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People queue up outside a public supermarket’s doors in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, in April 2015. (iStock/Getty Images)
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World Food Programme starts distributing food in Venezuela

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Reuters — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it had begun distributing school meals to children in Venezuela, where some seven million people require humanitarian assistance after years of economic collapse in the once-prosperous OPEC nation. The WFP’s first take-home rations were distributed for children under six years old at some 277 schools
The Blair’s agro centre at Lipton, Sask. (Blairs.ag)
Crops, Other

Co-op, Blair’s joint venture to sell one crop input centre

Regulator sees overlap between Co-op, Blair's at Lipton

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A new joint venture formed to run seven existing crop input retail centres in central and southeastern Saskatchewan will settle for six. The federal Competition Bureau on Wednesday announced an agreement with Federated Co-operatives (FCL) and the ag retail arm of the Saskatchewan-based Blair’s Family of Companies toward approval of their proposed joint venture. Blair’s
Current countries’ plans to keep the average global temperature rise to 1.5 C are falling well short of their goal.
News, Other

UN climate talks must boost emissions cuts, finance targets —negotiators

“We need to take stock in Glasgow on how we are going to ramp up political ambition over the next few years.” – Peter Betts

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Reuters – The next round of international climate talks this year must focus on getting more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts and boosting finance for vulnerable nations, climate negotiators said June 24. Britain will host the next United Nations’ climate conference, called COP26, in November in Glasgow, Scotland. It aims to spur more ambitious commitments
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives at the European Council for an EU summit on June 24, 2021.
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Success of climate change talks rests on finance, UN chief says

Richer nations need to make meaningful financial contributions to efforts

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Reuters – The success of international climate negotiations in November will depend on a breakthrough in financial contributions from rich countries, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on June 24. With less than five months to go until the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, there are increasing tensions around climate finance — money rich countries
News, Other

CME Group to launch nature-based global emission offset futures

Planting trees, agriculture projects or protecting forests all qualify

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U.S. exchange operator CME Group will launch a nature-based global emissions offset futures contract on Aug. 1 to help bring more transparency to the growing global voluntary carbon offset market, it said June 21. Nature-based offsets can be generated through schemes such as planting trees, agriculture projects or protecting forests that would otherwise be destroyed.
Ransomware attacks have increased by nearly 500 per cent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: JBS ransomware attack highlights need for new internet

The growing problem points to the need for a new, more secure system

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Make no mistake: We are also in the midst of a digital pandemic of ransomware attacks. The recent attacks on Colonial Pipeline and JBS USA — the world’s largest meat processor — underscore the growing brazen nature of organized, deliberate attacks on increasingly significant targets, and our chronic inability to defend against them. What we
Hydro crews pull down damaged lines on June 22 after a tornado the previous day at Mascouche, Que., about 25 km north of Montreal.
Other, Weather

Cold air and cold-core funnels

Even when or if cold-air funnels touch down, they rarely cause much damage

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For this article, I debated whether I should discuss the short cold snap that brought some record-cold weather to southern and central regions the morning of June 22, along with the heatwave impacting far Western Canada, or continue our look at severe thunderstorms, and specifically, the deadliest part: tornadoes. I figure I can cover the
News, Other

Indigenous-led agricultural projects get funding

Goal is to build a more ‘inclusive agriculture sector,’ feds say

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Sixteen projects to help support Indigenous-led food system initiatives will receive $4 million from the federal government. “Our government is working to create a more inclusive agriculture sector that respects the values of Indigenous Peoples,” said Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie Claude Bibeau in a statement. “These investments are intended to ensure that Indigenous Peoples have equal
Adaptive multi-paddock grazing is among the practices supported by the program.
News, Other

New ALUS funding to take root in the Prairies

Grazing Forward, a partnership between ALUS, Cargill and A&W Canada, will support beef producers looking to lean into regenerative agriculture

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ALUS grazing projects in Manitoba will have some new, big corporate names behind them, and a new well of funds to draw on. ALUS — an organization that has supported farmer-based grazing and agricultural stewardship projects in Manitoba in the late ‘00s, and again starting in 2014 — will now be backed by A&W Canada and
‘Food Action Hub’ platforms collaboration
News, Other

‘Food Action Hub’ platforms collaboration

Busy, far-flung community groups struggle to network and share resources, says Food Matters Manitoba

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Food Matters Manitoba’s new social media-like online platform will help busy and far-flung organizations network and share resources as they work to feed their communities, says Food Matters Manitoba. “It’s easy to stay siloed,” said Myreille Fortin, the organization’s social innovation co-ordinator. The hub is a place to discuss different experiences and learn from others,

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