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Groups Discuss World Grain Reserve

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Setting up a world grain reserve is a realistic option that would reduce the risk of food shortages and shield farmers from big price shocks, a senior official with the U. S. National Farmers Union said March 19. The proposal to create global cereal stocks topped the agenda of a meeting of farmers’ unions from
Cereals, Crops

Scientists Join In Battle To Head Off Ug99

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Amutant form of stem rust that wipes out wheat crops could spread to top producers in Asia unless new resistant varieties of wheat are distributed widely, experts say. Stem rust “annihilates, that’s not an exaggeration,” said Rick Ward, a rust expert from Cornell University. “Basically the entire world’s wheat crop is fertile breeding ground,” Ward
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Recession Compounds World Food Crisis

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The global economic downturn has compounded the food crisis, pushing more people over the brink of hunger and threatening stability around the world, the head of the United Nations’ food relief agency said March 3. Food supplies are tight and expensive, and more people in poor countries are unable to afford what they need because
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Finding Common Ground

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Farm organizations and rural advocacy groups haven’t exactly been tripping over themselves to sign on to the Manitoba Food Charter. In fact, the Manitoba Women’s Institute – once a fearless advocate for similar values – voted almost unanimously a couple of years back against a resolution to support it. Likewise, mainstream farmers have been noticeably
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The Manitoba Food Charter

Excerpt from the Manitoba Food Security Network website: http://food.cimnet.ca/cim/43C1_3T1T4T426.dhtm. The Manitoba Food Charter emerged from Manitobans’ common vision for a just and sustainable food system. The charter provides vision and principles that will guide and inform all levels of government, businesses, non-profit organizations, communities, families and individuals in planning, policy development, programs and practice in
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FAO Sees World Rice Stocks Rising Eight Per Cent In 2009

World stocks of rice, one of the food staples across the globe, are expected this year to hit the highest level since 2002 on the back of strong output in 2008, the United Nations’ food agency said on Feb. 25. World rice stocks carried over to 2009 are forecast to rise eight per cent to
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Aid Groups Plan Renewed Fight On Hunger

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Lost jobs, faltering banks and recession have pushed the issue of world hunger out of U. S. headlines, but U. S. aid groups are set to launch a plan to refocus attention on the issue, former U. S. senator George McGovern said Feb. 23. The plan by aid organizations including Feed the Children, Oxfam America,
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Food Price Spike Tests Trade Faith

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The recent shift toward rising food prices has shaken the confidence of developing countries in counting on trade to feed their hungry, and sparked a move toward protectionism, an OECD official said on Feb. 26. “The last 20 years, the movement was toward opening markets, and trade liberalization, and less government intervention in agricultural markets.
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Food Charter Continues To Inspire

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“As the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives, this is a very important issue for us.” – MAFRI MINISTER ROSANN WOWCHUK The Manitoba Food Charter continues to make inroads with Manitobans, after hosting both a sold-out conference this past weekend and signing more signatories to its visionary document. This is the second winter the
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World Wheat Crop A Record In 2008

World wheat output jumped 12.4 per cent in 2008 to 686 million tonnes, driving global cereals output to record highs, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said Feb. 12, raising its earlier estimates. But smaller planted areas and bad weather are likely to trigger a fall in output of wheat and other cereals in

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