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Marketing and misplaced risknews for week of April 3

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أخبار البنود المتعلقة التكنولوجيا آغ, التكنولوجيا الحيوية, تجارة ? وربما بعض العناصر الأخرى المثيرة للاهتمام المتعلقة بالزراعة ? على هذه الصفحة طوال الأسبوع (مع تقدم الأسبوع ، ستظهر أحدث العناصر?أخضر في الجزء السفلي من أقسام). ?تأكد من تسجيل الوصول بانتظام.

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If you’re wondering how the title of this week’s news postings ties into the news, it was inspired and borrowed from Kevin Folta’s recent post from Apr 2 at Medium,?Risky Whiskey or Science Under the Influence? ?In short, you have to read Folta’s piece on whiskey and non-GMO marketing. ?أول, it’s good. ?ثانيا, he is gifted at explaining things that may be complicated in a way most of us can more easily understand. ?Three, it ties into another piece,?عالميا, المستهلكين ?confused? about food labels and claims, says study?which boils down to what some consumers think food labels mean versus what they actually do mean. ?Ahhh, the problems some people manufacture to make a buck (or millions).

 

التجارة, المتصلة بالتجارة, بنية تحتية:

Mexico Ready to Play the Corn Card in Trade Talks – نيويورك تايمز – By Kirk Semple (أبريل 2)

Now corn has taken on a new role ? as a powerful lever for Mexican officials in the run-up to talks over Nafta, the North American Free Trade Agreement.” – حلقة الوصل

As the world sours on trade, the EU sweetens on it – الإيكونوميست (مارس 30 edition)

What a difference a few months makes. Barely half a year ago the European Union?س (أنا?س) trade policy was a mess. A much-touted trade and investment partnership (TTIP) with the United States was on life support, trashed by NGOs and consumer groups, and disowned by some of the politicians who had asked for it in the first place..” – حلقة الوصل

Trade After the Trans-Pacific Partnership – اوقات نيويورك – By Herald Munoz (أبريل 3)

The countries in the Pacific Alliance will continue to work with the United States on a bilateral basis, but the Asia-Pacific region is ready to lead the new age of globalization in the 21st century by continuing the pluralistic approach to trade envisioned in the T.P.P., even though the accord no longer exists as we knew it.” – حلقة الوصل

Asia’s Dilemma: China’s Butter, or America’s Guns? – Stratfor, Geopolitical WeeklyBy Rodger Baker (أبريل 4)

It is interesting that the theme of theeasternizationof the global system ? the assertion that China is set to usurp the leadership role of an inward-turning United States ? is not nearly as pronounced in the region as it is in the West.” ?- حلقة الوصل

Why trade continues to make headlines under Trump – الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية اليوم – بقلم روجر يو (أبريل 4) – حلقة الوصل

 

WTO Chief: Don’t Blame Free Trade For PopulismHandelsblatt Global (أبريل 6)

 

اي جي, AG TECH, إنتاج, الحماية, القضايا ذات الصلة:

A ‘bionic leafcould help feed the worldPhys.org (أبريل 3)

In the second half of the 20th century, the mass use of fertilizer was part of an agricultural boom called thegreen revolutionthat was largely credited with averting a global food crisisTo help spur the next agricultural revolution, researchers have invented abionicleaf that uses bacteria, sunlight, water and air to make fertilizer in the very soil where crops are grown.” – حلقة الوصل

Soybean farmers in east and southern Africa get a boostSciDevNetBy Baraka Rateng’ (أبريل 3)

Smallholder farmers in east and southern Africa could benefit from a project to innovate ways to help unlock barriers in regional soybean value chains.” – حلقة الوصل

New plant breeding techniques ? opportunity or death knell for organic feed and food??- تغذية المستكشف – جين بيرن (أبريل 5)

There have been public debates about whether certain novel plant breeding techniques (NPBTs) such as CRISPR, could be used within the organic farming model to close the productivity gap, or whether they should be categorised as genetically modified organisms and risk assessed in that context.” – حلقة الوصل

Japan Has a Bunch of New Tech Ideas?Including Nine Breeds of Carrots – وول ستريت جورنال – By Eleanor Warnock (أبريل 4)

Abe administration pushes foodmakers to follow the route of other science-based export sectors like high-speed rail” – حلقة الوصل

New GM technology paves the way for northern Australia’s cotton dreamsABC Rural (أستراليا) – By Matt Brann (أبريل 5)

CSIRO researcher Stephen Yeates said the cotton industry may have finally found a plant that could withstand the insect pressures of northern Australia’s wet season.” – حلقة الوصل

سياسات, REGULATORY, النشاط, آخر:

Risky Whiskey or Science Under the Influence? – Medium – بقلم كيفن فولتا (أبريل 2)

This is a story about how poorly humans understand risk. This is also a story about the power of marketing. It also is a pathetic tome of misplaced energy, twisted values, and the Ultimate First-World Problem.” – حلقة الوصل

عالميا, المستهلكين ?confused? about food labels and claims, says study?- Food Navigator USA – By Adi Menayang (مارس 31)

A new survey found that there was disconnect between what consumers think labels like organic, antibiotic-free, أو ?no added hormones? يعني, and what the labels actually meanA majority of consumers think organic means chemical and pesticide free…” – حلقة الوصل

FMC Corporation buys DuPont Crop Protection Business – دلتا مزرعة الصحافة – By Willie Vogt (مارس 31)
Deal includes insecticide business, cereal broadleaf herbicides and future R&D pipeline.” – حلقة الوصل
Farmers outraged at 65 percent CVP allocation – غرب مزرعة الصحافة – بواسطة تود Fitchette (مارس 30)
Reclamation blames farmers for 65 percent Central Valley Project allocation.” – حلقة الوصل
EU Court Adviser Sets High Bar for States? GMO Bans – خدمة أخبار المحكمة – By William Dotinga (أبريل 3)

An EU high court adviser on Thursday gave member states a very limited go-ahead to ban the cultivation of genetically modified crops, but only if they can prove the crops are ?a serious and evident risk likely to endanger health and the environment.?” – حلقة الوصل

GM case: legal expert rejects ?precautionary principle? grounds?- تغذية المستكشف – جين بيرن (مارس 31)

An opinion from an advocate general (اي جي) about a European Court of Justice (ECJ) case found EU states should only adopt emergency measures regarding genetically modified feed and food if they can establish a clear and serious risk to health and the environment.” – حلقة الوصل

“…farmers continue to suffer tremendous economic losses yet researchers are developing varieties and shelving them because there is no law.” – حلقة الوصل

Why the U.S. should help other nations’ المزارعين – دي موين التسجيل – By Doug Bereuter and Dan Glickman (أبريل 5)

As incomes rise and these countries? economies grow, their commodity imports often grow, جدا, as consumers demand higher-quality food products, which greatly benefits U.S. farmers by expanding their markets. And as smallholders farmers become more productive and move beyond subsistence farming, they also become customers of agricultural inputs and technology, including fertilizer, بذور, and farm machinery.” – حلقة الوصل

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