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Youth engaged in world food security issues

A Manitoba high school student outlines what he learned from attending the recent World Food Prize Global Youth Institute Conference in Des Moines

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Attending the World Food Prize Global Youth Institute Conference in Des Moines, Iowa, October 15-18, 2014 was an amazing opportunity. Through loads of very informative and thought-provoking information, the intense three days were an eye-opener to me about the world food production situation. This was the first time Canadian youth had participated in the event.
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Celebrate Food Freedom Day February 14

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Coined Food Freedom Day by the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), February 14 is the calendar date when the average Canadian will have earned enough income to pay his or her grocery bill for the entire year. “Food Freedom Day is a chance to acknowledge the abundant, safe and secure food supply we enjoy in
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Dietary shifts driving up phosphorus use

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Rising meat consumption, and calorie intakes are 
complicating efforts to conserve essential resource

Dietary changes since the early 1960s have fuelled a sharp increase in the amount of mined phosphorus used to produce the food consumed by the average person over the course of a year, according to a new study led by researchers at McGill University. Between 1961 and 2007, rising meat consumption and total calorie intake
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Food industry spoiling through lack of innovation

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Canadian food companies are falling behind competitors in other countries because they are failing to innovate, says a new report from the Conference Board of Canada. “When it comes to innovation, the Canadian food industry is content to compete for a bronze medal,” says Daniel Munro, a researcher with the board’s Centre for Food in
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Waste not, want not

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Every year we hear the stories — the farmer who lost a bin full of canola to spoilage, or the one who lost his sunflowers — and the bin — after the crop overheated and caught fire. Or the farmer who opened his grain bag to find an infested, rotting mess after birds or rodents
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Manitobans challenged to DIG IN

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Initiative of Food Matters Manitoba challenges Manitobans to spend $10 a week of their grocery money on a local food purchase An urban-based food issues think-tank is challenging Manito-bans to make this the year they start buying more local food and connecting with the people who grow it. The Dig In Challenge is a five-month
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Plenty on the plate for food security groups

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Residents of Winnipeg’s St. Vital neighbourhood are digesting the results of a newly released study that reflects what matters to them about food. The Winnipeg suburb is one of several sites in Manitoba to undergo community food assessments in recent months, an initiative to better understand where residents buy or access food, if they grow
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Experts search for ways to cut food waste

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Reuters — Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population. Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food
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Companies See Role In Food Security

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Food security concerns as the world s population surpasses seven billion have prompted global companies to become more actively involved in ensuring future supplies, participants at an agricultural conference said on Oct. 31. The increased role has come at a time government involvement is hampered by the global financial crisis and led to fears a

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