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Plant Tweak Could Let Toxic Soil Feed Millions | Wired Science from Wired.com

UC Riverside scientists have a breakthrough that would allow genetic engineering to enable plants to become tolerant of aluminum toxicity. Apparently, much of the world's potentially arable land has that aluminum toxicity, and therefore can't be used for food production. Ths would circumvent that problem, and possibly signal a breakthrough into the second wave of a Green Revolution. (The first one has kind of reached its limits.)

Tags: wired_magazine, agriculture, bioneering, genetic_engineering, food, crops, paul_larsen on 2008-10-03 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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An Oil Quandary: Costly Fuel Means Costly Calories - New York Times

NYT article on the problems around "the other oil crisis," triggered not in small measure by our (West's) desire to circumvent fossil fuel dependence by relying on biofuels.

Tags: crops, energy, ethanol, food, fuel, geopolitics, oil, palm_oil on 2008-01-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Green Revolutionary

"Four decades ago, Norman E. Borlaug developed a wheat variety that fed the world. Now he's battling a pathogen whose spread could cause starvation."
- for doomsday-mongers, Borlaug was the party pooper who made sure that India would be able to feed itself. Today, we need that moxie again, more so in fact, given that governments have gotten cold feet about fighting the new variant of rust disease as well as helping Africa to food self-sufficiency. We should have a Marshall Plan for Africa, plus use all the biotech and modern methods available to ensure sufficient food, but it's not coming together.

Tags: africa, agriculture, food, mit_techreview, norman_borlaug, wheat, world_hunger on 2008-01-15 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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