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Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

By Alister Doyle April 8, 2010

Agriculture needs revolutionary change to confront threats such as global warming and end hunger in developing nations without adding to the ranks of the obese, an international study shows. The report says South Asia and Africa were “battlegrounds for poverty reduction” as the world population rose to a peak in 2050. Prospects for quick advances

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“Alternative” Systems Get Mainstream Funding

By Lorraine Stevenson February 11, 2010

“We’re thinking about more diverse ways of building relationships across the Prairie provinces. We’re not talking about 100-mile diets here.” – STPHANE MCLACHLAN The federal government is providing $1 million for a five-year project in Manitoba to develop more community-based alternative food systems for rural, urban and northern Manitoba. The Community University Research Alliance (CURA)

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Buying Of Developing Countries’ Farmland Slows: UN

By Svetlana Kovalyova January 7, 2010

“Maybe some of them don’t want to take this political risk, reputational risk and economic risk.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE AUDINET, IFAD The pace at which investors in richer countries have been buying farmland in developing nations has slowed with the fall in food prices this year from peaks hit in 2008, United Nations farming experts said

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East Africa Seen Needing Billion-Dollar Food Fund

December 3, 2009

The United Nations’ emergency food aid agency needs US$1 billion to feed 20 million people in east Africa over the next six months, it said Nov. 18. Around half of that money is needed for Ethiopia alone, Ramiro Lopes da Silva, director of emergencies at the World Food Program, said on the sidelines of a

Opinion

Productivity, Sustainability Are Both Needed

October 22, 2009

Some voices are instantly hostile to any emphasis on productivity. They act as if there is no emergency – even though in the poorest, hungriest places on earth, population is growing faster than productivity, and the climate is changing. (The following is an excerpt from a speech by Bill Gates, chairman and co-founder of Microsoft

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Index Tracks Hunger Indicators

By Roberta Rampton October 22, 2009

The world has made little progress in reducing hunger since 1990, a new report said on Oct. 14, pointing to 29 countries with alarming levels of malnutrition, mainly in Africa and South Asia. Those countries also are most vulnerable to the impact of historically high food and energy prices, as well as economic recession –

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Global Food Security Plans Too Narrow

By Roberta Rampton October 8, 2009

Global plans to reduce hunger by boosting food production are too narrowly focused on farming without considering how to slow population growth or halt climate change, longtime environmental analyst Lester Brown said Sept. 29. The Obama administration and leaders of other wealthy nations have promised to spend more money and coordinate efforts to reduce the

Opinion

Starvation In An Age Of Plenty

By Ron Friesen September 24, 2009

Other countries’ domestic and foreign policies are often at the root of food disasters What is it about Africa? With its tropical climate and rich soil, it should be able to feed its teeming millions many times over. Yet too often Africa becomes a metaphor for famine and hunger. In 1984-85 a horrified world responded

Opinion

Paul Beingessner — A Love Of Farming And Concern For Others

By Paul Beingessner July 2, 2009

It is with the deepest regret that we must pass on the news that columnist Paul Beingessner died last Thursday in an accident while repairing a haybine on his farm near Truax, Saskatchewan. Paul brought a unique combination to his readers – a love of farming, an analytical mind and a gift for writing. It

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Farmland Buying May Harm Poor States

By Bate Felix June 11, 2009

The European Union is concerned by the trend of foreign investors and countries acquiring large tracts of farmland in developing countries to guarantee their own food security, a senior EU official said June 3. Although the EU had not reached a common position on the issue there were fears the trend might pose a risk

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Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

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Paul Beingessner — A Love Of Farming And Concern For Others

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