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Cheap Food Versus Expensive Oil

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You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is a big deal. Canadians spend only about 11 per cent of their disposable income on
Crops

Eco-Farming Can Double Food Output By Poor

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Many farmers in developing nat ions can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a UN report showed March 8. Insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh’s use of ducks to eat weeds in rice paddies are among examples of steps taken to increase food
Crops

Libya Turmoil Could Hurt Regional Food Security — UN

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The United Nations expressed serious concern March 11 about the impact of the Libyan uprising on food security across North Africa because of the region’s dependency on cereal imports. “The ongoing crisis will likely have a significant impact on food security in Libya and in nearby crisis-affected areas,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said
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FAO Report Issues Warning

Climate change bringing floods and drought, growing biofuel demand and national policies to protect domestic markets could drive up global food prices and threaten long-term food security, the United Nations said. High and volatile food prices are a growing global concern, partly fuelling the protests that toppled the rulers of Tunisia and Egypt this year.
Cereals, Crops

Research And Development Seen As Key To Solving World Food Crisis

World agriculture needs a major research and development initiative to reverse declining crop production and avoid a global food crisis, says an international food policy expert. Agricultural output has slowed in the last 20 years – an alarming trend, given a growing world population and recent riots in various countries sparked by rising food prices,
News, Oilseeds

Indonesia Links Good Data To Food Security

Indonesia’s Agriculture Ministry and statistics agency have signed an agreement aimed at releasing more agriculture data, to help food-security planning in the world’s fourth-most-populous nation. Like many emerging markets, Indonesia is battling booming global food prices, and has been forced to import various foods as it grapples with inflation. Analysts also say a lack of
Cereals, News

FAO Warns On Oil As World Food Prices Hit Record

Global food prices hit a record high in February, the United Nations said March 3, warning that fresh oil price spikes and stockpiling by importers keen to head off popular unrest would hit already volatile cereal markets. Rising food prices are a growing global concern, partly fuelling the protests which toppled the rulers of Tunisia
Crops

Britain Threatens To Withdraw From FAO

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Britain said Feb. 26 it could leave one of the United Nations’ agencies fighting hunger unless it improves its “patchy” performance. The threat to pull out of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) follows a review of British overseas aid ordered by the nine-month- old coalition government, which administers one of the world’s biggest aid
Cereals, News

Argentina Dissolves Agricultural Export Regulator

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Argentina has dissolved the agricultural trade agency ONCCA responsible for the country’s corn and wheat export limits, and the government said it will still seek to guarantee domestic supply of grains. It was unclear what the move would mean for Argentina’s heavily regulated export policies, which have angered farmers for years. President Cristina Fernandez’s government
Grain Markets

U.K. Farmers Seek National Food Plan

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Britain needs a national food plan that makes production a strategic priority and curbs its increasing reliance on imports, Peter Kendall, president of the National Farmers Union said Feb. 15. Kendall told the NFU’s annual conference that global food prices were at an all-time high and had played a role in major upheavals in North

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