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Farmer prepares for agriculture downturn, growth opportunities

2013-11-21 21:20:00| Corn & Soybean Digest

As crop and farmland prices spiked, Jim Kline began to prepare for tougher times and opportunities to grow. As he looked to the future, Jim Kline, 56, turned to lessons learned from the 1980s farm crisis. He began paying down debt, trading machinery less often and slowing down his farm expansion. read more

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A dearth of agriculture graduates is threatening food sustainability

2013-11-21 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The food industry needs a revolution to feed a growing population, and new generations of graduates are required Share Tweet this Email Food production will have to increase by 70% in the next 40 years to feed a growing world population. Photograph: Eric Gay/AP Agricultural evolution first occurred 10,000 years ago when plants were selected and grown as crops, and animals were domesticated. Further revolution of our food industry from mechanisation in the early 18th century right through to...

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Govts pledge $280M to slow deforestation for agriculture

2013-11-21 05:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: The governments of Norway, Britain and the United States pledged $280 million toward a new initiative that aims to reduce emissions associated with forest conversion for agriculture, reports Reuters. The money will come out of previously committed funds for climate change. The initiative, called the BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes and administered by the World Bank, focuses on the 80 percent of deforestation that is driven by agriculture. Norway will contribute up million...

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UN negotiators ditch climate-friendly agriculture plan

2013-11-19 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Controversy has dogged the UN climate talks this week. Japan downgraded its 2020 target for emissions cuts from 25 per cent below 2005 levels to 3.8 per cent below; a newly belligerent Australia has refused to help fund adaptation measures in developing countries; and the Polish hosts were pilloried for their ongoing support of coal. But the biggest disappointment so far from the meeting in Warsaw, was the abandonment of talks on how to cut emissions from agriculture - the sector responsible for...

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Not too late to get agriculture into 2015 climate deal

2013-11-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Agriculture can still be part of a new global deal on climate change, due to be agreed in 2015, even though almost no progress has been made on the issue at the U.N. climate talks in Poland, a top World Bank official said on Sunday. Rachel Kyte, vice president for sustainable development at the World Bank, told a forum on managing forest and farm landscapes that the international community working to strengthen agriculture in poorer nations has "taken another blow" in Warsaw, after climate negotiators...

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