It is expected that, world will need 50%-70% more food by 2050. The main reasons are global warming, increasing population and much more daily calories due to raising welfare. But population increase is causing dramatic fall in agricultural areas per person. Currently cultivated landis 1.38 billion hectares and unfortunately this is unfortunately not easy expanded.… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
Developments in recent years in environment, biodiversity, nutritional values of foods and climate change lead EU to rethink on food safety and security and they have been found strategically important. Actually a sector with €750 billion turnover annually (just value of crops grown in the EU is €205 billion) and 48 million employees deserves such… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
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Agriculture & Food, Sustainable Dev., Trade & Industry , agricultural investments, biotechnology, food production, GMO, PLANT REPRODUCTİVE MATERIAL, transgenic |
21/10/2013
During the last 15 years, world-transgenic (GMO) soy production has reached 80 million hectares which currently represents 80% of total acreage. The graph on the right shows the annual production figures. In 2012 in Brazil, the United States and Argentina total GMO soybean ratio were 88%, 92% and 100% respectively. These developments certainly make access… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
Recent unforeseen developments in world geography and expected demographic realities lead almost everyone to ask each other: “when will we be experiencing food crises?” Lately increasing climate change stories come to the point: S. Arabia has decided to stop up 2015 to grow one of the main crop (wheat) due to drought[1]. On the other… » read more
Posted by Nacikgoz
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Agriculture & Food, Sustainable Dev. , agricultural investments, biofuel, climate change, family farms, food crises, food production, global warming, Smallholder-farmers |
30/09/2013
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Posted by Nacikgoz
Agriculture, biotechnology, climate change, biofuel, science will not give opportunity to the food crisis
