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Scientists eye nanotechnologies to boost crop yields
EurActiv ^ | 23 November 2012 | Timothy Spence

Posted on 11/23/2012 11:06:01 AM PST by Olog-hai

Nanotechnologies that deliver fertilizers to plants offer promising ways of improving farm productivity while reducing the risk of water contamination. But the scientists behind a new Swiss-funded study caution that while the technology is still evolving, potential risks must be considered.

The European Union’s Horizon 2020 research program proposes heavy investment in developing materials and machines that are built from an atomic or molecular scale, with the European Commission proposing some €6 billion ($7.7 billion) in financing for nano and other advanced technologies.

A UN Food and Agriculture Organization conference held earlier this year in Rome identified nanotechnology as potentially having “significant benefits” for food security in a world facing a population rise from 7 billion now to 9 billion in 2050. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Food; Gardening; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculture; cropyields; eussr; nanotechnology

1 posted on 11/23/2012 11:06:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 11/23/2012 11:07:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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I’m all for advanced technology.

At the same time if any of these “smart” amoral globalists
end up killing people with their profitable human experimentation, they need to be strung up in town square by their private parts. Same with Bill Gates & Co. geo-engineering atmosphere spray experiments.

The truth about a lot of these people is that they have taken in an ideology that is perfectly capable of “accidently” exterminating human beings and enslaving human beings.


3 posted on 11/23/2012 11:47:35 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Olog-hai
A related thread
4 posted on 11/23/2012 11:55:59 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again,")
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To: Olog-hai

Europe demands, “No NM (nanomonster) food! It’s Unnatural!”


5 posted on 11/23/2012 12:03:23 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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And of course their governments are floating in money so why not start a huge research project to leverage more money out of the productive class. Par for the Keynesian course.


6 posted on 11/23/2012 1:49:18 PM PST by Track9
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