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2 unusual facts about Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990


Cotton competitiveness provisions

The cotton competitiveness provisions are provisions added by the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to the cotton program designed to keep U.S. cotton prices competitive in domestic and export markets.

National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program

Grants were made to scientists at both public and private laboratories for basic and applied agricultural research in priority areas as designated in the research title of the 1990 farm bill (P.L. 101-624, Title XVI), as amended.


Al-Hajjaria

Al-Hajjaria Trust was composed of the "Big House" on Souk Road and the well-known Al-Hajjaria Agricultural farm on Tahhan Road situated on the way out to Quba Mosque.

Alex Schoenbaum

Under Alex Schoenbaum, the Shoney's organization also developed and operated the Captain D's fast food seafood chain, Lee's Famous Recipe Chicken fast-food chain, now part of Mrs. Winner's, and three casual dining chains, The Sailmaker, Pargo's and the Fifth Quarter Steakhouses.

Alfalfa House

Alfalfa House Community Food Cooperative Ltd is a not-for-profit food cooperative based in Enmore, Sydney, Australia.

Axelborg

Axelborg is a building on Vesterbrogade in Copenhagen, Denmark, home to the Danish Agriculture and Food Council.

Binegar

Calamine ore was mined at Merchants Hill in the late 18th century, but the area's principal focus was on limestone quarrying, at Gurney Slade quarry, and agriculture.

Canvasback

The species name valisineria comes from the plant Vallisneria americana, whose winter buds and rhizomes are the Canvasback's preferred food during the nonbreeding period.

Carpinus betulus

The leaves provide food for some animals, including Lepidoptera such as the case-bearer moth Coleophora anatipennella.

Casa Blanca, Arizona

Led by Captain Sherod Hunter, the raid destroyed the mill machinery, captured Ammi White and returned the flour and other food to the Pima.

Catherine L. Malone

From January to August of 2001 she worked for Conservation of St. Lucian Iguanas as an outreach and education coordinator at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

Originally a champion of African socialism, upholder of the system of collectivized agriculture known as Ujamaa and firmly oriented to the left, the CCM espouses today a more neoliberal approach.

Chief Agricultural Negotiator

During negotiation of the Uruguay Round of GATT talks that led ultimately to creation of the World Trade Organization, Charles J. O'Mara, a Senior Foreign Service officer of the Foreign Agricultural Service, was appointed Counsel for International Affairs to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and Special Trade Negotiator for Agriculture.

Coclé Province

Coclé is also home to APROVACA orchid conservation center, which conducts orchid conservation activities, including orchid reintroduction into the wild and a sponsorship program for the Panamanian national flower Peristeria elata.

Dara O'Rourke

He is also the founder of GoodGuide, an online consumer tool for retrieving information about the supply chain of consumer products such as toys, food, and detergents.

Economy of Vanuatu

Copra, cocoa, kava and beef account for more than 60% of Vanuatu's total exports by value and agriculture accounts for 20% of GDP.

Food code

The Conference for Food Protection also provides recommendations for FDA Food Code standards.

Food riot

Oxfam added that a one percent increase in the price of food could lead to 16 million more falling below the poverty line.

Fred's Frozen Foods

As of 2002, both brands are operated by Windsor Quality Food Company, LTD, which is ultimately owned by the Hojel and Meinig families through their holding company HM International based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

G.I. Wanna Home

Films like Playing the Ponies, An Ache in Every Stake, Sock-a-Bye Baby, and I Can Hardly Wait are finer examples of Curly preparing food and creating comedy genius with little effort.

Geranium caespitosum

The Keres use roots crushed into a paste to treat sores, and the whole plant as turkey food.

Gun safety

In 1902, the English politician and game shooting enthusiast Mark Hanbury Beaufoy wrote some much-quoted verses on gun safety, including many salient points.

Harvey Washington Wiley

Wiley was offered the position of Chief Chemist in the United States Department of Agriculture by George Loring, the Commissioner of Agriculture, in 1882.

