War against famine, for nutrition

Article Abstract:

The UN intervention to provide food relief to Somalia, led by the US military, is short-sighted and lacks a coherent purpose. There is no mention of establishing agricultural autonomy for the Somalis, and the UN says explicitly that it will not attempt to establish a new government there. On its domestic nutritional front, the US has emerged from a bureaucratic squabble over food labeling, waged by the Secretaries of Agriculture and of Health and Human Services. The labeling finally agreed upon is vastly over-complicated and nearly incomprehensible.

Editorial, Political aspects, Ethical aspects, Nutrition policy, Operation Restore Hope, 1992-

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Underground life for rice foe

Article Abstract:

The rice blast fungus is a major threat to world food security and intensive farming practices such as greater use of fertilizers, which increases its occurrences. The status of rice blast as a model system for studying aerial plant infection is based on its continuing impact on world food production, its amenability to molecular and genetic analyses, and the well-defined developmental pathways it uses to invade aerial rice tissues.

United States, Science & research, Rice blast disease

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PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens

Article Abstract:

The amplification and sequencing of 100-base pair fragments of DNA from herbarium samples of potatoes infected with Phytophthera infestans, the cause of the Irish potato famine in 1845, is described.

Genetic aspects, Potatoes, Pathogenic microorganisms, Diseases and pests

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