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Worldwide Food and Weeds

In a recent FAO report, weed expert, Dr. Ricardo Labrada-Romero, calls for increased attention and research on weeds in order to avert a serious threat to food security, especially in Africa. Read the lurking menace of weeds to find out the estimated economic losses due to weeds and other crop pests worldwide…

-Toni

Weeds: Love them, Hate them, Eat them!

Wow, that’s a wonderful biological control method for managing weeds! Eat them! In the May 27 edition of the Wall Street Journal, an article entitled “It’s Salad Days for Weeds”

On another note, this letter in the May 29 issue of Science entitled “Agriculture is not a dirty word” by Prof. Allen Levine of the University of Minnesota  should be of interest to all ……

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