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Editorial: The green world’s breadbasket?
Crops, Opinion

Editorial: The green world’s breadbasket?

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Jeff Rubin, the former chief economist for CIBC World Markets turned bestselling author, knows all about adaptation. His first book, Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller grabbed international attention with predictions that world oil prices would climb to more than $200 a barrel by 2012, forcing a rethink of almost
Tractor in a field.
Crops

U.S. to launch ‘climate hubs’ to help farmers face climate change

Climate hubs will act as information centres to help farmers handle risks

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President Barack Obama’s administration is setting up seven “climate hubs” to help farmers and rural communities adapt to extreme weather conditions and other effects of climate change, a White House official said. The hubs will act as information centres and aim to help farmers and ranchers handle risks, including fires, pests, floods and droughts, that
Crops

Small communities not ready for climate change

The highest proportion of communities with climate action plans are in Canada’s Prairie provinces

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Dramatic differences exist in how Canadian communities are preparing for the effects of climate change, says a UBC professor who helped prepare a report by the National Municipal Adaptation Project (NMAP), a team of university researchers assessing how Canada’s municipal governments are planning for climate adaptation and resiliency. “The good news from our survey is
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Federal grant to study agroforestry

staff / The federal government has invested $160,000 into an Upper Assiniboine River Conservation District project to study how agroforestry can increase farmers’ productivity while mitigating their environmental impact. The district will use the funding to study how agroforestry — the integrated approach of planting trees and shrubs on farms — can reduce the costs
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Australia’s Landmark Carbon Price Laws To Take Effect In 2012

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Australia passed landmark laws Nov. 8 to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade. The vote in the upper house Senate made Australia the second major economy behind the European Union to pass carbon-limiting legislation. Tiny New Zealand has a similar scheme. Its impact will be
Livestock

Making Money From Muck

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Nearly 700 Australian piggeries could benefit from the new rules that set out how farmers can capture, measure and destroy methane from pig waste. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas and is 21 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Under the domestic offset scheme called the Carbon Farming Initiative,
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Belching Bovines More Climate Friendly Than Thought

Australia’s huge cattle herd in the north might be burping less planet-warming methane emissions than thought, said a study released on May 27, suggesting the cows are more climate friendly. Cattle, sheep and other ruminant livestock produce large amounts of methane, which is about 20 times more powerful at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. One
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Mexican Gangs Go After New Target: High-Priced Corn

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Organized crime gangs equipped with automatic weapons and tractor trailers are branching out into raids on huge grain silos, in a sign of growing lawlessness in parts of Mexico’s north. Attacks on warehouses and cargo trucks have multiplied into a near-weekly affair in the northwestern state of Sinaloa, where one of the worst cold snaps
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Researchers Peg GHG Value Of Wetlands

Farmers who switch to zero tillage may brag about sequestering climate-altering carbon in their soil. But if they also drain a few swamps on their land, they’re just spewing hot air – or rather, greenhouse gases. That’s called “leakage” in the carbon credit market: the taking on of one agricultural practice to offset greenhouse gas
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Australian Farmers Key To Climate Change Fight

Australian farmers could be major winners from plans to put a price on carbon emissions, particularly as other countries also move to curb greenhouse gas pollution, the nation’s top climate adviser Ross Garnaut said March 1. In a report on how carbon markets will impact on rural land use, Garnaut said farmers had a key

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