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UAE Wants To Boost Domestic Food Production

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The United Arab Emirates needs to boost investment in the agriculture sector, which can supply only 37 per cent of its annual food demand and makes it vulnerable to fluctuating prices, an official said Nov. 22. Gulf states including the UAE suffered when international food prices spiked to record levels in 2008, forcing up their
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Vietnam Aims To Boost Rice Crop For Food Security

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Vietnam vowed to maintain current rice crop areas and boost yields to ensure supplies remain adequate in the face of demand pressures from a fast-growing population as well as the effects of climate change. The government’s pledge of security of food supplies touched a key agenda topic at two conferences that opened in Hanoi recently,
Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Sep. 30, 2010

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Pigeon King’s roost sold: Real estate owned by Arlan Galbraith, the bankrupt Pigeon King, was auctioned off Sept. 23 in a bid by London, Ont. receivers to recoup some of the millions lost by investors. The property contained two homes, some pigeon coops and 300 acres, including river frontage. Galbraith enticed hundreds of farmers to
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Bees Need Diverse Landscape To Thrive

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If you’ve ever complained about there being too many bees around, consider yourself lucky. Pollinators – such as bees, butterflies and bats – are responsible for the continued existence of more than 70 per cent of the world’s flowering plant population. But they are significantly decreasing in number. By carrying pollen from the male to
Cereals, Crops

FAO Website To Track Wheat Fungus

The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization said it had launched a website to track and help prevent the global spread of wheat stem rusts including Ug99, a devastating strain that poses a global threat to production. About 90 per cent of wheat varieties around the world lack resistance to the deadly wind-borne fungus that destroys
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Gulf Farmland Search Switches To Richer Countries

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Gulf nations seeking farmland for food security have shifted their focus to East Europe and Australia after a buying spree in the developing world as they look for land that comes with less political and financial risk. The Gulf is one of the world’s biggest food-importing regions. It stepped up efforts to buy and lease
Cereals, Crops, News

Wild Plants Sought For Climate Traits

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Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said March 9. “The wild relatives of cultivated crops … are largely uncollected or conserved in gene banks,” said Cary
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UAE Firm Leases Farmland In Morocco

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An Abu Dhabi-based private sector investment firm has signed a contract to lease up to about 1.7 million acres of farmland in Morocco, a company executive said. Food prices have risen sharply over the past year, prompting governments and private sector firms in the Middle East to look into ways of securing supplies, as most
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UAE Eyes Farmland Deals In Ukraine

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“Already we have received a lot of interest from the UAE to invest in Ukraine’s agriculture sector, and we are offering all kinds of projects such as leasing of 100,000 hectares of land to the creation of animal farms with 3,000 cows.” AUnited Arab Emirates delegation plans to visit Ukraine to look at opportunities to
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Investor Fund Seeks To Buy Farmland

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Aprivate sector agriculture fund worth $350 million plans to launch by the end of the year in the Gulf, with an aim to acquire farmland in Eastern Europe and Africa, an executive told Reuters Nov. 11. Gulf countries, mainly reliant on food imports, have increased efforts over the last year to buy or lease land

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