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More Support Needed For Small-Scale Farming

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U.K. charity Oxfam, warning that food demand will have jumped by 70 per cent by 2050, said soaring food prices and weather and financial shocks had aggravated the hunger crisis and that the global food economy was broken. “The food system is pretty well bust in the world,” Oxfam chief executive Barbara Stocking told reporters,
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Waiting For The Water

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Tables set for the next meal, clean tea towels hung neatly on drying racks and the scent of baking bread was a scene of peace and normalcy inside the James’ Valley Hutterite Colony’s kitchen last week – in marked contrast to the tension and urgency prevailing outside. Located right in the midst of the La
Crops

Canada Needs Food Policy

More than 3,500 Canadians have tabled a document calling for a national food policy that emphasizes domestic food systems, more farmers, and initiatives such as school lunch programs. CalledResetting the Table: A People’s Food Policy for Canada, the document is the first national food policy proposal to emerge from this country’s growing food movement. The
Crops, Forages, Oilseeds

KAP Opposes Roundup Ready Alfalfa’s Release In Canada

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The Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) has added its voice to groups opposed to the release of Roundup Ready alfalfa. “It’s a superweed,” Paul Gregory, a Fisher Branch farmer and alfalfa seed exporter said during debate on his resolution for KAP to support the Manitoba Forage Seed Association’s efforts to block Roundup Ready alfalfa’s release. “Once
Livestock, Poultry

No One In Charge Of Antibiotic Issue

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A2002 Health Canada report mapped out a plan for veterinary medicines that would have solved many of the current controversies about antibiotic resistance in meat products, says John Prescott, a professor at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph. “This was an absolutely outstanding report which involved considerable work and effort from many people across the
Cereals, Opinion

Record-High Food Prices? Or Just Better Than Record Lows?

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Reporters and politicians are making frequent references to high food prices – some going so far as to suggest prices are nearing record levels. But for the farmers and peasants who produce the world’s food, prices are nowhere near record highs. In fact, what is currently happening to corn, beans, rice, or wheat prices would
Livestock, Opinion, Other livestock

Letters – for Mar. 10, 2011

Time to change directions Your recent editorial “A Change In Thinking,” February 17, hits the nail on the head. Past farmer thinking has concentrated too much on income support and not enough on change and innovation. Taxpayer-sourced payments made simply for producing and selling a commodity, interest-free loans and advances, rewards for year-to-year income variability
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Unshackle Food System, U.S. Activist Says

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In Joel Salatin’s ideal world, food production would be local, farms would be diversified, livestock would gambol on pastures and regulations would be… well, deregulated. If you think Salatin wants to go back to the old manner of farming before large-scale commercial production took over, you could be right. At least the old-fashioned model was
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Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

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The federal and provincial governments should encourage farmers to ramp up production this year to take advantage of strong prices but also help ease tight world stocks of grain and other commodities, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. They issued reports in early February urging gover nments

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