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NSRL is your information source for research
in soybeans - from production to consumption. NSRL is housed in
the National Soybean Research Center, a building built and equipped
with federal and state funds, located at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, and has programs supported by industry, state,
and federal dollars, and gifts and grants.
NSRL Bulletin Hot Off the Press - Summer 2008
Owen Joins NSRL - May 22
Understanding World Food-Fuel Crisis-May 14
Intsoy Course-April 21-25
HOT Project: Teens and Diabetes - March 7
C-FAR Presents 2008 Achievement Award to Illinois
Three become Extension Associates with NSRL - February 27
Center for Soy Foods - February 25
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Understanding World Food-Fuel Crisis
Symptoms of the food-versus-fuel crisis are appearing regularly in the news but the underlying causes--and long-term implications--are poorly understood.
"An important component of the food-versus-fuel debate that is not well understood is how increases in wealth for Asian consumers are dramatically affecting the markets for commodities worldwide," said Peter Goldsmith, director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory and an associate professor in the U of I's Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.
To help fill that knowledge gap, Goldsmith, Tad Masuda, a postdoctoral researcher, and Barbara Mirel of the University of Michigan have built a 3-D computer model that visually conveys the interrelationship and impacts of income changes around the world on consumption, production, and markets.
"Global Food in 3-D--Version 2" is a Web-based program that will be accessible on a trial basis worldwide to analysts and other interested parties by June.
"It will put the story of food demand at everyone's fingertips," Goldsmith said.
For the full article on the web, visit:
www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news4389.html
For the full article in pdf form, visit:
www.nsrl.uiuc.edu/news/pressreleases/foodfuelMay08.pdf
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This conference provided a global symposium on the technical, scientific and economic opportunities and challenges involved in creating and capturing value in the grain-based food, feed, fiber and fuel supply chains. The objectives of this Congress were to present current research-based knowledge and information on industry practice on:
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Characterization of quality attributes and measurement technologies to quantify agronomic, quality and end use traits of cereals, oilseeds and co-products within the food, feed, fiber and bioenergy complex.
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Best management practices, systems and technologies to maintain and assure the identity, purity, integrity, consistency, quality, biosecurity and marketability of cereals, oilseeds and co-products through the supply chains from production through harvest, handling, post-harvest, and processing operations, to final end use.
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Economic assessment of measurement technologies and management practices for creating and capturing value within the food, feed, fiber and bioenergy complex
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Highlighting Ways You Can Make a Difference-
Through Soy & the
World Soy Foundation
The World Soy Foundation, a program of WISHH, is helping to find solutions to the problems faced in developing countries, with U.S. soybeans.
The Foundation works with already established private voluntary organizations and non-governmental organizations to provide assistance for school lunch programs, HIV care and weaning 6- to 24-month-old infants. These organizations also use soy to provide nutritional assistance to orphans, children and other vulnerable people around the world, as well as those affected by natural disasters in an emergency. By supporting WSF, you are putting healthier, more nutritious options into the diets of the less fortunate.
Your tax-deductible donation will help educate and empower people to create new efforts and develop new foods locally to address nutritional concerns. Your donation can make a difference in the lives of children, adolescents and adults throughout the world.
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