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Starvation In An Age Of Plenty

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Other countries’ domestic and foreign policies are often at the root of food disasters What is it about Africa? With its tropical climate and rich soil, it should be able to feed its teeming millions many times over. Yet too often Africa becomes a metaphor for famine and hunger. In 1984-85 a horrified world responded
Cereals, Opinion

Myths Distort Canadian Farm Policy

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“(T)he argument that we need to subsidize farming in case the world collapses and we need to supply ourselves simply makes no sense. Myths exist about the strategic position of food, the importance of the family farm to the preservation of rural Canada, and the need to defend Canadian farming in the face of European
Opinion

Seeing The Future

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“I subscribe to the view that we’ll see more shortages and better prices more often in the years to come.” To which view of the future of the grain business do you subscribe? View No. 1: the growing world population and increasing prosperity will lead to a long-term uptrend in agricultural prices. View No. 2:
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

The Great Land Grab

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After the cold, wet and now frosty spring we’re experiencing, if foreign buyers came along and approached the federal government about buying up farmland on the Canadian Prairies, there’s a few farmers who’d be inclined to say, “Take it. Please.” That’s not likely to happen, at least not in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, because of legislation
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Farmland Buying May Harm Poor States

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The European Union is concerned by the trend of foreign investors and countries acquiring large tracts of farmland in developing countries to guarantee their own food security, a senior EU official said June 3. Although the EU had not reached a common position on the issue there were fears the trend might pose a risk
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New Report Promotes Food Security For Manitoba

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“I do think there is an unmet consumer demand for local food.” – KREESTA DOUCETTE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MANITOBA FOOD CHARTER Anew report released in Manitoba this week could help this province set a national example in improved food security, say proponents. Those who helped create the Manitoba Food Charter in 2006 have now released
Livestock

International Trade Helps Solve Food Crisis

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International trade is part of the solution to the global food crisis and not one of its causes, the head of the World Trade Organization says. Global integration represented by trade enabled food to be transported from where it could be produced efficiently to where there was demand, said WTO Director General Pascal Lamy. Geography
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Food Security Still A Problem As Hunger Rises

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A fall in grain prices has led to the impression that food security is no longer a concern, but the number of people without enough to eat is still rising in a world facing recession, the United Nations said March 31. “The level of prices is still 19 per cent above the average of 2006
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Time For A Wheat Reserve

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And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:

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