Canadian Canola Stocks Seen Tightening

Canola contracts traded on the ICE Futures Canada platform hit fresh contract highs yet again during the week ended Jan. 21, as the underlying technicals and fundamentals continue to point higher. It’s the same old story in canola as it’s been for the past couple of months. End-user demand is strong, supplies are tightening and




G8 Report Says Food Crisis May Threaten Stability

Global food production needs to double by 2050 to avert the risk of scarcity and high prices hurting international stability, says a policy document for a G8 meeting on agriculture, the Financial Times reported April 7. “Without immediate interventions in agriculture and agrimarketing systems, the 2007 crisis will become structural in only a few decades,”


UN Sees Food Production Down 25 Per Cent By 2050

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

Developing world leaders urge action on food

Developing world leaders said Sept. 23 that escalating food costs were exacting a heavy toll on the poor and called for global action to reverse the trend, which threatens to undermine economic growth. The impact of higher global food prices was raised by leaders in speeches to the annual United Nations General Assembly gathering, where