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Books worth cooking from, part 2: My Thali

First We Eat: How a meal can centre around a starch, rather than a protein surrounded by sides

By dee Hobsbawn-Smith January 6, 2025

You’ll recall that in my previous column, I posed the question of how many cookbooks a home cook really needs, and which new ones are worth buying or borrowing. Part of my research for this month’s column was to peruse the shortlist of nominees for the 2024 Taste Canada book awards. Several books appealed, but […] Read more

The launch event for the FAO/OECD Agricultural Outlook 2019-2028 on July 8, 2019 at FAO headquarters in Rome. (Photo (c) FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto)
Photo credit must be given: ©FAO/Giuseppe Carotenuto. Editorial use only. Copyright ©FAO.

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FAO, OECD see swine fever in China among risks to food markets

By Reuters, GFM Network News July 8, 2019

Paris | Reuters — The spread of a deadly pig disease in China that has disrupted the world’s biggest pork market is one of the major risks to a well-supplied global agricultural sector, the FAO and OECD said on Monday. African swine fever was highlighted in the annual agricultural outlook for 2019-2028 from the Food […] Read more

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End of reefer madness could clear air for Canadian hemp

By GFM Network News October 18, 2016

CNS Canada — Anticipated legislative changes for marijuana production could spill over to hemp, according to the head of an industry group — but this year, Canada’s hemp producers are struggling to meet a surprise demand increase from Asia. “There’s lots of discussion with things changing in the marijuana arena; hemp also falls in that […] Read more

Columns, Crops

How to feed 9 billion people

In this second part of a two-part instalment, Brian Wittal looks  at how we can feed a growing world population

By Brian Wittal April 7, 2015

This is a continuation of last week’s column about how we can feed a world with nine billion people in fifty years. As I noted last week, 30 per cent of the world’s food production is wasted. Resolving this would go a long way toward feeding the expected increase in population over the next 50 […] Read more

In Korea, grain traders, feed buyers and food processors expressed interest in flax, feed grains, oats, barley for tea and pulses.

Columns, Crops

Farmers in Asia, Part 2

In Seoul, on the 2nd leg of her trade and export mission

By Sarah Weigum March 23, 2015

In my last column I covered the Japan leg of a 10-day trade mission in Asia. After tasting the best ramen and okonomoyaki (a cabbage pancake topped with meat) that Osaka had to offer, we flew to Seoul, South Korea. We attended a briefing at the Canadian embassy where we learned that Koreans tend to […] Read more

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

GFM Network News

Alberta crop conditions improve: report

U.S. grains: Corn sets contract lows on expectations for big US crop

U.S. livestock: Cattle strength continues

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Books worth cooking from, part 2: My Thali

FAO, OECD see swine fever in China among risks to food markets

End of reefer madness could clear air for Canadian hemp

How to feed 9 billion people

Farmers in Asia, Part 2

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