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France Sees Wide Support To Regulate Food Markets

By Silvia Aloisi October 21, 2010

France said Oct. 14 its proposals for tighter controls on commodity trading were being well received in many G20 countries, and it issued a joint statement with Brazil on measures to curb food price volatility. France, which takes over the presidency of the Group of 20 most important economies in November, has made fighting speculation

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Sep. 9, 2010

By Reuters September 9, 2010

Contractor dies in fall at greenhouse:An electrical contractor has died of injuries in a fall at Vanderveens’ Greenhouses, a major bedding plant and potted plant operation west of Carman, RCMP reported. The contractor, a 58-year-old man, was on a ladder propped up against a pole where he was unhooking hydro lines on the morning of

Cereals, Livestock

FAO Sees Less Wheat, More Coarse Grains

By Svetlana Kovalyova February 25, 2010

World wheat output could fall by five per cent in 2010 after two bumper crop years, but coarse grain output may rise, the United Nations’ food agency said. Wheat-planted areas in the United States dropped to the lowest level in almost a century because of bad weather and falling prices, the UN Food and Agriculture

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Low Donor Support For Haiti Farming Alarms UN Body

February 18, 2010

Only eight per cent of a $23 million appeal to help Haiti revive food production after a devastating earthquake has been funded, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Feb. 12. At a meeting of UN agencies in Rome also attended by Haiti’s agriculture minister one month after the earthquake, FAO director general Jacques

News

Excess Liquidity Driving Up Food Prices

By Rajesh Kumar Singh January 14, 2010

Excess liquidity in global markets is driving up prices of farm commodities, which could be potentially dangerous in the near term, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said Dec. 11. With global interest rates at historic lows, investors are piling into different markets and asset classes in search of higher returns, raising concerns about possible asset

Cereals, Crops

FAO Raises 2009 Cereals Forecast Despite Rice Dip

By Silvia Aloisi November 19, 2009

“…world cereal utilization in 2009-10 was expected to grow faster than earlier anticipated, in part due to weaker prices.” World cereal production this year is expected to be 2.234 billion tonnes, just two per cent below last year’s record crop and nearly 26 million tonnes higher than previously expected, the United Nations said Nov. 10.

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Africa Not Benefiting From Foreign Land Deals

By Barry Malone May 21, 2009

Africa is giving vast tracts of farmland to rich nations looking to feed their own people without ensuring those on the world’s hungriest continent benefit, the African Union (AU) said April 28. Countries in Asia and the Gulf that are mainly reliant on food imports have been increasingly seeking land in the developing world to

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for Mar. 5, 2009

March 5, 2009

Streamlining farm subsidies: European Union ministers are considering changing the way farmers receive subsidies. The Czechs plan to launch a debate on how the EU’s complex farm payment system might be altered for the next seven-year budget period, which starts in 2013, Czech Agriculture Minister Petr Gandalovic said. Average levels of direct farm payments vary

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Army worms threaten plague for West Africa

February 5, 2009

Aplague of hungry army worms has eaten crops and plants in 100 Liberian villages and may spread across West Africa if left unchecked, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Jan. 29. Liberia, ravaged by a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003, declared a national state of emergency this week due to the

Hogs, Other

Philippines investigates Ebola in pigs

January 1, 2009

The Philippines has asked the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for help in stopping the spread of Ebola-Reston virus after an infection was found in some hog farms early this year, an official said on Dec. 17. The Agriculture Department has sent requests to the FAO to test an initial 10,000 swine in two

Daily Network News

Women who fed a nation

U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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In Brief… – for Sep. 9, 2010

FAO Sees Less Wheat, More Coarse Grains

Low Donor Support For Haiti Farming Alarms UN Body

Excess Liquidity Driving Up Food Prices

FAO Raises 2009 Cereals Forecast Despite Rice Dip

Africa Not Benefiting From Foreign Land Deals

In Brief… – for Mar. 5, 2009

Army worms threaten plague for West Africa

Philippines investigates Ebola in pigs

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