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Farmers Want More Research Spending

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Groups representing more than 100,000 crop growers are launching a campaign to push for more investment in agricultural research in Canada. Called Farmers for Investment in Agriculture (FIA), the campaign wants Ottawa to at least reverse the 40 per cent decline in public research funding for agronomics that has occurred since 1994. Inflation and less
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Food Majors Triple Investment In Ending Hunger

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World majors in agriculture and food sectors have tripled their investments in boosting global food security but need to spend more to help eradicate hunger, participants at an international forum said Nov. 12. With the number of hungry people rising to a record 1.02 billion this year, up 100 million from 2008, the United Nations’
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U. K. Scientist Seeks Food Security In Climate Deal

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Agriculture has a critical role to play in a global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the British Farm Ministry’s chief scientist said Nov. 2. “The text has to recognize the critical role of agriculture in both mitigation and adaptation,” Robert Watson told Reuters at a food security conference at London-based think-tank Chatham House. Negotiators
Hogs, Livestock

Swine Fever May Impede Growth In Russia Herd

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The spread of African swine fever, a deadly hog disease, to near St. Petersburg could threaten Russia’s attempts to become self-sufficient in pork production, the U. S. Meat Export Federation said Oct. 28 in a note to members. “If recent ASF outbreaks in Russia are as widespread as available information indicates, they could represent a
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Guidelines Could Help Improve Farmland Deals

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A draft of the first-ever international code of conduct for farmland deals should be ready by the end of the year, the head of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development said. The draft document will lead to more discussion about how to ensure deals benefit host nations, as well as those seeking to
Crops

World Food Output Must Rise

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The world will have to produce 70 per cent more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people and as incomes rise, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said Sept. 23. Global cereals demand for food and animal feed is expected to rise to three billion tonnes by 2050 and more
Livestock

Guidelines For Foreign Land Deals Coming

The World Bank will soon publish guidelines to help investors and countries make cross-border farmland purchases mutually beneficial, a senior World Bank official says. After last year’s food riots the food supply scare has pushed several countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea to buy or lease farmland overseas to feed their own people.
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Farming To Feed The World – for Apr. 23, 2009

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If you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed the best ideas to pass your farm or ranch on to your children and grandchildren, you’d have one wealthy farm or ranch to pass on. If, however, you had a nickel for every magazine story that detailed what economic, environmental and political actions are
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Recession Compounds World Food Crisis

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The global economic downturn has compounded the food crisis, pushing more people over the brink of hunger and threatening stability around the world, the head of the United Nations’ food relief agency said March 3. Food supplies are tight and expensive, and more people in poor countries are unable to afford what they need because
Crops

FAO Sees World Rice Stocks Rising Eight Per Cent In 2009

World stocks of rice, one of the food staples across the globe, are expected this year to hit the highest level since 2002 on the back of strong output in 2008, the United Nations’ food agency said on Feb. 25. World rice stocks carried over to 2009 are forecast to rise eight per cent to

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