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Provisional estimates from FAO indicate that pork production contributes about 793 million tonnes CO2 equivalent which represents approximately 1.6% of global GHG emissions.

2011 ended with a total of 443.155 million dollars in pork exports, which represented an increase of 26% in export value.

A survey conducted by the University of Missouri on behalf of the National Pork Producers Council shows only about 17 percent of sows in the U.S. are currently housed in open pen gestation.

According to the latest study on the French pig sector by CGAAER, as of 2002 the sector has been sluggish.

The federal district court in Manhattan ruled that the FDA must reconsider two citizen petitions that asked the agency to withdraw approval of some antibiotics used in food-producing animals.

The FDC is an important link within the food industry infrastructure that supports Manitoba producers, entrepreneurs and rural economic development through job creation.

Aussie pork producers have taken their first step towards lowering their carbon footprint with the release of a new Bioenergy Support Program.

Slaughterings are expected to be more than two per cent above 2011 levels during the first half of the year and again in the fourth quarter.

Throughout the past year about 12 million pigs were killed in Belgium.

According to "Monitoring consumer markets in the European Union", a survey carried out for the Directorate-General Health and Consumers of the European Commission DG SANCO, the meat and meat products market's performance is relatively mediocre compared to the other 20 surveyed goods markets.

Pork production in 2011 increased 5.9% compared to the previous year.

Effective immediately, the Ukrainian market has been re-opened to Canadian live swine, and opened for the first time to Canadian swine genetics.

Several Italian agricultural organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to eradicate African swine fever which affects the region of Sardinia.

This means that 12% of Bolivia has already been internationally recognized as free of disease without vaccination, while 20.8% is free with vaccination.

This is a first step in the WTO dispute settlement system.

The affectad farm, a semi-industrial swine farm without biosecurity measures, is located in the town of Santo Domingo Xenacoj, in Suchitepéquez department.