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Local Food Plus Coming To Manitoba

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“It’s definitely in the millions of dollars since we’ve started” – LORI STAHLBRAND Local Food Plus (LFP) has crossed the border. The Ontario-based, non-profit local food certifier has begun inspecting local farms and approaching food services outlets and retailers ahead of a planned expansion into Manitoba, according to LFP president Lori Stahlbrand, who founded the
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U. S. Eyes Flexibility In Allocating Food Aid

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The Obama administration wants more flexibility in how it allocates food aid dollars to complement its new strategy to help small farmers in poor countries boost their food production, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Oct. 16. Vilsack and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is leading the adminstration’s three-year, $3.5-billion global food security initiative, did
Livestock

Agribusiness Challenged To Solve World Problems

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“We cannot go on the way we’re going and we need the food industry to say it first, when an industry doesn’t take these problems face on, it leads to disaster.” – JEFFREY SACHS Private agribusiness companies must lead the drive to sustainable agriculture if the world is going to succeed in winning the fight
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Global Food Security Plans Too Narrow

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Global plans to reduce hunger by boosting food production are too narrowly focused on farming without considering how to slow population growth or halt climate change, longtime environmental analyst Lester Brown said Sept. 29. The Obama administration and leaders of other wealthy nations have promised to spend more money and coordinate efforts to reduce the
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

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World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and
Cereals, Opinion

World Loses Its Leading Hunger Fighter

CIMMYT joins with members of the international development community to mourn the passing of Nobel Peace Laureate and renowned wheat scientist, Norman E. Borlaug, who died Sept. 12 at the age of 95 from complications from cancer, after an exemplary life dedicated to fighting hunger in developing countries. Borlaug worked as a CIMMYT wheat breeder
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The Looming Food Crisis?

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We are not trying to pick a fight with the scientists and companies who provide the basic research on GMOs, just their pitchmen… their arguments are disingenuous at best and blackmail at worst. We tend to cringe when we hear someone argue that food production is not keeping up with demand. We heard Earl Butz
Crops

Plant Breeder Hopes African Development Takes Root

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For Gebisa Ejeta, it was not enough that he developed new varieties of a food staple crop that resisted droughts and a devastating weed that sucked the life out of cereal crops in his native Ethiopia. Ejeta, who was awarded the 2009 World Food Prize on Thursday, was really driven to get the seeds he
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Japan Recommends Land Investment Rules

Japan is to propose introducing a set of principles to ensure smooth investment in agriculture in developing countries at a Group of Eight summit in Italy in July, a Foreign Ministry official said May 27, in a move to limit “land-grabbing.” Some developed countries that are not self-sufficient in food output have been aggressively stepping
Cereals, News, Pulses

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

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Canadian wheat and pulse growers need Canada to ratify free trade deals with Peru and Colombia to stay competitive with Argentina and the United States. Wheat import tariffs have historically been as high as 17 per cent into Peru and 15 per cent into Colombia. Without a free trade deal, tariffs could cut Canadian grain

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