Agriculture
International Symposium on Agricultural Research
Submitted by Anonymous on March 6, 2008 - 3:19pm.Title:
International Symposium on Agricultural Research
Description:
28-31 August 2008, Agrinio, Greece
The Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural
Products of the University of Ioannina (Agrinio Campus) in collaboration
with the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.)
organizes an International Symposium on Agricultural Research, 28-31
August 2008. The conference website is:
http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Agriculture.htm
The registration fee is 250 (euro), covering access to all sessions,
dinners, lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special
arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms
at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will
be organized: A Greek night of entertainment (free with registration), a
special one-day cruise etc.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of all related disciplines. Areas of interest include (but are not confined to):
Botany, Ecology and Nature Conservation, Waste Management, Rural
Development, Biomass, Animal Behavior, Geochemistry, Computers in
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition, Plant and Tree Studies, Sea Studies,
Marine, Agriculture Engineering, Crop Studies, Agronomy, Soil, Mycology,
Fish, Forest, Genetics, Agribusiness, Hydrology, Land Use and Policy,
Pesticides, Plant Pathology, Veterinary Sciences
Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference
Proceedings.
Please submit a 300-word abstract by 17th of March 2008, by email,
atiner@atiner.gr to: Dr. Christos Fotopoulos,
Chair & Professor, Department of Business Administration of Food and
Agricultural Products, University of Ioannina (Agrinio Campus), Greece.
Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Family Name (s), First Name
(s), Institutional Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at
least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of the submission. If you
want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session,
evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books,
contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send an
email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr Director, ATINER.
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established
in 1995 as an independent academic organization with the mission to become
a forum where academics and researchers from all over the world could meet
in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future
developments of their discipline. Since 1995, more than 70 international
conferences were organized and more than 60 books have been published. The
Institute is organized into four research divisions and eighteen research
units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and
undertakes various small and large research projects.
Deadline:
March 17, 2008
World Bank report co-authored by UC economists calls for more investment in agriculture
Submitted by Anonymous on October 26, 2007 - 3:46pm.Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Oct 19 2007Summary:
A renewed focus on agricultural development is critical to successfully reducing global poverty and hunger, according to a new World Bank report co-authored by UC Berkeley economists. The report was released Friday, Oct. 19, at the World Bank's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/10/19_worldbank.shtmlFood Awareness
Submitted by cmjones on April 25, 2007 - 12:19pm.Title:
Food Awareness
Summary:
Project to work with the Food Systems Committee of the UC Berkeley Student Union Sustainability Team to cooperatively operate the student-run produce stand at Kroeber Fountain every Wednesday from 11am to 3pm, providing fresh, local, organic produce from the farmer’s market to the campus and surrounding community.
Need: $2,000, 25% funded
Contact Person:
Maren Poitras
Contact E-mail:
Funded?:
Partial
Agricultural Economics Library
Submitted by cmjones on April 24, 2007 - 10:11am.Name of Library of Museum:
Agricultural Economics Library
Description:
Founded in 1930, the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Library is the oldest university agricultural economics library in the United States. The collection includes approximately 153,000 fully cataloged pamphlets, 21,000 books, and over 700 active serial titles. In addition, the library contains 540 microfiche titles, 3400 microfilm reels and 150 maps.
Location:
248 Giannini Hall
Pennies for Afghan peace
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:32am.Picture:
Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Apr 18 2007Summary:
Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, accepts cans of coins donated by UC Berkeley students for the rebuilding of his homeland from Kyleigh Kühn, a Berkeley peace and conflict studies major. Kühn is co-founder of the Pennies for Peace campaign, which has raised more than $150,000 to replace minefields with agricultural lands. Jawad was on campus Tuesday to deliver a talk on "Winning the Peace" in war-torn Afghanistan.
Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/index.html#afghanNew Report: Who's Afraid of GMO's? The Promise and Perils of Genetically Modified Crops
Submitted by cmjones on April 5, 2007 - 11:03am.Picture:
Source:
BreakthroughsDate Posted:
Apr 1 2005Summary:
Genetically engineered crops are rising by 20 percent, part of an eight-year trend. These crops covered 200 million acres, an area the size of California and Texas combined. Genetically engineered crops are now grown in 17 countries, on nearly 20 percent of the world’s 3.7 billion acres devoted to food crop cultivation. In China, which trails only the U.S. in biotech research funding, half of the country’s farm fields could be growing genetically modified crops in a decade. And, though only a handful of GM crops (corn, cotton, soybeans, and canola) account for the vast majority of acreage planted, several dozen new biotech crops, including raspberries, lettuce, and peanuts, are in development. Despite this remarkable growth, persistent concerns over the technology’s economic, social, environmental, and public-health impacts cast a continued shadow of controversy over GMOs. And perhaps no place is more emblematic of that clash, or more appropriate as a setting to reflect on the competing claims, than the University of California, BerkeleyRead Full Article:
http://nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/break_feature1_sp05.phpPesticide combinations imperil frogs
Submitted by cmjones on April 4, 2007 - 1:39pm.Picture:
Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Feb 2 2006Summary:
Some 20 to 30 pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are licensed for spraying on corn, and Midwestern ponds reflect this -- they're a brew of chemicals that can persist through the entire growing season. Experiments at UC Berkeley show that the chemical mix, not just one pesticide alone, screws up the sexual development of frogs and makes them prone to a deadly bacterial disease.
Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/02/02_pesticides.shtmlMosquito spray increases toxicity of pyrethroids in creek, study finds
Submitted by cmjones on April 4, 2007 - 12:59pm.Picture:
Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Jul 27 2006Summary:
A relatively benign compound contained in a widely used group of insecticides can mix with and increase the toxicity of existing pesticides in the environment, according to a new study led by UC Berkeley biologists. Based upon these findings, regulators should not only consider the toxicity of individual active ingredients in a product, but also how ingredients may interact with other chemicals in the environment, the researchers said. Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/07/27_pyrethroid.shtmlMichael Pollan, Whole Foods' John Mackey usher Berkeley foodies into 'ecological era'
Submitted by cmjones on April 3, 2007 - 11:33am.Picture:
Source:
UCB News CenterDate Posted:
Feb 28 2007Summary:
A sellout crowd turned out on a rainy, blustery evening for a conversation between a reporter and a grocer — Berkeley professor and food detective Michael Pollan, and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who discussed the history of agriculture and the future of organic food. Read Full Article:
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/02/28_pollanmackey.shtmlAuffhammer's "Brown Cloud" study named "Paper of the Year" by PNAS
Submitted by cmjones on April 3, 2007 - 11:29am.Source:
CNR NewsDate Posted:
Feb 22 2007Summary:
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has awarded the Cozzarelli Prize to ARE assistant professor Max Auffhammer and his co-authors for their 2006 paper showing that reductions of human-generated air pollution could create unexpected agricultural benefits in one of the world's poorest regions.