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Global food systems currently do not prevent malnutrition.
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Comment: How science and innovation can strengthen global food systems

From 3-D printed food to the cultivation of ‘orphan’ crops, there are clearly identified goals

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Food systems, from production to consumption, are complex in nature and require co-ordinated efforts at different levels. Food systems are the public policy decisions, the national and global supply chains and the public or private individuals and groups that influence what we eat. Unfortunately, current global food systems are not sustainable. One in nine people
Tyler McCann, left, of the Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute, Steve Verheul, former Canadian agri-food trade negotiator and Chantelle Donahue, vice president and sustainability director – Cargill Agricultural Supply Chain North America were joined on a panel by Ralph Goodale, Canada's High Commissioner for the United Kingdom and former agriculture minister.
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In an era of high demand, Canada could be a food giant — if it has the will

In an era of high demand, Canada could be a food giant — if it has the will

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[UPDATED: Feb. 14, 2023] Canada needs a new agriculture and food strategy as political, pandemic and economic shocks to the global food system render current methods unviable. That was the message at a Jan. 31 conference in Ottawa hosted by leading agriculture policy think tanks and attended by agriculture leaders in government, industry and farm organizations. The new world,
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Editor’s Take: Apocalypse soon-ish?

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It’s the job of the commentator to be a bit provocative and to make people think. Geopolitical economist Peter Zeihan, who gave a keynote address at last week’s Ag Days, certainly accomplished that. Pulling many threads together, from the war in Ukraine and Russia’s historic borders, past the sclerotic regime in Beijing incapable of adapting,
Consumers have become hyper-sensitive to any potential evidence suggesting abuse of market power and grocers will need to navigate the coming months with extreme caution. Showing more public empathy would be a good start.
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Comment: A look behind the optics on food prices

Lessons from a frivolous picture of overpriced chicken breasts

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It all started with one reporter taking a picture of an overpriced pack of five boneless, skinless chicken breasts. The cost was $26.87 a kilogram, a world-class sticker shocker and at least double what one would expect to pay for chicken breasts. Within hours, the picture became the lightning rod for frustrated consumers on social
so called ugly vegetables
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Nothing for the bin

For Peak of the Market, food waste reduction and food security go hand in hand

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Peak of the Market has no interest in feeding Canada’s food waste problem, especially when food insecurity is so high. Pamela Kolochuk, CEO of the vegetable marketer, said the company has an internal policy where no food goes in the garbage. Instead, Peak of the Market has developed a network of charitable avenues to use
Food prices in Canada will continue to escalate in the new year, with grocery costs forecast to rise up to seven per cent in 2023, new research predicts.
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Food inflation: Tight grain, oilseed supplies to keep prices elevated

Demand will remain high and production will face challenges in the coming year

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Reuters – Drought or too much rain, the war in Ukraine and high energy costs look set to curb global farm production again next year, tightening supplies even as high prices encourage farmers to boost planting. Production of staples such as rice and wheat is unlikely to replenish depleted inventories, at least in the first
grains of the world
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Editorial: Global food system productive but not sustainable

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One of the world’s leading advocates for global food security had a sobering message for the movers and shakers of Canada’s agricultural sector who attended the Nov. 30 GrowCanada conference. “The reality is, the food system is productive, but it’s not sustainable, folks,” Ertharin Cousin, told her audience of 500 industry and farm organization executives.
Around four-fifths of the land used for human food production is allocated to meat and dairy...
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Comment: Back to nature

In a century we may need 80 per cent fewer acres to feed the world – if the technology pans out

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Here’s the basic problem for conservation at a global level: food production, biodiversity and carbon storage in ecosystems are competing for the same land. As humans demand more food, more forests and other natural ecosystems are cleared, and farms intensify and become less hospitable to many wild animals and plants. Therefore global conservation, currently focused
Farmer Ignacio Bastanchuri, 65, sips a drink as he walks past a cow that died from drought at a farm in Navarro, Argentina, Dec. 5.
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Arid wheat fields and dead cows

A snapshot of Argentina’s worst drought in decades reveals grim picture

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Reuters – In the fields around the town of Navarro, in Argentina’s Pampas farm belt, the dried-out bed of a huge lagoon and decaying bodies of dead cattle are stark signs of a historic drought that is hammering crops and farmers like Ignacio Bastanchuri. Some 100 kilometres west of capital Buenos Aires, Navarro is one

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