 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateDesk: The country`s pollution could contribute to 257,000 deaths over the next decade. If nothing is done to slash the levels of toxic smog in China`s air, some 257,000 Chinese people could die over the next decade from pollution-related diseases, according to a new study released this week by Peking University and Greenpeace. That really is a lot of people; it`s roughly equal to the population of Orlando, Fla., or Buffalo, N.Y. The researchers analyzed the 2013 levels of what`s known as PM2.5 pollutants--tiny...
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Industry At A Glance: Feedyard heifer population at lowest point in nine years
2015-01-26 23:03:00| Beef
USDAs first quarterly Cattle On Feed report of the year indicates that heifers and heifer calves represent 33.8% of the total feedyard population at the start of 2015. read more
Climate & population are linked but maybe not way you thought
2015-01-24 13:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Its not a topic that comes up in high-level international negotiations on climate change. Yet who would disagree that when individuals and couples use modern contraception to plan childbearing according to a schedule that suits them, they tend to have fewer children than they would otherwise? Could it be that this aspect of family planning, multiplied hundreds of millions of times, might lessen the severity of human-caused climate change and boost societies capacity to adapt to it? The Intergovernmental...
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