War against famine, for nutrition
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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.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Underground life for rice foe
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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.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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PCR amplification of the Irish potato famine pathogen from historic specimens
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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.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2001
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