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Closing gender gap seen key in food security fight

By Nigel Hunt January 27, 2012

Apolicy aimed at ensuring future security of food supplies must centre around the world’s 500 million smallholder producers, many of whom are women who farm less than two hectares of land, a leading United Nations official said Dec. 14. “Unless they are at the centre of the future strategies for food security, we will not

International news, News

Qatar’s next big purchase: a farming sector

By Martina Fuchs January 24, 2012

Qatar’s energy resources have given it one of the world’s highest per capita incomes, a futuristic urban skyline and enough clout to host the 2022 soccer World Cup. But its wealth may not be enough for the arid state to achieve an even more ambitious goal: becoming largely self-sufficient in food. Like other oil-rich, water-poor

News

UN Body Delays Efforts To Regulate “Land Grabs”

By Catherine Hornby October 27, 2011

AUN intergovernmental body on food security has failed to adopt international guidelines on land governance, delaying efforts to regulate so-called land grabbing as investors race to snap up agricultural land. A voluntary code of conduct has been in the works since 2008, driven by concerns that countries such as China and Gulf Arab states are

News, Oilseeds

China’s Corn Rush To Redraw Global Food Landscape

By Naveen Thukral October 13, 2011

When China abandoned its soybean self-sufficiency quest almost 20 years ago and started importing the oilseed feeding its hunger for livestock, it almost single- handedly transformed the industry. Today, it s poised to do the same for corn. The world s most populous nation is expected to triple corn purchases next crop year and, by

Cereals, Crops, News

Argentina Farmers Eye End To Unpopular Quota System

By Maximiliano Rizzi September 29, 2011

Argentina s grains industry is debating a proposal to overhaul local corn and wheat markets so exporters pay farmers higher prices a reform the government could very well adopt. The state intervenes in corn and wheat trade now with incremental export quotas and subsidies to local millers, which are aimed at guaranteeing affordable food supplies

News

Biodiesel’s “Green” Attributes Trashed By Four EU Studies

By Charlie Dunmore July 21, 2011

Europe’s biodiesel industry could be wiped out by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side-effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. Europe’s world-leading $13-billion biodiesel industry, which has boomed in the wake of a decision by Brussels policy-makers in 2003 to promote it, is now on

Livestock

Bangladesh Looks To Africa For Food Land

July 14, 2011

Bangladeshi firms have joined Chinese and other companies looking to lease farmland in Africa as part of efforts to feed a growing population and offset creeping urbanization at home. Over the next two years Bangladeshi firms plan to lease a total of 600,000 hectares of unused arable land in African countries including Kenya, Ghana, Senegal,

Crops

Libya Turmoil Could Hurt Regional Food Security — UN

By Catherine Hornby March 17, 2011

The United Nations expressed serious concern March 11 about the impact of the Libyan uprising on food security across North Africa because of the region’s dependency on cereal imports. “The ongoing crisis will likely have a significant impact on food security in Libya and in nearby crisis-affected areas,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Jan. 13, 2011

By Reuters January 13, 2011

Dangerous beetle found in L.A.:U.S. customs officials last week said they had found a beetle considered one of the world’s most dangerous agricultural pests in a shipment of rice arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials found an adult khapra beetle, eight larvae and a shed skin in a shipment of Indian rice from Saudi

News

Australia Probes Foreign Ownership In Agriculture

December 2, 2010

An Australian probe into foreign ownership of the nation’s $31 billion farm sector has put food security back on the political agenda, with the Greens party calling for curbs on foreign control of agricultural production. The government took foreign investors by surprise, announcing a national audit of foreign ownership of farms and food production businesses,

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat plummet from highs on limited Chinese demand

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices starting to pick up

Tag Archives food supplies

Closing gender gap seen key in food security fight

Qatar’s next big purchase: a farming sector

UN Body Delays Efforts To Regulate “Land Grabs”

China’s Corn Rush To Redraw Global Food Landscape

Argentina Farmers Eye End To Unpopular Quota System

Biodiesel’s “Green” Attributes Trashed By Four EU Studies

Bangladesh Looks To Africa For Food Land

Libya Turmoil Could Hurt Regional Food Security — UN

In Brief… – for Jan. 13, 2011

Australia Probes Foreign Ownership In Agriculture

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