Insights and Stories on Food Security

Burnett on Markets: Global grain stocks offer false sense of food security

Apr. 17, 2020 at 8:15 pm CDT

The economic parallels from the COVID-19 epidemic are quickly changing from comparisons to the recent financial crisis in 2008-09 to the Great Depression. My parents and grandparents lived through the Depression and it did have many impacts on their everyday lives. The main symbol of the Depression-era mentality was the […]

Maple Leaf lands ‘sustainability-linked’ credit

Dec. 13, 2019 at 5:03 am CST

By GFM Staff

Election 2019: Ag groups want the parties to pay attention

Sep. 18, 2019 at 8:07 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Food, farming not expected to be big election issues

Sep. 17, 2019 at 9:10 pm CDT

By John Greig

UN flags need to reduce meat consumption to curb land use impact on global warming

Aug. 8, 2019 at 7:42 pm CDT

By Nina Chestney stephanie-nebehay

North Korea faces food crisis after poor harvest, UN says

May. 3, 2019 at 7:31 pm CDT

Geneva | Reuters — Four in 10 North Koreans are chronically short of food and further cuts to already minimal rations are expected after the worst harvest in a decade, the United Nations said on Friday. Official rations are down to 300 grams (10.6 ounces) per person per day, the […]

By Tom Miles

FBC editorial chief wins major international awards

Jul. 15, 2016 at 3:52 pm CDT

Laura Rance, editorial director of Farm Business Communications and editor of the Manitoba Co-operator, has won two major international awards for her work on African agriculture. Rance won the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists (IFAJ) Star Prize for ‘Africa’s Hunger Games,’ published in the Winnipeg Free Press in April 2015. […]

By Staff

China seeks food security with friendly bid for Syngenta

Feb. 3, 2016 at 1:21 pm CST

Basel | Reuters — China made its boldest overseas takeover move when state-owned ChemChina agreed a US$43 billion bid for Swiss seeds and pesticides group Syngenta on Wednesday, aiming to improve domestic food production. The largest ever foreign purchase by a Chinese firm, announced by both companies, will accelerate a […]

By Ludwig Burger

Youth Ag-Summit: Two to represent at UN meeting

Aug. 28, 2015 at 2:21 am CDT

Two delegates from the 2015 Youth Ag-Summit will be jetting to Rome in October to take part in a meeting of the United Nations’ Committee on World Food Security. Australia’s Laura Grubb and Kenya’s Samba Ouma were selected from 80 nominees. Ouma and Grubb are now charged with presenting the […]

By Lisa Guenther

Australia tightens rules over foreign buying of farmland

Feb. 12, 2015 at 7:24 pm CST

Sydney | Reuters –– Australia tightened rules on Wednesday over foreign ownership of its agricultural land amid concerns that it is losing control of its own food security, slashing the amount beyond which land purchases would require regulatory approval. From March 1, foreign purchases of agricultural land over A$15 million […]

By Colin Packham

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