Nacikgoz

AS EU RENEWING ITS SEED LEGISLATION: NOT SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES

30/11/2013

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

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Agriculture & Food, Sustainable Dev., Trade & Industry

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WILL “GMO-FREE” SOYBEAN PRODUCTION STOP?

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

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Agriculture & Food, Sustainable Dev., Trade & Industry

REORIENTATION NEED OF AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENTS

03/10/2013

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

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Agriculture & Food, Sustainable Dev.

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Nazimi Acikgoz’s first post…

30/09/2013

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

Nazimi Açıkgöz graduated from Ankara University in 1964 and earned his Ph D. degree at Munich Technical University in 1972. He then joined Ege University and worked there until his retirement in2009.

His rice breeding studies were supported by CENTO, NATO, IAEA and TUBITAK and at the end, a rice variety “TOAG92" has been registered. His studies on computer use in agriculture were on seed database management system and biostatistics. One of his packages TARIST (Agrostatistics) is still the only Turkish software in this area.

He is one of the founders of the “Seed Center” at Ege University, which has been directed between the years 1998-2004 by him. He was also one of the lead-author of World Bank’s IAASTD report.


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