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Brian Amiro and Karin Wittenberg look over their presentation at Crop Connect in Winnipeg.
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Prairies to play pivotal role in future food production

Climate change will provide both challenges and opportunities for Prairie producers by the year 2050

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What will Prairie agriculture look like in the year 2050? That’s something a diverse group of experts and researchers set out to determine in a Green Paper presented at the Alberta Institute of Agrologists, titled Moving Toward Prairie Agriculture 2050. “Our future includes change from a number of perspectives, we understand some better than others,
The CAPI report identifies consumer issues about food that include health, nutrition, food safety, sustainability, ethics, food security and reliability of supply.
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The ultimate consumers’ choice award

Significant change is needed throughout the sector to secure Canada’s future global competitiveness

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If farmers and food manufacturers want to be ranked world leaders, then they have to prove to Canadian consumers they deserve that status, says the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute. In the final report out of a process charting the industry’s future growth that began last fall, CAPI said the sector should consider setting a goal
Plant for the Planet Foundation members speak together during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) in Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 3, 2015.
Crops, News

Prepare for climate change, conference told

Warmer winters will increase the risk of diseases and pests farmers haven’t had to deal with before

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While climate change might extend the growing season in Canada’s northern regions, it will also bring challenges that farmers need to prepare for, says Ron Bonnet, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. Weather patterns will be the most affected, he told the Food Security and Climate Change conference sponsored by the Canadian Climate Forum.
Bill Buckner at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future which recently took place in Ottawa.
Crops, Livestock

Business leaders debate what being a ‘trusted’ food supplier means

There is more that connects agri-food businesses in Canada than divides them

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For Michael McCain, the suggestion that Canada should become the world’s most trusted food system is a dangerous one. “Higher cost — in our view — will never be universally valued,” he told industry stakeholders and policy-makers at the Forum on Canada’s Agri-Food Future in Ottawa. “Because our marketplace… isn’t homogenous, and that’s where the
Robert Wager, faculty member in the department of biology at the University of Vancouver Island, recently hosted a webinar looking at how to discuss genetically engineered technology with the public.
Crops

Farmers asked to speak up on GE technology

When conversing about modern-day agriculture technology, be as honest and accurate as possible

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Canadian biologist Robert Wager says there is a desperate need for Canadian farmers to add their voices to the conversation about genetic engineering in food production. “I like to quote Carl Sagan, as he said it quite well, ‘we have arranged a global situation where almost everything critically depends on science and technology. We have
Editorial: The votes that matter
Opinion

Editorial: The votes that matter

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There was a field day a few years back where organizers asked the 20 or so people in attendance to introduce themselves by sharing something they’ve learned about agriculture in the past year. “Be careful what you say about the competition, because tomorrow you might be working for them,” piped up an employee for one
Genetically modified diamondback moth offers pest control hope
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Genetically modified diamondback moth offers pest control hope

The modified moths can mate as well as any other but they only produce male offspring


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Scientists in Britain say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an invasive species of moth that causes serious pest damage to cabbages, kale, canola and other similar crops worldwide. In what they said could be a pesticide-free and environmentally friendly way to control insect pests, the scientists, from the Oxford University
Mealworms are seen for sale at Gambela Market in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, July 14, 2015.  photo:
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Insect farming gains ground in fight against hunger

A kg of crickets sells for twice the price of beef in the Kinshasa market

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There is no shortage of protein in Kinshasa’s Gambela Market, from cows to antelope and snakes. But it is the blue and silver bowls brimming with twitching crickets, termites and slithering mealworms that do the briskest trade. Experts hope that the love of edible insects in Democratic Republic of Congo may hold the key to
Ralph Martin
Crops, Local news

Increasing food production not the answer to population growth

In developed countries people waste food by eating too much of it, causing health problems and additional social costs

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It rots in fridges, in fields, on trucks and in stores — food. A lot of it. Enough to feed one billion people, according to Ralph Martin, Loblaw chair of the Sustainable Food Production program at the University of Guelph. Speaking at the University of Manitoba last week, Martin made the case that oft-repeated mantras
vegetables in a market
Local news, Opinion

Manitoba’s Small Scale Food Report is food for thought

A growing number of citizens is interested in buying food direct from the farm

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Many farmers are willing to sell a side of beef, a few dozen eggs or a bag of potatoes to their acquaintances. Farmers have been direct marketing since agriculture began and it is only in the last 50 years that direct farm to consumer sales have started to be questioned. Up until then, governments encouraged

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