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Keyword - Agriculture

- Soya genome sequenced - Premium content
  
  Biofuel potential spurs US consortium to map DNA of nutritious bean.
  
  10 December 2008
- Agronomy: Five crop researchers who could change the world - Premium content
  
  The current crisis in worldwide food prices reinforces the need for more productive agriculture. Emma Marris meets five ambitious scientists determined to stop the world from going hungry.
  
  3 December 2008
- Food research 'lost in translation' - Premium content
  
  Funders call for public and private partners to collaborate in getting new crops to farmers.
  
  7 November 2008
- IN BRIEF: Crop research a target of international investment - Premium content
  
  5 November 2008
- Agriculture: Is China ready for GM rice? - Premium content
  
  In an effort to avoid a food crisis as the population grows, China is putting its weight behind genetically modified strains of the country's staple food crop. Jane Qiu explores the reasons for the unprecedented push.
  
  15 October 2008
- Soil ecology: What lies beneath - Premium content
  
  More creatures live in soil than any other environment on Earth. But what are they all doing there? Amber Dance reports on the world's widest biodiversity.
  
  8 October 2008
- Profile: What is that smell? - Premium content
  
  Jacek Koziel is a master of odours. On a pig farm in Iowa, he shows Erik Vance some of the peaks and troughs of life as a human detector.
  
  8 October 2008
- International seed aid "in need of rethink" - Premium content
  
  Experts claim that mass handouts of seeds are not helping poor farmers.
  
  14 May 2008
- Raking through sludge exposes a stink - Premium content
  
  Environmental Protection Agency scientists accused of fabricating data about health effects of fertilizer.
  
  14 May 2008
- In brief: Farm bill reduces support for corn ethanol - Premium content
  
  14 May 2008