III Workshop Embrapa (Brazil) and Korea (RDA)

By Gilberto Silber Schmidt

Labex Korea (Embrapa) and the International Technology Cooperation Center (ITCC/RDA) are organizing the III Workshop RDA/Embrapa to be held in Suwon on March 25 – 29. This event is being proposed with the objective to establish strategies for cooperation between both Institutions to toward technological innovations through research, development and technology transfer, which enable to boost the agricultural sector in both countries.

A New Approach to Molecular Plant Breeding

USDA – A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist has shown researchers and plant breeders a better way to handle the massive amounts of data being generated by plant molecular studies, using an approach that should help speed up development of improved crop varieties….. Continue Reading

Source and Photo: USDA, April 16th, 2012.
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The new economy: inclusive and sustainable

By Charles Arthur
TheEnergyCollective – “A low-carbon economy necessitates a multifaceted paradigm shift across a broad spectrum, from individual behaviour to national policies. But let me assure you that the shift will not be a clean straight line. We are barely putting in the foundations of the new economy. We are constructing it, and all construction sites are messy.” … Read More.

Source and Photo: TheEnergyCollective, March 15th, 2012.
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Big win for agriculture: President Obama outlines new plan for global food security

By Malaka Gharib
One – President Obama just gave a really important speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, which outlined a new alliance against global hunger and next steps to help improve food security around the world. We wanted him to put this issue on the agenda at the G8, and boy, did he do that in a bold way!
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Source and Photo: One, May 18th, 2012
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Embrapa Labex USA

Labex USA – Dr Carlos Eduardo Lazarini da Fonseca, arrives in Washington, DC to become the New United States LABEX General Coordinator. Together with other Embrapa LABEX area coordinators, Dr Alfredo Alves (Genetic Resources), Magda Benavides (Animal Health), Ricardo Elesbão (Biodiversity) and Alexandre Nepomuceno (Plant Biotechnology), their mission is to promote opportunities for cooperation between US and Brazil in agricultural research with advances, trends and scientific activities of shared interest. Also, to monitor the state of the art of knowledge and innovation in strategic areas for Brazilian research/innovation interacting with institutions and groups of researchers recognized internationally for their excellence, establishing mutually advantageous relationships.

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Returning to Rio to build a more sustainable future

By Manish Bapna and Kirsty Jenkinson
The Guardian – n 1992, heads of state converged on Rio for the Earth Summit, a bright moment that seemed to herald a new era for sustainable development. Bold speeches were given, important treaties signed. Saving the planet was cast as a moral imperative. Multilateral institutions would lead the way.

Twenty years later, the world looks much different. The unipolar system of US domination that followed the end of the cold war is now multipolar. The locus of global growth and consumption has largely shifted to developing countries, especially in Asia. And for all the good intentions voiced in Rio, the health of our climate, water resources, and ecosystems has been deteriorating at alarming rates…. Read More

Source and Photo: The Guardian, May 2, 2012
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International Symposium on Agricultural and Agroindustrial Waste Management will be held in Brazil

The Brazilian Society of Agricultural and Agroindustrial Waste Management – Sbera and its co-promotors (Embrapa, Esalq, APTA and INIA) are organizing the III International Symposium on Agricultural and Agroindustrial Waste Management – Sigera  in Sao Pedro, SP, Brazil in March 12-14, 2013.
During the symposium will be presented and discussed the most relevant scientific topics involving waste from agricultural, livestock and agroindustrial activities. The main topics will be waste treatment technologies; waste use as fertilizer; environmental impacts of waste on air, soil and plant; waste to energy and waste management.
Papers can be submitted until September 28, 2012 and presented in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Sigera´s organization will provide simultaneous translation (Portuguese/English – English/Portuguese) for lectures of invited speakers and continuing professional development activities (CPD). The best papers will be selected for publication in the scientific journal Scientia Agricola according guidance in III Sigera’s website.

For more information: www.sbera.org.br/sigera2013 and sigera2013@gmail.com

Source: Sbera
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Brazil opens food and farming lab at German research institute

By Barbara Axt
Europe Research – Brazil’s Agricultural Research Corporation Embrapa and Germany’s government have agreed to establish a food and farming laboratory in Germany.
A Brazilian researcher will lead a team of local scientists at the Labex laboratory, based at Germany’s Jülich Research Centre, near Aachen. Their first task will be to investigate plant phenotyping, including plant‐environment interactions and the adaptation of crops to climate change and sustainable use of resources in ecosystems.
Luciano Lourenço Nass, a knowledge‐exchange coordinator at Embrapa, says the Brazilian Labex coordinator will be a connection between researchers and institutions in both countries. “We want to develop other partnerships with Germany in strategic areas such as functional foods and nanotechnology,” he says.
Embrapa is the largest agricultural research organization in Brazil, with more than 8,000 employees. It already has labs in the United States, Korea, China, France and the UK. The Jülich lab will be a branch of Labex Europe, based in Montpellier in France.
As the host institution, the Jülich Research Centre will provide the infrastructure for the new lab whereas Embrapa offers the researchers and funding. “We also offer opportunities for researchers from partner institutions to come to Brazil and develop work that is mutually interesting,” says Nass. “The Labex is a two‐way project.” For Germany, the attractiveness in the partnership lies in accessing developments in Brazil’s agricultural science. Ulrich Schurr, director of the Jülich Institute for Plant Research, said that Brazil’s work on the production of food and feed crops, biofuels and bioenergy is already significantly advanced. “The country will play a key role in a future bioeconomy,” he said in an email.
The research done at Labex is intended to improve the sustainability of Germany’s and Brazil’s agriculture. Both partners said that, in the future, this kind of collaboration could be broadened out.
Germany’s agriculture minister Ilse Aigner and her Brazilian counterpart Mendes Ribeiro Filho signed an agreement on 20 January in Berlin. The collaboration arose from the German‐Brazilian Year of Science and Technology 2010‐11.

Source: Research Europe, February 9th, 2012
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