Bananas could become a critical food source for millions as a result of global warming, say scientists who analysed world food security for the UN.
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November 3, 2012 Video Documentary David Suzuki WATCH: *** A SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE ON GENETICALLY ENGINEERING OUR FORESTS, ENVIRONMENT AND FOOD http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9hjy-CJlzbM
EXTREME SYNTHETIC GENETICS : THE NEXT GMO BIOTECH WAVE: THE IMPLICATION, THE ETHICS http://sco.lt/6TyUmv
MONSANTO GMO TREES COULD DEVASTATE FOREST ECO SYSTEMS LEAVING BIOLOGICAL DESERTS http://sco.lt/51ekyH
DO WE NEED A GENETIC BILL OF RIGHTS? http://sco.lt/6jmb1l
WATCH Another Video Documentary by David Suzuki *** "A SILENT FOREST - THE GROWING THREAT OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED TREES" - Full Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w437uQf_A7c
WATCH: ***Video KILLING OUR FORESTS AND SOILS WITH CHEMICALS FOR GMO FORESTS: Poisoning USA Majestic Forests in Oregon http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3570818841/video-killing-our-forests-and-soils-with-chemicals-poisoning-usa-majestic-forests-in-oregon
Global Justice Ecology Project: STAND UP FOR NATIVE TREES, NOT BIOTECHNOLOGY FORESTS http://globaljusticeecology.org/stopgetrees.php?ID=638&tabs=2
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June 6, 2013 The Guardian
June 4, 2013 Nature
June 7, 2013 New Scientist
June 6, 2013 Mother Earth News
WATCH: Video ETC GROUP: *** "KICKSTOPPER" - STOPPING UNREGULATED SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY POLLUTION http://vimeo.com/67314737#
Indiegogo VIDEO: KICKSTOPPER: STOPPING SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL POLLUTION BY CROWDFUNDER "KICKSTARTER" http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kickstopper-stopping-syn-bio-pollution ETC GROUP: http://www.etcgroup.org/kickstopper
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30 YEARS OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS - 20 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL CULTIVATION IN THE USA - A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT http://sco.lt/5PYIM5
WATCH: *** Video MONSANTO: A FARMER'S OWN STORY - HOW MONSANTO CONTROLS FARMERS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omtYlsG1P5U
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Must-see video and great amalgamation of resources. Take the time, please! Be sure you are informed! Delete the scoop?
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June 7, 2013 Science Daily Over the years ecologists have shown how biological diversity benefits the health of small, natural communities. New analysis by ecologists at UC Santa Cruz demonstrates that even higher levels of biological diversity are necessary to maintain ecosystem health in larger landscapes over long periods of time.... http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130607160335.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fearth_climate+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Earth+%26+Climate+News%29
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The revival is partly based on the humble sour fruit's growing reputation as a superfood. Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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Seed development, especially the relevant regulatory mechanism and genetic network are of fundamental scientific interest. Seed development consists of the development of embryo and endosperm; and endosperm development of rice (model species of monocots) is closely related to grain yield and quality. Recent genetic studies, together with other approaches, including transcriptome and proteomics analysis, high-throughput sequencing (RNA-seq, ChIP-seq), revealed the crucial roles of genetic and epigenetic controls in rice endosperm development. Here we summarize and update the genetic networks involved in the regulation of endosperm initiation, cell cycle regulation, aleurone layer specification, starch synthesis, storage protein accumulation and endosperm size, and the interactions between embryo and endosperm. Via Dorian Q Fuller 
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Looks like a very useful review of the various genes affecting rice grain development, from waxy starch to grain width. Many of these could be selected during various stages in domestication history. Delete the scoop?
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A new study published by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences serves as a great example of the interconnectedness of nature and how human activity can disrupt life-sustaining systems. Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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Scientists are working hard to understand the life that teems within our soil and that is threatened by farming and development. Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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Peru has delayed auctioning off 27 oil blocs in the Amazon in order to conduct legally-required consultations with indigenous groups in the region, reports the Guardian. Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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Parts of the farm landscape that look overgrown and 'scruffy' are more important in supporting wildlife than they first appear, according to new research published today in Ecology Letters. Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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A new study published in the peer-reviewed journal Agronomy for Sustainable Development concludes that genetically modified (GM) crops have little use when it c Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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New EU Regulation Threatens Rare Seed Varieties, Agricultural Independence ... Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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The Kuk Early Agricultural World Heritage Site is Papua New Guinea’s first World Heritage Site, and as such there are added challenges around management, and increased pressure to establish a good process for future heritage sites in the country. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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While melons were familiar in antiquity, they were grown mostly for use of the young fruits, which are similar in appearance and taste to cucumbers, C. sativus....Findings: Medieval lexicographies and an illustrated Arabic translation of Dioscorides' herbal suggest that sweet melons were present in Central Asia in the mid-9th century. A travelogue description indicates the presence of sweet melons in Khorasan and Persia by the mid-10th century. Agricultural literature from Andalusia documents the growing of sweet melons, evidently casabas (Inodorous Group), there by the second half of the 11th century, which probably arrived from Central Asia as a consequence of Islamic conquest, trade and agricultural development. Climate and geopolitical boundaries were the likely causes of the delay in the spread of sweet melons into the rest of Europe. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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some useful images. Some other seed images sites to add to my links eventually: http://nt.ars-grin.gov/seedsfruits/keys/fabaceae/index.cfm http://nt.ars-grin.gov/SeedsFruits/rptSeedsFruitsFam.cfm
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80% of our calorie intake comes from just 12 plant species, 50% of our calories come from just the three big grasses; wheat, maize and rice. What would happe... Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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May 23, 2013 Tom Engelhardt - Common Dreams Terracide and the Terrarists ...
