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Plenty on the plate for food security groups

By Lorraine Stevenson March 29, 2012

Residents of Winnipeg’s St. Vital neighbourhood are digesting the results of a newly released study that reflects what matters to them about food. The Winnipeg suburb is one of several sites in Manitoba to undergo community food assessments in recent months, an initiative to better understand where residents buy or access food, if they grow

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Strategic plan sought to secure future of food and the farm

By Lorraine Stevenson March 14, 2012

Late winter was historically the time of the “hunger moon.” The larder of winter food was low and people waited anxiously for the land to produce again. People could only dream of a time when they would not have to worry they had enough. In Canada “Food Freedom Day” a designation of Canadian Federation of

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Time For An Agri-Food Plan

By Lorraine Stevenson July 7, 2011

Canadians appear to agree it’s time to head down a new path in the agri-food sector, but how to set forth and who’ll take the lead remain key questions. In February the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) releasedCanada’s Agri-Food Destination: A New Strategic Approacha report, pointing out rough terrain ahead if, as a leading world

Opinion

Let’s Feed Ourselves

By Alan Guebert May 26, 2011

Squeeze almost any official of almost any agbiz or farm group and the words “Feed the world” will cross their lips. The phrase is this century’s “Manifest Destiny,” a near-imperative, a cornerstone of our export-directed ag policy. But this ambition, according to the number-crunching crew in Daryll Ray’s ag shop at the University of Tennessee,

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Canada Needs Food Policy

May 5, 2011

More than 3,500 Canadians have tabled a document calling for a national food policy that emphasizes domestic food systems, more farmers, and initiatives such as school lunch programs. CalledResetting the Table: A People’s Food Policy for Canada, the document is the first national food policy proposal to emerge from this country’s growing food movement. The

Opinion

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

March 10, 2011

On a sunny, sub-zero day 20 or so years ago, the great-grandson of a Kansas homesteader related one of the most important lessons passed on to him by his family’s boom-bust-boom generations of dryland farming. “My grandfather,” he offered, “taught us that it’s not the choices you make in the bad times that usually cause

Livestock

Outlook Improving, But Problems Remain, Politicos Tell CFA

By Alex Binkley March 3, 2011

The next few years appear positive for farmers with both crop and livestock prices on the rise, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Farmers have rebounded from the BSE crisis in the beef industry, influenza outbreaks in the poultry sector, widespread bankruptcies among pork farmers and depressed grain prices, he told the annual meeting of the

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Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

By Alex Binkley February 17, 2011

The federal and provincial governments should encourage farmers to ramp up production this year to take advantage of strong prices but also help ease tight world stocks of grain and other commodities, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute (CAPI) and the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. They issued reports in early February urging gover nments

Livestock

Ottawa Broadens Food Discussions

By Alex Binkley January 20, 2011

The federal government is broadening its consultations on food policy by launching a discussion with eight consumer organizations. The consumer round table was proposed last year in Sheila Weatherill’s report on the deadly 2008 listeria outbreak. It also dovetails with the Connecting with Consumers theme of the annual meeting of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture

Country Crossroads

People Must Control Food System, Meeting Told

By Ron Friesen October 21, 2010

For Racquel Koenig, it’s homegrown vegetables in northern Manitoba, where a bag of potatoes costs three to four times as much as it does in Winnipeg. For Terence Sibanda, it’s seed for farmers in Zimbabwe to grow their own crops instead of relying on food aid. Food justice means different things to different people, as

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Plenty on the plate for food security groups

Strategic plan sought to secure future of food and the farm

Time For An Agri-Food Plan

Let’s Feed Ourselves

Canada Needs Food Policy

Mother Hubbard’s Empty CCC Cupboard

Outlook Improving, But Problems Remain, Politicos Tell CFA

Canada’s Food System Needs An Overhaul

Ottawa Broadens Food Discussions

People Must Control Food System, Meeting Told

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