Thursday, October 11, 2012

Can science help improve food security?

BBC: Farming and retail experts warn that this year's poor UK's harvest is going to trigger a rise in food prices on supermarket shelves. The past 12 months have seen a range of extreme weather not just in this country, which experienced its second-wettest summer on record, but around the globe, such as the droughts in Russia and the US Midwest that effectively devastated these regions' wheat yields. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) latest figures showed that global food prices had...

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