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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:45 AM

UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type: Organization

Name: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents

GM food news.

1. The Independent reports that a leading Government scientist has urged leaders around the world to give greater support to genetically modified crop technologies in order to avert global food shortages. Professor Robert Watson, chief scientific advisor ... [Food Line Web - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Genetically Modified Foods, Genetically Modified Crops, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A...

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)

Total SA

Farm income to fall 8 per cent in 2010

FARM incomes could plummet by 8 per cent in 2010 despite soaring profits this year, Defra forecasts have revealed.Total income from farming increased by 25 per cent in 2009 thanks largely to a 5 per cent fall in input costs and a favourable exchange rate ... [Farmers Guardian - 11/19/2009]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Fertiliser, Total SA, Wheat

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Environment)

Workplace Wasters - Brits Revealed To Be More Environmentally Aware At Home Than In The Workplace >

Workplace Wasters - Brits Revealed To Be More Environmentally Aware At Home Than In The Workplace ment Search ment ment ment letters Business Search Find a Business type -All regions London Midlands North West South East Thames Valley Wales ... [Fresh Business Thinking - 11/19/2009]

Entities: At Home Corp, Environment, David White, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Search Engine Optimization

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)

Better protection for homes and communities from flooding and drought

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (National)269/09 Communities, homes and businesses will be better protected from the risk of flooding and water shortages in future under plans published in the Flood and Water Management Bill by Defra ... [Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affair - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Flooding, Michael Pitt, Environment Agency, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Drought

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

New Animal By-Products Regulations agreed in Brussels

New European Union rules on Animal By-Products Regulations, which govern the disposal of catering and food waste, have been agreed in Brussels (14 November).The regulation lays down health rules in relation to animal by-products not intended for human ... [Materials Recycling Week - 11/19/2009]

Entities: By-product, COMPOST, Brussels, Biogas

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Helping Honeybees - York scientists win prestigious award

North East North West Yorkshire and the Humber East Midlands West Midlands East London South East South West Scotland Wales Northern Ireland News Distribution Service (National)The work of The Food and Environment Research Agency’s (Fera) knowledge management ... [Government News Network - 11/19/2009]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Knowledge Management, York (United Kingdom), Wales

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents

Heineken NV

Royal Brewery launches green energy plant

A £17.5m biomass plant at Heineken’s Royal Brewery in Manchester will be officially launched today.Lord Davies of Oldham, parliamentary under secretary of state for Defra, will officially launc... ... [The Business Desk.com - 11/19/2009]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Heineken NV, Biomass

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Surface water drainage charges plans set out

Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (North West)Changes to the law to protect scout groups, faith groups, amateur sports clubs and other community groups in the North West from unaffordable rises in bills for surface water drainage have ... [News Distribution Service - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Drainage, Surface Water, Sewage, Ofwat, Hilary Benn

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

RPA chief should go, say farmers

Most farmers think Rural Payments Agency Chief Tony Cooper should be sacked over the security debacle which led to thousands of farmers' personal details going missing.According to a Farmers Weekly poll, about 90% of people think Mr Cooper should be ... [Farmers Weekly Interactive - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Tony Cooper, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Hilary Benn, Westminster, Rural Payments Agency

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Government to investigate options for further tenancy reform

THE Government has agreed to meet with tenant farmers to discuss options to safeguard the future of the sector and encourage more new entrants into farming.Speaking at the NFU’s Tenant Farming Conference at Chatsworth House yesterday (Thursday, November ... [Farmers Guardian - 11/20/2009]

Entities: UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Peter Kendall, BridgeHead, Succession, Wales

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents

Expert group is needed to advance soil science

SOIL management is high on the agenda at present and Alan Stennett brings the key messages from a Farmers Club/RASE/Lincolnshire Agricultural Society conference.Soil science is suffering from a shortage of experts and poor communication of research findings ... [Farmers Guardian - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Soil, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Biology, Soil Science, Cranfield university

First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 Documents

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn visits Cumbria following severe flooding

North East North West Yorkshire and the Humber East Midlands West Midlands East London South East South West Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (National)Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has spent the day ... [Government News Network - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Hilary Benn, Flooding, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural A..., Environment, emergency

Quotes

...bans is currently being carried out for Defra by consultants Eunomia, and Joe Papineschi, a director at the Bristol-based company, revealed that "one of the things we have grappled with is the enforceability of landfill bans."

WRAP urges restraint over landfill ban plans [Lets Recycle - 11 hours ago]

..."The environmental impacts of biomass have in the past been misunderstood," Environment Agency head of environmental policy Tony Grayling said. "We, along with Defra, have spent the last two years developing BEAT2 to provide detailed, impartial information that is easy to use by companies and organisations across a variety of sectors." Send comments to feedback@argusmedia.com

UK generator Drax pilots biomass GHG software [Argus Media - 20 hours ago]

...Mr Holdway added: "Companies might want to think about the opportunities that the environment brings for them This is a commercial opportunity for companies to think about the environment and how they promote themselves." Statistics released by Defra show that UK business could save upup to £6.4 billion a year by making environmental changes.http://tiny.cc/xYfib

Companies urged to consider the environment [Low Carbon Economy - 20 hours ago]

"The opportunity to introduce a well thought out, truly comprehensive Floods and Water Management Bill is a once in a Parliament opportunity. With so much of the current Bill and its consultation document still “work in progress” DEFRA must resist the temptation to try and rush through the House a stripped down piece of legislation simply to be seen to be doing something rather nothing."

Flood and Water Management Bill [ePolitix.com - 11/18/2009]

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Rescue mission for globally-threatened crayfish [Peak District National Park Authority - 11/20/2009]
Government to investigate options for further t... [Farmers Guardian - 11/20/2009]
Farmgate milk prices must follow market rise [Farmers Guardian - 11/20/2009]
RPA chief should go, say farmers [Farmers Weekly Interactive - 11/20/2009]
Surface water drainage charges plans set out [News Distribution Service - 11/20/2009]

Blogs

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Christopher Gavigan: Chemicals In Everyday Prod... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/11/2009] As initially posted on Healthy Child Healthy World. A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights ...
How would you like your surveillance? \| David M... [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/06/2009] The government won't address council misuse of Ripa laws, it is only interested in whether surveillance should be overt or covertA little-known tribunal is meeting ...
The Economics of the EU Madhouse [Iain Dale's Diary - 11/04/2009] I don't know whether this is genuine or not, but it makes a point!Dear Secretary of StateMy friend, who is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for ...
How the Tories will repeal the hunting ban [The Coffee House \| Politics and News Discussion ... - 09/09/2009] The Guardian has a story today about how field sports enthusiasts are donating heavily to Nick Herbert, the shadow DEFRA secretary. The paper links the donations ...
Palm oil power plants become burning issue than... [Environment: George Monbiot's blog \| guardian.c ... - 09/09/2009] Newport power station plans have devastating consequences that reach far beyond south WalesThis is a story about the maddest energy scheme the world has seen since ...

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