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Green Box Subsidies Can Also Distort Trade

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Efforts to overhaul agricultural support in rich countries are increasingly under challenge for failing to remove the unfair distortions in global trade that they purport to eliminate, a new study says. The study by agriculture and trade economists, published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), questions the thrust of farm negotiations
Crops

Buying Of Developing Countries’ Farmland Slows: UN

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“Maybe some of them don’t want to take this political risk, reputational risk and economic risk.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE AUDINET, IFAD The pace at which investors in richer countries have been buying farmland in developing nations has slowed with the fall in food prices this year from peaks hit in 2008, United Nations farming experts said
Opinion

A Holiday Wish

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One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live amongst peoples who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in the stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. So begins the 2009 Massey Lecture series by Wade Davis,
Opinion

Development Policy Driven By Common Sense, Not Edicts

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…most of the recommendations he identifies are drawn from the actual practice employed by many of the leading countries of the world as they went through their development phase. Alast-ditch effort to conclude the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations was held in the summer of 2008 in the hope that George W.
Crops

Crop Diversity Key To Food Security

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“There are as many patents for roses and chrysanthemums as there are for the three most important food crops – rice, wheat and maize. What are we to do, feed them chrysanthemums?” – Pat Mooney Pat Mooney, who isn’t known for his optimism, says he finally has some good news. The executive director of the
Crops

Science The Solution, Says Ex-PM

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“We need clarity of purpose if we are to achieve the great goal of feeding everyone, everywhere.” – JAMES BOLGER To feed nine billion people by 2050, world agriculture will have to pull out all the stops. Achieving the goal of both feeding the world and protecting the environment will require abandoning “romantic” notions of
Cereals, Crops

National Farmers Union Celebrates 40 Years

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“Structure determines process, process determines results.” – ROY ATKINSON If there’s a constant with the National Farmers Union, it’s consistency. Canada’s only national, voluntary, direct-membership general farm organization, which holds its 40th annual meeting in Ottawa this week, sticks to its principles. “The first person who compromises, loses,” Roy Atkinson, the NFU’s first president, said
News

Is Africa Selling Out Its Farmers?

For centuries, farmers like Berhanu Gudina have eked out a living in Ethiopia’s central lowlands, tending tiny plots of maize, wheat or barley amid the vastness of the lush green plains. Now, they find themselves working cheek by jowl with high-tech commercial farms stretching over thousands of hectares tilled by state-of-the-art tractors – and owned
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Cuba To Reorganize State Farms, Trim Bureaucracy

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“The urgency of reducing imports and increasing food production has accelerated solutions to this old problem…” Cuba’s Agriculture Ministry will cut thousands of bureaucratic jobs and reorganize its large state-run farms into smaller plots in a bid to reverse steadily declining food output, official media said Nov. 10. Communist Party newspaper Granma said that 89,000
Livestock

U. S. Sets Competition Meetings

The Obama administration will hold workshops in 2010 in Iowa, Wisconsin, Alabama, Colorado on fair play and concentration in agricultural marketing, officials said on Friday. After sessions in farm country, the all-day hearings will conclude with a meeting in Washington on the spread between prices received by farmers and those paid by consumers for food.

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