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The Manitoba Food Charter

Excerpt from the Manitoba Food Security Network website: http://food.cimnet.ca/cim/43C1_3T1T4T426.dhtm. The Manitoba Food Charter emerged from Manitobans’ common vision for a just and sustainable food system. The charter provides vision and principles that will guide and inform all levels of government, businesses, non-profit organizations, communities, families and individuals in planning, policy development, programs and practice in
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Chinese Back Africa’s Farms But Want Greater Support

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“Have I come to exploit? On the contrary, I come to invest. I’m throwing money (into) here.” – RIPING OUYANG, DATONG ENTERPRISES Chinese companies are lining up to invest in African agriculture, but governments like Senegal must do more to limit the risks for investors, a veteran Chinese investor said. Chinese markets remain hungry for
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Iraq To Revive Dead Farmland By Sucking Out Salt

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Iraq started flushing excess salinity out of millions of acres of land Dec. 1 in a project aimed at cleansing rivers, breathing new life into dying soils and reviving what was once part of “the fertile crescent.” Though Iraq is wetter and more arable than many of its desert-covered neighbours, centuries of irrigation and overuse
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UN Sees Food Production Down 25 Per Cent By 2050

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Up to a quarter of global food production could be lost by 2050 due to the combined impact of climate change, land degradation and loss, water scarcity and species infestation, the United Nations said Feb. 17. The fall-off will strike just as two billion more people are added to the world’s population, according to the
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More Ice Cover Equals Bad Science

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Since nearly everyone has just had a holiday this week I thought I would give weather school a holiday and instead touch on a weather item that, to be frank, has gotten me a little upset over the last month or so. Maybe it’s my fault for listening to some of these syndicated radio talk
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Zambia looks to diversify

Zambia is completing a model farm meant to encourage economic diversification from copper and cobalt mining to agriculture, Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said on Feb. 2. The 155,000-hectre Nansanga farm will be ready for foreign and local investors this year as the country pushes to grow more export crops to reduce dependency of copper exports,
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Brazil’s Amazon plan sounds bold, but doubts abound

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“Ten years is a long time out there and a lot of deforestation will have occurred by then.” – TOM LOVEJOY, HEINZ CENTER FOR SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT With its bold pledge to halve the rate of Amazon deforestation, Brazil wants to boost its international environmental credentials. But it may lack the conviction and resources
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Province funds watershed planning

These plans are considered vital to the province-wide push to implement watershed plans. Four conservation districts have received additional funding to develop their Integrated Watershed Management Plans. These plans are considered vital to the province-wide push to implement watershed plans. Cheques of $25,000 were issued to four C. D. managers on the opening day of
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La Nina could ease Australian drought

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Australia’s drought-hit farmlands may see vital summer rains from a La Nina system that could develop next year, bringing relief after a year of sweltering temperatures above the global average, scientists said on Wednesday. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said farms in the wheat belt of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales states had a
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Russia to pay subsidies to grain exporters

The Russian government will pay subsidies to grain exporters selected on a tender basis in order to guarantee exports of 10 million tonnes in the first half of 2009, the Agriculture Ministry said Dec. 3. “The subsidies will be offered on a tender basis to market players who will buy grain from producers on an

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