Transgénicos. A favor o en contra?
- Transgénicos
- 09 Mar 2016
En este artículo analizamos los transgénicos intentando dar respuesta a la pregunta de si son beneficiosos o no en el ámbito del medio ambiente y salud, la economía y ante el consumidor.
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Por qué era necesario un acuerdo final del COP21
- Causas del cambio climático
- 16 Dec 2015
El sector de la agricultura es uno de los grandes implicados en el cambio climática. Por tanto, los agricultores deben participar en el desarrollo de las estrategias de mitigación y adaptación al mismo amparados con la ayuda de los gobiernos y administraciones pertinentes para cumplir con los objetivos establecidos
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Bioenergía: Potencial y riesgos.
- 30 Jul 2015
La bioenergía debiera ser un debate básicamente energético y ambiental es materia de oportunidades de negocios para el sector del agro pero en realidad allí comienzan los problemas.
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General-Governador toma de assalto terras do Kwanza-Sul
- Maka Angola
- 27 Nov 2014
General Eusébio de Brito Teixeira tem vindo a requerer a si próprio autorização para a legalização de terrenos destinados à agro-pecuária e à construção de condomínios. Através de um esquema habilmente montado, o governador e os seus filhos somam já a posse de mais de 30 000 hectares.
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South Africa: land reform - cloud cuckoo land or calculus of power?
- Daily Maverick
- 12 Aug 2014
Significant strands within the ruling ANC appear to believe the answer to poor black marginalisation and de-agrarianisation lies in the recreation of a rural idyll of ‘vibrant’ local economies, disciplined workers, benign farm owners, virtuous peasant farmers and omnipotent chiefs.
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Can We Prevent A Food Breakdown?
- 12 Mar 2014
As food supplies have tightened, a new geopolitics of food has emerged—a world in which the global competition for land and water is intensifying and each country is fending for itself.
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Can the World Feed China?
- 25 Feb 2014
Overnight, China has become a leading world grain importer, set to buy a staggering 22 million tons in the 2013–14 trade year. As recently as 2006—just eight years ago—China had a grain surplus and was exporting 10 million tons. What caused this dramatic shift?
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India's Dangerous 'Food Bubble'
- 04 Dec 2013
Unfortunately, a growing share of the water that irrigates three-fifths of India's grain harvest is coming from wells that are starting to go dry. This sets the stage for a major disruption in food supplies for India's growing population.
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Moving Up the Food Chain
- 25 Nov 2013
In every society where incomes have risen, the appetite for meat, milk, eggs, and seafood has generated an enormous growth in animal protein consumption. Today some 3 billion people are moving up the food chain.
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Dealing With Desertification
- 25 Sep 2013
With desertification becoming more of an apparent issue, are we doing enough to stop it from becoming a widespread irreversible problem?
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Weekly roundup of the most insightful farmland investment & agribusiness themed reports and whitepapers
- Land Commodities
- 17 Sep 2013
Newly released reports, academic papers and research with relevance to agriculture.
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As Chinese farmers fight for homes, suicide Is ultimate protest
- New York Times
- 09 Sep 2013
Over the past five years, at least 39 farmers have killed themselves rather than leave their land. The figures are a stark reminder of how China’s new wave of urbanization is at times a violent struggle between a powerful state and stubborn farmers.
