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Doing The Right Thing – for Aug. 19, 2010

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Governments, although they usually mean well, make mistakes. And when those errors are incorporated into policy, they can have lasting repercussions. Such was the case in the mid-1990s when the Manitoba government made the ill-fated decision to regulate manure applications to farmland on the basis of nitrogen content. The error was an honest one. The
Country Crossroads

NDP Says Canada Needs Food Security Policy

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Canadians are looking to their government for a comprehensive food strategy to protect our food security and sovereignty, a report released by the New Democrats June 22 says. The report is based on the “Food for Thought” tour led by Agriculture Critic Alex Atamanenko, which held public forums in 28 communities across the country over
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In Brief… – for Jun. 17, 2010

Correction: Several errors regarding the Cover Crop Protection Program (CCPP) appeared in a story about excess rain in the June 3 edition of the Manitoba Co-operator. The CCPP was introduced for 2005 and 2006 to assist farmers with flooded cropland, not 2004 and 2005 as reported. It paid farmers $15 an acre, not $30. And
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Northern food insecurity

“We see a very, very bad and a very, very big problem,” Uche Nwankwo, Intern Professor at the Natural Resources Institute

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Hunger haunts three out of four households in northern Manitoba with some families going entire days without food, new research has found. Last summer a team of researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Centre surveyed 473 households in 14 communities across Manitoba’s north. They found a 75 per cent incidence of household food
Cereals, Crops

Poverty Reduces Wheat Consumption

Consumption of wheat in Pakistan fell 10 per cent last year, because people lost the purchasing power to buy even that most basic of food staples in the south Asian country, a top UN official said June 2. Wolfgang Herbinger, country director for the World Food Program in Pakistan, said declining wheat consumption was a
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Africa Needs “Green Revolution” For Food Security

Sub-Saharan Africa needs a “Green Revolution” investing in agricultural technology to boost food security after decades of underinvestment, a United Nations agency said May 19. The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report that technology and innovation must be targeted at the needs of Africa’s millions of smallholder farmers and reflect
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Gulf Farmland Search Switches To Richer Countries

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Gulf nations seeking farmland for food security have shifted their focus to East Europe and Australia after a buying spree in the developing world as they look for land that comes with less political and financial risk. The Gulf is one of the world’s biggest food-importing regions. It stepped up efforts to buy and lease
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Course Seeks Peaceful Solution To Food Wars

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Try to have a discussion on food production these days and you invariably end up in a fight. It usually goes something like this. Monsanto: bad. Organic: good. Or vice versa. Either way, it’s a confrontation. A special Canadian Mennonite University course next month aims at taking the conflict out of the food system debate.
Cereals, Opinion

The Urbanization Of Farm Policy

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It has often been difficult over the past decade or so to find the word “farmer” or “agriculture” in the avalanche of policy statements put out by federal parties during election campaigns. Oh sure, there’s been the hot-button issues such as the Canadian Wheat Board, listeria and more money for hard-pressed farmers, but getting the
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Israel To Help African Farmers Fight Desert

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Having “conquered the desert” at home, Israel is ready to share technology and skills with African countries struggling to sustain agricultural output due to increasingly unreliable rains, an Israeli minister said. Shalom Simhon, Israel’s minister of agriculture and rural development, said sharing know-how, especially in irrigation and water management, was his focus on a tour

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