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Ticking down to the UN Food Systems Summit

The livestock sector will ignore the UN Food Systems Summit at its own peril

By Alexis Stockford September 20, 2021

The beef sector cannot ignore the possible ripples when delegates arrive in New York later this month for the first UN Food Systems Summit. That’s the message Robynne Anderson, director general of the International Agri-Food Network (IAFN), had while addressing the 2021 Canadian Beef Industry Conference in early September. Why it matters: Livestock producers should

World Food Programme executive director David Beasley speaks during an interview with Reuters in Doha, Qatar on Aug. 24, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Alexander Cornwell)

Crops, Other, Weather

Afghanistan ‘marching towards starvation,’ UN food chief says

By GFM Network News August 25, 2021

Doha | Reuters — Millions of Afghans could soon face starvation due to a combination of conflict, drought and the coronavirus pandemic, the executive director of the World Food Programme said on Tuesday, calling on political leaders to act fast. “There’s a perfect storm coming because of several years of drought, conflict, economic deterioration, compounded

Canada is already ahead of the curve in addressing climate change within agriculture, at least relative to large swaths of the global community.

Comment, Op/Ed, Other

Comment: Can Canada lead on ag at upcoming climate talks?

There’s a new push to address agriculture’s contribution to global pollution

By D.C. Fraser August 23, 2021

A new, particularly stark warning about climate change shows Canadian agriculture could be a lighthouse to other nations trying to mitigate greenhouse gases. Word that global warming is “widespread, rapid, and intensifying” has likely spread across the country by now. Yet another report, this one from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),

Op/Ed, Opinion, Other

Opinion: UN summit shows climate change not going away

The direction isn’t clear, but the amount of discussion on agriculture and climate change says the policy winds will blow

By D.C. Fraser August 10, 2021

Attendees of a recent UN event hint a heightened focus on agriculture and climate change is coming. Held in Rome (and virtually), the United Nations Food System Pre-Summit acted as a precursor to the main event, taking place in September. Simply put, the objective of attendees is to launch new strategies to help deliver on

Scientists emphasize that the effects of climate change are already here. Photo: Getty Images

Other

Once-in-50-year heat waves now happening every decade: U.N. climate report

By GFM Network News August 9, 2021

Reuters – Extreme heat waves that previously only struck once every 50 years are now expected to happen once per decade because of global warming, while downpours and droughts have also become more frequent, a U.N. climate science report said on Monday. The report www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1 found that we are already experiencing those effects of climate

People queue up outside a public supermarket’s doors in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, in April 2015. (iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Other

World Food Programme starts distributing food in Venezuela

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 8, 2021

Reuters — The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said Wednesday it had begun distributing school meals to children in Venezuela, where some seven million people require humanitarian assistance after years of economic collapse in the once-prosperous OPEC nation. The WFP’s first take-home rations were distributed for children under six years old at some 277 schools

Current countries’ plans to keep the average global temperature rise to 1.5 C are falling well short of their goal.

News, Other

UN climate talks must boost emissions cuts, finance targets —negotiators

“We need to take stock in Glasgow on how we are going to ramp up political ambition over the next few years.” – Peter Betts

By Nina Chestney July 7, 2021

Reuters – The next round of international climate talks this year must focus on getting more ambitious greenhouse gas emissions cuts and boosting finance for vulnerable nations, climate negotiators said June 24. Britain will host the next United Nations’ climate conference, called COP26, in November in Glasgow, Scotland. It aims to spur more ambitious commitments

Op/Ed, Opinion

Fraser: Expectations should be low for Food Systems Summit

By D.C. Fraser June 30, 2021

global The emerging international consensus is unlikely to please the Canadian ag sector

The emerging international consensus is unlikely to please the Canadian ag sector Canadian producers should prepare for disappointment at the upcoming United Nations’ Food Systems Summit. Planned to take place in New York this September, the summit will look to launch new strategies to deliver on the UN’s 17 development goals. In Canada, dialogues have

Letters, Op/Ed, Other

Letters: Promote peace not war

By Ernie Wiens April 15, 2021

I am responding to a recent article in the March 11 issue: “More Canadian defence spending, more exports to U.S.” David MacNaughton, Canada’s former ambassador to the United States, addressing the Canadian Crops Convention, suggests that if Canada spent more on defence it would pay dividends in trade with the U.S. Surely Mr. MacNaughton must

Workers prepare foodstuffs at a food distribution centre supported by the World Food Program at Sanaa, Yemen’s capital, on June 3, 2020. File photo: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah

Other

U.N. counts cost of ‘man-made’ famines

US$400 for a plate of rice and beans?

By GFM Network News March 11, 2021

New York | Reuters — Nearly 30 years ago a malnourished two-year-old girl died in front of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a refugee camp in northern Uganda. Two days ago U.N. food chief David Beasley met a starving five-month-old girl at a hospital in Yemen — she died on Thursday.

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Hogs, cattle fall

U.S. grains: Wheat sets fresh eight-week low as ample global supply continues to weigh

Larger Canadian canola and wheat ending stocks expected

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