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Australia’s Landmark Carbon Price Laws To Take Effect In 2012

By James Grubel November 17, 2011

Australia passed landmark laws Nov. 8 to impose a price on carbon emissions in one of the biggest economic reforms in a decade. The vote in the upper house Senate made Australia the second major economy behind the European Union to pass carbon-limiting legislation. Tiny New Zealand has a similar scheme. Its impact will be

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Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

By Carey Gillam November 3, 2011

In China, dairy cows revolve on carousels in synchronized milking, while in Kenya, small farmers are planting a new high-yielding sweet potato. These projects, and scores more, are shaping a new century of agriculture. Whether it be cattle herders in sub-Saharan Africa or rice growers in rural Asia, farmers and ranchers need help to produce

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UN Body Delays Efforts To Regulate “Land Grabs”

By Catherine Hornby October 27, 2011

AUN intergovernmental body on food security has failed to adopt international guidelines on land governance, delaying efforts to regulate so-called land grabbing as investors race to snap up agricultural land. A voluntary code of conduct has been in the works since 2008, driven by concerns that countries such as China and Gulf Arab states are

Country Crossroads

RecipeSwap

By Lorraine Stevenson October 13, 2011

Hunger is exclusion. Exclusion from the land, from jobs, wages, income, life and citizenship. When a person gets to the point of having nothing to eat, it is because all the rest has been denied. I keep Josue de Castro s words pinned near my desk, lest I be tempted to believe I m really

Cereals, Opinion

Market Power: 50 Years Forward, 50 Years Back

By Beverly Stow September 29, 2011

As a farmer, I m alarmed at an elected government denying farmers a say in arguably the most important question in the history of Prairie farming. Without the marketing and representative power of the Canadian Wheat Board, grain farmers would be a scattered bunch of thousands peddling their wares to a handful of powerful grain

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In Brief… – for Aug. 25, 2011

By Reuters August 25, 2011

Correction:Due to an editing mistake, an opinion piece from Lydia Johnson which appeared in the Aug. 11 issue, contains the erroneous statement: “They did this fully knowing that they were going to ‘stuff’ this water into the already overcapacitated Lake Manitoba, which does have a proper outlet drain for the extra diverted waters to go

News, Oilseeds

Canada Looking Good To American Farm Expert

By Allan Dawson August 4, 2011

A leading American scholar came north bearing good news for Canadian farmers – expect a levelling of the farm-subsidy playing field and new opportunities to profitably feed a hungry planet. The Canola Council of Canada brought Robert L. Thompson to its annual meeting here and the scholar from Johns Hopkins University delivered a hopeful message

Livestock

G20 Leaves Biofuels Industry Unscathed

By Charlie Dunmore June 30, 2011

PARIS/REUTERS The biofuels industry emerged relatively unscathed from a meeting of G20 agriculture ministers June 23, which ignored advice to scrap biofuels subsidies on the basis they force up food prices. The warning against biofuels targets and subsidies in places such as Europe, Canada, India and the United States had appeared in a report to

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G20 Action Plan Good For Farmers

By Alex Binkley June 30, 2011

International farm ministers rejected tight controls on commodity speculation in favour of more open information on developments in the food chain that could affect both farmers and consumers, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The first meeting of G20 farm ministers signed an action plan in Paris that stresses more trade and innovation, including biotechnology, to

Cereals, Crops

Scientists Race To Avoid A Bitter Climate Change Harvest

By David Fogarty June 23, 2011

Charlie Bragg gazes across his lush fields where fat lambs are grazing, his reservoirs filled with water, and issues a sigh of relief. Things are normal this year and that’s a bit unusual of late. His 7,000-acre farm near the Australian town of Cootamundra is testament to the plight facing farmers around the globe: increasingly

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as Brazilian harvest looms; corn, wheat sag

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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Australia’s Landmark Carbon Price Laws To Take Effect In 2012

Funding For Food Programs Facing Cuts

UN Body Delays Efforts To Regulate “Land Grabs”

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Canada Looking Good To American Farm Expert

G20 Leaves Biofuels Industry Unscathed

G20 Action Plan Good For Farmers

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