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UN Program Helps Haiti to Combat Food Shortage
[21 Aug 2009]
According to the UN press release, a scheme intended to improve food security of Haiti and thereby lower food prices has come to fruition with considerable increase in the income of the country’s farm
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Tags: UN FAO IFAD food
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New Shipping Invention to Empower Fruit Exporters
[04 Nov 2009]
Fruits can now reach farther markets as a leading shipping company has introduced StarCare, a new generation of Controlled Atmosphere (CA) containers which would preserve the fruits from ripening and
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Tags: CA fruit exporter food market StarCare
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Canada Aims to Feed the Growing Seafood Appetite of Asia
[24 Nov 2009]
The Canadian fish industry is agog over capturing the new emerging markets of Asia through aggressive promotion programs in spite of competition from ASEAN fishing industry. The Canadian fishing indus
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Tags: Canada Seafood Asia fish industry China ASEAN
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Russia to be Less Reliant on Food Imports
[08 Feb 2010]
According to RIA Novosti, the President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev has approved a plan to boost domestic food production and reduce the country's dependence on imports. Russia plans to enhance its foo
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Tags: Russia food imports grain export India China
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UK Staple Food Shifts to French, Indian and Mexican Ones
[09 Feb 2010]
The British bread that donned the role of ubiquitous easy-carry meal to an industrialized world is giving way to a variety of food items like the French croissants, the Indian Chapattis and the Mexica
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Tags: UK food India Mexico New York
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GCC Becomes the Largest Food Importer
[17 Feb 2010]
According to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the GCC is the biggest importer of food in the world by buying more than 90 percent of its total needs. The GCC’s very high reliance on external food s
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Tags: GCC WTO food importer BMI UAE
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German Dioxin-tainted Food Scare Heightens across EU
[08 Jan 2011]
The contaminated eggs with toxic dioxin from Germany are panicking consumers across Europe as they are suspected to have entered the UK food chain. It is understood that 14 tonnes of tainted egg prod
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Tags: Germany EU Holland Britain Poultry Processed Food
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Argentine Farmers Still Unhappy over Hostile Export Policies
[25 Jan 2011]
The farmers’ protest that took place in Argentina last week was called off by the trade unions with a warning of series of strikes in the near future if their demands were not met. The warnings indica
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Tags: Food Prices Grain Supplies Argentina Farmers Strike
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Food prices push 44m into poverty: World Bank
[17 Feb 2011]
Rising food prices have pushed about 44 million people into poverty in developing countries since last June, the World Bank warned.
Food costs are continuing to rise to near 2008 levels, when
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Tags: World Bank Food Price Index food inflation anti-poverty
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UK trade deficit drops sharply
[14 Mar 2011]
Rise in exports lifts expectations that trade will boost first-quarter GDP
Britain's trade deficit has dropped sharply, fuelling hopes that trade will make a strong contribution to GDP growth in th
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Tags: GDP growth oil food drink tobacco Daiwa Capital Markets IHS Global Insight
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