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World Bank Urges Transparency In Foreign Farmland Deals – for Sep. 16, 2010

By Tim Cocks September 16, 2010

The World Bank is urging greater transparency in land investment transactions to protect local land owners as the volume of foreign farmland investment in poor countries swells. Foreigners investing in agricultural land in developing countries should be open in their transactions and recognize the rights of existing owners to avoid weak governance, the World Bank

Country Crossroads

NDP Says Canada Needs Food Security Policy

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff July 1, 2010

Canadians are looking to their government for a comprehensive food strategy to protect our food security and sovereignty, a report released by the New Democrats June 22 says. The report is based on the “Food for Thought” tour led by Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko, which held public forums in 28 communities across the country over

News

Northern food insecurity

“We see a very, very bad and a very, very big problem,” Uche Nwankwo, Intern Professor at the Natural Resources Institute

By Lorraine Stevenson June 17, 2010

Hunger haunts three out of four households in northern Manitoba with some families going entire days without food, new research has found. Last summer a team of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Centre surveyed 473 households in 14 communities across Manitoba’s north. They found a 75 per cent incidence of household food

Cereals, Crops

Poverty Reduces Wheat Consumption

June 10, 2010

Consumption of wheat in Pakistan fell 10 per cent last year, because people lost the purchasing power to buy even that most basic of food staples in the south Asian country, a top UN official said June 2. Wolfgang Herbinger, country director for the World Food Program in Pakistan, said declining wheat consumption was a

News

Africa Needs “Green Revolution” For Food Security

June 3, 2010

Sub-Saharan Africa needs a “Green Revolution” investing in agricultural technology to boost food security after decades of underinvestment, a United Nations agency said May 19. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report that technology and innovation must be targeted at the needs of Africa’s millions of smallholder farmers and reflect

Cereals, Opinion

The Urbanization Of Farm Policy

By Laura Rance-Unger May 6, 2010

It has often been difficult over the past decade or so to find the word “farmer” or “agriculture” in the avalanche of policy statements put out by federal parties during election campaigns. Oh sure, there’s been the hot-button issues such as the Canadian Wheat Board, listeria and more money for hard-pressed farmers, but getting the

News

Israel To Help African Farmers Fight Desert

By David Lewis May 6, 2010

Having “conquered the desert” at home, Israel is ready to share technology and skills with African countries struggling to sustain agricultural output due to increasingly unreliable rains, an Israeli minister said. Shalom Simhon, Israel’s minister of agriculture and rural development, said sharing know-how, especially in irrigation and water management, was his focus on a tour

Crops

Agriculture Can Meet Long-Term Food Demand

By Gus Trompiz March 25, 2010

Agriculture has the scope to meet soaring global demand for food by exploiting potential for higher yields and expanded farmland in certain regions, a Societe Generale analyst told Reuters March 18. Achieving large gains in farm output would however take several years and this time lag could bring renewed tensions in food supply in the

Opinion

Producers Need To Participate In Their Organizations

By Garnet Etsell March 4, 2010

A National Food Strategy is required to ensure that we have a vibrant contributing agriculture sector in Canada. As the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA) celebrates its 75th anniversary, the future of Canadian agriculture is at a crossroads and the future of food in this country is uncharted. Currently, Canada has no comprehensive strategy for

Livestock, News

Eat Local To Sustain Farmers, Conference Told

By Ron Friesen February 25, 2010

Lori Stahlbrand is on a 96 per cent mission. It’s estimated only four per cent of the food Canadians consume is grown and sold through local farmers’ markets, community-supported agriculture projects and the like. The rest comes from mainstream retailers, mostly supermarkets. As a result, there’s a huge potential market for the local food economy

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives Food politics

World Bank Urges Transparency In Foreign Farmland Deals – for Sep. 16, 2010

NDP Says Canada Needs Food Security Policy

Northern food insecurity

Poverty Reduces Wheat Consumption

Africa Needs “Green Revolution” For Food Security

The Urbanization Of Farm Policy

Israel To Help African Farmers Fight Desert

Agriculture Can Meet Long-Term Food Demand

Producers Need To Participate In Their Organizations

Eat Local To Sustain Farmers, Conference Told

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