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Coffee farmers struggle to adjust to climate change
2013-01-28 06:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: One of the biggest problems facing coffee farmers in India and elsewhere is climate change. Fluctuations in the weather have always happened, but they come more frequently now and are often more extreme, farmers say. Like many tropical crops, coffee needs predictable dry and wet seasons and cannot tolerate extreme temperature fluctuations. "Climate change is hitting us hard,' said Jacob Mammen, managing director of India's Badra Estates. Three times in recent years, Badra has lost a third of...
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Dairy Farmers of America moving hub to Greeley
2013-01-27 13:28:28| Food - Topix.net
JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Dairy cows watch as a milk truck drives by Thursday morning at the Monte Vista Dairy near Gill.
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Davos 2013: new vision for agriculture is old news for farmers
2013-01-25 13:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: With the launch of the Enough food for everyone If campaign, global food security is once again high on the public agenda. The UK campaign hopes to harness public support leading up to the meeting of the G8 in June, in an attempt to replicate the achievements of Make Poverty History in 2005. One of the key pillars of the If campaign is land, and drawing attention to the plight of poor farmers who are being forced to relinquish their property in what has been described as a neo-colonial "land grab"....
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Liberian Farmers Take on Indonesian Palm Oil Giant
2013-01-25 01:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Liberian farmers who survived a 15-year civil war are now fighting lucrative property deals with Indonesian and Malaysian palm oil companies that threaten the land they live on, if not their sacred burial sites. Thirty hours by car from the capital Monrovia, the green and yellow flag of Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), an Indonesian palm oil giant, floats over deforested hills in Sinoe County, southern Liberia. Local farmer Benedict Smarts looked at the scene, and said, "We are not against development,...
Pork Farmers Named ‘Faces of Farming’
2013-01-25 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The National Pork Producers Council congratulated two pork farmers who were named Faces of Farming and Ranching national spokespeople by the US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance.
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