Canada’s Indigenous groups and communities must be heard in the national strategy to control wild pigs, attendees of the 2025 Canadian Wild Pig Summit II hear.
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Canada’s wild pig plan needs Indigenous voice: invasive species expert
Indigenous groups and communities must be heard in Canada’s national fight to control wild pigs, attendees of the 2025 Canadian Wild Pig Summit II heard
Agribition 2024: Indigenous Ag Summit focuses on community, partnership
Canadian Western Agribition’s 11th Indigenous Agriculture Summit focused on growing opportunities for Indigenous producers and using their ways of knowing to advance the ag industry.
Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims
A handful of specific agricultural benefit claims between the federal government and nine First Nations were settled on Friday.
Once fully settled, these claims—unmet promises in treaties 5, 6 and 10 territories throughout the Prairie provinces—will represent almost $1.4 billion in combined compensation to these First Nations.
Canada, First Nations agree on unmet agricultural claims
A handful of specific agricultural benefit claims between the federal government and nine First Nations were settled on Friday.
Once fully settled, these claims—unmet promises in treaties 5, 6 and 10 territories throughout the Prairie provinces—will represent almost $1.4 billion in combined compensation to these First Nations.
Leaving a place setting: Indigenous food sovereignty and agriculture
We must be ready to approach disagreement productively if Indigenous-agriculture partnerships are to really move toward reconciliation
Agriculture is being told that reconciliation means being open to Indigenous partnership. That means being ready to approach disagreement productively.
CAHRC puts out funding call for Indigenous training initiatives
Funds to be accessed Feb. to March., with deadline to apply at end of January
The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council (CAHRC) is looking to fund agriculture training programs for Indigenous participants this winter, it announced today.
At Agribition: Northern community integrates tech, education into market garden
Flying Dust working to improve operation's food distribution
Riverside Market Garden, operated by Flying Dust First Nation, started in 2009 with two people and an old alfalfa field. Today it employs about 20 people, plus summer students; provides food for the community and some wholesalers; and gives youth a chance to learn about agriculture. Over the years the First Nation, just north of
Editor’s Take: Removing barriers
My Glacier FarmMedia colleagues and I have been contemplating how to mark Canada’s National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Sept. 30. One idea was a special edition of our electronic newsletter highlighting some of the work we’ve done over the past year to cover Indigenous issues in the agriculture sector. If you subscribe to
Editor’s Take: Reconciliation roadmap
I recently attended the International Federation of Agricultural Journalists annual conference. This year it was at Olds College in rural Alberta. As one might expect, agriculture in all its forms was front and centre. From autonomous sprayers to crop-scouting drones and everything in between, the future of agriculture on the Prairies was on full display.
Brazil justice grants Congress more time on bill limiting Indigenous rights
Case pits Indigenous against Big Ag
Brasilia | Reuters — A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Wednesday asked for more time to study a case pitting the country’s Indigenous people against its powerful farm sector, a decision that is likely to give lawmakers more time to pass a measure favouring Big Agriculture. The decision by Justice Andre Mendonca, an Evangelical pastor
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