Search Results for: Canadian

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing

WORRIES about inflation and food shortages have left the Chinese government struggling to balance efforts to temper inflation with its ambitious biofuels development programme. Increasing demand for food and biofuels in China have been a key driver in increasing global consumption of fats and oils at an average 4% per year according to the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO).…

BY MARK GODFREY, in Beijing; DEIRDRE MASON, in London; and MONICA DOBIE, in Ottawa

THE OLYMPIC Games are an international spectacle, but also an opportunity for serious organised crime report Mark Godfrey, in Beijing; Monica Dobie, in Ottawa; and Deirdre Mason, in London.…

BY ANDREW CAVE

WITH scientific evidence of global fish depletion, governments and the fishing industry worldwide might be expected find common cause around ensuring sustainable resources will still exist in future years.

That’s not exactly how the response to fisheries sustainability has been framed, however.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi

THE WIDESPREAD implementation of new technological developments in Malawi’s flue-cured tobacco process could enable local producers to dramatically increase their output and its quality, according to industry experts.

Results from tests run during Malawi’s latest tobacco curing season using a new method of heating have shown a dramatic improvement in energy efficiency over standard methods, and an improved quality of the end product compared to traditionally cured tobacco.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, in Lilongwe, Malawi

THE WIDESPREAD implementation of new technological developments in Malawi’s flue-cured tobacco process could enable local producers to dramatically increase their output and its quality, according to industry experts.

Results from tests run during Malawi’s latest tobacco curing season using a new method of heating have shown a dramatic improvement in energy efficiency over standard methods, and an improved quality of the end product compared to traditionally cured tobacco.…

By Monica Dobie

Move over solar power say American and Canadian university researchers: make room for the new power generator – the knee brace! Motorised prosthetic joints are great – but shame they need a battery. The same can be said about pacemakers.…

By Monica Dobie

A Canadian academic has shown how women trapped in abusive relationships often find the will keep living in the need to care for their dogs. A study from the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Dr Amy Fitzgerald, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, said field research has shown the need to care for their animals actually prevents women from committing suicide.…

By Monica Dobie

University World News here again features a selection of commercially important and cutting edge higher education research developments.

*Researchers from the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have developed a genetic tool that can help speed the development of new genetic varieties of food crops.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN, in Geneva

IMPROVING air traffic management, particularly in Europe, is the key to ensuring further near-term reductions in harmful greenhouse gas emissions around airports, top executives from the industry argued during a recent two-day conference on aviation environmentalism in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A CANADIAN court has ruled that Canada’s only single malt whisky producer cannot use ‘Glen’ in its brand title ‘Glen Breton’, because it makes the drink appear it was made in Scotland. In reality, its distillery is in eastern Canada’s Cape Breton, a region heavily populated by victims of the Nineteenth Century’s Highland Clearances in northern Scotland.…