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A view of the “Bridge of No Return” from the South Korean side of the DMZ between North and South Korea. (Bob Hilscher/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

North Korea’s Kim demands more farmland to boost food production

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Seoul | Reuters — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered improvements to infrastructure and expansion of farmland to ramp up food production, state media said on Thursday, amid warnings of an impending food crisis. Kim gave instructions to revamp irrigation systems, build modern farming machines and create more arable land as he wrapped up
shopping for food in a grocery store
Editorial, Op/Ed

Editor’s Take: A nuanced take on ‘Food Freedom’

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The Canadian Federation of Agriculture took a different approach this month when it marked its annual ‘Food Freedom Day’ on February 9, just one day later than last year. Ordinarily, it’s a straightforward affair where they note that by this date, the average Canadian has earned enough to pay their food bill for the year.
Global food systems currently do not prevent malnutrition.
Comment, Op/Ed

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
File photo of a cornfield in Mexico. (Roberto Cabrera/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops, Markets

Mexico opens door for GM corn in feed, industrial uses

U.S. 'disappointed' in Mexico's new decree

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Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico on Monday scrapped a deadline to ban genetically modified corn for animal feed and industrial use amid trade tensions with the United States — but retained plans to prohibit use of the GM grain for human consumption, as well as the herbicide glyphosate. The move, approved in a government
Humanitarian aid provided by Palestinian Arabs is distributed at northwestern Syria’s Deir Ballut and Muhammadiyah camps near the Turkish border on Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo: Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Reuters)
Crops, Markets, Pulses

Pulse weekly outlook: Earthquake to have little effect on pulse markets

Such disasters don't often blow back on agrifood commodity costs

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MarketsFarm — The earthquake that devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on Monday last week, taking the lives of more than 40,000 people, may not have a major effect on pulse markets, according to one analyst. Jon Driedger from Leftfield Commodity Research in Winnipeg said that while natural disasters like an earthquake can take on
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.
Farmit Manitoba, News

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,
NDP ag critic Alistair MacGregor speaks Feb. 3, 2023 in the House of Commons. (Alistair MacGregor video screengrab via Facebook)
Markets

Federal NDP ag critic to handle food inflation file

Mini-shuffle follows new critic portfolio

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Canada’s federal New Democrats have appointed their critic for agriculture and agri-food to a new point position on a major issue for the fourth-ranked opposition party. After the House of Commons resumed sitting last Monday (Jan. 30), NDP leader Jagmeet Singh on Friday named Alistair MacGregor, MP for the Vancouver Island riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford, to
File photo of a provincial border marker in Lloydminster. (Michele Gervais/iStock/Getty Images)

Borderline city hosts interprovincial food trade pilot

Trade barrier on pause for two years for food businesses serving Lloydminster

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The idea of loosening interprovincial trade in certain foods made by provincially-inspected processors will get a major test in one of Canada’s very few province-crossing municipalities. The Saskatchewan, Alberta and federal governments on Jan. 19 announced the start of a two-year pilot project within the limits of Lloydminster, a city of over 31,000 people straddling
Grocers have begun to realize there might be a problem.
Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: A face-saving code for grocers

Food retailers are facing a crisis in public confidence and need the code as much as consumers do

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As reported in recent days, the grocer code of conduct is coming to Canada. Both the United Kingdom and Australia, where grocer oligopolies exist, have a similar code already. This is great news for consumers. In fact, it should be considered a minor miracle. It all started a few years ago with the announcement of
Editorial, Op/Ed

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,

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