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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (14266)	6/29/2007 3:57:32 PM
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Climate Change Threatens North Africa Food Supply Tom Pfeiffer, Reuters via Planet Ark CASABLANCA - Increasingly frequent droughts in North Africa will force governments to import more food, placing their economies under severe strain unless global warming is checked, a senior UN climate expert said. A dry spell in Morocco has slashed the country's 2007 grain crop to an estimated 2.0 million tonnes from 9.3 million last year and the government is expected to triple soft wheat imports to 3.0 million tonnes. Rains Hit W.Europe Wheat, Drought Devastates East Nigel Hunt, Reuters via Planet Ark LONDON - Europe's wheat crop has rain in all the wrong places this year, with already sodden France, Germany and Britain getting a further soaking this week, while drought has devastated countries further east. Showers have spread across much of France, including large grain growing regions, heightening worries about the quality of wheat and barley harvests. "Every day that goes by, the risk of a lower quality harvest is rising," one trader said. Farmers in Ukraine, by contrast, have been pleading for rain to salvage some of their wheat crop, with southern and central regions facing the worst drought in a century. Early winter wheat yields averaged about 1.31 tonnes per hectare and barley 1.57 tonnes in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, sharply down from an average grain yield of 2.48 tonnes last year and 2.85 tonnes in 2005. (27 Jun 2007) Climate and energy major threats to European agriculture, conference finds CORDIS News What are the major challenges facing European agriculture? And how can research help farmers and the wider rural community meet these challenges? These questions were at the heart of a conference on the future of agricultural research held in Brussels on 26 and 27 June. The starting point of the event was the outcome of a foresight process carried out by the EU's Standing Committee on Agricultural Research (SCAR). A Foresight Expert Group, set up in June 2006, developed scenarios based on the factors most likely to disrupt European agriculture over the next 20 years. Hippies in NoDak Farmers Sue Federal Government for Right to Grow Hemp Chris Torres, Lancaster Farming A lawsuit filed by North Dakota farmers this week has brought attention to the potentially lucrative but controversial crop, hemp. energybulletin.net