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Canada lagging in ag research

By Alex Binkley April 20, 2012

Canadian agriculture is being shortchanged by governments when it comes to basic research compared to other countries, according to John Cranfield of the University of Guelph. “We are standing still while other countries are getting ahead of us,” said Cranfield, citing statistics from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The professor, an agricultural economist,

News

Agency says female farmers key to boosting global food supply

By Michelle Martin April 15, 2012

Reuters / Empowering female farmers in developing countries is crucial to solving the world’s food problems, according to the chair of a panel which advises governments and donors on agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. “If we’re going to feed the world and in particular if Africa is going to be fed, we need every tool

News

UN-backed land use rules ready for final OK

March 23, 2012

milan / reuters / After three years of debate, the United Nations is issuing guidelines on responsible land use as part of an effort to regulate so-called land grabbing and boost food security. The guidelines include promoting equal rights for women in securing title to land, creating transparent record-keeping systems accessible to the rural poor,

Opinion

India’s rising wealth and food security not reflected in its children

By Annie Banerji March 5, 2012

Crying as she is put on an electronic scale, two-year-old Rajini’s naked, shrivelled frame casts a dark shadow over a rising India, where millions of children have little to eat. The children are scrawny, listless and sick in this rundown nutrition clinic in central India with its intermittent power supply. If they survive they will

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India’s farmers struggle to adapt to changing consumer tastes

By Jo Winterbottom, Rajendra Jadhav January 27, 2012

Ajit Govind Sable’s family have owned their farm in India’s western Maharashtra state for 10 generations, which even for a region that has been farming for more than 10,000 years is long enough to witness plenty of changes. Two generations back, they started cultivating sugar cane here in Shivthar, a village in Maharashtra’s highlands near

News

Professor says farmers and ranchers are “an endangered species”

By Shannon VanRaes January 17, 2012

The rural landscape is changing, and not for the better. “Farm and ranch people are an endangered species, without the benefit of protective legislation,” Roger Epp told farmers attending a recent grazing conference in Winnipeg. “Their habitat has also become subject to persistent encroachment over time.” Agriculture and rural life on the Prairies were once

News

Food Bank Use On The Rise In Canada

By Alex Binkley November 10, 2011

Higher food and housing costs are squeezing low-income Canadians and the 4,100 food banks across Canada that try to help them, says a study released Nov. 1. Even with the economic recovery, food bank use has risen 26 per cent since the start of the 2008 recession, Katherine Schmidt, executive director of Food Banks Canada,

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Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

By Carey Gillam November 3, 2011

In China, dairy cows revolve on carousels in synchronized milking, while in Kenya, small farmers are planting a new high-yielding sweet potato. These projects, and scores more, are shaping a new century of agriculture. Whether it be cattle herders in sub-Saharan Africa or rice growers in rural Asia, farmers and ranchers need help to produce

News

North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

By Tim Large October 13, 2011

In a pediatric hospital in North Korea s most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy. Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles, said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. We used

Crops

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

By Charles Abbott July 21, 2011

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

Daily Network News

China lifts Brazilian poultry imports ban over bird flu

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

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

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Canada lagging in ag research

Agency says female farmers key to boosting global food supply

UN-backed land use rules ready for final OK

India’s rising wealth and food security not reflected in its children

India’s farmers struggle to adapt to changing consumer tastes

Professor says farmers and ranchers are “an endangered species”

Food Bank Use On The Rise In Canada

Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

North Koreans Suffering Chronic Malnutrition

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