Kenya’s National Cereals and Produce Board is purchasing Sh1 billion worth of maize for strategic reserves this winter and encouraging farmers to use their storage facilities under the warehouse receipt system. Top issues leading to PHL for Kenyan farmers are poor storage facilities and commodity prices. http://allafrica.com/stories/201111021299.html
Archive | October, 2011
Solutions for a Cultivated Planet
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Deep Thinking about the Future of Food provides several arguments – mainly environmental and social inequity – behind the future of global agriculture. The paper “Solutions for a Cultivated Planet” by the University of Minnesota is featured, and recommends that a certification of sorts be applied to sustainably-farmed food, thus integrating a form of grading […]
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Argiculture: Russia’s Aim to Become Self-Sufficient
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Russia is working to become self-sufficient in agriculture. Soy will still need to be imported for a longer time, but grain is currently almost at 117 million tons and enough for both domestic and export demands. The Black Earth area is highly uncultivated and could produce 40 percent more than it currently is. Skilled workers […]
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‘Pedring’ Damage Rises to P6.6B
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Typhoon Pedring hit the Philippines, causing extensive infrastructural and agricultural damage, causing losses valued at Philippine peso 6.6 billion. Central Luzon, dubbed the rice granary of the country, lost about P4.9 billion in rice harvest, and roads, bridges, schools, and facilities have reached P1 billion in damages. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/69329/%E2%80%98pedring%E2%80%99-damage-rises-to-p6-6b
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Gold and Oil Cannot Develop Ghana Better Than Farming – Veep
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The Ghanaian government is encouraging youth to focus on agriculture as a means of moving out of poverty and is providing irrigation facilities to the north part of the country to increase harvest times. http://www.modernghana.com/news/352901/1/gold-and-oil-cannot-develop-ghana-better-than-farm.html
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WFP Provides Capacity Building Training to Farmers
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The World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress (P4P) initiative has helped train 70 farmers in Northern Ghana on how to be more competitive players in the value chain, especially in terms of maize and cowpea production. The next stage of the program will be to train 520 smallholders on how to use modern farm implements […]
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Kenyan Farmers Beat Drought – And Then Battle Pests
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Kenyan farmers are dealing with extraneous factors such as drought and pests and to lower the impact on PHL, they are using special varieties of maize and metal storage silos. http://www.trust.org/item/?map=kenyan-farmers-beat-drought-and-then-battle-pests
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Ukrainian Farmers Protest Government’s Grain Export ‘Low Blow’
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In Kiev, Ukraine, farmers have rallied to protest a new state agrarian policy that would extend the export duties on grain exports, which has caused farmers to sell at lower prices to producers. Farmers complained that such a policy would not allow them to buy the needed technology and costly machinery for harvesting and will […]
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UN FAO E-Courses on Food Security
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The UN FAO is offering e-courses on Food Security related topics free of charge for the purpose of basic skill and knowledge acquisition. http://www.foodsec.org/DL/elcpages/food-security-learning-center.asp?pgLanguage=en&leftItemSelected=food-security-learning-center
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Subsidised Bread Takes its Toll on Egypt
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Egypt is contemplating changes to its wheat subsidy system, as $5.5 billion dollars are spent on it for three quarters of the population, burdening the economy, and devaluing the entire system itself as bread’s cheap cost allows those who are not suffering financially to use it for non-human consumption. PHL in Egypt are at 30 […]
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