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• GM Food Safe, Animal Study Suggests … Or Does It?

  
  Organic Common Sense — Authority: 502
  There is something afoot, Mr. Watson. Conflicting tales of great proportion. Information is being posted on the web about the results of a 3 year study on the adverse affects of Bt maize on pigs. These articles are claiming that the study had no adverse health effects in the pigs, please see below. “A three year ...
  5 days ago

• Ancient Peruvians ‘ate popcorn’

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 164
  http://www.bbc.co.uk Ancient Peruvians ‘ate popcorn’ Research carried out on maize found at archaeological sites in Peru suggests it was eaten much earlier than previously thought, including in the form of popcorn. published date:Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:58:37 GMT
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• Snacks of Ancient America

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 416
  People were eating popcorn in Peru thousands of years ago, say scientists. They did it without accompanying movies, cardboard tubs, or even pottery. Corncobs, husks, stalks and tassels from 6,700 to 3,000 years ago were found at mound sites on Peru’s northern coast. Read about it in an upcoming issue of the ...
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• Richard Maize

  
  Richard Maize — Authority: 115
  Richard Maize : Richard Maize Golf | the online resource for golf enthusiast, news, sports and gear.
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• Richard Maize

  
  Richard Maize — Authority: 115
  Richard Maize : Get my business mentoring kit and news on CEO mentoring and small business guidance.
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• Ring Out the Old: Corn Ethanol Subsidy Dies

  
  NotionsCapital — Authority: 416
  Death notice: U.S. Corn Ethanol Production Subsidy , age 30. Expired on December 31, 2011. Unmourned by all but the most callous corn lobbyists. Subsidies added costs to fuel and groceries, put more Americans on food stamps, and increased world hunger and starvation . Good politics in Iowa , though. “Over ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maize gene could lead to bumper harvest

  
  world.edu — Authority: 122
  The discovery of a new ‘provisioning’ gene in maize plants that regulates the transfer of nutrients from the plant to the seed could lead to increased crop yields and improve food security. Scientists from Oxford University and the University of Warwick, in collaboration with agricultural biotech research company ...
  2 weeks ago

• Old man stoned to death for ‘stealing’ maize

  
  Malawi news — Authority: 481
  Villagers in Malawi’s border district of Mchinji have killed in an uncannily manner a  senior citizen and one of their own after they allegedly caught him stealing maize. Almost certainly, the deceased, 65-year-old Tasiyano Agripa, met his fate due to food deficit. The old man died the most heartrending way after ...
  2 weeks ago

• Editorial: Forex, Fuel and now Maize?

  
  Malawi news — Authority: 481
  Any Malawian asked to name the one thing that, whatever the case, should always be available, would name food. And in Malawi, food is synonymous with nsima to get which, one must have maize. We could encourage our people to diversify eating habits, or to experiment with this and that, or we could even bring KFC and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nepal’s Monsanto Seed Sovereignty Debate Highlights Need For Home-Grown Solutions

  
  AsianScientist.com | Online News and Information For The Asian Student, Post-Doc and Research Community — Authority: 495
  AsianScientist (Jan. 13, 2012) – An effort by U.S. donors and multinational agribusiness Monsanto to partner with Nepal to boost local maize production with imported hybrid seeds has met civil society opposition calling – instead – for home-grown solutions. “If an organization like USAID [US Agency for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Predicting Potential Ecological Distribution of the Maize Downy Mildew in China

  
  GIS Park — Authority: 118
  Downy mildews is a kind of serious disease on maize,caused by 9 kinds of pathogen in 3 genus,among them Peronosclerospora maydis,P.sacchari,P.philippinensis,P. sorghi and Sclerophthora rayssiae var.zeae were important quarantine pathogens in China. So it is of important significance in theory and application for risk ...
  2 weeks ago

• Poor Argentine, Brazilian harvests to pressure US corn prices

  
  Biofuels Digest — Authority: 476
  In the UK, Barclays Bank says that poor crops in Argentina and Brazil will mean more demand for US corn exports , in turn putting pressure on corn as a feedstock since increased export demand will boost prices and dent ethanol margins. The bank also expects the recent expiry of the VEETC to have a negative effect on ...
  2 weeks ago

• The REAL Top 10 for Plant Viruses

  
  ViroBlogy — Authority: 97
  A recent MicrobiologyBytes post reported a slightly older Molecular Plant Pathology paper as giving a “Top Ten” ranking for plant viruses – at least, those of “…perceived importance, scientifically or economically, from the views of the contributors to the journal”.  Specifically, the article authors ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nepal’s Monsanto Debate Spotlights Seed Sovereignty

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 138
  An effort by US donors and multinational agribusiness Monsanto to partner with Nepal to boost local maize production with imported hybrid seeds has met civil society opposition calling – instead – for home-grown solutions. “If an organization like USAID [US Agency for International Development] wants to help ...
  3 weeks ago

• We’re Women of Maize

  
  AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com — Authority: 110
  As I said before, it is impossible to think of the Guatemalan, Mexican and Mesoamerican diet without maize. From the Popul Vuh (Popol Wuj in modern spelling), the Mayan equivalent of the Bible, which states that humans were literally created from maize, to Miguel Ángel Asturias ‘ novel Hombres de maíz (Men ...
  3 weeks ago

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