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Climate change threatens imports and increases Puerto Rico's food vulnerability

Submitted on 24 August 2023 - 3:54pm

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El Nuevo Día

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Carlos Tolentino Rosario y Amanda Pérez Pintado

Forest fires, torrential rains, droughts and extreme heat affect the countries that supply the archipelago, forcing an increase in local production, according to experts.

 

On an island that imports 85% of what it consumes, seeing the shelves full of products in supermarkets, despite the fact that the last natural disaster was a year ago with Hurricane Fiona, does not hide an irrefutable fact: Puerto Rico is at the mercy of the ravages of climate change in the countries that supply it with food, agreed multiple voices consulted by El Nuevo Día.

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Becas doctorado- PhD Forest Carbon Project

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Tres oportunidades de doctorado completamente becados como parte de un proyecto de reforestación y carbono desarrollado en conjunto con comunidades locales en las Filipinas.

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Plantain and banana micropropagation project goes to MIT

Submitted on 24 May 2019 - 9:10am

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El Nuevo Día

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Gerardo E. Alvarado León

A plantain and banana seeds micropropagation project, developed by students at the Interamerican University in Barranquitas, was among 33 selected for the MIT Solve competition, which seeks solutions to global challenges.

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Puerto Ricans protest against Monsanto and transgenic seeds

Submitted on 24 May 2017 - 10:15am

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El Nuevo Día

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Dozens of people participated in the Fifth World March against Monsanto and Transgenic Seeds. This event was to protest the claimed environmental and health harms produced by agricultural biotechnology.

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Agricultural Sciences defend the value of their research

Submitted on 3 May 2017 - 4:10pm

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Leadership from the College of Agricultural Sciences (CCA) at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez Campus, defended the value of the Extended Agricultural Service (SEA) and the Experimental Agricultural Station (EEA) against the attacks on the role of these entities, whose mission is to promote agriculture, research and community service for Puerto Rican families.

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Agricultural genetics: A science tool to explore in Puerto Rico’s new age of agriculture

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For around 10,000 years since the origin of agriculture in the Neolithic, modern humans had been using artificial selection for the improvement of crops and livestock. Previous to that period of time, humans had to live on what they found in the wild by hunting, fishing, and collecting seeds and roots to eat. In this context, Neolithic represents to human history the shift from a hunting-gathering economy to the direct production of food. 

Local production of pineapples at risk

Submitted on 13 December 2016 - 1:02am

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Diálogo Digital

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Deborah Rodriguez

José Zamora, a researcher from the Agriculture Extension Service at the University of Puerto Rico, warns about the risk of importing pineapple seeds from Costa Rica due to the possible presence of the fungus Fusarium Oxysporum which could terminate local pineapple production. 

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Students confirm the negative effects of using pesticides in agriculture

Submitted on 13 October 2016 - 1:33am

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A group of students from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey carried out a research project to examine the effect of excessive use of pesticides in agriculture. Their research confirmed the negative impact of these substances to health and the natural environment. 

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