The European Parliament’s has adopted a report on the potential use of precision agriculture to help implement the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), released by the Joint Research Centre (JRC). Using information technology, satellite positioning systems and remote sensing, Precision agriculture is able to manage spatial and temporal variability associated with all aspects of agricultural production – crops and animal…
AVDRC-The World Vegetable Center is a global non-profit research institute supported by numerous governments et private fondations. « How vegetables can save the World » is a list is good with eating and growing vegetables: – Vegetables are powerful disease fighters against obesity, cancer, etc. – Vegetables are packed with nutrients – Vegetables are cost-effective – Vegetables adapt…
President Obama has charged the Pollinator Health Task Force with preparing a Research Action Plan to “determine the relative contributions of, and mitigation strategies for, different stressors leading to species declines and colony collapse disorder….” Although many factors ranging from nutrition to genetics to pathogens have been studied to assess whether or to what extent they contribute to bee…
Under this title, Terry Daynard, Ontario (Canada) grain farmer and former University of Guelph crop science professor, tells the story of his surprising experience at a recent organic conference in Guelph, Ontario. There were two very different conferences – both at the same time and place. In one room were the organic growers, marketers and advisers. The meeting was “a…
An international study coordinated by the University of Newcastle (UK) states that organic fruit and vegetables have higher levels of anti-oxydants and lower levels of heavy metals and pesticides residues. What’s about? University of Newcastle study conclusions read the study summary . Many medias have reported and approved these conclusions. The main points : – The study is…
“Whodunit: Unwitting Oregon Bee Killer Turns Self In” is a story on real facts, written by Bob the beekeeper, a professional beekeeper and American blogger, In June 2014, on her blog, Dena Rash Guzman, an Oregon (USA) citizen, hobbyist beekeeper, suspected neonicotinoids pesticides of of the mass bee die-off which striked her hives. Activist groups like Beyond Pesticides wasted…
Not so easy nowadays to speak about Monsanto without inducing emotional reactions. For a number of environmentalist NGO, Monsanto is the Devil. They claim « Vade retro Monsanto ». Being repeated, some myths on Monsanto are accepted as truth by the public. One of this very common myths is the fact that Monsanto is supposed to be the discoverer and…
In this story, which has been issued in some daily newspapers in the USA, Barbara Quinn, a nutritionnist, disagrees with the “Dirty Dozen” campaign of the EWG, a environmentalist NGO: It “may unnecessarily scare people from eating perfectly safe and healthy food”, she writes. “Even the EWG, which publishes the “dirty dozen” list, confirms “the health benefits of a…