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Some articles about agricultural research & landscaping issues

- Electricity can be generated by photosyntetic pigments integrated into an experimental photovoltaic cell

- Hard time for italian researchers in the Life Science sector

- The New York State Authority for the energy sector develops an innovative agricultural research program

- Sustainable practices in tropical areas to increase the productivity and protect against the loss of nutrients and organic matter

- Genetic pesticide against termytes developed in a laboratory at University of Florida

- A study about 'Horizontal transmission' of insecticides and aggregation pheromones in cockroaches

- Remote controlled cattle will graze in futuristic rangelands, thanks to GPS technology

- Nocturnally-flying moths can control the direction of their migrations

- Released by 'Natural England' the 'State of the Natural Environment' report for 2008

- The 2008 US Farm Bill according to some declarations of the Australian Minister for Trade

- Organic farming and research in Italy

A selection of press-releases about agricultural new issues, taken from 'online sources':

- News for US readers: USDA Seeks Nominees for National Dairy Board- US Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Marketing Service, May 21, 2010

- Congolese soldiers learn self-sufficiency in food production- AFRICOM, Borlaug Institute partner in agricultural initiative - AgNMore News - Texas A & M University, May 27, 2010

- ICRISAT and UC Davis to boost nitrogen fixation of legumes- CGIAR - Newsroom, may 27, 2010

- Chance observation leads to plant breeding breakthrough- University of California, Davis - March 24, 2010

- Innovative device counts corn stalks in experimental fields- University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences - March 18, 2010

You can send your agro-scientific press-releases to: comunicatiXXX@XXXagrolinker.com (togliere le X).

Review of some essays and articles:

- How much CO2 will be emitted during the Copenhagen conference? This is the original question asked by the Guardian, that questions also whether world leaders should negotiate a climate change deal via video conference (Source: 'The Guardian' - guardian.co.uk).

- What WTO Director, Pascal Lami, thinks about the climate change, related to the international trade. - (Source: WTO, June 26, 2009) (this essay is available in the following languages: Spanish, English and French).

'RED ZONE': A selection of press-releases about some Hot Topics, to be discussed by the Blog Readers, (from 'online sources - moderated free access):

- The future of European Agriculture Policy call for a public debate- European Commission for Agriculture and Rural Development - Brussels, 12 April 2010

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