MALNUTRITION: Crop Biotech Update (January 23, 2013)

Global  • FAO Head and German Minster Call for Eradication of Hunger through Agri Investments  • Cheaper, Efficient Tool for Barley Genotyping Launched  Africa  • NRCRI to Apply Biotech on Cassava Improvement  • Experts to Nigeria: Don't Neglect Agri Biotechnology  • New Strategic Partnership to Advance S&T Agenda for African Agriculture  Americas  • Biotech Guaranteed US$100K to Average Brazilian Corn Growers in Four Years  Asia and the Pacific  • Pakistan Leaders Cite Need for Biotech  • Zeigler: Pstol1's Application to other Crops May Have a Great Impact on Global Agriculture  • TOT Workshop on Potato Breeding in Indonesia  Europe  • 61% of Greek Farmers Willing to Adopt GM Maize, Study Reveals  • U.K. Consumer Attitudes Study on GM Labeling  • Rethinking GMOs, Biotech Industry Encourages Europeans to Engage  • Review on the Agronomic and Environmental Impacts of GM Crops  • EFSA Explains Risks Posed by Neonicotinoid Insecticides to Bees  Research  • Comparison of Nutritional Compositions of High Iron Rice and Indica Rice  • Expression of ADA in Biotech Tobacco Plants  Beyond Crop Biotech  • GE Salmon Draft Environmental Assessment Released  • Connivance of Genes and their Regulatory 'Tags' in Dev't of Immune Disorder  Document Reminders  • Bioversity Int'l Releases Descriptors for Tree Tomato and its Wild Relatives  • IndoBIC and ABSP II Launch Book on Potato Breeding in Indonesia