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Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

By GFM Network News, Kate Kelland August 14, 2015

London | Reuters — Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and U.S. experts warned Friday. The pressure on the world’s food supplies is so great, and the increase in extreme weather events so rapid,

Recipe Swap

Can rhubarb become toxic?

Prairie Fare: Rhubarb Cake

By Julie Garden-Robinson June 5, 2015

Do you remember the “telephone” game? You might have played it when you were a kid. In the game, one person whispers a message into the ear of the person next to him or her, then that person repeats the message to the person next to him or her and so on. By the end

Crops, International news

Moving from famine relief to relief from famine

Ethiopia has made solid gains thanks to a co-ordinated attack on the root causes of hunger

By Laura Rance-Unger April 14, 2015

Famine relief was a hit in the 1980s — literally — as pop music stars donated the proceeds of their collaboration on the song “Feed the World” to help feed starving people in Ethiopia. It was a sincere effort that raised millions and was part of a global response by governments and aid and development

A woman sells chat in the village market in Bila.

Crops

The gift of water 28 years later

Bila farmers are producing wealth thanks to small-scale irrigation, but who is reaping the rewards?

By Laura Rance-Unger March 27, 2015

The old man’s eyes grew teary when he was asked to remember what it was like before the water came. “There was a drought,” Ahmed Sahle Ahmed said through an interpreter as he sat on a floor mat in the family’s home. “We were having problems, we had no food.” That was in the early

Opinion

The value of trees

By Laura Rance-Unger November 20, 2013

On bitterly cold and blustery winter days on the farm, there wasn’t much by way of trees to block our view of those fiery red sunsets framed by sundogs over the drifting snow. It’s a view I am glad I experienced. But as beautiful as it was, it’s not a view I miss. We grew

Country Crossroads

Recipe Swap: What rationing tasted like

By Lorraine Stevenson November 15, 2012

With Remembrance Day approaching, many teachers turn to resources of Veterans Affairs for ways to help young people understand the meaning of the day. Here is an idea that you might want to observe in your own home this Sunday. It is called the “Missing Man” dinner setting, and involves setting your dinner table with

News

More trade could end African food shortages

By Lesley Wroughton November 9, 2012

Reuters / Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, according to a World Bank report. Just five per cent of Africa’s cereal imports are now provided by African farmers, according

International news, News

Even as war wages around them, Syrian farmers keep country fed

By Suleiman Al-khalidi September 17, 2012

Prices are higher, but there remains enough food grown within  the war-ravaged country to stave off food shortages

For the past six months, farmer Hisham al-Zeir’s wife and daughters have been up before sunset each day when it’s still cool, baking traditional tanoor bread in a century-old clay oven in their home in Syria’s rich agricultural province of Idlib. Rather than selling all his wheat to the state as he usually does, Zeir

Crops, News

Urgent action needed as Sahel food emergency grows

By Stephanie Ebbs July 20, 2012

Reuters / As many as 18 million people are being hit by a growing food emergency in the Sahel region of Africa, international donors and campaigners said June 18, calling for urgent action to prevent mass hunger in the vast area south of the Sahara Desert. Leaders from Sahel countries and donors such as the

Crops, International news, News, Oilseeds

Forecasters make deep cuts to Brazil grain outlook

By Fabiola Gomes March 14, 2012

The outlook for soy production in Brazil darkened further on Feb. 27 after public and private forecasters cut their harvest outlooks for the world’s No. 2 grower again from predictions provided in recent weeks. A harsh drought in the south of the country has stressed this year’s soy and corn crops, thanks in part to

Canada’s foreign affairs minister spoke with Chinese counterpart, federal government says

China soybean imports hit record June high on strong Brazil shipments

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

Daily Network News

Canada’s foreign affairs minister spoke with Chinese counterpart, federal government says

China soybean imports hit record June high on strong Brazil shipments

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

Tag Archives food shortages — page 2

Severe ‘food shocks’ seen more likely due to extreme weather

Moving from famine relief to relief from famine

The gift of water 28 years later

The value of trees

More trade could end African food shortages

Even as war wages around them, Syrian farmers keep country fed

Urgent action needed as Sahel food emergency grows

Forecasters make deep cuts to Brazil grain outlook

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