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Livestock Plague Could Hit Southern Africa

A viral disease which broke out in Tanzania earlier this year could spread to southern Africa, putting at risk more than 50 million sheep and goats in 15 countries, the UN’s food agency said Nov. 2. Known as peste des petits ruminants (PPR), or small ruminants’ plague, the disease does not infect humans but is
Cereals, News

Agricultural Commodities Top Pick?

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Food security is a growing issue that makes agricultural commodities a top pick for 2011 while the threat of currency wars could propel gold to new records next year, Bache Commodities said. “Ags – the wheats, the corns, soyas, they’re the ones you need to own,” Marc Bailey, managing director of Bache Commodities, told Reuters
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Food Prices Near 2008 Levels

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World food prices have come close to the 2007-08 crisis levels after a spike in October, but global supplies are stronger now and cereal prices remain well below critical levels, the UN’s food agency economist said Nov. 2. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Food Price Index hit the highest level in 27 months in
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Canadian Provinces Push Ottawa To Block Potash Bid

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PotashCorp’s home province was ratcheting up pressure on the Canadian government to block BHP Billiton’s hostile approach as the Nov. 3 deadline for a decision drew near. Saskatchewan, where fertilizer producer PotashCorp is based, wanted Ottawa to reject the Anglo-American mining giant’s $39-billion offer, the largest takeover bid of 2010. It says a deal would
Crops

Food Security Risk If Crop Biodiversity Lost

Future global food security may be at risk unless greater efforts are made to conserve and use the genetic diversity of cultivated crops and their wild relatives, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said. The world’s cereals output needs to rise by one billion tonnes a year by 2050 to feed a population that
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African Agriculture Coming Of Age

Agrowing African food sector can yield private sector returns on the back of government support, said a report on Oct. 26, which also said that a global grain reserve may be needed to protect consumers from price spikes. Local initiatives aiming for an African equivalent of the Green Revolution, which swept developing countries in the
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FAO Starts Wheat Seed Distribution In Pakistan

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organizat ion has started distributing more than 20,000 tonnes of wheat seeds in Pakistan where floods have threatened a key wheat-planting season, an FAO official said. The food security of tens of millions of Pakistanis is at stake with the current planting season after floods earlier this year destroyed
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Buy Manitoba Program Set To Launch In New Year

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Acampaign promot ing Manitoba food is almost ready to launch – just as soon as organizers nail down a definition of local food. “Local means different things to different people,” said Dave Shambrock, executive director of the Manitoba Food Processors Association, who has overseen the stakeholder group designing the Buy Manitoba initiative “From the food
Crops

Local Food Activists Urged To Seek Common Cause With Farmers

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The modern warehouse-on- wheels food distribution system, with its just-in-time delivery from producers to processors, and finally to retailers, works just fine. But there is a dark side. Not only is it totally dependent on a smoothly functioning economy and uninterrupted supplies of fossil fuel for powering every link in the chain, it is also
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France Sees Wide Support To Regulate Food Markets

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France said Oct. 14 its proposals for tighter controls on commodity trading were being well received in many G20 countries, and it issued a joint statement with Brazil on measures to curb food price volatility. France, which takes over the presidency of the Group of 20 most important economies in November, has made fighting speculation

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