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UN declared 2013 International Year of the Quinoa

By Lorraine Stevenson January 6, 2013

It’s a highly nutritious grain and a cool-climate crop that could have played a more important role feeding a hungry world, had rice, wheat and corn not predominated. But in 2013 quinoa, (pronounced KEEN-wah), dubbed one of the “lost crops of the Incas,” or “poor man’s crop” could begin a comeback after centuries of relative

Livestock, News

Farm groups should track CCA sustainability move

By Alex Binkley January 4, 2013

The move by the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association to join an international group that promotes sustainable agriculture is being hailed as a model for other farm groups. The cattle producers’ organization recently joined the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, whose members range from Cargill, JBS and McDonald’s to the World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and

International news, News, Weather

Indian monsoons may fail more often due to climate change

By Alister Doyle November 30, 2012

Reuters – The Indian monsoon is likely to fail more often in the next 200 years threatening food supplies, unless governments agree how to limit climate change, a study released Nov. 6 says. The monsoon rains could collapse about every fifth year between 2150 and 2200 with continued global warming, blamed mainly on human burning

Cereals, News

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

By James Mackenzie November 29, 2012

Reuters / Food prices have eased slightly but this year’s droughts in key producer regions from the Black Sea to the U.S. Corn Belt are keeping cereal stocks at low levels, says a new report from the United Nations’ food agency. “This season’s world cereal supply-and-demand balance is proving much tighter than in 2011-12 with

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News, Oilseeds

Bigger U.S. soybean crop eases tight world supply

By Charles Abbott November 21, 2012

The U.S. soybean crop is much bigger than expected, helping to ease a worldwide supply squeeze, thanks to late-season rains that offset the impact of the worst drought in half a century, the government said Nov. 9. In an report on crops around the world, the U.S. Agriculture Department raised its forecasts of global soybean,

News

Agriculture causes much of global warming

By Alister Doyle November 15, 2012

Reuters / Food production accounts for up to 29 per cent of man-made greenhouse gases, twice previous UN estimates, according to a new study. The new study looked at emissions across the food system — including forest clearance, fertilizer production and transport — rather than just farming itself. But agriculture could profit by cutting its

News

Somaliland hopes oil will replace goat dependence

By Ed Stoddard November 15, 2012

Reuters / Wanted: investors for small African nation with good oil and mineral potential — no seat at the United Nations but history of independence in rough neighbourhood. The breakaway nation of Somaliland is a tough sell but the recent announcement that serious hydrocarbon exploration is about to kick off there shows that oil talks,

Crops, News, Weather

Water cycles on the great plains have changed

By Shannon VanRaes November 9, 2012

A water crisis isn’t coming. It’s already here. And unless action is taken, Robert Sandford says the hydrological changes the Lake Winnipeg Basin is experiencing will bankrupt the province. “More extreme weather events are clearly already a reality,” said the author and adviser to the United Nations Water for Life Decade. Rising global temperatures have

Cereals, Crops, News

Consumers, farmers squeezed as grain giants tighten grip

By Nigel Hunt November 9, 2012

Reuters / A global race for grain trading power is putting more of the world’s vital cereals in the hands of fewer companies, with a string of recent acquisitions raising fears that consumers will pay even more for their food, while farmers are squeezed. Archer Daniels Midland last week bid for Australia’s last independent grain

Crops, Grain Markets, News

U.S. opposes strategic grain stocks

October 26, 2012

The United States does not support the idea of creating strategic grains stocks to tame volatile food prices, a U.S. representative told a ministerial meeting on the food market situation at the United Nations’ food agency Oct. 16. “The United States generally opposes the creation of regional or global food reserve systems to manage price

Daily Network News

Huge crops in South America says analyst

U.S. livestock: ‘Cattle on feed’ report supports prices

U.S. grains: Wheat trades near contract lows under ample global supply

Tag Archives United Nations

UN declared 2013 International Year of the Quinoa

Indian monsoons may fail more often due to climate change

Drought across the globe reducing grain stocks

Bigger U.S. soybean crop eases tight world supply

Agriculture causes much of global warming

Somaliland hopes oil will replace goat dependence

Water cycles on the great plains have changed

Consumers, farmers squeezed as grain giants tighten grip

U.S. opposes strategic grain stocks

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