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India’s Job Program Creates Farm Labour Shortage

By C.j. Kuncheria June 23, 2011

Sitting at the edge of fields in the heart of India’s grain bowl, Gurdayal Singh Malik shakes his head in resignation about the lack of workers needed for his 60-acre farm, blaming the government’s flagship welfare program for the shortage. Ever since the start of the program, which guarantees 100 days of work a year

Cereals, News

In Brief… – for May. 5, 2011

By Reuters May 5, 2011

First quarter:Maple Leaf Foods Inc., passed on rising food costs to consumers in the first quarter and posted a higher profit April 28. Maple Leaf said its profit margins on prepared meats rose because of its price increases, although it also reported some volume declines. The company, which sells its products under such brands as

News

Happiness Is … Losing The Phone

April 21, 2011

If you want to be happy, think positive and take a break from your mobile phone. That’s the advice from a new global movement for happiness whose members include the Dalai Lama. Action for Happiness, co-founded by Richard Layard, an economics professor at the London School of Economics and an expert on happiness, said surveys

Crops

Traders Protest Ukraine Grain Monopoly

April 7, 2011

Ukraine’s plans for greater state control of grain exports could push foreign grain trading houses out of the country, a German international trade association said Mar. 22. A draft law in Ukraine proposes that traders and exporters would have to buy grain from a Ukrainian state company instead of directly from the country’s farmers, which

Opinion

Cheap Food Versus Expensive Oil

By Kevin Hursh March 17, 2011

You can’t have cheap food and expensive oil. It just doesn’t work. For hundreds of millions of people who earn only a dollar or two a day, increasing prices for staple foods like grains, pulses, rice and cooking oil is a big deal. Canadians spend only about 11 per cent of their disposable income on

News

Food Prices Hit “Dangerous Levels”

By Lesley Wroughton February 24, 2011

World Bank chief Robert Zoellick says global food prices have reached “dangerous levels,” and warns that their impact could complicate fragile political and social conditions in the Middle East and Central Asia. World Bank data released on Feb. 15 showed higher food prices – mainly for wheat, maize, sugars and edible oils – have pushed

News

Africa, Caribbean Urged To Brace For Food Price Shocks

By Lesley Wroughton February 17, 2011

The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are warning poor regions that have so far not been hit by rising food prices, like sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to get ready to face them. Food price volatility is here to stay, the World Bank cautioned, amid growing worries there could be another full-blown food crisis

Hogs, Livestock

New Animal Diseases Emerge

February 17, 2011

Agrowing number of livestock, such as cows and pigs, are fuelling new animal epidemics worldwide and posing more severe problems in developing countries as it threatens their food security, according to a report released Feb. 11. Epidemics in recent years, such as SARS and the H1N1 swine flu, are estimated to have caused billions of

Cereals, News

Food Costs At Records, UN Warns Of Volatile Era

By Svetlana Kovalyova February 10, 2011

Record-high global food prices showed no sign of relenting following a rash of catastrophic weather, highlighted by a major U.S. snowstorm and a cyclone in Australia, which could put yet more pressure on prices and spark further unrest around the world. The closely watched UN Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index touched its highest

Livestock

Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

By Alexis Kienlen February 10, 2011

Animal welfare is increasingly on consumers’ radar screens, and is now starting to be seen as a standard of good business, says a University of Calgary animal-welfare specialist. Animal-care standards are being used to differentiate between products and are creating favourable trading opportunities for countries with the best ones, Dr. Ed Pajor told the recent

Daily Network News

How Canada’s farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods

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

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India’s Job Program Creates Farm Labour Shortage

In Brief… – for May. 5, 2011

Happiness Is … Losing The Phone

Traders Protest Ukraine Grain Monopoly

Cheap Food Versus Expensive Oil

Food Prices Hit “Dangerous Levels”

New Animal Diseases Emerge

Food Costs At Records, UN Warns Of Volatile Era

Animal Welfare Is Of Global Importance

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