Hilmar Wäckerle

Unable to continue in the army, Wäckerle enrolled in the Technical University Munich to study agriculture.

Ian Marber

His publication on Supereating published in 2008 by Quadrille, focuses on getting more from your food.

Jell

Gelatin dessert, also known as jelly, a sweet or savoury food gel

Joan Nathan

She was a co-founder of New York's Ninth Avenue Food Festival under then-Mayor Abraham Beame.

Khieu Samphan

The historian Ben Kiernan stated that Samphan's protestations (such as the fact that he regarded the collectivisation of agriculture as a "surprise", and his expressions of sympathy for his "friend" Hu Nim, a fellow member of the CPK hierarchy tortured and killed at Tuol Sleng) betrayed the fundamental "moral cowardice" of a man mesmerised by power but lacking any nerve.

Laurance S. Rockefeller Preserve

Sedges and other low plants grow in the wetlands providing food and cover for migrating birds.

Leafcutter ant

In addition to feeding the fungal garden with foraged food, mainly consisting of leaves, it is protected from Escovopsis by the antibiotic secretions of Actinobacteria (genus Pseudonocardia).

Manihot

Manihot species are used as food plants by the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera including Endoclita sericeus and Hypercompe hambletoni.

Marooning

Selkirk, a sailor with the Dampier expedition, was worried about the unseaworthy condition of his ship, the Cinque Ports, and had argued with the captain until he left him ashore on the island where they had briefly stopped for water and food supplies.

Mexican street food

Other areas in Mexico City noted for their street food are Metro Chilpancingo, Mercado San Juan Arcos de Belen, Calle López in the historic center and the Mercado de Antojitos ("street food market") in Coyoacán.

Meyer's Parrot

Seeds of the various leguminous trees of the African woodlands are especially favoured, providing their staple food in some areas.

Mir-219 microRNA precursor family

In molecular biology, the microRNA miR-219 was predicted in vertebrates by conservation between human, mouse and pufferfish and cloned in pufferfish.

Murewa

It is dominated by traditional African agriculture of the Shona people.

Norman Walker

Norman W. Walker (1886–1985), British-American raw food and alternative health advocate

Palm nut

The immature fruits of Arenga pinnata, a canned/bottled food sold commercially in syrup

Passi, Iloilo

Passi was made the quartermaster depot of United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) for the food of the army that resisted in Bataan through Capiz.

Patricia Schroeder

During the 1995 budget debates, after Democrats claimed that Social Security payments would leave seniors with no choice but to eat dog food, Rush Limbaugh humorously claimed that he was going to get his mother a can opener.

Protein sparing

Bodybuilding and other strength training promotes the utilization and conservation of protein's amino acids in the body.

Rachel Carson Greenway

The Rachel Carson Conservation Park is a 650-acres park located near Laytonsville, in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Raghuveer Meena

College of Fisheries, Udaipur affiliated to Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur was established in November 2003 by upgrading the Department of Limnology & Fisheries of Agriculture faculty.

Sadao Takagi

Takagi studied at Hokkaido University, where he received his bachelor's degree, his masters and his doctorate in agriculture.

Sputnik 2

If neither had taken place, Russian Mission Control had planned to euthanize Laika with poisoned food, as she would have burned up in the atmosphere during re-entry.

Sunalini Menon

Sunalini Menon has BSc and MSc degrees in food and nutrition from the Women's Christian College, which she attended between 1966 and 1971.

Tannahill

Reay Tannahill, author of Food in History (1973) and other works

Terrance Hanold

Terrance Hanold (1912–1996) was an American attorney, food industry executive, and President of the Pillsbury Company.

University House, University of Birmingham

It is located in beautiful grounds in the conservation area of Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Utensil

Eating utensil, a tool for shaping and carrying food to the mouth

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

Walter Wallmann

The ministry was established by chancellor Helmut Kohl on June 6, 1986 in response to the Chernobyl disaster and formed from departments of the Ministries of the Interior, of Agriculture and of Health.


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