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RIRDC Rice Research Program home page
Domestic per capita rice consumption has increased from 2 kg per person in the late 1970s to 11kg per person in recent years. Rice consumption is expected to continue to increase due to a number of factors including immigration from Asia and the Middle East; changes in cuisine that include rice, and ...
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Agriculture: Indonesia
This goal was reached in 1984, when, for the first time, domestic rice production exceeded domestic rice consumption. Unfortunately, achieving this goal came at the expense of sustainable agricultural development. The economic costs of gaining food self sufficiency in rice ...
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GM Rice in Japan
Rice consumption in Japan Japanese rice-consumption is eighth among nations, or about 7% that of China. Between 1970 and 2001, per capita consumption of rice decreased about 30% in Japan while consumption ...
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Table - Food Calories Available for Human Consumption, 1961 - 1996
Table - Food Calories Available for Human Consumption, 1961 - 1996 IIASA Title Page Foreword Introduction Arguments Data FAQ In-depth Summary Conclusion Bibliography ... Data - Diet Change Food Calories Available for Human Consumption in China by Commodity, 1961-1996 (see: chart) Vegetable Products Animal Products Year Total Wheat Rice (milled equ.) Maize Other Cereals Starchy Roots ...
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Table - Projected Cereal Consumption and Total Grain Requirements in 2020
Cereal Consumption and Total Grain Requirements in 2020 IIASA Title Page Foreword Introduction Arguments Data ... Rice Wheat Coarse Grain Total Per cap. Consumption (kg / person) 107.7 99.4 53.2 258.3 Direct Cereal Consumption 66.5 51.5 23.1 141.1 Manufactured Food Consumption 39.2 47.9 30.1 117.1 Requirements (million tons) 208.6 174.8 224.5 607.9 Direct and Processed Consumption 150. ...
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Environmental Commons: Genetically Engineered Rice Wins USDA Approval
Regulatory Deficiencies • GMO Factsheet • Ecological Impacts • Articles & News Precautionary Principle Toxics Genetically Engineered Rice Wins USDA Approval Grain Tainted U.S. Supply This Summer By Christopher ... safe for human consumption yesterday an experimental variety of genetically engineered rice found to have contaminated the U.S. rice supply this summer... The experimental rice, designed to ...
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GeneWatch UK - Pharma crops - "Pharma" crops are GM crops used to produce drugs and industrial chemicals. The US Department of Agriculture has recently given final approval to the first commercial production of rice engineered to include human genes and p
However, the inadvertent consumption of a drug-producing crop and the potential for ...
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GM Rice Contamination How Regulators Tried to Sidestep the Law
EU acted swiftly. The European Commission adopted emergency measures that forbid US long grain rice entering the EU unless accompanied by a certificate from an accredited laboratory assuring that ... consumption of imported long grain rice containing trace levels of LLRICE601 is not likely to pose an imminent safety concern to humans or animals.” UK regulator privately allowed the sale of tainted rice ...
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rice | Greenpeace UK
Help Illegal experimental GE rice from China: now entering Europe's food chain Body: Publication date: September 2006 Summary Genetically engineered rice, unapproved for human consumption, has been found in food products in France, Germany and the UK. This is in itself a cause for concern but when the strain of illegal GE rice ...
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At Time of Food Crisis, New Rice Varieties Boost Africa’s Rice Production
Rice Center report. The gains from the new rice varieties came against a worrisome backdrop of rapidly increasing consumption of rice in Africa, which imports 40 percent of its rice. Africa Rice Trends, a report released earlier this year by the Africa Rice Center, notes that rice production ...
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