LONDON, England, Nov. 22 -- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issued the following remarks on Nov. 20, 2023, at the Food Security Summit: * * * Welcome to the Global Food Security Summit. I'd like to start by thanking our summit partners - Somalia, the UAE, the Children's Investment Fund Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation... And I also want to thank my friend Andrew Mitchell for his incredible work on the International Development White Paper - which we're proud to be laun  more

JERUSALEM, Israel, Nov. 22 -- The government of Israel issued the following news release: * * * Following the directive of the Military Forces and as it transpired from the situation assessments at the Ministry: The winter grain fields in the Gaza Strip surrounding area cannot be sown * The Ministry will grant up to NIS 150 per dunam to the farmer * About 60 thousand dunams have already begun to be sown in the heart of the Negev * * * Israeli agriculture is in the throes of one of the bigges  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 22 -- The Journal of Experimental Botany, a journal that says it features improvement of plants for the sustainable production of food, fuel and renewable materials from the Society of Experimental Biology, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2023 edition (Vol. 74, Issue 21): Extra Botany: - Insights * Auxin/cytokinin antagonism in shoot development: from moss to seed plants * Solving the puzzle of climacteric fruit ripening: EMB1444-lik  more

CHESTERFIELD, Missouri, Nov. 21 (TNScapv) -- The National Corn Growers Association issued the following news: NCGA and 16 corn state affiliated associations recently joined with over 140 allied national, regional, and state commodity organizations in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack relaying their concerns with the design of the Emergency Relief Program for 2022. While the group expressed appreciation for the allocation of $3.74 billion in much needed E  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 24 -- Theoretical and Applied Genetics, a journal that says it features plant genetics, genomics and biotechnology, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2023 edition (Vol. 136, Issue 12): * Rht12b, a widely used ancient allele of TaGA2oxA13, reduces plant height and enhances yield potential in wheat * Models to estimate genetic gain of soybean seed yield from annual multi-environment field trials * Genome-wide association mapping combine  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 22 -- The U.S. Mission to the United Nations issued the following remarks on Nov. 21, 2023, by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield at U.N. Security Council briefing on Ukraine: * * * "Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you to Assistant Secretary-General Jenca and WFP Country Director Hollingsworth, for your briefings today. "This month, we mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, which translates to "death by starvation." Death by starvation. Millions of Ukr  more

RENO, Nevada, Nov. 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Nevada issued the following news release: * * * University of Nevada, Reno researcher develops one of the largest and most nutritious sorghum hybrids * * * A University of Nevada, Reno researcher is aiming to make a major discovery in global sorghum cultivation. Her preliminary research suggests that she has developed sorghum varieties having big enough seeds that they are efficiently broken up during the harvest, making their nutrients mor  more