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U.S. Must Lead Fight Against Hunger — Bill Gates

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Billionaire Bill Gates knows how to end the poverty and hunger that afflicts nearly one billion people worldwide – help them grow more food. At a food security conference May 24, Gates called for U.S. leadership in a global campaign to expand food production. Agriculture ministers of the Group of 20 major developing and emerging
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Emerging Fast-Food Nation Indonesia Props Up Wheat Market

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Indonesia will be crowned top Asian wheat importer this year, as higher incomes turn Southeast Asia’s largest economy into a fast-food nation and help to keep global prices on the boil. As affluent Indonesians turn away from rice, their country is vying with Japan to be Asia’s leading wheat buyer, while the latter battles economic
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More Questions For Reena – for Jul. 21, 2011

Dear Reena, Is there any way I can reduce the scratch marks on my glass dining room tabletop? They are in the middle, and can be covered with a vase or placemat, but it would be much better to eliminate them all together. Thanks for any hints you may have. – Heather Heather, Typically scratches
Cereals, Crops

Global Food Inflation To Return After Brief Respite

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Red-hot food inflation that has vexed policy-makers around the world seemed to take a breather last month, when corn and wheat prices tumbled on reports that crop shortages were easing. The sell-off was also driven by global economic worries that prompted funds to exit grains in droves. But prices are climbing again, and have already
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Think-Tank Creates Food Price-Volatility Detector

Anew statistical tool will help world leaders identify when food prices become dangerously volatile and help hunger fighters decide when to release food reserves to feed the poor, said a think-tank July 7. The tool developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) could answer two goals of agriculture ministers from the Group of
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Cfia Gets New President

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George Da Pont, a seasoned federal bureaucrat, has been named president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. He replaces Carol Swan who has retired. Da Pont became executive vice-president of the agency a year ago with the expectation that he would move into the top job eventually. With CFIA under repeated attack by its main
Crops

Subsidies, New Methods Lift Zambian Farm Yields

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Peasant farmer Joseph Mhlanga proudly points to the pile of maize or corncobs in his modest house: a good crop for him that is part of Zambia’s bumper harvest this year. “This is my maize from this year. I plan to start shelling it soon,” said Mhlanga, a spry 76-year-old retired schoolteacher who farms a
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UN Expert Urges Huge Investment In Small Farmers

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Asenior United Nations food expert appealed June 20 for a massive investment in smallholder farming to end poverty and hunger. In an interview before the G20 meeting of farm ministers, Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the statistics division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), said local poverty was the root cause of hunger, not
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Recipe Swap – for Jul. 14, 2011

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It was dessert for breakfast. We’d gathered for a late-morning breakfast with family at the Whytewold Emporium at Whytewold on Lake Winnipeg, having heard the quaint lakeside eatery was famous for its all-day crepes and wood-fired pizzas. The reputation is well deserved. I had a Canadian Maple crepe, a plump, wallet-sized creation garnished with bananas
Country Crossroads

Vegetables For Healthy Eyesight

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What vegetables promote healthy eyesight? You might think of carrots and their association with eye health. While carrots certainly are a colourful, healthful option linked to reducing our risk of night blindness, leafy greens more often are linked to vision protection. Among the most debilitating eye diseases are glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and diabetic

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