Initiatives to Improve Farming Community
THE PHILIPPINES - With the farming community now reeling from the regional crisis on the food wheat and grain front, farmers of the 4th district of Laguna were at least optimistic over...

Ceres Inc. Endeavors to Create Bioenergy Crops
US - A genomics technology firm, Ceres, Inc., is making a big effort to develop new bioenergy crops, reports the Tri-State Neighbor.

Farm Bill May Trigger Advanced Biofuels Production
US - The Farm Bill agreement announced by U.S. House and Senate negotiators will encourage biofuel producers to move more rapidly to commercialize advanced biofuels and help farmers...

Government Helps China Feed Itself
CHINA - The government of China have declared a new initiative giving support to farmers around the country in the latest bid to meet the population's ever increasing food demand. ...

UN Blames Biofuels for Rising Costs
GLOBE - According to Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, biofuel production is responsible for the global rise in fuel prices.

An Insatiable Global Hunger for Grain
GLOBAL - Wheat is by far the most traded grain as it is so adaptable to many uses, but production for the world market has so far been the privilege of a handful of countries.

AFBF: Food Fix Needs to be Well Thought Out
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The American Farm Bureau Federation today said there is no short-term fix for the complex global food situation. In a statement on global food prices submitted to...

Are Biofuels Really a Threat to Global Food Security?
GLOBAL - Biofuels, derived from crops and once a promising alternative to petroleum, have come under increasing fire in the face of a global food shortage that has spurred chaos in...

Are Biofuels Behind Inflation?
EU - EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel has rejected allegations that EU policies to promote biofuels are to blame for rising food prices amid calls by the UN to "cut...

Weekly Roberts Report
US - Agricultural US Commodity Market Report by Mike Roberts, Commodity Marketing Agent, Virginia Tech.

Biofuels Not All They're Cracked Up to Be
IRELAND - It now seems that growing the raw material for biofuels may not provide the bonanza that many had predicted following the dramatic rise in the price of oil, according to the...

Malaysia: Oilseeds and Products Update - April 2008
MALAYSIA - This is a GAIN report on Malaysia's oilseed and products update prepared by the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

The Solution to Escaping Blackleg
AUSTRALIA - According to a predication made by the Department of Agriculture and Food blackleg disease model: if canola crops are sown early this year, they are likely to escape infections...

National Biodiesel Board Funds Danforth Center
MISSOURI - It has been announced at a press release that with funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation, the NBB (National Biodiesel Board) is subsidizing $1.2 million to the...

Northern Nigeria's Future in the Biofuels Market
NIGERIA - Though Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of fossil fuel, with huge financial resources accruing from its sales, yet the oil has failed to solve many of its problems, writes...