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China GMO Corn Hits Policy Deadlock

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China’s first strain of genetically modified corn is facing policy deadlock and may take years before it can be planted, a Chinese researcher said on March 7. China gave the phytase corn safety approval in late 2009, and at the time scientists said they expected large-scale production could happen as early as 2012. The GMO
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Viterra CEO Sees Grain Price Rebound

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Viterra is buying grains in the cash and futures markets because it sees the recent slide as unsustainable, chief executive Mayo Schmidt said Mar. 16 Grain and oilseed prices remain relatively high and have driven up the cost of food to record levels, but fell sharply recently, just as farmers in the Northern Hemisphere prepare
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Zimbabwe Lacks Funds To Transport Food Aid Minister

Zimbabwe does not have the money to transport food aid to areas experiencing acute shortages, Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said on March 21. The country wants to send its entire 270,000 tonnes of grain reserves to provinces that are worst hit by drought and where 1.7 million people need aid, but the Grain Marketing Board
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Eco-Farming Can Double Food Output By Poor

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Many farmers in developing nat ions can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a UN report showed March 8. Insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh’s use of ducks to eat weeds in rice paddies are among examples of steps taken to increase food
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Libya Turmoil Could Hurt Regional Food Security — UN

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The United Nations expressed serious concern March 11 about the impact of the Libyan uprising on food security across North Africa because of the region’s dependency on cereal imports. “The ongoing crisis will likely have a significant impact on food security in Libya and in nearby crisis-affected areas,” the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said
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Japan Quake Destroys Feed Plants, Grain Shipments Unaffected

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Animal feed-manufacturing facilities in northern Japan, which accounts for 17 per cent of the country’s annual output, have been severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake, although shipments into the world’s top grain buyer were largely unaffected. Japan, the world’s third-largest consumer of commodities, is battling to avert a nuclear catastrophe in its worst crisis
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Biofuels Here To Stay

Biofuels represent the only way to significantly reduce carbon emissions in road transport fuel and are likely to account for at least 12 per cent of supply by 2030, an official with oil giant BP said March 2. “There is no other alternative that I can really subscribe to in terms of decarbonizing road transport,”
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New French Farm Leader Brings Change In Style

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Plans to develop contracts to cushion price swings between French cereal and livestock sectors show how farmers can play a more active role in the food industry and not rely solely on public subsidies, the head of France’s main farm union said. France’s cereal and livestock sectors have agreed on the outline of such supply
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Doha Trade Talks Start To Move

The long-running Doha trade talks have finally started to move after a constructive week of talks among key powers that grappled with issues of substance, the U.S. envoy to the World Trade Organization said Feb. 17. The comments, by U.S. Ambassador Michael Punke, were one of the strongest signs yet that an intensified push to
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Fund Launched To Invest In Australian Wheat Farms

Anew fund that plans to invest in western Australian wheat farms was launched Feb. 17, aiming to raise 65 million pounds (US$105 million) in total. JPT Capital cited a change in diets in southeast Asia towards more wheat-based food and the growing global population as contributing to a bullish outlook for wheat prices, providing a

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