Nacikgoz – Agriculture, biotechnology, climate change, biofuel, science will not give opportunity to the food crisis

Blockchain Use Begins in Agriculture

25/01/2021

Let’s consider blockchain technology as an application at the first stage. The technology in question makes use of artificial intelligence, image processing possibilities of a large number of data and a unique serial database technique. Readers may have heard of “bitcoin” system, which does not require a centralized management and where data is stored in… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, European Citizens Initiative

, Blockchain, blockchain application, Blockchain in agriculture, digital registry

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EU’s Pesticide Use Restrictions Unite Plant Breeders in a Joint Project

12/10/2020

The EU has rolled up its sleeves for new restrictions on pesticide use. It is aimed to reduce the use of pesticide by half as of 2030. Since Germen wheat producers apply fungicides more than twice a year to winter wheat (average treatment frequency 2019: 2.19), it can be easily predicted how pesticide use restrictions… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Entwicklungspolitik, EU Priorities 2020, Health & Consumers, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

, CRISPR-Cas9, GEN EDITING, GENOM EDITING, New Plant Breeding Techniques, plant breeding, transgenic

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Coronavirus Requires Urgent New Measures for Agriculture

01/04/2020

At the current monitoring stage of the corona virus, some may not grasp immediately its relationship with agriculture. When we ask “what will we eat tomorrow”, that food resources and farming come to our mind. We know that the rings in the food chain are always human focused: farming practices are carried out by human… » read more

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Agriculture & Food

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Meat Consumption May Be Very Effective in Climate Change

28/02/2020

According to the latest estimates, the average temperature is expected to increase by 1.3 C0 by 2050 and 1.2 – 3.7 C0 by 2100. In addition to the increase in temperature, drought also negatively affects agriculture. For example, in the drought, the plant cannot fully develop and ripens early, as a result the yield drops.… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, European Citizens Initiative, Science & Policymaking

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Plant-Based Meat Market Will Reach US$ 85 Billion In 2030’s

07/01/2020

A Swiss investment firm UBS estimates that the 4.6 billion dollars plant-based protein and meat market in 2018 will reach 85 billion dollars by 2030 . The same source adds that the plant-based milk market could reach 37.5 billion dollars for the 2025’s, while the improving health and welfare of society is the main driver… » read more

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Agriculture & Food

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A Record in Plant Breeding: New Varieties in the Fourth Year

30/11/2019

India is preparing for the announcement of two chickpea varieties developed in record time in four years by genome-supported plant breeding. In this first study of its kind, the genotypes in question are both drought tolerant and disease resistant. The varieties were developed in collaboration with the Agricultural Research Institute of India (IARI) and Raichur… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Science & Policymaking

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Russia’s Great Investment in Genetics and Breeding

24/06/2019

In an unexpected period, Russia announced that it has allocated a large amount of new breeding technologies (Literature). According to information from the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the targets of this US $ 1.7 billion investment of have been set to develop 10 new varieties of gene-edited crops and animals by 2020 and another… » read more

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Agriculture & Food

, biotechnology, biotechnology in Russia, gene editing, gene material, genome editing, GMO in Russia, plant breeding

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Urgent Need for Rural Revitalization

24/04/2019

During conversations in some countries on agricultural production, the expression of “the people have being deserting the villages” is used. In fact, this is a signal that we will in future be experiencing some problems in food production. The decreases in the rural populations in the countries, where the smallholder farmers are predominant mean the… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, EurActiv.com, European Citizens Initiative, Global Europe, Regional Policy, Sustainable Dev.

, evacuation of villages, family farming, family farms, Land consolidation, migration in agriculture, revitalizing rural, rural development, Smallholder-farmers, young population in agriculture

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What Will be the Future of Farmers?

22/03/2019

It is expected that the technological developments such as robotics and artificial intelligence, will reduce the human contribution in agriculture. Even if some farms with hundreds of animals have started to operate with only one person, the manpower in agriculture is the most important element. In farms, the owners and their families constitute the farmer’s… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Regional Policy, Science & Policymaking, Sustainable Dev.

, breaks from agriculture, climate change, family farms, farmers bankruptcy, farmers suicides, food crises, food systems, Russia's embargo, small farmers

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First Plant Product of Gen Editing: A New Soybean Variety

10/03/2019

At the beginning of 2019, soybean oil with improved quality did took its place on the market shelves. The mentioned soybean oil contains several times less saturated fatty acids and healthier oleic acid than ordinary soybeans. Their most striking feature is that they form less trans fatty acids in frying conditions. This new variety is… » read more

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Agriculture & Food, Climate & Environment, Development Policy, Health & Consumers, Innovation & Enterprise

, CRISPR-Cas9, GEN EDITING, GENOM EDITING, GMO, New Breeding Techniques, plant breeding, seed, soybean, world seed market

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