Call it irony, if you will, or call it a nightmare, but Big Oil evidently has no qualms about making its next set of profits directly off melting the planet. Its top executives continue to plan their futures (and so ours), knowing that their extremely profitable acts are destroying the very habitat, the very temperature range that for so long made life comfortable for humanity. Their prior knowledge of the damage they are doing is what should make this a criminal activity. And there are corporate precedents for this, even if on a smaller scale. The lead industry, the asbestos industry, and the tobacco companies all knew the dangers of their products, made efforts to suppress the information or instill doubt about it even as they promoted the glories of what they made, and went right on producing and selling while others suffered and died.... http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/23-4
OBAMA'S ARCTIC STRATEGY SETS OFF A CLIMATE TIME BOMB - THE SUICIDAL RACE FOR ARCTIC'S NATURAL RESOURCES http://sco.lt/9MK5eT
ARCTIC OCEAN 'ACIDIFYING RAPIDLY' - HIGHEST LEVELS IN 55 MILLION YEARS - ARCTIC COULD BE ICE-FREE IN TWO YEARS http://sco.lt/6qm61h
May 23, 3013 Smart Planet
May 23, 2013 Fuel Fix
March 7, 2013 - Smart Planet
THIS IS OUR ENERGY REALITY http://sco.lt/7LUrHV
ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH
THE UPRISING: GLOBAL BIOTECH/ GMO ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/7wlInJ
March 7, 2013 CBC -The Nature of Things with David Suzuki - -
+++WATCH VIDEO: TAR SANDS OIL EXTRACTION - "THE DIRTY TRUTH" VIDEO http://sco.lt/6OpdeT
March 6, 2013 - Inside Climate News CRITICAL PART OF US STATE DEPT KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE REPORT DONE BY FIRMS WITH DEEP OIL INDUSTRY TIES http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130306/keystone-xl-eis-state-department-transcanada-oil-tar-sands-industry-ensys-energy-koch-brothers-exxonmobil-bp-obama
30 March 2013 The Tyee –
April 1, 2013 Huffington Post
FRACKING OURSELVES INTO OBLIVION http://sco.lt/8mKlIP
HOW A NEW STUDY SERIOUSLY CHALLENGES NATURAL GAS AS A CLEAN FOSSIL FUEL - METHANE GREENHOUSE GAS RISES http://sco.lt/7Ftflp
USA NATURAL GAS (FRACKING) IS FOR EXPORT, LEAVING A POLLUTION CESSPOOL FOR TAXPAYER CLEANUP - METHANE GLOBAL WARMING http://sco.lt/6f9msr
FOOD OR FUEL: BIG OIL AND BIG AG FIGHT IT OUT OVER ETHANOL BIOFUEL http://sco.lt/4rDj1t
THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION IS UPON US. CAN HUMANS SURVIVE? http://sco.lt/630INt
HOLDING CORPORATIONS RESPONSIBLE: Mining Companies Devastate Pristine Wisconsin for Frac-Sand - Leaving a Mining, Chemical Wasteland http://sco.lt/66Gc7N
TIME TO END PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT AND SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL PRODUCERS http://sco.lt/5iNZyL
New Scientist MAJOR METHANE RELEASE IS ALMOST INEVITABLE http://sco.lt/8pss0v
MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS ENDANGERING ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/5M5eLp
PALM OIL ECOCIDE - THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST: Fast-Tracking Our Own Extinction http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-
VIDEO Encore: *** ENDING THE SILENCE - POLITICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE - Moyers and Company http://sco.lt/5St5Cj
VIDEO REPORT Democracy Now May 13, 2013 *** CLIMATE TIPPING POINT? CONCENTRATION OF CARBON DIOXIDE TOPS 400 PPM FOR FIRST TIME IN HUMAN HISTORY http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/13/climate_tipping_point_concentration_of_carbon
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TERRACIDE: the stuff you dont want to read on a monday morning, or any other day of the week. Ever! 
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We will have enough trouble repairing the centuries of accumulated damage to the environment (to the extent we can) without simultaneously creating more. No matter what, we need to shut down the entire fossil fuel industry as soon as possible, as fast as feasible. Delete the scoop?
