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Don’t educate the public on agriculture– engage with them

Shared values and a light touch are keys to building trust

By Don Norman February 14, 2023

Farmers do great work, but with food affordability remaining a concern, they need to build public trust more than ever. That was the message a panel of three industry insiders shared at the Keystone Agricultural Producers AGM last month. “When we think about public trust, I think the first thing is understanding how we define

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari speaks at the Dakar summit under the theme “Nourrir l’Afrique” (Feed Africa) hosted by the African Development Bank and the African Union Commission on Jan. 25, 2023. (Photo: Reuters/Ngouda Dione)

Markets

Development partners commit US$30 billion to food production in Africa

Continent facing record-level hunger

By Bate Felix, GFM Network News January 28, 2023

Dakar | Reuters — Development partners have committed US$30 billion to boost food production in Africa over the next five years, the president of the African Development Bank said on Friday at the close of a summit on food security on the continent. The continent is facing its worst food crisis ever, with more than

News

Province launches food business online resource

The site aggregates resources on business services, marketing, regulation

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff October 31, 2022

A new online resource is designed to help food business owners navigate regulatory, business and market requirements and challenges. “Whether you have a new food product idea, you see an unmet demand for local food, or you want to grow a food business, the Business Pathways website can help you build your future in food,”

China to step up investment in rural infrastructure

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News October 25, 2022

Beijing | Reuters – China will accelerate investment in rural infrastructure to improve its ability to ensure food supply while also stabilizing the economy, according to a plan published by the agriculture ministry on Tuesday. The plan, backed by eight ministries and government agencies, comes amid slowing growth in the world’s second-biggest economy, due to

Editorial, Op/Ed

Guest Editorial: Big food investments growing in agriculture

By Kristy Nudds October 6, 2022

Earlier this year McCain Foods Ltd. quietly purchased a little-known firm called Resson. Ten years ago, the news that a food company such as McCain purchased a predictive crop technology company would have raised a few eyebrows. Many may have wondered what a company known for its frozen French fries would want with a company

A still from a New York Times video that suggests modern agriculture is doing irreparable harm to our planet.

Op/Ed, Opinion

Opinion: Smarm, snarl, and snark

Style can’t replace facts, honesty, and ideas in an off-the-mark New York Times video

By Alan Guebert March 2, 2022

As deep winter reasserted itself over most of the continent’s farms and ranches, the New York Times brought some real heat to the Big-Ag-Fights-Climate-Change debate. In a 14-minute, fast-paced video titled “Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill Our Planet,” the film’s subtitle not only names the killers, it convicts them, too: “American agriculture is

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Meat and dairy gobble up farming subsidies worldwide

But that’s bad both for your health and the planet’s sustainability

By Marco Springmann January 25, 2022

The global food system is in disarray. Animal agriculture is a major driver of global heating, and as many as 12 million deaths from heart disease, stroke, cancers and diabetes are each year connected to eating the wrong things, like too much red and processed meat and too few fruits and vegetables. Unless the world

New investment in agriculture is no longer about producing more for less. “The game is changing,” says a former director at Harvard Business School.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: New paths to sustainability are quickly changing the competition landscape

New investment, technology and food products are changing the value proposition

By Laura Rance-Unger January 4, 2022

The agriculture industry could never be accused of being stagnant when it comes to embracing new methods or technologies that enable more efficient food production. It has also made huge strides in improving the sustainability of farming practices while increasing production of affordable food. However, as industry leaders gathered at the GrowCanada conference in Calgary

News

Early-pandemic calls to localize supply chains unfounded

With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain

By Geralyn Wichers May 8, 2021

With a year's worth of data, three agriculture economists revisit early-pandemic predictions on the food supply chain

A year of data shows early-pandemic calls for radical changes to food systems and risk management programs were unfounded, say some economists. Particularly in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, food supply chains struggled to adapt to changing consumption patterns and processors shut down due to virus outbreaks. “Into that void of uncertainty came

The first crop of AppHarvest’s beefsteak tomatoes grows at its flagship farm in Morehead, Kentucky in an undated photograph.

Crops, News

Investors seed indoor farms as pandemic disrupts food supplies

Some see it as an environmental panacea, others as a disaster in the making

By Rod Nickel March 10, 2021

Reuters – Investors used to brush off Amin Jadavji’s pitch to buy Elevate Farms’ vertical growing technology and produce stacks of leafy greens indoors with artificial light. “They would say, ‘This is great, but it sounds like a science experiment,’” said Jadavji, CEO of Toronto-based Elevate. Now, indoor farms are positioning themselves as one of

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

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