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Bio Architecture Lab Inc., the U.S. biotechnology company that sought to turn seaweed into ethanol in Chile, has given up on the technology after deciding it made more sense to sell the raw material than process it into fuel.
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Deep inside a high-security laboratory an hour from Melbourne, scientists working behind air-locked doors inject six-week-old chickens with a virus that has killed one in five people it’s known to have infected.
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When Eleni Gabre-Madhin climbed onto a cafeteria table as a junior at Cornell University almost 30 years ago and begged students to end the tradition of dinnertime food fights, she was mocked.
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Jim Rogers, the investor who foresaw the start of a commodity rally in 1999, said he is “extremely optimistic” about investing in water amid a scarcity of supply in countries from India to the U.S.
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The world’s growing food demand will create a “progressive scarcity” in existing water supplies, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
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Sushi’s global popularity coupled with the yen’s 18 percent decline in the past six months is proving to be a sweet spot for Suzumo Machinery Co., Japan’s biggest maker of automatic sushi chefs.
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Amado Kafando tilted his head back, smiled and pumped his fists into the west African sky. “We praised God, and said, ‘At last!’” said Kafando, 45, standing amid the mud huts where he lives with 11 children and no electricity.
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Corn and rice production in Madagascar may be threatened by a locust plague if the government fails to raise enough money to fight the insects, the Food and Agriculture Organization said.
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People streamed into the central square in Celendin, a small city in the Peruvian Andes, the morning of July 3, 2012. They were protesting the government’s support for Newmont Mining Corp.’s plan to take control of four lakes to make way for a new gold and copper mine. By midday, there were 3,000.
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Global food prices fell 2 percent in September from the previous month, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome. From a year earlier food prices rose 16 percent.
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