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Canada has won high praise from a senior official with the United Nations' World Food Programme for becoming one of the first countries to make its minimum pledge to annual food aid up front in a new international treaty. "Canada is one of the strongest supporters of the World Food Programme," said Pedro Medrano Rojas,[...]

If author Anna Sewell were alive today, chances are she'd be writing a follow to her best-selling novel Black Beauty about the plight of Addis and Ababa -- donkeys in Ethiopia. Her 1877 story about a horse raised awareness of the inhumane treatment of horses in England and sold 50 million copies worldwide. It is[...]

In a back corner of the Ian N. Morrison Research Farm here is a nursery of what most farmers would consider butt-ugly plants with spindly stems, tiny seeds, and weedy characteristics.But they might just be the salvation of grain farming if the impact of climate change falls hard on the Canadian Prairies.The plots contain intermediate[...]