EG's line of reasoning is based on the outstanding importance of maize in the Mayan culture.
Already, as the waters recede, Mozambican peasants have been rushing back to plant beans and maize in the silt.
The team commented that the scarcity of macroscopic remains was in marked contrast to an abundance of microscopic evidence of maize in the guise of maize pollen samples collected from soil at the sites.
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In February, Nottinghamshire Police searched land at Maize Farm in East Heckington, Lincolnshire, as part of the inquiry into Mr Brodie's disappearance.
"The severe deterioration of maize crop prospects in the US following extensive drought damage pushed up maize prices by almost 33% in July, " said the FAO.
"We didn't believe it would work, " says Mr. Longwa, the maize farmer in Mikumi.
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Specialist search teams are at Maize Farm in East Heckington, Lincolnshire, looking for the body of James Roger Brodie.
Helen Mary Jones asked whether the first minister believes the UK Government will invoke their powers over the Assembly to compel Wales to include the controversial maize type in its list of accepted GM seeds.
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Analysts from the OECD to the World Bank argue that biofuel demand is the biggest single reason why food prices have soared in the past couple of years, accounting for as much as 70% of the rise in maize prices and 40% of the rise in soyabean prices.
Children stay in school longer and, with a bowl of maize and beans in their belly, are able to concentrate.
America's ethanol subsidy, which has led to a huge rise in production, rocketing maize prices and consequent rioting in Mexico, is the sharpest example of why government should not pick winners: once the fertiliser and fuel used in corn production are taken into account, ethanol is probably not much greener than petrol.
Dow Agro biologists have already accurately inserted genetic material into specific locations in maize and rapeseed genomes using Sangamo's technology.
The first synthetic maize was released in Kenya in 1961 and even lowly cassava, a starchy root vegetable, benefited from genetic embellishments in the 1970s.
Using this system, crop yields go up dramatically, from one tonne to four tonnes of maize per hectare in a good year, and from zero to a tonne in a drought.
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While families are asked to contribute to cover the cost of the girls' meals, an expense that can be paid in maize or beans, Ntaiya covers the costs of any students who cannot pay.
Among them is Zeneca, where researchers are working on a way of controlling male fertility in maize for the production of hybrids a sort of green vasectomy that can be turned on and off at will.
Norman Borlaug had got a Nobel in 1970 for developing the high yielding wheat at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre in Mexico, and had been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation.
After years in the bush, the rebels are sick of fighting, horribly malnourished and surrendering in their thousands in the hope of a few bowls of maize porridge and a pay packet in the regular army.
But overall both countries lost only 20% or so of the maize they could expect in 1998-99.
Eventually he wants to produce soy and maize, two commodities in which Indonesia is aiming to be self-sufficient by 2014.
They predict that the world's three biggest crops in terms of calories provided - maize, rice and wheat - will decrease in many developing countries.
They said there would be an increase in traffic and growing maize for power the plant would lead to a mono-culture in the local environment.
What is more, for wheat the increasing level of carbon dioxide that is changing the climate also makes photosynthesis easier, which should have increased yields enough to wipe out perhaps half of the climate-related loss (maize, which photosynthesises in a different way, is thus the bigger loser of the two in net terms).
Take Boetie Viljoen, who used to be fully occupied tending his 7, 000 hectare (27 square mile) maize and cattle farm near Leeudoringstad in North West Province, and who protected farmers' broader interests by serving on the Maize Board.
Mr Golan had to bring in lorry loads of maize to keep the rest alive.
Gains in countries where Bt maize is already planted commercially, such as America, Argentina, South Africa and Spain, range from 5% to 10%.
On one reckoning, in order to keep up with population growth farmers will have to grow more wheat and maize over the next 40 years than was grown in the previous 500.
But it is a useful discovery, because such duplication is also found in species such as maize, and it thus makes Arabidopsis an even better model for other things botanical than researchers had previously thought.
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