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Small-scale farming at a crossroads

Is small beautiful or should the new motto be ‘move up or move out?”

By Laura Rance-Unger November 5, 2014

As director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, D.C., Shenggen Fan has come a long way from his roots in rural China, where he shared a one-hectare farm with his parents and two brothers. The agricultural economist, honoured earlier this year by the World Food Program’s Hunger Hero Award for his

Opinion

A powerful engine for growth

By Laura Rance-Unger April 26, 2013

Researchers have discovered an environmentally sustainable instrument that could increase world food production by 30 per cent, but they’ve been having a tough time getting it commercialized. Is it a plant with a novel trait, or a new herbicide perhaps, bogged down by excessive regulations or those silly activists? Or maybe it’s a new type

Crops, International news, News

One in eight of world population still going hungry: UN

By Catherine Hornby October 17, 2012

One out of every eight people in the world is chronically undernourished, the United Nations’ food agencies said Oct. 9, and aid groups warned that rising food prices could reverse gains in the fight against hunger. In a report on food insecurity, the UN agencies said 868 million people were hungry in 2010-12, or about

Cereals, Crops, International news, News, Oilseeds

Food price shocks a serious threat, UN says

By Reuters September 22, 2012

World leaders must take swift, co-ordinated action to ensure that food price shocks do not turn into a catastrophe that could hurt tens of millions of people in coming months, the United Nations’ food agencies said in a statement on Sept. 4. Global alarm over the potential for a food crisis of the kind seen

Cereals, Crops

Scientists Race To Avoid A Bitter Climate Change Harvest

By David Fogarty June 23, 2011

Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are normal this year and that’s a bit unusual of late. His 7,000-acre farm near the Australian town of Cootamundra is testament to the plight facing farmers around the globe: increasingly

News

Guidelines Could Help Improve Farmland Deals

By Roberta Rampton November 5, 2009

A draft of the first-ever international code of conduct for farmland deals should be ready by the end of the year, the head of the United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development said. The draft document will lead to more discussion about how to ensure deals benefit host nations, as well as those seeking to

Livestock

Guidelines For Foreign Land Deals Coming

May 21, 2009

The World Bank will soon publish guidelines to help investors and countries make cross-border farmland purchases mutually beneficial, a senior World Bank official says. After last year’s food riots the food supply scare has pushed several countries such as Saudi Arabia and South Korea to buy or lease farmland overseas to feed their own people.

News

Financing secure for UN small farm aid

October 16, 2008

Financing to help some 500 million small farms around the world is secure for the time being despite the global credit crunch and rising commodity prices, a UN agency told Reuters Sept. 22. The Internat ional Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a specialized agency of the United Nations, wants to raise US$3.5 billion in its

Daily Network News

CFIA says regulatory changes will cut agricultural red tape

U.S. livestock: Feeder cattle hit record high on tight supply, strong cash prices

ICE Canada Weekly: Canola poised to slip below C$600/tonne

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Small-scale farming at a crossroads

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One in eight of world population still going hungry: UN

Food price shocks a serious threat, UN says

Scientists Race To Avoid A Bitter Climate Change Harvest

Guidelines Could Help Improve Farmland Deals

Financing secure for UN small farm aid

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