Did Donald Trump just save Canadian supply management for another generation?
OTTAWA – It’s a funny old world and it looks as if Donald Trump just saved supply management. If there’s a single thing hated with abiding passion by Canadian market…
food security
Stop Flushing Away Our Future
This is a short article on a subject of critical importance to ecology, food security, water security, and our future. There are many ways that we are busily flushing away…
West Coast demands reinstatement of illegally fired ALC Chair – and we encourage you to do so, as well
Monday, June 15, 2015 On May 14, 2015, nearly seven months before the designated end of his term, the BC Cabinet terminated Richard Bullock from his position as Chair of…
Avoiding Another Imbroglio: A Mound Of Sound Guest Post
This note from the Mound of Sound accompanied the post that follows: Some of the course material I’ve been going through lately got me thinking about the conflicts raging in…
Bill 24 – Agricultural Land Commission Amendment Act: Undermining BC’s Food Security
Thursday, April 10, 2014 Following hot on the heels of the controversial Park Amendment Act (Bill 4), the BC government has introduced another bill that would open up some of…
To avert looming food crisis, stop eating meat, milk and eggs: Study
To avert the looming global food crisis, all we’ve to do is stop eating animal products, according to a new study by the Institute on the Environment at the University…
Conservatives ignoring housing, food security needs in Canada’s North
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives are making the cost of living unsustainable for families in Canada’s North, according to Yvonne Jones, the Liberal MP for Newfoundland and Labrador. The post…
Urban Agriculture is "Gangsta": Ron Finley on Growing Abundance in a Food Desert
Ron Finley, presenting @TED, has come up with possibly the best talk I’ve seen on urban agriculture. Taking urban agriculture seriously has been a favourite theme of mine here for…
Urban Agriculture is "Gangsta": Ron Finley on Growing Abundance in a Food Desert
Ron Finley, presenting @TED, has come up with possibly the best talk I’ve seen on urban agriculture. Taking urban agriculture seriously has been a favourite theme of mine here for…
Urban Agriculture is "Gangsta": Ron Finley on Growing Abundance in a Food Desert
Ron Finley, presenting @TED, has come up with possibly the best talk I've seen on urban agriculture. Taking urban agriculture seriously has been a favourite theme of mine here for…
Smarten Up Stephen Harper-Leave Our Farms Alone!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Wendy Holm is a leading Canadian Agrologist whose work is both inspiring and essential to representing the needs of agriculture in Canada. The threat to our…
A World Without Food Security
This map, published in today's Guardian, is an eye opener. It charts how much of the world faces food insecurity. That, by the way, is all of the world except…
Vandana Shiva: The Future of Food
"Let the seed be exhaustless, let it never get exhausted, let it bring forth seed next year." - peasant prayerDr.Shiva been sounding the alarm bells about food insecurity and the…
The "Century of Hunger"?
The wealthiest nations are poised to condemn the peoples of the rest of the world to a "Century of Hunger" unless they agree to new rules governing food supply. That…
The Joys of Mushroom Hunting
It is becoming increasingly clear how important the links between food security, decreasing our carbon footprint, and eating local are. Although for decades industrial agriculture has been touted as the…
Will Canada’s Future Be Sold on the Auction Block?
With a major freshwater crisis setting in throughout South Asia, India and East Asia and warnings that already record prices for food staples may double by 2030, this is what…
Climate Change Slams Food Production: Agricultural Investors To Rake It In
Sometimes you've just got to laugh. Tuesday's Globe and Mail led it's investment section with an article titled “Warming Trend May be Boon to Canada.” The piece focused on a…
Speculating in Misery
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard brings us an interesting article dealing with the speculation of agricultural land.Speculators like rich hedge funds and billionaires have been buying up large chunks of foreign agricultural land…
Speculating in Misery
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard brings us an interesting article dealing with the speculation of agricultural land.Speculators like rich hedge funds and billionaires have been buying up large chunks of foreign agricultural land…
Speculating in Misery
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard brings us an interesting article dealing with the speculation of agricultural land.Speculators like rich hedge funds and billionaires have been buying up large chunks of foreign agricultural land…