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New Agricultural Alliance To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Canada has joined an international network devoted to helping farmers reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group called the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases will collaborate on research and exchange information on mitigating greenhouse gases from agricultural activity. Besides Canada, the alliance includes the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Ghana,
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A Holiday Wish

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One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live amongst peoples who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in the stones polished by rain, taste it in the bitter leaves of plants. So begins the 2009 Massey Lecture series by Wade Davis,
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Crop Diversity Key To Food Security

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“There are as many patents for roses and chrysanthemums as there are for the three most important food crops – rice, wheat and maize. What are we to do, feed them chrysanthemums?” – Pat Mooney Pat Mooney, who isn’t known for his optimism, says he finally has some good news. The executive director of the
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UAE Eyes Farmland Deals In Ukraine

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“Already we have received a lot of interest from the UAE to invest in Ukraine’s agriculture sector, and we are offering all kinds of projects such as leasing of 100,000 hectares of land to the creation of animal farms with 3,000 cows.” AUnited Arab Emirates delegation plans to visit Ukraine to look at opportunities to
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Food Majors Triple Investment In Ending Hunger

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World majors in agriculture and food sectors have tripled their investments in boosting global food security but need to spend more to help eradicate hunger, participants at an international forum said Nov. 12. With the number of hungry people rising to a record 1.02 billion this year, up 100 million from 2008, the United Nations’
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FAO Raises 2009 Cereals Forecast Despite Rice Dip

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“…world cereal utilization in 2009-10 was expected to grow faster than earlier anticipated, in part due to weaker prices.” World cereal production this year is expected to be 2.234 billion tonnes, just two per cent below last year’s record crop and nearly 26 million tonnes higher than previously expected, the United Nations said Nov. 10.
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U. K. Scientist Seeks Food Security In Climate Deal

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Agriculture has a critical role to play in a global agreement to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the British Farm Ministry’s chief scientist said Nov. 2. “The text has to recognize the critical role of agriculture in both mitigation and adaptation,” Robert Watson told Reuters at a food security conference at London-based think-tank Chatham House. Negotiators
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Guidelines Could Help Improve Farmland Deals

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A draft of the first-ever international code of conduct for farmland deals should be ready by the end of the year, the head of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development said. The draft document will lead to more discussion about how to ensure deals benefit host nations, as well as those seeking to
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EU Dairy Farmers Win Subsidies, Want Reforms

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Dairy farmers won 280 million euros ($418 million) of additional subsidies from the European Union Oct. 19 after weeks of protests over low milk prices. But some of the farmers, who burned hay, threw firecrackers and blocked traffic with tractors and buses as EU farm ministers met in Luxembourg, said only a regulatory reform of
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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

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