Recently in Food and Agriculture Category

A new report titled "Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation: To Sustainably Meet Tomorrow's Food Needs", was presented today at 2009 World Water Week in Stockholm by the International Water Management Institute and warns that without water reform Asia could face a food shortage by 2050.

In a new approach to an effective "electronic tongue" that mimics human taste, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly and accurately identifies sweetness -- one of the five primary tastes. It can identify with 100 percent accuracy the full sweep of natural and artificial sweet substances, including 14 common sweeteners, using easy-to-read color markers.