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Probe finds Italian crime syndicates control a big part of food business

Organized crime in Italy controls agricultural and food businesses worth 12.5 billion euros (US$16 billion) a year, or 5.6 per cent of all criminal operations in the country, according to a parliamentary investigation. It has spread its involvement through the entire food chain from acquisition of farmland to production, from transport to supermarkets, said Coldiretti,
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Farm group decries BASF decision to move German biotech unit to U.S.

Germany’s giant association of farming co-operatives said a decision by BASF to transfer its research into crops with genetically modified organisms from Germany to the U.S. and other countries will be “disastrous for Europe as a location for agricultural industries.” The German chemical company plans to move its biotech unit in Limburgerhof to North Carolina,
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Argentina revamps wheat policy

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Argentina’s new wheat export system promises to spur output from the grains-producing powerhouse at a time when farmers are hurting from dry weather and the government needs more foreign currency. The administration of recently re-elected President Cristina Fernandez will scrap incremental export quotas in a bid to improve prices for farmers by boosting competition among
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Germany to seek EU animal welfare label on meat

Germany will press the European Union to introduce a label on meat saying it came from humanely raised farm animals, said German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner. The move would be part of a new German government program to improve farm animal welfare, she said. “Transparency changes buying behaviour and then the production processes and manufacturing
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Qatar’s next big purchase: a farming sector

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Qatar’s energy resources have given it one of the world’s highest per capita incomes, a futuristic urban skyline and enough clout to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. But its wealth may not be enough for the arid state to achieve an even more ambitious goal: becoming largely self-sufficient in food. Like other oil-rich, water-poor
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EU looking to put the brakes on subsidy gravy train

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British farmers will receive smaller subsidies in coming years, U.K. Farming Minister Jim Paice said, adding he favoured its eventual abolition as global food prices rise. “The single farm payment is going to go down,” said Paice, referring to the expected outcome of negotiations about the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy after 2013. Senior EU officials
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New FAO chief says food prices may ease in 2012

Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian who replaced Senegal’s Jacques Diouf at the helm of the FAO at the start of 2012, said volatility in food markets was likely to continue and that, “Prices will not be going up as in the sense of the last two to three years but will also not drop
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World briefs Jan. 12

La Nina threatens South American, U.S. crops Reuters / The U.S. government forecaster warned Jan. 5 that La Nia, the weather phenomenon widely blamed for withering drought in the southern United States and South America, may persist longer than expected, into the Northern Hemisphere spring. The prolonged La Nia, although weaker than it was a

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