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The Great Land Grab

By Laura Rance-Unger June 11, 2009

After the cold, wet and now frosty spring we’re experiencing, if foreign buyers came along and approached the federal government about buying up farmland on the Canadian Prairies, there’s a few farmers who’d be inclined to say, “Take it. Please.” That’s not likely to happen, at least not in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, because of legislation

News

Hyundai Heavy Buys Russian Farm

June 11, 2009

South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries has acquired a farm in the Russian Far East, a purchase that could test the water for further Asian investment in Russia’s burgeoning agriculture sector. Hyundai Heavy, also the world’s largest shipbuilder, has agreed to pay $6.5 million for a 67.6 per cent stake in Khorol Zerno LLC, which operates

News

New Report Promotes Food Security For Manitoba

By Lorraine Stevenson June 4, 2009

“I do think there is an unmet consumer demand for local food.” – KREESTA DOUCETTE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MANITOBA FOOD CHARTER Anew report released in Manitoba this week could help this province set a national example in improved food security, say proponents. Those who helped create the Manitoba Food Charter in 2006 have now released

Country Crossroads

MWI Convention Hears Food Charter Representative

By Lorraine Stevenson May 28, 2009

A food charter representative received a warmer reception at the Manitoba Women’s Institute’s annual meeting this year than the document she represents did a year ago. MWI members say they didn’t have a clear idea of what it was when they were asked to sign on to the Mani toba Food Char ter at their

Cereals, Crops, News, Oilseeds

Push For GM Wheat Resurrected

By Allan Dawson May 21, 2009

Five years to the month after Monsanto shelved its controversial Roundup Ready genetically modified (GM) wheat, farm groups in Canada, Australia and the United States are pushing for the “synchronized introduction” of biotech wheat. The Grain Growers of Canada, Wes tern Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) and Alberta Winter Wheat Producers Commission are leading the

News

Africa Not Benefiting From Foreign Land Deals

By Barry Malone May 21, 2009

Africa is giving vast tracts of farmland to rich nations looking to feed their own people without ensuring those on the world’s hungriest continent benefit, the African Union (AU) said April 28. Countries in Asia and the Gulf that are mainly reliant on food imports have been increasingly seeking land in the developing world to

Livestock

Guidelines For Foreign Land Deals Coming

May 21, 2009

The World Bank will soon publish guidelines to help investors and countries make cross-border farmland purchases mutually beneficial, a senior World Bank official says. After last year’s food riots the food supply scare has pushed several countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea to buy or lease farmland overseas to feed their own people.

Livestock, Opinion

It’s More Than Rude To Intrude

By Ian Wishart May 14, 2009

With spring, fields and land in rural areas are a wonderful mix of mud and green, and that can look very inviting to all-terrain vehicle riders and those with 4×4 vehicles. There are many people who drive responsibly and stay on designated trails and off of private property. And then there are others who choose

Livestock

International Trade Helps Solve Food Crisis

By Jonathan Lynn May 14, 2009

International trade is part of the solution to the global food crisis and not one of its causes, the head of the World Trade Organization says. Global integration represented by trade enabled food to be transported from where it could be produced efficiently to where there was demand, said WTO Director General Pascal Lamy. Geography

News

G8 Report Says Food Crisis May Threaten Stability

April 16, 2009

Global food production needs to double by 2050 to avert the risk of scarcity and high prices hurting international stability, says a policy document for a G8 meeting on agriculture, the Financial Times reported April 7. “Without immediate interventions in agriculture and agrimarketing systems, the 2007 crisis will become structural in only a few decades,”

Daily Network News

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Farm family income gains driven by off-farm earnings: StatCan

Tag Archives food security

The Great Land Grab

Hyundai Heavy Buys Russian Farm

New Report Promotes Food Security For Manitoba

MWI Convention Hears Food Charter Representative

Push For GM Wheat Resurrected

Africa Not Benefiting From Foreign Land Deals

It’s More Than Rude To Intrude

International Trade Helps Solve Food Crisis

G8 Report Says Food Crisis May Threaten Stability

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