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Let’s waste less food in 2015

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Food bloggers and various groups love talking about what’s ‘in’ on the food scene as a new year begins. For 2015, we’re told to expect sustained interest in local food and how food production impacts the environment, eating healthier, a fondness for ‘mini’ food, more meatless Mondays, demand for more intense flavours and so on.
Animal industry entering a mini-boom period
Opinion

Animal industry entering a mini-boom period

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In 2007, meat consumption per person in the U.S. was 219 pounds for the big four of beef, pork, chicken, and turkey. Current USDA estimates for this year are down to 199 pounds per person, nearly a 10 per cent decrease in seven years. In percentage terms, consumption of beef has been down 17 per
man and woman carrying a bag of rice
International news, News

Ebola has become famine’s new friend

Hunger and displacement caused by the crisis could have long-lasting effects

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The global campaign to end world hunger came face to face last week with famine’s powerful new ally: the Ebola virus. “It could lead to a hunger crisis of epic proportions,” Kanayo Nwanze, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) told delegates attending the Borlaug Dialogue, an annual event held in honour of
New project aims to put soil at scientific forefront
Opinion

New project aims to put soil at scientific forefront

Soil health not a new topic, but it’s been taken for granted

The U.S. National Farm Foundation and The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation have launched a new website with a strategic plan for its Soil Renaissance Project launched on World Soil Day on 2013. When the average person inventories humanity’s most precious resources, soil rarely makes the list. Yet without soil there is no agriculture, no food
Opinion

Looking below the surface

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Some of the world’s top soil scientists and conservation agriculture exponents convened for the sixth World Congress on Conservation Agriculture in Winnipeg last week. The message from speakers was on one hand sobering, if not frightening — massive soil erosion continues around the world, and in both developed and undeveloped countries. The good news is
Mature man speaking into microphone at a conference.
Crops, News

Doubling of food needs tied to poverty reduction

Cargill’s Greg Page says a 100 per cent increase in food production is doable, but it requires work, including more scientific research

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Projections that world food production must double by 2050 hinge on a very big assumption — billions of poor people getting richer, says Greg Page, Cargill’s executive chairman and former CEO. “The only way for the… 100 per cent increase in food production is if the population grows by two billion and the proportion of
Crops

Outside investment in farmland not driving up prices

The emergence of farmland investment funds brings more opportunities than pitfalls

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The purchase of farmland by outside investors offers opportunities for the agriculture community, which needs new financial tools to deal with a surge in farm sales during the next few years, the president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture says. High crop prices and low interest rates have driven up land prices as many farmers
Haroon Akram-Lodhi speaks about the causes of world hunger.  
Photo: Shannon VanRaes
News

Population growth not the cause of world hunger: economist

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For some the equation is simple — more people on the planet means more people go hungry. Not for Haroon Akram-Lodhi. The economist and Trent University professor who specializes in the political economy of agrarian change in developing capitalist countries, says equating a growing population with global hunger is not only incorrect, but creates a
Crops, News

Noxious weed control to be strengthened in Manitoba

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Keystone Agricultural Producers’ president Doug Chorney is anxious to see details on how the Manitoba government will better protect farmland from noxious weeds as part of its ban on cosmetic pesticides. “I am encouraged by that, but we want to make sure that is the case,” Chorney said July 3 in an interview. “It’s important
Sarah Jaibes is a Zimbabwean farmer practising conservation agriculture. 
Photo: Shannon VanRaes
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Conservation agriculture will play a key role in feeding future populations

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Conference told that by employing permaculture, cover crops, strategic rotation and reduced tillage, small landowners can generate surpluses and contribute to food security

Sarah Jaibes isn’t a soil scientist, or an international development expert, but she knows a lot about how to make small farms work and what it will take to feed nine billion people by 2050. The Zimbabwean farmer became involved in conservation agriculture in 2009, after rising inflation made it difficult to live on her

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