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Farming technology 'key to fighting climate change'
Tue, 03/16/2010 - 22:31 | by iain.evans
The UK government's drive to push farming technology up the national agenda has received a further boost, as former cabinet minister Chris Smith told farmers that technology has a key role in helping the UK beating climate change. Lord Smith, former culture secretary under Tony Blair and now chair of the Environment Agency, will say that both GM crops and new technologies to support "precision farming" - including nanotechnology - could help tackle growing climate pressures such as water shortages.
French wine withers on the vine
Mon, 12/07/2009 - 16:23 | by admin
With the UN Climate Change Conference underway in Copenhagen, it is not just the natural environment that is causing shifts in wine production. The economic markets are also influencing shifts in consumer spending...shifts that hold a grim future for French wine.
Impacts of climate change on wine production
Fri, 11/20/2009 - 11:02 | by bluelobster
French wines are an important component of the world’s cultural heritage. But today, they are in danger. French viniculture is a climatically-sensitive process and it is already feeling the impacts of global warming - summer heat waves, recent hail storms in the Bordelais and the emergence of new diseases. These impacts will soon get even worse. The experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) state categorically that if we do not limit temperature rise to 2°C (above pre-industrial levels), it will lead to uncontrollable consequences for our ecosystems.