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Farmers, Farming Communities to be Honoured for Conserving Plant Genetic ... Press Information Bureau (press release) ... Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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25 Jan 2013 After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into previously untouched woodland, according to data compiled by the... http://planetark.org/wen/67719
May 18, 2013 - Mongabay
May 16, 2013 Mongabay
WATCH: +++ Video "HANGING IN THE BALANCE: THE FUTURE OF A FOREST: KarmaTube: http://www.karmatube.org/?op=nletter&id=3239
February 6, 2013 Environmental Protection
April 9, 2013 Science Codex
FOOD FORESTS CAN MITIGATE RISKS OF "FEAST OR FAMINE" - BIG CORPORATE AG IS NOT THE ANSWER http://sco.lt/8q2M41
On UNRedd and Redd+ CAN UN REDD EVER BECOME GREEN? +++Video: CARBON AND FOREST ECOCIDE http://sco.lt/6uQmif
ECOCIDE AND SACRED LAW: A fundamental intrinsic value of the sacredness of all life. http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3444120897/ecocide-and-sacred-law-a-fundamental-intrinsic-value-of-the-sacredness-of-all-life
UN TO LAUNCH STUDY ON ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME – Eradicating ECOCIDE http://eradicatingecocide.com/2012/11/un-to-launch-study-on-environmental-crime/
ERADICATING ECOCIDE: WHY BUSINESS LEADERS MUST STEP UP TO THE CHALLENGE http://sco.lt/56vkOH
WORLD LOSING BIODIVERSITY THOUSAND TIME FASTER THAN NATURAL EXTINCTION: UN http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/3618052038/world-losing-biodiversity-thousand-times-higher-than-natural-extinction-un
MINING, FOREIGN LAND GRABS ENDANGERING ENVIRONMENT, ECOSYSTEMS AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES http://sco.lt/5M5eLp
PALM OIL ECOCIDE - THE DEFORESTATION HOLOCAUST: Fast-Tracking Our Own Extinction http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1510545458/fast-tracking-our-own-extinction-the-deforestation-holocaust-
++++ WATCH: TEN NEWS "PALM OIL ECOCIDE" TV AUSTRALIA VIDEO: http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life/p/1561454232/palm-oil-ecocide-ten-news-australia-video
++++++DON'T MISS THIS AWARD WINNING DOCUMENTARY WATCH: "REMEMBERING 'GREEN'" - AN ORANGUTANS JOURNEY http://sco.lt/6JdIP3
MORE ON DEFORESTATION http://www.scoop.it/t/biodiversity-is-life?q=DEFORESTATION
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greed is a problem Mankind has to fix, otherwise it will be exit for us a species. Delete the scoop?
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Illegal logging and unchecked economic development are taking a devastating toll on the forests of Vietnam and neighboring countries, threatening areas of biodiversity so rich that 1,700 species have been discovered in the last 15 years alone. Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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Allowing farmland to encroach on ecosystems could hurt nature, food security and nutrition, scientists say Via Wildforests Delete the scoop?
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Posting photos by Gabriele Galmimberti of "Grandmothers from around the Globe" got me thinking about hospitatlity and sharing... then and now. New forms of hospitality are emerging and maybe our focus has shifted somehwat but its worth some thought as to the implications for Bio-cultural diversity and what we are learning from new forms of engagement. Delete the scoop?
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Caroline Cornish, who has recently finished her PhD thesis on the history of Kew's Museum of Economic Botany, describes an exciting discovery of old photographs in the Netherlands (Historical insights into @kewgardens ’s museum display of an... Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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Contrary to widespread consumer belief, organic farming is not the best way to farm from an environmental point of view. The guiding principle of organic is to rely exclusively on natural inputs. ... Via Luigi Guarino Delete the scoop?
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Economic Botany 2012: A cache of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) seeds, discovered in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes at Boziklik, Turpan, China, dating to ca. 700 years before present (BP), is hard evidence of their use in China since that time. Morphological and anatomical features suggest a white sesame cultivar. The sizeable quantity unearthed implies that sesame was a valued commodity that could provision the monks and enrich the diet of ancient inhabitants as an oil source. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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Human Ecology, Volume 40, Number 5 - SpringerLink
Manna grass (mainly but not exclusively G. fluitans) used to be widely gathered in most lowland areas of the present territory of Poland and western and southern Belarus. It had an important function as a component of tribute paid to local landowners by villagers, which led to the persistence of manna gathering even when this was not sustainable for peasants themselves. Manna grass was always an expensive food due to its time consuming gathering, but appreciated for its sweet taste and often served as dessert. In the nineteenth century marshes shrank significantly and the payment of tribute disappeared from the local economy, which gradually led to the total abandonment of Glyceria use around 1914. This article provides a detailed overview of Glyceria use as food within the borders of the former Polish-Lithuanian Kingdom (now Poland, Lithuania, western Belarus and western Ukraine) based on archaeobotanical, historical and ethnographic sources. The evidence for the continued use of manna since at least medieval times is abundant in historical accounts and ethnographic studies, but little has been reported in archaeobotanical findings due to the relatively small amounts of Glyceria consumed. Via Dorian Q Fuller Delete the scoop?
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