Can fuel crops ever be sustainable? Danny Chivers gives us the lowdown.
Filed in: Agriculture Biotech Power
Biotech
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Biofuels - the good, the bad and the ugly
From wood to algae, biofuels have been around for years. But they’re not necessarily all they’re cracked up to be. Danny Chivers has the low-down.
Filed in: Agriculture Biotech Power Sustainability
- Danny Chivers
- July 1, 2011
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Crops of truth
Jaideep Hardikar travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.
Filed in: Agriculture Biotech India
- Jaideep Hardikar
- September 1, 2010
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Seed savers
The world’s seed markets are being gobbled up by ‘life-science’ corporations – but peasant farmers still feed the world. David Ransom reports.
Filed in: Agriculture Biotech
- David Ransom
- September 1, 2010
- 2
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