By unlocking the export potential China offers the pig industry, not to mention the red meat sector as a whole, we could gain entry into a marketplace which comprises a fifth of the world’s population.Farmers Guardian
Anna Ford Freelance
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Obama highlights food security at UN
23 September 2010
FOOD security was brought to the top of the political agenda this week when Barrack Obama addressed the UN Millennium Development Goal Summit in New York.
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Food and agriculture to be sidelined in UN talks
6 September 2010
FOOD and agriculture will receive little political attention when world leaders, including deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, meet this month in New York for a United Nations poverty summit.
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Niger farmers suffer dramatic food crisis
30 August 2010
NIGER farmers who are in the throes of a catastrophic food crisis could be dependent on aid until 2011 if they are not given the support they need over the next few weeks, according to aid agency sources.
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Mongolia's coldest winter in decades kills 8.4 million animals
24 August 2010
ACROSS the frozen valleys of Mongolia’s Zavkhan province lay hundreds of thousands of decaying corpses. While vultures circled overhead, sheep, goats, cows, horses and yaks expired from starvation and cold. Even camels - the hardiest of animals - struggled to draw breath; their humps flaccid and legs weak.