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Phosphorus Hard To Manage In Organic Systems

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“The problem is every time we’re removing forage, there goes our phosphorus and we’re never replacing it.” – Joanne Thiessen Martens, Organic Agriculture Centre Of Canada Research And Extension Associate Truly sustainable organic production systems recycle nutrients that are removed from the soil by crops. That is why farmers use legumes as cover crops and
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Jatropha Eyed For Biofuels

Mozambique has drafted a strategy for the production of biofuels from the drought-resistant jatropha crop, which contains up to 40 per cent oil, its energy minister said. “We hope the biofuels project will be approved despite the fluctuation of oil prices on the international market,” Salvador Namburete told a briefing. “We have conditions to proceed
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EU Slaps Duties On U. S. Biodiesel Imports

Akey European Union trade panel approved on March 3 temporary anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the United States, sources with knowledge of the decision said. “It went through with no problem,” one source told Reuters on condition of anonymity after a meeting of the EU’s anti-dumping committee of 27 national trade
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EU Eyes Dumping Duty On U. S. Biodiesel Sources

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The European Commission plans to propose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the United States, sources familiar with the proposal said last month. In a separate move that is also likely to agitate sensitive transatlantic trade relations, a probe by the EU executive into a U. S. clampdown on European online gambling
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Finding Common Ground

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Farm organizations and rural advocacy groups haven’t exactly been tripping over themselves to sign on to the Manitoba Food Charter. In fact, the Manitoba Women’s Institute – once a fearless advocate for similar values – voted almost unanimously a couple of years back against a resolution to support it. Likewise, mainstream farmers have been noticeably
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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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Organic Beats High Input, No Till

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“The organic systems were giving us higher net returns, and also more stable net returns, so a banker would really like that.” – BOB ZENTNER A 12-year study in semi-arid central Saskatchewan, comparing conventional, reduced-tillage and organic farming, found organic was the most profitable and made the most efficient use of non-renewable energy inputs. But
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Food Price Spike Tests Trade Faith

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The recent shift toward rising food prices has shaken the confidence of developing countries in counting on trade to feed their hungry, and sparked a move toward protectionism, an OECD official said on Feb. 26. “The last 20 years, the movement was toward opening markets, and trade liberalization, and less government intervention in agricultural markets.
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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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New Biofuels Seen Coming From Many Sources

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New-generation biofuels will come from a wide range of sources and no single feedstock may dominate, a conference on second-generation biofuels organized by German commodity analysts F. O. Licht heard Feb. 13. Non-food plants and crops mentioned at the conference as possibilities for use in future biofuels range from corn husks, grasses and algae to

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