Sunday, September 2, 2012

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Flooding and locust plague add to Chad food crisis
AFP

Flooding and locust plague add to Chad food crisis. (AFP) – 21 minutes
ago. N'DJAMENA — Chad warned Saturday that flooding of vast fields of
crops and locust infestations had added to a severe food crisis in a
country already battling chronic malutrition.
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Areca growers seek cash incentives
Deccan Herald

Areca growers in the State have requested the government to give cash
incentives to areca growers to switch over to food crop cultivation and
also encourage them to go for group cultivation to face competition from
corporate sector in agriculture field.
<http://www.deccanherald.com/content/275860/areca-growers-seek-cash-incentives.html>
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Flooding and locust plague add to Chad food crisis
StarAfrica.com

"After the famine, the ministry is now concerned about flooding of food
crops and a locust infestation." Adoum said that 255,700 hectares (632,000
acres) of land that contained a variety of crops had been flooded, notably
in the Mayo Kebbi-Est region ...
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Food Security - a Perfect Storm [analysis]
Equities.com

This focus on biofuels - which opponents prefer to call agro-fuels because
of their propensity to divert scarce agricultural resources toward fuel
crops - has caused an unprecedented shift in focus in agricultural
production from food production to ...
<http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-08-31&val=435863&cat=material>
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Cuba growing less food than 5 ys ago despite agriculture reforms
Reuters

Most crops remain below 2007 levels. * Government says working to broaden
reforms. By Marc Frank. HAVANA, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Cuba is producing less
food than it did five years ago despite efforts to increase agriculture
production, the government ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/31/cuba-food-idUSL2E8JVAUU20120831>
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Study Finds GE Plants Pose Low Risk To Humans
Food Product Design

BERN, Switzerland—The ongoing debate over genetically engineered foods
has been a hot news item of late, with Walmart announcing it will sell
Monsanto's GE sweet corn currently being harvested in the Midwest, and the
upcoming election where ...
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Biofuel crops transform German farming
BBC News
But the farmers who do the growing say that high prices are a recent thing,
and that for too long food has been too cheap to grow profitably - so they
have turned land over to plants for biofuel. Fuel instead of food. Hellmuth
Riestock has a big farm ...
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19413408>
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Mexico to monitor crops, fisheries via satellite
Fox News

... Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food Secretariat said in a
statement Thursday. It added that SIAP will receive the support of French
firm Astrium, which will put a satellite into orbit to process "information
on climate, soil, seas and ...
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Awareness programme on tuber crop based farming system
E-Pao.net

Speaking as the chief guest of the programme, Dr Premjit said the
cultivation of food crops like potato, bean, etc apart from paddy, would
pay dividend in realising the much needed food security in the State. He
however said the prospect of marketing ...
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Kenya: Hungry Taita Taveta Residents Now Appeal for Relief Supplies
AllAfrica.com

In the highland areas at Taita Hills, the situation is the same where
thousands of monkeys have invaded farms and destroyed maize, bananas and
cassava among other food crops. The residents have accused the Kenya
Wildlife Service of moving the ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/201208310427.html>
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Need for Food Aid Outpaces Response
AllAfrica.com

"I do not know what to do now; our harvest was very bad," said Nancy
Kumwenda from Ntcheu, one of the districts in central Malawi affected by
the food shortage. "We got less than a bag of maize from our land. The
whole crop just withered away." ...
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Commodity Thefts Sweep Canada
Minyanville.com

Crop thefts are an annual problem in Canada, but are generally much smaller
in size. The thefts this year are in such large quantities -- and from such
hard to access areas -- that police are perplexed at "a systematic theft of
bulk food crops." Indeed ...
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