Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than […] Read more
Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa
Continent facing record-level hunger
Now hunger threat shadows Ebola in West Africa
Freetown/Dakar | Reuters — The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and creates food shortages. In the worst-hit states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Ebola is ravaging their food-producing regions, preventing planting and harvesting, and disrupting […] Read more
Blocking Biotech Feed Harms Farmers
Reading Time: < 1 minute The European Union’s farm chief has urged governments to stop blocking imports of animal feed if it contains only traces of banned genetically modified organisms (GMOs), saying such policies harmed the meat sector. EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said EU countries should look at scientific evidence rather than emotions when deciding on authorizations for […] Read more
EU Dairy Farmers’ Protests Pay Off
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dairy farmers won 280 million euros (C$430 million) of additional subsidies from the European Union last Monday after weeks of protests over low milk prices. But some of the farmers, who burned hay, threw firecrackers and blocked traffic with tractors and buses as EU farm ministers met in Luxembourg, said only a regulatory reform of […] Read more
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