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Senegal's farmers adopt new tool to boost harvests: mobile phones
2016-06-16 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Walking through his dry millet field, Alioune Djaby, chief of Sikilo village, waits for a sign that rainfall is coming. Normally, he would look for clouds in the sky or birds singing. This time though, he's expecting a text message from the National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology. Senegalese farmers have long relied on traditional weather indicators, such as trees blooming or where birds set their nests, to manage their crops. But those have become unreliable as a result of increasingly...
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Brazilian indigenous land activist killed in conflict with farmers - govt agency
2016-06-16 05:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: An indigenous activist was shot dead in southwestern Brazil and at least six others seriously wounded when their camp was attacked by armed farmers, a government agency said. Clodiode Rodrigues de Souza, 26, a member of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous group was killed and five other adults and a child were hospitalized in Mato Grosso do Sul state on Tuesday, the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), said. The campaigners had set up a camp in a push to have their ancestral land claims to be formally...
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Balanced Trade is Best for Family Farmers and Ranchers, NFU Testimony States
2016-06-14 22:57:38| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (June 14, 2016) The nearly 200,000 family farmer and rancher-led National Farmers Union (NFU) continued to advocate for fair and balanced trade in official testimony submitted for the record to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade. Today, the subcommittee held […]
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Are U.S. farmers supported by government programs?
2016-06-14 20:41:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Recently, I traveled outside the borders of the United States and a major question posed by farmers and bureaucrats was whether American farmers are still dependent on government support programs. In order to answer this question, we need to look at the numbers. read more
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Tasmanian farmers demand climate change action after floods ruin farms
2016-06-14 15:06:44| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ABC Australia: Damian Atkins on the banks of the Mersey River, among the debris left behind by floodwaters. (Laura Poole) Related Story: Did climate change influence the weekend's storms? Map: Mole Creek 7304 Some flood-affected Tasmanian farmers want to see more action on climate change, a topic which has received little debate during the election campaign. Cropping, dairy, livestock and horticultural producers farming on waterways across north and west Tasmanian have watched their hard work wash away during...
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