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Owen Roberts
Tag Archives: G20
Peaceful development messages hard to hear amid violence
An estimated 80 per cent of those who need assistance in underdeveloped countries are farmers. So, programs targeted at helping farmers can likewise help economies recover. Farmers who are profitable, however you measure it and wherever they farm, can feed … Continue reading
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G8, G20 make Farmers Fighting Poverty campaign timely
The G8 and G20 activity in Ontario makes it timely to introduce an anti-rural poverty campaign I learned about at the recent International Federation of Agricultural Journalists congress in Belgium, called Farmers Fighting Poverty. It’s led by an NGO based in The Netherlands, Agriterra, whose head of communications, Jose … Continue reading
Bomb scare prompts calls for security overhaul
Ever since anti-government terrorist Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people by blowing up an Oklahoma City federal government building with 40 bags of ammonium nitrate — a farm fertilizer than can also be an explosive — authorities everywhere have been on … Continue reading
