LANSING - May 1/08 - MFB -- Rising food costs in the United States and overseas are receiving a great deal of attention, and a range of complex factors are behind this relatively new phenomenon, according to American Farm Bureau Federation President (AFBF) Bob Stallman. He said ethanol is "not the culprit that American consumers are being led to believe," and stressed that renewable fuel and affordable food can coexist. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Mar 26/08 - SNS -- Increases in carbon dioxide is a major contributing factor to global warming. Since plants consume the gas, agriculture expected some yield benefits, but University of Illinois researchers believe those will be more thanoffset by insect attacks. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WEST LAFAYETTE - Mar 11/08 - SNS -- A newly defined biochemical pathway in plants may provide the scientific tools to design plants that will yield larger quantities of alternative transportation fuels than currently can be produced, according to Purdue University researchers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

CHICAGO - Jan 28/08 - SNS -- The United States does not have the infrastructure to handle the volume of ethanol which can be produced this year, argues Purdue University agricultural economist Wally Tyner. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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JOHANNESBURG - Jan 17/08 - IRIN -- A record 17 satellites are to be launched in 2008 in the largest-ever concerted global effort to monitor the impact of climate change over the next few decades, according to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), which is leading the initiative. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 19/07 - IRIN -- "They can see the trees, but not the forest," groaned a frustrated Slovenian environmental bureaucrat as a debate ran into the small hours of the morning in Bali over whether a "facility" or a "programme" would be appropriatefor the developing world to acquire technology to adapt to, and reduce, global warming. . . . Continue or visitors click here

FARGO - Dec 13/07 - NDSU -- Merger mania is sweeping the ethanol industry as both small and large firms are joining together to create even larger entities, says Cole Gustafson, North Dakota State University agriculture economist in the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics. Most notable was the purchase of U.S. Bio-Energy by Verasun of Brookings, S.D. Verasun is a publicly traded company, so the transaction was more visible than other mergers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 11/07 - IRIN -- Developing countries top a 2008 Climate Risk Index released in the Indonesian island of Bali, where the United Nations climate change conference is taking place. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BALI - Dec 10/07 - IRIN -- Increasing pressure caused by climate change on essential resources like water could not only trigger domestic conflicts but also have a destabilizing effect globally, warn UN officials. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Dec 3/07 - IRIN -- Officials stressed the need for "political will" to stem the impact of global warming as the United Nations Climate Change Conference got underway on the Indonesian island of Bali on 3 December. . . . Continue or visitors click here

ROME - Nov 13/07 - SNS -- Trade barriers along with environmental and social constraints are making it hard for the world to realize the full potential of biofuels, argues a report by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). . . . Continue or visitors click here

INDIAN HEAD - Nov 7/07 - AAFC -- The past two years have been filled with optimism regarding the use of vegetable oils from crops like canola as a partial replacement for diesel currently derived solely from fossil fuels. This optimism has also been reflected in higher prices for vegetable oil which is welcomed news for all producers. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LONDON - Nov 4/07 - SNS -- Green is the new normal in the United Kingdom, according to a recent survey by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). . . . Continue or visitors click here

KHULNA - Nov 1/07 - IRIN -- Sudhir Koiborto Das, a 60-year-old local farmer with two hectares of land, was doing well by Bangladeshi standards, but brackish sea water is now encroaching on his farm, rendering it useless. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Oct 31/07 - SNS -- Cargill plans to install an anaerobic digester at its CTP Harapan Sawit Lestari Palm Oil Mill and Plantation in Manis Mata, West Kalimantan, Indonesia in an effort to reduce annual greenhouse gas emissions by an average 54,000 metric tons (MT). . . . Continue or visitors click here

MBABANE - Oct 25/07 - IRIN -- The government of Swaziland announced this week that it would be allocating thousands of hectares to a private company to cultivate cassava for biofuel. About 40% of the country's one million people are facing acute food and water shortages. . . . Continue or visitors click here

JOHANNESBURG - Oct 23/07 - IRIN -- As oil prices soar and biofuel production becomes more attractive, especially to poor countries, a debate is raging over its possible impact on food security. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BRUSSELS - Oct 17/07 - SNS -- The amount of aid farmers can claim for growing biofuel crops will decline because the target area of two million hectares has been passed. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Oct 4/07 - SNS -- The federal government's ecoAgriculture Biofuels Capital (ecoABC) program will invest $5 million in a new ethanol plant at Unity, Saskatchewan. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Oct 2/07 - SNS -- Australia will get a lot hotter and drier in the coming years, according to a joint report by the country's Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Oct 1/07 - SNS -- ConocoPhillips and Archer Daniels Midland Company will collaborate on the development of renewable transportation fuels from biomass. . . . Continue or visitors click here

LONDON - Sep 21/07 - SNS -- A recent article by chemist Paul Crutzen in the magazine Chemistry World asserts there is no net benefit to the environment from producing and burning biofuels and that they may actually produce more greenhouse gas emissionsthan petroleum. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 20/07 - USDA -- Biofuel research isn’t just a matter of finding the right type of biomass—corn grain, soybean oil, animal fat, wood or other material—and converting it into fuel. Scientists must also find environmentally and economically sound uses for the by-products of biofuel production. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Brian Kerr and William Dozier have done just that. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Sep 5/07 - USDA -- Though less recognizable than corn, sorghum is no stranger to the grocery store shelf, as evidenced by the flour, syrup, gluten-free bread, and other sorghum-containing products there. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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