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A Positive Proactive Response To Activists

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The following is an excerpt from the Manitoba Swine Seminar 2009 proceedings. Dan Murphy is a veteran food and meat industry journalist, commentator and author of the book The Meat of the Matter. He outlined to the February seminar strategies animal industry can use to counter animal welfare activists. More information can be found at:
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Biofuels Largest Market For Southern Africa Farming

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Biofuels offer the biggest and most secure market for agriculture in southern Africa and could help ease the region’s electricity woes in the future, a biofuels conference heard March 31. Erhard Seilar, chief executive of the Southern African Biofuels Association, said the region’s farming sector stood to gain most from the growth of the fledgling
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Food Security Still A Problem As Hunger Rises

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A fall in grain prices has led to the impression that food security is no longer a concern, but the number of people without enough to eat is still rising in a world facing recession, the United Nations said March 31. “The level of prices is still 19 per cent above the average of 2006
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

Time For A Wheat Reserve

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And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls. And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities:
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Groups Discuss World Grain Reserve

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Setting up a world grain reserve is a realistic option that would reduce the risk of food shortages and shield farmers from big price shocks, a senior official with the U. S. National Farmers Union said March 19. The proposal to create global cereal stocks topped the agenda of a meeting of farmers’ unions from
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China Introduces New Food Safety Law

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China said March 2 that food security remains “grim” after a series of health scandals, the most recent being last year’s tainted milk formula that killed at least six toddlers and made almost 300,000 sick. A new food safety law, approved Feb. 28 in an accelerated process after the milk scandal came to light in
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The Manitoba Food Charter

Excerpt from the Manitoba Food Security Network website: http://food.cimnet.ca/cim/43C1_3T1T4T426.dhtm. The Manitoba Food Charter emerged from Manitobans’ common vision for a just and sustainable food system. The charter provides vision and principles that will guide and inform all levels of government, businesses, non-profit organizations, communities, families and individuals in planning, policy development, programs and practice in
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Scientists Find Genes To Protect Wheat From Rust

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Scientists have pinpointed two genes that protect wheat against devastating fungal diseases found worldwide, potentially paving the way to hardier wheat strains, international researchers reported Feb. 20. New research published in the journal Science showed how the genes provide resistance to leaf rust, stripe rust and powdery mildew, diseases responsible for millions of hectares of
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Aid Groups Plan Renewed Fight On Hunger

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Lost jobs, faltering banks and recession have pushed the issue of world hunger out of U. S. headlines, but U. S. aid groups are set to launch a plan to refocus attention on the issue, former U. S. senator George McGovern said Feb. 23. The plan by aid organizations including Feed the Children, Oxfam America,
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Food Price Spike Tests Trade Faith

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The recent shift toward rising food prices has shaken the confidence of developing countries in counting on trade to feed their hungry, and sparked a move toward protectionism, an OECD official said on Feb. 26. “The last 20 years, the movement was toward opening markets, and trade liberalization, and less government intervention in agricultural markets.

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