The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.
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Devinder Sharma, NEW DELHI, Nov 28 2013 : "India, a country which lived in the shadows of a ship-to-mouth existence when food would go directly from the ship to hungry mouths has over the years emerged self-sufficient in food production. This historic turnaround was possible only because India had adopted the two planks of what I call a remarkable famine-avoidance strategy: providing farmers with an assured price support for their produce, and introducing a food procurement system that provided for a guaranteed market and at the same time helped get food to the poor in the deficit regions through a network of ration shops. Withdrawing the price support for farmers or freezing it at the de-minimis level of 10 percent as applicable under the Agreement on Agriculture will make farmers vulnerable to the vagaries of the market."
Global Trends by Martin Khor Monday 2 December 2013 WTO food fight in Bali? Will developing countries be allowed to promote food security schemes that buy food from small farmers and also help poor consumers? This is one the issues at the WTO’s Ministerial Conference next week.
Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Lester R. Brown Chapter 9. China and the Soybean Challenge "The main soybean producers today, in round numbers, are the United States at 80 million tons, Brazil at 70 million tons, and Argentina at 45 million tons. Together they account for over four fifths of world soybean production. China is a distant fourth at a mere 14 million tons. For six decades, the United States was both the leading producer and exporter of soybeans, but in 2011 Brazil’s exports narrowly eclipsed those from the United States. "
Books Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity Lester R. Brown Chapter 10. The Global Land Rush: "What is new now is the scramble to secure land abroad for more basic food and feed crops—including wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans—and for biofuels. These land acquisitions of the last several years, or “land grabs” as they are sometimes called, represent a new stage in the emerging geopolitics of food scarcity. They are occurring on a scale and at a pace not seen before."
Aamulehti 20.2.2012: "Keinolihaa jo vuosia kehittänyt hollantilaistutkija Mark Post kertoi sunnuntaina, että ensimmäinen keinolihasta leivottu hampurilaispihvi on tarkoitus nauttia lokakuussa. Missä ja milloin tämä tapahtuu, on vielä tarkkaan varjeltu salaisuus. Myöskään sitä Post ei kertonut, kuka saa ensimmäisenä maistaa synteettistä lihaa. Mark Post puhui toimittajille sunnuntaina Vancouverissa Kanadassa järjestettävällä Yhdysvaltain tiedeviikolla."
Sept 2011 "... the area is still very poorly funded. The interdisciplinary group of scientists has decided to form a community to try to attract more funding and to create a faster development in the area of cultured meat. During the workshop last week, they also reached consensus about important issues in the research field. For instance, the nutrients for growing the cells for meat must be produced with renewable energy and without animal products. The best source for this is to use a photosynthetic organism, such as blue-green algae." "We want to invite all stakeholders into discussions to tackle these issues and identify in which directions to go," says Julie Gold, associate professor in biological physics at Chalmers,
Ce n’est pas le fruit de l’imagination du Colombien Gabriel García Márquez, prix Nobel de littérature. Le massacre d’environ mille cinq cents ouvriers, le 6 décembre 1928, et la répression qui s’ensuivit pendant trois semaines, qu’il raconte dans son roma