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Timbuktu UPS

A while ago I left a comment on a Timbuktu post

from: Timbuktu Chronicles (click image for full story online)

 

on making a UPs from widely available materials and noted that I was not sure whether this was a viable proposition.

I have since had a look in South Africa and [...]

Remote-control Fish

Really? Yes fish that will swim to a sound and wait for something to happen.

from: Mail & Guardian

 

What does that help? – what about fish that can be released into the open sea and which will swim back when called to be harvested.

Yes its real with the advantage being [...]

An Amazing Kebab Coater

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Natural Flavour Enhancer & More

Croatian Food Scientists have identified Trehalose, a sugar found naturally in mushrooms, honey, lobster and shrimp as a potential food additive. As well as enhancing aroma in processed strawberries it appear to improve the colour, aroma, and the anthocyanin content of the finished fillings.

from: Food Navigator Europe

 

Since aroma is [...]

Yak cheese healthier for heart than cheddar: study

It seems like Yak’s produce a milk that when converted into cheese offers nutritional benefits compared to cow’s milk.

from Food Navigator

 

” The higher ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids found in yak’s cheese would mean it could be “classified as a healthy food in human diets,” state the researchers [...]

Food Miles & Kenya’s Roses

Oxfam has called on consumers to not blindly change their purchasing pattern because of the food mile concept.

from: Oxfam

Their argument that Africa’s poor deserve support is a good one but saying that hothouse raised roses are worse than Kenyan roses from a carbon footprint view forgets that roses can be grown [...]

Seed Production Facility – Uganda

from: Voice of America

 

A new factory in Uganda promises to help provide small farmers with seeds for more than 55 crops, including vegetables as well as groundnuts, soybeans, maize, rice and other grains. The new privately owned plant comes as the government is encouraging business to play a larger role in [...]

Sport & Politics

What about the response below to the BBC question

from: BBC NEWS [...]

Agflation

There are many articles at the moment focusing on the rising agricultural and food prices around the world. This one from from Business 247 News is interesting that even the title breaks the link between food price rises and biofuels!

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from: Business 247

 

The article [...]

Craft Brewers

Having just been in the Western Cape and seen how the new vineyards market themselves as small, exclusive and expensive this trend in the beer market in the US makes sense, especially because commercial beer is so bland.

What is interesting is that the word CRAFT is used which is often used to [...]