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Global Food Security Plans Too Narrow

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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
Crops

G20 Asks World Bank For Ag Fund

The Group of 20 has asked the World Bank to create a trust fund to increase agricultural investment in poor countries. In July, countries pledged $20 billion over several years to increase investment in agriculture in poor countr ies to bolster food security following record-high prices last year. “We call on the World Bank to
Crops

World Food Output Must Rise

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The world will have to produce 70 per cent more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people and as incomes rise, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said Sept. 23. Global cereals demand for food and animal feed is expected to rise to three billion tonnes by 2050 and more
News, Oilseeds

Low-Level Tolerances Needed For GM Crops

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“Once an event has been approved it’s not a question when that event will show up, it’s a question of what day on the calendar it will show up.” – DENNIS STEPHENS Governments must agree on tolerances for small amounts of genet i -cally modified plants (GM) in commodity shipments and Canada’s should take the
Beef cattle, News, Poultry

In Brief… – for Sep. 24, 2009

Food aid budgets crash: Food aid is at a 20-year low despite the number of critically hungry people soaring this year to its highest level ever. Josette Sheeran, UN World Food Programme’s (WFP) executive director said the number of hungry people passed one billion this year for the first time, adding the UN has barely
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

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World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and
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In Brief… – for Sep. 10, 2009

Trader benched from ICE: An ex-manager at Refco’s Winnipeg office has been fined $35,000 and suspended as a participant in trading at ICE Futures Canada for 12 years. The Winnipeg exchange said Aug. 27 it penalized Paul Erickson for violations of ICE rules and the Commodity Futures Act in 2005 and 2006, such as engaging
Crops

Aid Sought As Drought Hits Kenya’s Maize

The UN’s World Food Program (WFP) appealed Aug. 25 for more than US$230 million to provide emergency food aid over the next six months for 3.8 million Kenyans affected by deepening drought and high food prices. Experts say Kenya’s output of its staple food maize is likely to be just 15 million 90-kg bags this
Crops

Sippell Named CSTA President

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Dave Sippell, president of Syngenta Seeds Canada, was named the 71st president of the Canadian Seed Trade Association (CSTA) following the association’s annual meeting in Whistler, B. C. Sippell said the seed trade will face the challenge of feeding the world’s growing population as competitors because “that makes us more efficient and effective, but as
Opinion

Co-Op Business Model Most Resilient

Excerpt from a July 3 release from the International Federation of Agricultural Producers recognizing the UN International Day of Co-operatives. This year’s theme was “Driving Global Recovery through Cooperative Enterprise.” Th e International Federation of Agricultural Producers is encouraging the adoption and strengthening of the co-operative business model as part of national financial and social

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