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Taking Climate Change Seriously

By John Morriss July 28, 2011

While there is no such thing as an “average” farmer, there seems to be a certain proportion of the species with a somewhat selective attitude toward science-based research. When it comes to crop chemicals or genetically modified organisms, they are quite prepared to accept the vast majority of scientific opinion that they are perfectly safe,

Opinion

Taking A Position On Agriculture And Climate Change

July 28, 2011

At its 66th annual international conference in July, the Soil and Water Conservation Society released this position statement on climate change and soil and water conservation. SWCS is a scientific organization with chapters throughout the U.S. and Canada, and which has over 5,000 members around the world. The Soil and Water Conservation Society finds that

Opinion

Letters – for Jul. 28, 2011

July 28, 2011

The July 14 article, “Subsidies, new methods lift Zambian farm yields,” clearly positions accessing subsidies as being more important than applying the principles of conservation farming as key to increasing smallholder food production in Zambia. The experience of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank is quite different. The Canadian Foodgrains Bank supports numerous conservation farming projects where

Cereals, Crops, News

Emerging Fast-Food Nation Indonesia Props Up Wheat Market

By Michael Taylor July 21, 2011

Indonesia will be crowned top Asian wheat importer this year, as higher incomes turn Southeast Asia’s largest economy into a fast-food nation and help to keep global prices on the boil. As affluent Indonesians turn away from rice, their country is vying with Japan to be Asia’s leading wheat buyer, while the latter battles economic

Cereals, Crops

Global Food Inflation To Return After Brief Respite

By Julie Ingwersen July 21, 2011

Red-hot food inflation that has vexed policy-makers around the world seemed to take a breather last month, when corn and wheat prices tumbled on reports that crop shortages were easing. The sell-off was also driven by global economic worries that prompted funds to exit grains in droves. But prices are climbing again, and have already

Crops

U.S. Must Lead Fight Against Hunger — Bill Gates

By Charles Abbott July 21, 2011

Billionaire Bill Gates knows how to end the poverty and hunger that afflicts nearly one billion people worldwide – help them grow more food. At a food security conference May 24, Gates called for U.S. leadership in a global campaign to expand food production. Agriculture ministers of the Group of 20 major developing and emerging

Crops

Subsidies, New Methods Lift Zambian Farm Yields

By Ed Stoddard July 14, 2011

Peasant farmer Joseph Mhlanga proudly points to the pile of maize or corncobs in his modest house: a good crop for him that is part of Zambia’s bumper harvest this year. “This is my maize from this year. I plan to start shelling it soon,” said Mhlanga, a spry 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who farms a

News

Farmers Face Water Shortage As Climate Changes

July 7, 2011

Farmers, governments and regulators should take preventive action to improve water management, because climate change will tighten water supplies for agriculture, the United Nations’ food agency said. Climate change will be bringing higher temperatures and more frequent droughts, reducing water availability especially in water-scarce regions, while melting glaciers will eventually cut water supplies in major

Livestock

G20 Leaves Biofuels Industry Unscathed

By Charlie Dunmore June 30, 2011

PARIS/REUTERS The biofuels industry emerged relatively unscathed from a meeting of G20 agriculture ministers June 23, which ignored advice to scrap biofuels subsidies on the basis they force up food prices. The warning against biofuels targets and subsidies in places such as Europe, Canada, India and the United States had appeared in a report to

News

G20 Action Plan Good For Farmers

By Alex Binkley June 30, 2011

International farm ministers rejected tight controls on commodity speculation in favour of more open information on developments in the food chain that could affect both farmers and consumers, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The first meeting of G20 farm ministers signed an action plan in Paris that stresses more trade and innovation, including biotechnology, to

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Taking Climate Change Seriously

Taking A Position On Agriculture And Climate Change

Letters – for Jul. 28, 2011

Emerging Fast-Food Nation Indonesia Props Up Wheat Market

Global Food Inflation To Return After Brief Respite

Subsidies, New Methods Lift Zambian Farm Yields

Farmers Face Water Shortage As Climate Changes

G20 Leaves Biofuels Industry Unscathed

G20 Action Plan Good For Farmers

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