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Meal In A Can Contains Hulless Oats

By Lorraine Stevenson March 17, 2011

Campbell’s Canada’s launch of a new canned meal product containing naked oats is pure vindication for the Interlake farmer who has invested years in promoting the variety as an important new crop. The Canadian food product company recently announced the launch of Nourish, a 425-g completely meal-in-a-can product which, in addition to two servings of

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Biofuel Jatropha Doesn’t Measure Up

By Juliane Von Reppert January 27, 2011

Jatropha, a biofuel-producing plant once touted as a wonder crop, is turning out to be much less dependable than first thought, both environmentalists and industry players say. Some biofuel producers found themselves agreeing with many of the criticisms detailed in a report launched by campaign group Friends of the Earth this week “Jatropha: money doesn’t

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Rwandan Farmers Produce Pigs With A Beat

By Hereward Holland November 4, 2010

Edmund Ndizeye, self-styled pig DJ, stoops to adjust the amp at a farm in the wrinkled hills of northern Rwanda. The wires leading from his room feed a varied diet of hip hop, reggae, R and B, love songs and local music to his pink, curly tailed audience who, according to Ndizeye’s boss, are thriving

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“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

By Lorraine Stevenson February 11, 2010

“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

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Villagers Lose Land To Sugar Plantation

By Gladson Makowa June 25, 2009

Farm Radio International is a Canadian-based, not-for-profit organization working in direct partnership with approximately 300 radio broadcasters in 39 African countries to fight poverty and food insecurity. The network, founded 30 years ago by Canadian broadcaster George Atkins, has lately turned its attention to the effects of foreign land grabs. This story is from a

Country Crossroads, Livestock

Canadian Programs Supported By U. S. Charitable Group

By Lorraine Stevenson June 25, 2009

WHAT IS HEIFER INTERNATIONAL AND WHO STARTED IT? Heifer International was founded in the U. S. in 1944 by a Midwestern farmer and Church of the Brethren Christian member named Dan West. West returned from duty as an aid relief worker during the Spanish Civil War, convinced that restoring food security among impoverished families was

Country Crossroads

Hunger still bites in land of plenty

By Charles Abbott December 4, 2008

Some 36.2 million Americans struggle to get enough food to eat and one-third of them go hungry from time to time, according to a government survey taken before this year’s economic downturn. Anti-hunger groups said hunger has worsened since the government’s survey of 45,600 households at the end of 2007. They want Congress to increase

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Meal In A Can Contains Hulless Oats

Biofuel Jatropha Doesn’t Measure Up

Rwandan Farmers Produce Pigs With A Beat

Villagers Lose Land To Sugar Plantation

Canadian Programs Supported By U. S. Charitable Group

Hunger still bites in land of plenty

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