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UN Agency Promotes Organic For Africa

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“Even in this current economic crisis, where demand for most products is dropping fast, demand for organic products continues to grow.” Demand for organic foods will keep growing despite the world economic crisis, creating an opportunity for farmers in poor countries, the United Nations’ trade and development agency said Feb 9. In a research note,
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Financial Crisis Increases Hunger

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The economic crisis is pushing the world’s hungriest people to the wall, but a fraction of the cost of financial rescue packages could make a huge difference, the head of the UN’s World Food Program said Dec. 16. “I don’t think it is just an issue of compassion, it is an issue of global peace
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World Wheat Crop A Record In 2008

World wheat output jumped 12.4 per cent in 2008 to 686 million tonnes, driving global cereals output to record highs, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said Feb. 12, raising its earlier estimates. But smaller planted areas and bad weather are likely to trigger a fall in output of wheat and other cereals in
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From fleece to yarn

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WANT TO KNOW MORE? SHEEPLES FINE FIBRES Inwood-based sheep producer and wool processor www.sheeplesfinefibres.com/ 2009 DIRECT FARM MARKETING CONFERENCE February 27-28, Brandon www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/news/direct. html – UNITED NATIONS INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF NATURAL FIBRES 2009 www.naturalfibres2009.org/ It’s been decades since woollen mills operated next to pens of live sheep in rural Manitoba. But Joe and Kim Streker’s
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Nearly a billion hungry, food prices high

High food prices helped push another 40 million people into hunger this year, the U. N.’s food agency said Dec. 9, raising the number of undernourished people in the world to 963 million. A report by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that said fewer and fewer people can afford decent meals, especially in Asia
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UN calls food summit in 2009, hopes for fair trade

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The world should hold a food summit in the first half of next year to seek fairer trade and help farmers in poor countries make a decent living, the head of the United Nations food agency said Nov. 19. Jacques Diouf, head of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said the summit would seek to

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