Châtenay-Malabry (FR
- 92290), 26 January 2015
EFITA newsletter / 680 - European Federation for Information Technology
in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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Auschwitz liberation 70th anniversary: share your perspectives
See: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/-sp-auschwitz-liberation-70th-anniversary-jewish-share-your-perspectives
23 amazing innovations that made our lives much more easier
See: http://www.colorsandjoy.com/23-amazing-innovations-2014/
Top
5 Agriculture – All you need to know for the Latvian EU Presidency
In this special briefing, AGRA FACTS journalists Rose O’Donovan &
Ed Bray provide an overview of the top 5 agriculture issues on the agenda
under the Latvian EU Presidency.
- Simplification of the Common Agricultural Policy – particularly rules
on greening & direct support
- Further discussions on the revision of the EU Animal & Plant Health
Package
- Overhaul of rules governing the organic sector
- Next steps on cloning & novel food
- Implementation of the EU Forestry Strategy
See: http://www.vieuws.eu/food-agriculture/top-5-agriculture-all-you-need-to-know-for-the-latvian-eu-presidency/
Seeding and harvest in France (South-West)
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJ2TL3eBZw
Signalé par Bernard PASQUIER
Mél : bpasquier(a)soufflet-group.com
Analysis del las prediciones de los precios del bushel del maiz por
Monsanto utilizando el Soybeans to Corn ratio como instrumento de discusion
Ver : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKEluXnMgrs&feature=share
Beyond GMOs: A new era of biotechnology
Executives from leading crop biologicals companies discuss how naturally
occurring plant microbes are ushering in a whole new era of biotechnology
that will give crops their next big boost in yields.
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/biotech-traits/beyond-gmos-new-era-biotechnology
The future of farming
See: http://farmindustrynews.com/technology-decision-time/future-farming
Efficiency? Cost containment? You can do it!
See: http://beready.caseih.com/ag-issues-insights/efficiency-cost-containment-you-can-do-it/
Bill, Melinda Gates advocate GMOs to a Brussels audience
The philanthropist family’s visit to the capital of the European Union
coincided with the release of their annual Annual Letter, in which they
make the “big bet” that the lives of people in poor countries will improve
faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history.
Speaking to the audience, Bill Gates said that the strongest analogy when
speaking about GMOs was with medicines, where people also worried about
their side effects.
The idea that a single technique could solve nutrition and disease problems
for African farmers is an absolute life-and-death issue for them, Gates
argued.
“I think Africans have a sovereign right,” Gates said, referring to their
choice to use “innovative farming techniques.” He gave cassava disease
as an example. There is a GMO cassava that stops nausea disease, he said.
“Should African countries be told not to use it? What would happen if
the disease went rampant?”he questioned.
“Every country should be able to decide if they want to pay more for food,
if they would use more insecticides. It’s OK. Europeans can do whatever
they when it comes with food. They can pay twice as much, four times as
much, it’s OK,” Gates said.
It’s better for the world if people have the same views about the merits
of things and allow free trade. But at the end of the day, it’s always
a matter of personal choice what people choose to buy, Gates added.
He also said it was “a certain irony” that the United States, where less
than 2% of people working in the farming sector export food to a continent
where 70% of the adults are engaged in farming.
Melinda Gates said Africans need seeds that are able to resist a difficult
climate.
In the letter, the Gates advocate “innovative farming”. An example provided
is that when Melinda visited Tanzania in 2012, a local farmer named Joyce
spoke to her “with the zeal of a preacher giving a sermon.”
“That year, for the first time, Joyce had planted a new kind of maize
seed, bread to tolerate drought. When drought came, most of her crops
withered and died, but her maize was more productive than ever. She sold
the surplus to buy beans and vegetables and other nutritious food for
her family, and had money left over to pay her children's school fees.
"That seed," she said, "made the difference between hunger
and prosperity," the letter says, adding:
“Joyce's story, multiplied by hundreds of millions of African farmers
like her, is the reason innovation in agriculture is so important.”
See: http://www.euractiv.com/video/bill-melinda-gates-advocate-gmos-brussels-audience-311502
EFITA
2015
29 June 2015 - 2 July 2015
POZNAN (Poland)
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EFITA 2015: Sustainable Agriculture through ICT innovation
Jerzy WERES
E-mail: weres(a)up.poznan.pl
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Retirement
Three old guys are out walking.
First one says, 'Windy, isn't it?'
Second one says, 'No, it's Thursday!'
Third one says, 'So am I. Let's go get a beer.'
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Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit
Mick Harkin, ex Secretary of EFITA, who has kept us amused with his
Friday Jokes over the years, has published a book on Amazon entitled "Jokes,
Quotes and Anecdotes... an Anatomy of Wit".
See: http://www.jokesquotesandanecdotes.com
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