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Wreckage of wheat silos at Lebanon’s Port of Beirut following an explosion at the port on Aug. 4, 2020. (Hiba Kallas/iStock/Getty Images)

Canada seeks to boost foreign aid for food security

Grain traffic out of Ukraine not yet easing crisis

By GFM Network News, Suleiman Al-khalidi August 12, 2022

Amman | Reuters — An international food crisis exacerbated by the Ukraine war has spurred Canada to boost an over $6 billion annual foreign aid budget to help the most hard-hit countries in Africa and the Middle East, Canada’s aid minister said on Thursday. “The Ukraine crisis is creating shock waves when it comes to

Internally displaced Ethiopians queue to receive food aid in the Higlo camp for people displaced by drought, at the town of Gode in Ethiopia’s Somali region on April 26, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

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Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher, UN refugee chief says

By Emma Farge, GFM Network News June 17, 2022

Geneva | Reuters — A food security crisis stoked by the Ukraine war is set to push more people to flee their homes in poorer countries, driving record levels of global displacement even higher, the head of the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said. A report by the U.N. body showed on Thursday that some 89.3

Workers fill jerrycans with cooking oil at a distribution station in Jakarta, Indonesia on May 20, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)

Crops, Markets

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

By GFM Network News May 24, 2022

Davos | Reuters — A growing world food crisis is precipitating protectionist moves by countries which are likely to compound the problem and could lead to a wider trade war, business leaders and policymakers at the World Economic Forum said. In a sign of the escalating squeeze on food supplies and rising prices, a government

Workers prepare foodstuffs at a food distribution centre supported by the World Food Program at Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on June 3, 2020. File photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

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U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

US$400 for a plate of rice and beans?

By GFM Network News March 11, 2021

New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen — she died on Thursday.

File photo of a bridge over the Yalu River boundary between China and North Korea. (Tarzan9280/iStock/Getty Images)

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U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

Estimated 40 per cent of North Koreans need humanitarian aid, WFP says

By GFM Network News, Stephanie Nebehay June 10, 2020

Geneva | Reuters — A United Nations human rights expert voiced alarm on Tuesday at “widespread food shortages and malnutrition” in North Korea, made worse by a nearly five-month border closure with China and strict quarantine measures against COVID-19. Tomas Ojea Quintana, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,

Victoria Falls, on the Zambezi River on Zimbabwe’s northwestern border with Zambia. (CIA.gov)

Crops, Weather

Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 23, 2020

Harare | Reuters — Zimbabwe has only 100,000 tonnes of grain in its strategic reserves, enough to last just over a month, as the southern African nation suffers the effects of a severe drought, according to the agriculture minister. More than half the country’s population faces food shortages after maize harvests halved last year. The

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Worst-case no-deal Brexit plan warns of food shortages

By GFM Network News, Reuters September 11, 2019

London | Reuters — The British government’s plans for a no-deal Brexit warn of severe disruption to cross-Channel routes, affecting the supply of medicines and certain types of fresh foods, and say that protests and counter-protests will take place across the country, accompanied by a possible rise in public disorder. The “Operation Yellowhammer” worst-case assumptions

Other, Our History

Dead battery? Don’t panic, plug in the Muscle Man

Our History: November 1976

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2018

Blanchard was seeking 200 farmers to sell the Muscleman battery charger/booster along with 100 items on commission in this ad in our Nov. 25, 1976 issue. The front page reported that Manitoba’s crop yields for the year were up, but income was expected down because of lower prices. The provincial average wheat yield was 27.1

Food riots grip western Venezuela

By GFM Network News January 12, 2018

San Cristobal/Barinas, Venezuela | Reuters — Hungry mobs ransacked a food collection centre and a supermarket in Venezuela’s western Andean state of Merida on Thursday and reportedly even slaughtered cattle grazing in a field as unrest over food shortages spread through the country. An opposition lawmaker from Merida, Carlos Paparoni, said four people had died

Plant for the Planet Foundation members speak together during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 3, 2015.

Crops, News

Prepare for climate change, conference told

Warmer winters will increase the risk of diseases and pests farmers haven’t had to deal with before

By Alex Binkley December 15, 2015

While climate change might extend the growing season in Canada’s northern regions, it will also bring challenges that farmers need to prepare for, says Ron Bonnet, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Weather patterns will be the most affected, he told the Food Security and Climate Change conference sponsored by the Canadian Climate Forum.

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Daily Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

Tag Archives food shortages

Canada seeks to boost foreign aid for food security

Food crisis will drive record displacement levels higher, UN refugee chief says

Food crisis fuels fears of protectionism compounding shortages

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

U.N. expert says ‘some are starving’ in North Korea

Zimbabwe says grain stocks running out after drought

Worst-case no-deal Brexit plan warns of food shortages

Dead battery? Don’t panic, plug in the Muscle Man

Food riots grip western Venezuela

Prepare for climate change, conference told

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